@Varpie

🪨 @Varpie@peculiar.florist

7mo

@just_chill Oh, ils ont ça aussi en Finlande ? C'est tous les pays nordiques qui aiment ça, apparemment... Perso je suis pas fan.

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🪨 @Varpie@peculiar.florist

7mo

@adzetko Mais Inkscape c'est pas une forge, comment tu fais des fontes avec ? :thounking:
Tu ne veux pas te vendre, mais tu fais de la police non ? ACAB !

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🪨 @Varpie@peculiar.florist

7mo

@s1m0n4 @Lluis_Revilla @jmaris The Covid 19 pandemic is not representative of organic growth for a company. And it's not like companies are just moving away to the US either. There are plenty of success stories in the EU, that are just not as mediatized as the US ones, and detractors that want less strict policies are pushing a wrong narrative of "it's impossible to have a successful business in Europe". You don't need a trillion dollar company to have a successful business.

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🪨 @Varpie@peculiar.florist

7mo

@s1m0n4 @jmaris A lack of good healthcare? Predatory insurances and BigPharma? A drug-obsessed mentality? It's not like people lack access to Ozempic here, it's just less used because it's less needed, so as a result there is less funding.

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🪨 @Varpie@peculiar.florist

7mo

@s1m0n4 @jmaris 32.6% of the US population is obese. Around 15% in the EU. Case closed.

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🪨 @Varpie@peculiar.florist

7mo

@s1m0n4 @jmaris The Covid 19 vaccine was a collaboration with Pfizer, mostly for clinical trials and the huge need of global distribution (it was a global pandemic after all), but Ozempic was mostly funded by Denmark until it became popular in the US. Clinical trials there were funded by Novo. And since they are the biggest consumers of it, doesn't it make sense for them to invest in it more?

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🪨 @Varpie@peculiar.florist

7mo

@jmaris A few things on the top of my head to fuel the thread:
- The German company BioNTech made the first mRNA vaccine for Covid-19.
- The Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk found that their world-leading drug for diabetes, Ozempic, was very efficient for weight loss in 2022, saving many American lives (because we all know they are the ones needing it). In 2025, they also sold it in tablet form, making it the first GLP-1 drug that doesn't need an injection.
- A bit older than 10 years, but CERN confirmed the existence of the Higgs Boson is 2012, a crucial element to many physics theories. This year, they were able to transport antimatter (that they manufacture) in a truck. Yes, the thing that disappears when it comes in contact with anything.
- The Dutch ASML managed multiple breakthrough on computer chip lithography that are powering the world's computers (ASML creates the machines TSMC and other chip manufacturers use to create the chips). Just this year, they had a breakthrough on EUV that will increase semiconductor throughput by 50%.
- In the quantum computing realm, there are plenty of European leaders: the French Pasqal and Quandela, the Austrian AQT and the Finnish IQM, among others, provide their technologies to services like Amazon Braket or (if we want to stay in Europe) Scaleway Qiskit.
- For AI, since that's what most tech bros with those arguments are interested about, the French Mistral provides open-weight models that are on par with other open-weight models (when they are released, they don't release new models very frequently compared to the Big 3, that have 10x more employees at least). All that while being the only ChatGPT competitor that has a decent privacy policy that I know of, thanks to the fact that they respect GDPR (yes, that isn't incompatible with innovation)

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🪨 @Varpie@peculiar.florist

7mo

@_elena Le Fédivers, c'est comme Twitter il y a 10 ans : on peut connecter avec des gens partageant nos passions, sans subir la négativité constamment poussée par les algorithmes des réseaux sociaux cherchant à monopoliser notre attention. C'est rafraîchissant, et ça donne l'impression de revenir dans un environnement familier.

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🪨 @Varpie@peculiar.florist

7mo

@404mediaco Microslop hits again

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🪨 @Varpie@peculiar.florist

7mo

@tournesol En vrai, liens > boutons dans ce cas là, la liste est trop longue et les textes sont également trop longs, avoir des boutons ça ferait lourd. Mais euh oui avoir une vraie liste et des liens un peu moins moches ça serait pas mal aussi

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🪨 @Varpie@peculiar.florist

7mo

@tournesol Ben c'est mieux que d'habitude, quand tu as le feu au cul, non ?

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🪨 @Varpie@peculiar.florist

7mo

@bagder I'd be curious to see how many projects see a positive change, vs projects still suffering from slop reports. It would be interesting to have a larger sample over time, and see if there are some turning points that can be attributed to specific models or tools being released.

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🪨 @Varpie@peculiar.florist

7mo

@stefan Great read, terrible UI. Gosh I hate text appearing as I scroll... I wish the plain text version still had the images though.

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🪨 @Varpie@peculiar.florist

7mo

@tournesol Je disais ça spécifiquement en référence à la demoiselle (j'ai oublié son nom mais y a juste une femme dans les 4) qui a sorti un poème pour dire qu'elle aime la Terre quand ils sont sortis de la zone sans contact, la première phrase c'était genre mignon en après 3 phrases c'est genre t'as passé combien de temps à l'écrire ton poème ?

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🪨 @Varpie@peculiar.florist

7mo

@tournesol C'était le weekend avant-hier, et hier c'était férié, les transferts ne marchent pas ces jours là (parce que les banques tournent sur du logiciel des années 60), mais normalement aujourd'hui l'argent coule à flot

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🪨 @Varpie@peculiar.florist

7mo

Bon par contre les astronautes try hard un peu pour avoir des phrases "historiques", ça sonne pas vraiment naturel là...

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🪨 @Varpie@peculiar.florist

7mo

@snoopy Je ne crois pas pouvoir partager un live avec un timestamp, mais...

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🪨 @Varpie@peculiar.florist

7mo

@snoopy Oui, je regarde le live de la NASA (on peut voir la Terre qui va bientôt passer derrière la Lune là) et pendant une communication Houston a donné des distances en miles et l'astronaute a répondu que l'équipage aimerait avoir les données en km et parsecs

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🪨 @Varpie@peculiar.florist

7mo

Le système des unités impériales est tellement pourri que même les astronautes Américains autour de la Lune demandent à recevoir les distances en kilomètres à la place

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🪨 @Varpie@peculiar.florist

7mo

@jplebreton Surely, he's being sarcastic here, right? ... Right?

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