Because your insistence itself is bullshit.
"Die Staatsanwaltschaft Heilbronn hat WELT mehrere Verfahren wegen beleidigender Bezeichnungen gegen Kanzler Friedrich Merz (CDU) bestÃtigt. So erlieÃY das Amtsgericht Ã-hringen am 19. MÃrz 2026 wegen der Bezeichnung âzLügenfritzâoe einen Strafbefehl. Der Betroffene wurde nach Angaben der BehÃrde zu 30 TagessÃtzen verurteilt. "
or in google translate:
The Heilbronn public prosecutor's office has confirmed to WELT that there are several proceedings regarding the use of insulting terms directed at Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU). For instance, on March 19, 2026, the Ã-hringen District Court issued a penal order over the use of the epithet "Lügenfritz" (Lying Fritz). According to the authorities, the individual concerned was sentenced to a fine equivalent to 30 daily rates.

You don't believe the Heilbronn public prosecutor's office? What the hell counts as "authority" to you? They even give a specific example.

The tech might be that old, but lots of chips don't need anything better and its used extensively for CPUs, NAND flash and DRAM. So if they're making machines then all those things will follow.

If you need a permit from the government to criticize the government...

The limiting factor for top models is primarily hardware.

You're right that you're not going to get Kimi K3 performance, requiring roughly 600GB of VRAM to run, from a small number of 24GB consumer GPUs. You're also not going to get closed-top-model performance, because you simply don't have any way to get the weights.

If we're talking about K2.7, Deepseek R1 Distilled, Qwen 2.5, Llama 3.2 though - All of which can be run locally -The question really becomes what you expect from them. They're all strong models that know more than we (individually) do about 99% of topics. A "high-school level education" is more than enough for most humans to get by in the world. Now imagine a "high-school level" understanding across every topic. It's not doing calculus, but it can tell you what patterns to use. It's not writing Shakespeare, but it can likely recite most of his works to you from memory. It's not going to come up with a clean-room reimplementation of Windows 11, but it can check your syntax and tell you the function prototypes of every publicly-available library in every programming language without breaking a sweat.

More importantly, to the GP's point - Is a model "smart" enough to understand you're trying to abuse it necessarily better than one that just carries out your orders successfully? Case in point, lately I've found Gemini's new "watcher" blocks a good 90% of my totally legit questions before the question ever makes it to the real model. Umm... No thanks? The best AI is the one that works, not the one that gives the deepest philosophical reason for saying no.

I quit about 3 years ago. My mental health has significantly improved. The biggest gripe I have is that EVERYONE uses FB marketplace for local buying and selling, and craigslist is all but dead.

Except there are many examples from many sources.

One editor was given a 7 month sentence for showing an edited picture of a politician saying "I hate freedom of opinion".

Other more general examples:

https://brusselssignal.eu/2026...

https://www.welt.de/politik/de...

"If people were being prosecuted for insults in Germany, every school kid would have a criminal record..."
You seem to have utterly missed the point that these prosecutions are entirely political speech against the government or ministers specifically.

Most likely. It'll be an opaque, impossible system to complain to, probably screened with AI and arbitrary rejections, without the ability to appeal, or see a reason, or see if the person was punished or how long.

One wonders why an Asian pedophile would have such persistently anti american posts.
Maybe this is a different rsilvergun?

https://www.instagram.com/rsil...

I know it's important to panic, but let's #followthescience, surely?
https://x.com/BjornLomborg/sta...
https://gwis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/...

Halfway through 2026, every continent burn levels are below average. Africa, the Americas and Europe are at record lows.

Keep this in mind as the press (and slashdot) keep insisting how terrible everything is.

Record.
Lows.

I love and respect NASA; their missions are astonishing examples of what people can accomplish, and I don't think most appreciate the unbelievable finesse it takes to execute space missions. NASA has successfully made it look routine. They truly are "rocket scientists".

