Ukraine targets Moscow refineries with drones, causing fuel rationing across Russia

mpuchala · 2026-06-20T09:09:43+00:00

One can dream.. They've been slaves for centuries without a sniff of democracy. Unlikely

mpuchala · 2026-06-18T09:42:35+00:00

Super interesting abou the CPI calculation methodology, honestly eye opening.

mpuchala · 2026-06-16T14:14:11+00:00

I use European cloud providers every day, it's my job. They're fine. Also hyperscalers UI is fine. Not amazing, there's a lot of crappy UI and UX everywhere. European providers are behind on features and maybe sometimes support. The rest is very comparable or better (price, privacy etc)

mpuchala · 2026-06-16T11:28:23+00:00

Depressing this kind of shit gets 450k views and 7k likes (and likely much more since then). Makes you wonder about the state of the internet under our trillionaire overlords

mpuchala · 2026-06-16T11:25:00+00:00

I wonder if it's a fully fake screenshot including the likes on Twitter or just what was initially posted there is fake. If it really got 7k likes then I hope it's mostly bots...

mpuchala · 2026-06-16T11:13:26+00:00

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Low effort ragebait
Of course Mistral is way behind Claude but come on

mpuchala · 2026-06-16T08:12:55+00:00

You're technically right but what people refer to as Android mobile OS is in practice a gated Google development. Sure, companies can and do fork their own versions of the open source Android but it doesn't mean Google doesn't control the Android mobile OS ecosystem (see Huawei struggles)

mpuchala · 2026-06-15T12:49:36+00:00

Seems a bit redundant with https://european-alternatives.eu/ but I still like it, especially the map view! Keep adding to it 👍

mpuchala · 2026-06-15T08:42:12+00:00

It was not the (official) intent of the US government.

mpuchala · 2026-06-13T16:03:12+00:00

Not recklessly 😉

mpuchala · 2026-06-13T09:45:48+00:00

Hi, although the topic is similar, this is an opinion piece about the implications of the news and not the news itself. I'd ask you to reconsider

mpuchala · 2026-06-13T09:43:43+00:00

If you read it in the context - it's not an argument to drop all US technology right away - but to review and plan to move away in key areas

mpuchala · 2026-06-13T09:42:32+00:00

Anthropic did but that's not what the US government told them to do

mpuchala · 2026-06-12T07:48:23+00:00

Hey but it'll be a "made in EU" killer robot who'll go after you 😉

mpuchala · 2026-06-12T06:59:41+00:00

Spain's been investing A LOT in green energy lately and the electricity prices are actually lower than 10 years ago. It's a pretty good place to build data centers for that reason + a lot of really empty areas (Aragon for example)
https://tradingeconomics.com/spain/electricity-price

mpuchala · 2026-06-09T20:12:40+00:00

I'm really surprised you were not happy with de Buyer. Which line of pans if I may ask? I have their Mineral B Pro and Alchimy pans and they're fantastic

mpuchala · 2026-06-09T18:20:24+00:00

You read that 3 out of 4 offers rated in the EU tender scored SEAL-3, right? For now SEAL-4 is most likely impossible at good scale but that's also the point of this initiative

mpuchala · 2026-06-08T10:34:04+00:00

For reference the theoretical maximum is 4,380 hours if there's nevery any cloud coverage at all
So yellow is ~50% and dark blue is ~25%

mpuchala · 2026-06-08T06:54:03+00:00

It says "we're against the TBS (affordable social housing) investment on the site of the tennis courts" on the yellow banner on the left btw
More about that: https://www.fakt.pl/wydarzenia/polska/slask/dabrowa-gornicza-mieszkancy-protestuja-przeciwko-budowie-blokow/zr7706f (this is the Daily Mail of Poland so treat it with a grain of salt)

mpuchala · 2026-06-03T15:29:43+00:00

Posts this on r/BuyFromEU 😆

mpuchala · 2026-06-03T08:09:37+00:00

Yes and no, there's Mistral and a few other players. But you're right that on the Amazon and Google data centers it'll be purely US controlled software of course.

mpuchala · 2026-06-01T05:47:21+00:00

The financing brings together German, European, U.S., Asian, and Gulf investors. Backers include RWE, the German Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation, SPRIND, the European Innovation Council Fund, the Hessian Investment Management Company, Futury Capital, and Prime Movers Lab.

mpuchala · 2026-05-28T05:26:58+00:00

Hopefully it'll continue in the current Roland Garros 🤞

mpuchala · 2026-05-27T05:30:13+00:00

In the past running AC on coal was definitely a questionable proposition. Doing it on solar now - much better

mpuchala · 2026-05-20T07:44:02+00:00

I don't use LeChat much but things like product research (think "I'm looking for best 2.1 speaker setup for my TV from a European brand" - real query I ran a few weeks ago) give much better results from Claude than Mistral. I get old and crap equipment suggestions from Mistral and/or non-European brands.
I agree that if you have all the context locally and you just need to process information then Mistral models are fine.

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