I really miss Joel writings. His wit was unmatchable

Does it work with NPUs ?

In the end it's llama.cpp doing the inference, so whatever llama.cpp supports, you should be able to use with LM Studio

Depending on what NPU you have yes.

Is this the Modern Pandas reference you recommend?

https://tomaugspurger.net/posts/modern-1-intro/

Yes it is

It's exactly the argument here:

https://www.fast.ai/posts/2026-01-28-dark-flow/

Or just let the guy to enter the country after unlocking her phone.

Is there clients that block? I just use Brave browser

NewPipe, but it is an Android exclusive.

PipePipe and Revanced both do both perfectly.

Which non hacker news user exports chats?

I'm the only person I know who ever did it.

They released cloud backups recently and I believe they are also working on manual exports on iOS too

Man, this is just a message app. It's trivial. The law must mandate it to work.

It's not a technical problem. It's a political one

Not sure whether you would call this technical, but the difficulty lies in allowing third party access and still prevent spam.

The reason Whatsapp won out over competing services in the first place (over here at least) was that they managed to be both free and relatively spam free. All free alternatives quickly got subsumed by spam (even non-free SMS has a spam problem nowadays).

Email has solved that problem already.

Claiming email has solved spam is a WILD take as 45% of current email traffic is spam.

How much of that shows up in your inbox? I don't care about packets that are dropped by my firewall.

I guess if you count "silently blackholed by the other server with no recourse" an acceptable result then Apple / Meta can offer you that kind of interop too.

> Man, this is just a message app. It's trivial. The law must mandate it to work.

I don't know if you know this, but the EU cannot force a company to obey EU laws outside of the EU.

Yes, it can. And it has done so before.

Care to provide a link where the EU can tell a US company how to do business in Brazil (random country)?

Here's EU telling Microsoft how to conduct business globally, back in 2004 - https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/ms-s... - 'help rivals connect their products to the Windows operating system.' does not mean 'EU rivals', but any 'rivals', outside of the EU as well.

'Intel v Commission (C-413/14 P, 2017)' is another case where EU Antitrust explicitly punished global conduct outside of the EU.

Right now, with exception of antitrust, EU laws only incidentally affect global conduct, e.g. once a business is compliant with GDPR, it's often too costly to restrict compliance just to the EU. Nothing stops that from changing. EU absolutely can make a law that obliges e.g. chat app providers to either apply EU privacy standards globally or face bans/fines/seizure of their EU operations.

> It's not a technical problem

How do you do encryption?

A probable implementation is that you bootstrap the initial key exchange using web PKI (if you want to talk to Alice@example.com then your client makes a TLS connection to example.com and asks for Alice's public key) and thereafter you use something like the Signal ratchet thing.

That technical solution is significant and unsolved. I don’t think it would likely work without some major new standards either.

Serving 2+ billion daily users is a technical challenge at least

How to use it in Brazil? I don't trust Zuck.

When reading technical material in my native language, I sometimes need to translate it back to English to fully understand it.