But the fact is that government contracts are vastly inefficient; they are victims of the vicissitudes of political winds that potentially change every 2 years, despite almost never being "the issue of discussion" and widely being respected by both sides of the political aisle. It is worth noting too that NASA has become nearly paralyzed by risk avoidance. That's easy to SAY, but I'm curious how the public is going to react when inevitably, eventually, a SpaceX or Blue Origin astronaut dies; I rather suspect the public is going to continue to demand risk-avoidance as primary where humans in space are concerned, at least until it's as common as air travel.

Further, we have clearly reached the point where we DON'T need government to execute basic space lift systems. The 1980s space shuttle was around $50k/kg to orbit (and this was intended to be the 'cheap' system after the one-off previous lunch programs); SLS by NASA right now is in the $20-$40k range.

Compare that to Falcon 9 $3k/kg, Falcon Heavy $1500/kg, or the estimate for Starship will be $100-$300/kg.

No, with limited budgets, I'd far rather NASA use its precious political gleanings for the science packages and programs, and let the commercial contractors do the simple/cheap stuff.

I'm nearly done with you.
Right now I'm at the end - you have constantly shoveled shit into a browser that was famous for being lean.

Now I think I'm going to move to Brave if this doesn't get reversed shortly.

Look I understand that slashdot is the "hate musk" channel, but "failing to scale up" is a funny summary for a company that
- has lowered launch costs by multiples and remains lower than all competitors
- alone launched more than half the entire world's space payloads, and north of 75% of the mass, something like 30x its nearest competitor
- no other competition is really aiming at a vehicle the size, scope, and ambitiousness of starship. Long 9 is close but years and years behind.
- yes, there have been a lot of test flights but if the alternative is something like sls (5 years late and what, $25b high), I find it hard to criticize starships approach.

Will there be a way for end users to identify content filmed on AssholeCam (tm), and assuming there is how does somebody complain about a clip without knowing who posted it? Is it digitally watermarked? What are the criteria for banning people? How long are they banned for? How is the ban enforced? Do complainants learn the outcome of the complaint?

And ultimately, why is the burden on people to complain? Unless somebody explicitly says "I consent" to these fucking things, then the assumption that no consent was given. This should be especially true in any country that gives its citizens a reasonable expectation of privacy, and it may partially extend even when they are out in public.

Starting with the Intel 386 it became possible to run a proper operating system on consumer hardware. I can still recall the excitement with that first Redhat 3.03 book and CD I received, sitting in front of a 16MHz i386sx, craving change. I had owned a Vax 11/730, an LMI Lambda, an SGI 210GTXB, but they were just stupid expensive to run and it took a couple friends to move them.

Anthropic and OpenAI are in the same position the workstation vendors were thirty years ago. What they do is amazing, extremely desirable to those of us who create and use software, but SOOO painful price wise. While I'm writing this on my 16GB M1 Mac the Bonsai 1 bit models are downloading. I mostly use Claude Max and an Ollama cloud subscription, but if I can shift some of the work to the machine on my desk ...

I let an RTX 5060Ti go cheap a few months ago, 16GB was just not enough. I don't regret this, but I wish my income position would change. The world would be a different place if the HP Z4 in my kitchen had an RTX 6000 Pro in place of its current GTX 1060. The advent of TurboQuant makes me want to try some things on one of the Intel GPUs - maybe that entry level sedan price on the RTX 6000 Pro is no longer the real barrier to entry.

These are strange days we are living, strange days indeed ... and no reactionary pack of ninnies is going to be able to do anything. It's a fine thing, having China defending our freedom to create, eh?

I changed careers thirty years ago to get Microsoft out of my life and I've never regretted that decision.

Using Microsoft operating systems is like dating a morbidly obese person who is continually in and out of the psych ward, and they've got a cluster B character disorder, one of the really manipulative ones.

I do not understand how that company's products are not limited to historic niches that are too difficult/unprofitable to clear.

Perhaps the advent of AI is going to lower the barrier to entry for decent operating systems. The Unix based ones have always seemed easier to me, but I'm an aspie weirdo so my opinion only counts just a little.