Qwen 3.5 is light years ahead of llama 3 and deepseek, but no comparison to Claude Opus 4.6. Sorry. Plus: the full 35B model requires either a massive GPU (in the multi thousand $ range), or at least a lot of RAM (which is currently a bit pricey). Either way: I have the strong impression, that OpenClaw will lose quite a few users over this.

Sorry to rain on your parade, but qwen is no match for Anthropic's premium models. I've used both for coding relatively easy stuff, and qwen 3.5 puts lots of bugs even into three page shell scripts, while Claude's code can often be taken as is.

Why does this matter a lot? The biggest threat against lobsters is "prompt injection", and only top of the line LLMs are moderately resistant to it. Running an OpenClaw install based on an entry level LLM can be very risky once you give it access to passwords or personal data.

Anthropic evidently knows this, that's why they see little risk when they massively jack up their prices. Those dropping out now were never the type of people who would ever throw significant money at the effort.

>The meeting said something on my system was out of date. I installed the missing item as I presumed it was something to do with Teams, and this was the remote access Trojan,

Why on earth aren't you downloading this from a MS Teams page, if something is out of date? It certainly wasn't a popup from Teams itself that showed you this.

If I get an official looking message in email, I don't go about clicking on the links in it - I go directly to the website, log in, and see what's up.

It is illegal* to ask if candidates are married.

It is illegal* to ask if candidates have children.

It is illegal* to ask if candidates live with their parents.

* In America.

Seems like a good way for a steady revenue stream that they haven't tapped into yet.

So you are advocating that the US get rid of it's nukes?
That's my takeaway from your statements...

>The same Iran indiscriminately bombing it neighboring countries, holding the world to ransom, and threatening to destroy the drinking water of it's neighbours.

Yeah, they are doing all of this as a RESPONSE to Israel and the US doing it FIRST! Goodness, you need to learn to read some news.

twosat confessed:

Perhaps nobody posted that link because it's not funny. Oh it wants to be funny, and it tries to be funny - but it fails to be even mildly humorous for three long, boring minutes.

You're welcome ...

But don't you worry April Fool's pranks will make people distrust your future Slashdot submissions? :)

It's almost like people that are completely bought-in on a hype cycle that can't be rationally justified are not paying attention to easily observed reality.

It's kind of pissing me off actually. I'm finally to the point where the 32GB I have in my desktop isn't sufficient for what I'm doing on it anymore, and I don't want to spend the entire price of a new mini PC to get it to 64GB.

So I have to grit my teeth through swapping and frequent reboots.

Fuck the AI billionaire bros.

And she was proven right in 2024, unfortunately.

There's a large cross-section of the US electorate that is far too concerned with identity politics at the expense of policy politics.

Maybe we can stop with the infinite build for endless capacity bullshit.

As far as that goes, if you find water ice on Mars and have a spare nuclear reactor around, you've got your methane factory:

1. mine water ice
2. split H2O -> H2 + O (electrolysis - this is where the reactor comes in handy)
3. Sabatier Reaction: combine the H2 with atmospheric CO2 (CO2 + 4H2 CH4 + 2H2O), requires industrial heat source (reactor also handy here) and a catalyst bed (nickel)
4. Recycle the H2O byproduct back into the intake

You gotta have energy though for it to scale. Roughly 17kWh = 1kg of rocket propellant. To fill a Starship back up (1200 metric tons) it would only take ~20.4GWh of energy. So there's that.

I'm sure the data center AI bros will shut down all their consumption so we can continue eating, right?