I have one Foveon camera, any hope for Foveon X3Fs support outside of RawTherapee? DarkTable does not process them correctly either

You have a market that's locked by Microsoft working with OEMs and Microsoft spraying money around to ensure that nobody ever seriously consider switching. Add to that that Windows is used as a surveillance tool by the three letter agencies and you have the perfect storm for things not to change.

Such a huge invasion of privacy.

Bad analogies are bad analogies

> Thank God for the French

France has nowhere the military power to resist a country like the US. They have not invested in the military for a very long time and most of their equipment is completely outdated.

Ah but alas: have you considered that the US is increasingly run by actual idiots?

It turns out even Iran has the power to resist a country like the US.

Iran is no joke. Everybody knew it and yet they went full ahead with it for some reason.

It's more that "military power" per se is not the be-all-end-all of conflict.

America below the President and his appointees is an unbelievable dream team. That's why the whole machine works, regardless of who is at the top.

I agree in principle but actually much of this system has been gutted in horrific and hard-to-reverse ways.

For now, but it's working less and less well as the rot spreads.

USA has not gone full force into Iran.

Need you be reminded of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War

What has happened to this site? Its all these leftie pro MENA talking points.

You can disagree with the tone on the user above but the fact is NOBODY can stand up to USA military.

t. Swede

France has completely sovereign nukes and the only first-strike nuclear doctrine in the world. It has the military power to resist any country.

France's nuclear policy isn't unique in that they are willing to launch a first-strike (all the serious nuclear powers claim to be). France's nuclear policy is unique in that they are willing to use nuclear fire as a warning shot: before they launch their full strategic stockpile, they'll (probably) erase a military base or aircraft carrier with a tactical nuke. That lower threshold to break the nuclear taboo is what's interesting.

It's not the only country with that doctrine. See [1]. I think only China and India is no first use.

[1]: https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/nuclear-declaratory-p...

France is never going to send a nuke to the US.

They already nuked America economically twice in the 20th century.

The first time the French involvement in gold markets caused the Great Depression and the second time the repatriation of gold caused a financial system crisis which severely damaged the dollar and forced the US to decouple the dollar from gold entirely.

Nuke means no return and MAD. Not a word you use lightly.

Your attitude reminds me of this old meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/what-are-you-gonna-do-stab-me

So explain yourself instead of using memes.

It happened in the Simpsons.

Yup. No other country had an official Force de Frappe.

You don't need a lot of nuclear weapons to be able to say "Fuck off, or everyone dies". You just need enough, and the widespread belief that you'd actually use them.

France probably has enough, and is definitely credible in their willingness to use them.

After the failure against countries with no military might like Vietnam, Irak, Afghanistan, and now Iran, I wouldn’t place a lot of importance into how much tech and quantity in the military plays a critical role into winning wars today.

Maybe not but they have enough to be useful. They do have nukes - a US invasion of France would not be a good idea. On the more realistic end of things the French are able to provide military intelligence to Ukraine to counter the US president turning it off to help his mate Vlad.

> how much soft power they had,

Soft power? Have you been sleeping during the 20th century? The formidable military power of the US comes from a constant state of war.

I wouldn't be that cynical. From the interactions I've had with people from mainland China, particularly those in the educated classes, I can say for certain that it was soft power that drew them towards the West and the US in particular. China already beat back the West in the Korean War.

Yes and they had a lot of soft power too.

That's true. Definitely getting worse.

Which tests are worse?

Hard to tell, they only mention a few ones that got better, not clear results on others

You can check here the results for Devstral, speed limits me, but these are the results for the first 50 tests of the command

  # Run lm-evaluation-harness
  lm_eval --model local-chat-completions \
      --model_args model=test,base_url=http://localhost:8089/v1/chat/completions,num_concurrent=1,max_retries=3,tokenized_requests=False \
      --tasks gsm8k_cot,ifeval,mbpp,bbh_cot_fewshot_logical_deduction_five_objects,mbpp \
      --apply_chat_template --limit 50 \
      --output_path ./eval_results

> One longstanding theory is that life first began on Earth when asteroids carrying fundamental elements crashed into our planet long ago.

That theory is bullocks. When an asteroid enters the atmosphere and crashes as high speed on the surface, you get a huge amount of energy that creates an explosion and a destruction of most complex chemical material in the process. It's no mistake that these kind of impacts are counted in the same range as multiple atomic or hydrogen bombs.

> Something remarkable and unsettling is how the age verification debate has popped up almost simultaneously in the US, UK, and EU.

nothing strange about that. You have higher interests in control of the (national) governments in several countries, planning things at once. This is what you see as a result. It certainly did not involve democracy.