Ok, so all this to say that yes, the Mac Mini is totally unnecessary and massively overspecced for what is actually being done on-device.

Well the alternative is them just never upstreaming and maintaining their own fork, which seems worse for everybody

You missed the point. Who even needs their features? If you are as big as Meta you have the money and means to do whatever you want.

This already exists in visual art: timelapses of the drawing process were being used to prove that pictures weren’t AI generated, until someone made a program that takes a picture and generates a fake progress vid

I think theyre referencing the previous Google employee protests of the company working with the Us Military

I think theyre referencing the Google AI already being used to make killing people more efficient

It's not even "Our product can write COBOL", it's "Our product can analyze your COBOL codebase and generate a plan for migrating to a new tech stack".

It's not so original an idea that we need to be worrying about who came up with it, I think.

I think so, was it wrong ?

Pretty sure they are implying that the actions of the current president/administration are causing people to re-evaluate US dependencies. I don't really understand the first half

I think in the first part they are implying that there are very few independent companies to turn to.

(I also prefer comments that are clear without insinuations).

Precisely like code

  Clarity > Cleverness

What about all of the long-tail providers that are often listed on lowendbox.com and similar sites?

Ahh, the sales rep is Trump, that makes sense, thank you. I thought Jacques meant they had lobbyists somehow.

1. There's no meaningful European competition.

2. Trump is making everyone scared to use US hosting.

So they're leveraging for extra profits.

That is indeed what the comment seems to be implying.

"No meaningful European competition" might be a bit too strong. There are many great EU hosters. OVH, Netcup, Scaleway, Strato, Ionos, Exoscale, to name a few. But Hetzner is probably the biggest and has the best name recognition. Doesn't hurt that their prices are among the best in the industry

These are all really quite small though.

Revenue (EUR): Ionos 1.5bn, OVH 1bn, Hetzner 0.5bn, Strato <0.2bn, Netcup (incl. parent) <0.1bn, Scaleway <0.1bn, Exoscale <0.01bn

The ridiculous prices of memory surely does not help.

Eh, if this demand is really sustainable they will eventually start producing in adequate volume

I don't want my tools to make jokes, I want them to work.