I run a “server” (old 9-year gamer laptop) with an 8 GB Geforce 1070 Max-Q. It’s currently running full GPU-offloaded stock llama.cpp, with Unsloth’s Qwen3.5 9B at UD Q4_K_XL (good enough quantization for coding assistance and short agentic tasks) and a 90k context at around 300 t/s prefill and 25 t/s decode, which are good enough speeds for daily use.
It can’t vibecode GTA6, but it can help with quick scripting, research and things like that.
Considering that politics is about the exchange of ideas between people so a society can be governed (by whatever system applies) and laws can be enacted to make that government functional, I would consider political basically the political process itself, laws, philosophy, maybe history (which informs the other ones and usually has some inherent biases), maybe literature (the same) and a few other disciplines. Mostly things that are by nature subjective and can’t be measured in an objective way (like math, or engineering in general can).
That doesn’t mean that the latter can’t be “contamined” by politics, especially the disciplines which are a mixed bag of objectivity and subjectivity, like architecture or the economical sciences. But that’s why the key word here is “inherently”: those disciplines are not inherently political, they’ve been co-opted by interest groups precisely because of that subjectivity.
Don’t agree. Computing is no more inherently political than a knife is inherently a murder weapon. It’s a tool, and can be used for many things, including political use (or misuse, nowadays).
Control and censorship. Imagine a developer distributing an apk that Google doesn’t like, let’s say, emulators, ad-blockers, VPNs (if they become illegal in some places), piracy apps or many others. Just remove their verified status and voilà.
This is awful. Google is quickly becoming a new walled garden, Apple-style.
Not that I don’t agree with your sentiment, but patents (technical methods to build machines, do stuff, etc.) are different from copyright (stories, characters, etc… the one Disney has exploited for decades).
And additionally, China takes advantage and the EU starts doing more business with them.
China tried to keep itself very neutral in the Ukraine/Russia war (at least on the outside), and it even distanced itself from Putin in the last months. It would be a perfect chance for them to strengthen their economic ties with the EU.
Trump has really freaked up the soft power balance of the world. It was slowly decaying before, but he really pushed the Turbo button.
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With Dune I had no problem. One of my favorite books, actually. But Ulysses… oh god. That was a hard book to read (and not finish).
Opens up? It’s pretty much pure grind, level after level, unless you got very lucky with your class and skills, or got the “rich” trait at character creation.
Better go play a less bad game, like Diablo 4.