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Viability of #localmodels for coding
https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/local-models-for-coding-factors.html

Malta has 68 local government regions;
Luxembourg has 102;
Iceland has 61;
Scotland has 32 (and the #SNP wants even fewer).
What the hell *is* wrong with us?
#ScotPol
#LocalDemocracy

I Ran 8 #Local AIs on My base #MacMini M4 — Here Are the 7 That Actually Fly (Real Numbers)
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I've written a wee blog post about the parlous state of #LocalDemocracy in #Scotland. I've also written to the Dear Leader, John #Swinney, in a slightly more diplomatic tone.

Of size, and governance, revisited
Malta has sixty eight local government regions; Luxembourg one hundred and two; Iceland sixty one; Norway, with a population comparable to our own, three hundred and seventy two. The average number of inhabitants of a municipality across the whole of the EU is 22,455. Thus the average Scottish local authority has more than six times the population of the average European equivalent, and more than one hundred times the population of one in Czechia. Czechia is not really an outlier; France, with …

If it's the #SNP's view that Scotland would be better served with fewer 'local' government entities, isn't the corollary of that be that Britain would be better served by fewer 'national' government entities?
#ScotPol

fakecloud, #local #AWS cloud emulator for #integrationtests
https://…

🌍 Floci is a family: #floci for AWS on port 4566, floci-gcp on 4588, floci-az on 4577 and floci-oci on 4599 — one container per cloud, one port each, no telemetry. A CLI and an AWS-Console-style local UI round it out.
📌 #LocalStack's community edition sunset in March 2026, requiring…

#Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for #localdevelopment
https://quesma.com/blog/qwen-36-is-awesome/

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Local Natives:
🎵 Camera Talk
#NowPlaying #LocalNatives
https://open.spotify.com/track/2KLnLGDgHTWP19GZ9U3w43

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MechanicalBreakdown
Dina Summer, Kalipo, Local Suicide:
🎵 Fuel
#DinaSummer #Kalipo #LocalSuicide

fakecloud, #local #AWS cloud emulator for #integrationtests
https://…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Local Natives feat. Sylvan Esso:
🎵 Dark Days
#NowPlaying #LocalNatives #SylvanEsso
https://open.spotify.com/track/1k4Z7CPeGgwmeDF3sqplXT

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Local Natives:
🎵 Past Lives
#LocalNatives
https://localnativesmusic.bandcamp.com/track/past-lives
https://open.spotify.com/track/5zhb2VL6GXRQmah59zY9ik