Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development (Quesma Inc.)
Qwen 3.6 27B is the best local model for coding on a Macbook Max M5.
Widely confirmed: Qwen 3.6 27B runs well on modest hardware, outperforms Gemma 4 12B for coding.
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Qwen 3.6 27B is the best local model for coding on a Macbook Max M5.
Widely confirmed: Qwen 3.6 27B runs well on modest hardware, outperforms Gemma 4 12B for coding.
Age verification laws are a precursor to automated identity-attribution systems for speech.
Divergent views: privacy fears vs. calls for legal engagement and free speech advocacy.
A blogger shows Google removed his article about Pollen's collapse after a fake DMCA claim from an uninhabited island.
The thread focuses on how copyright takedown systems are easily abused and rarely penalized.
Mullvad CEO is the main financer of the far-right Swedish Örebro party.
A sharp split: is Örebropartiet far-right or left-leaning nationalist?
The HCCF applies for a .self TLD to empower ethical self-hosting.
Skepticism over implementation and a PDF-only format that contradicted the project's stated principles.
Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require Fourth Amendment privacy protections.
Widespread approval of the ruling, tempered by skepticism about enforcement loopholes.
Rocket Lab will acquire Iridium for about $8.0 billion in a cash and stock deal.
Skepticism over Rocket Lab's $8B acquisition of Iridium given the market cap disparity and debt load.
EU digital ID wallets require Google/Apple safety services, reinforcing their monopoly.
Widespread agreement that this contradicts EU digital sovereignty goals.
Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron face a US lawsuit alleging DRAM price fixing.
Skepticism over proving collusion given high demand and past failed lawsuits.
EuroISPA demands rightsholders be liable for overblocking damage in new EU filing.
Strong consensus that rightsholders should face consequences, with Spain's LaLiga blocking cited as extreme.
The US ambassador in Belgium had police remove journalists from an event for asking a question.
Split between critics of the journalists and critics of the ambassador's heavy-handed response.
Meta is using Instagram users' photos in ads for its smart glasses.
Old news: Facebook enabled similar profile-photo ads in 2013, per commenters.
A proposal for a native graphical shell that serves web-based apps over SSH via Unix domain sockets.
Debate over the definition of "shell" and whether this is simpler than Caddy or WireGuard.
Tidal will accept AI-generated music but not monetize it, requiring transparent labeling.
Commenters support Tidal's approach of labeling and demonetizing AI music to reduce spam.
A deep dive into the software and hardware path of a CUDA kernel from source to GPU execution.
Commenters praised the deep dive and discussed driver API alternatives and Nvidia bugs.
South Korea commits $1 trillion to memory chips, AI data centers, and humanoid robots.
Translation quirks of the president's speech and Germany's missed semiconductor opportunity dominate the thread.
Ornith-1.0 open-source models claim state-of-the-art coding agent benchmarks via a self-improving RL training framework.
Skepticism over 'self-improving' label; some positive usage reports but concerns about hallucinations and missing model variants.
Sony removes 551 purchased Studio Canal movies from PlayStation accounts without refunds.
Digital 'buying' is renting; physical media or piracy are the only true ownership.
JIT-to-WASM compilation for a Game Boy emulator outperforms a native interpreter.
Praise for the undergraduate project, with a split on the iOS JIT claim and interest in broader applicability.
US Supreme Court ruling ends independent FTC, collapsing EU-US data transfer framework.
Strong consensus that Schrems III is coming and the EU must decouple from US tech.