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by akersten 7mo ago
Being "trivial to comply with" is completely disjunct and not at all an argument against "this type of law is fundamentally at odds with the liberty and self-determination that open source projects require and should protect.
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by akersten 7mo ago
Aaaaand to throw it all away at the end with "well when the rubber meets the road we'll comply anyway, thanks for inhaling my hot air." Take a damn stand and dare them to sue the hacker known as Linux or whatever.
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by akersten 7mo ago
> If the reason the site exists is to use ads, they’re not going to let you use an user agent that doesn’t display the ads. They've been giving it the old college try for the better part of two decades and the only website I'v
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by akersten 7mo ago
I'm old enough to remember discussions around the meaning of `User-Agent` and why it was important that we include it in HTTP headers. Back before it was locked to `Chromium (Gecko; Mozilla 4.0/NetScape; 147.01 ...)`. We talked ab
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by akersten 7mo ago
> Don't use passkeys Better title. Mom can't figure out what they are or how to use them. They bind you to your device/iCloud/Gaia account so if it gets stolen/banned you're out of luck (yeah yeah multiple d
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by akersten 8mo ago
Not an insider but someone who uses the tools. It's a branding update, nothing more. The models haven't gotten any less sanctimonious, but the companies behind them have stopped harping on their restrictions in order to appeal to
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by akersten 8mo ago
Unicode is both the best thing that's ever happened to text encoding and the worst. The approach I take here is to treat any text coming from the user as toxic waste. Assume it will say "Administrator" or "Official Gover
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by akersten 8mo ago
It tracks with the approximate 70:30 split we inexplicably observe in other seemingly unrelated population-wide metrics, which I suppose makes sense if 30% of people simply lack the ability to reason. That seems more correct than me than &q
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by akersten 8mo ago
We are arguing different things. I have never stated "psychological effects of the Internet aren't real and therefore this discussion is moot." My argument is "psychological effects or not (and personally I think they ar
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by akersten 8mo ago
I think we totally disagree on the degree of how much this is actually a problem compared to how much we're willing to invest in it. Those anonymous solutions are fairly idealistic and Nirvana-esque themselves, I don't think they&
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by akersten 8mo ago
Parents can do this today if they wanted to The problem of "kids accessing the Internet" is a purposeful distraction from the intent of these laws, which is population-level surveillance and Verified Ad Impressions.
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by akersten 8mo ago
Well, age verification is the "we have to do something about this nebulous problem even if the best thing we can think of actually makes everything worse for everyone but it makes us feel better" fallacy, which is equally ridiculo
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by akersten 8mo ago
In my experience the people who want "privacy preserving age verification" are the same people who want "encryption backdoors but only for the good guys." Shockingly the technically minded among them do seem to recognize
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by akersten 8mo ago
> and still there's no mechanism for privacy friendly approval for adults apart from sending over the whole ID. Of course this is a huge failure of governments but probably also of W3C I consider it a huge success of the Internet ar
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by akersten 8mo ago
If I click fast enough on mobile it starts trying to select/highlight text, should be able to prevent that with CSS too. I find this is somehow a common issue that separates a lot of PWAs from real apps, the browser text engine is stil
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by akersten 8mo ago
I had to upvote this just because it's such an incredible take, it really made my day even if I think it's complete horseradish
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by akersten 8mo ago
I'm also trying to think of what use I'd make of sugar that would specifically not be for addictive purposes. Maybe keeping down medicine? Point being, the internet is the clutchable pearl de jour for easy political points. Ther
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by akersten 8mo ago
Looks promising. Coming from excalidraw, I can't live without the numbered 1-5 shortcuts to select the tool (instead of remembering R for rectangle, L for line, ...). Also a mode to "lock in" the current tool so I can draw ma
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by akersten 8mo ago
Only for the currently focused window which is inexplicably weird
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by akersten 8mo ago
Yeah window management and the desktop experience in general on Mac just feels like I'm dragging my hands through tar. For example, "open two file browsers, navigate to $home in one and $downloads in the other, move and rename a f
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by akersten 8mo ago
So is Gemini tbh. It's the only agent I've used that gets itself stuck in ridiculous loops repeating "ok. I'm done. I'm ready to commit the changes. There are no bugs. I'm done." Google somehow manages to
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by akersten 8mo ago
> prior fakes But they assured me my biometrics are deleted after uploading!
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by akersten 8mo ago
> The first person to build ChatGPT with limbs wins. Don't worry, we're safe. It's already been done and it did not win: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/14dv530/the_homele...
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by akersten 8mo ago
Political parties hitching their wagon to "AI good" or "AI bad" aside, I'm actually a huge fan of this sort of anti-law. Legislators have been far too eager to write laws about computers and the Internet and other t
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by akersten 8mo ago
The lack of hardware support for a few modern codecs is a pretty big complaint from me, but nothing else out there is decent :/
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by akersten 8mo ago
Woof, so instead of some standard way to store agent vs human blame (like in Git metadata), this is all only stored on Cursors servers .. > When you view files and commits, data is fetched from Cursor's servers.
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by akersten 9mo ago
I want to get rid of this: > * The state terraform holds which is what it thinks your infrastructure state is Why does Terraform need that. Why can't it just call `iac.amazonaws.com/query` (or other magical endpoint) and then d
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by akersten 9mo ago
Feel bad for the next guy who wants to sue them but has to settle for workdaycase2 .com I never liked these "trust me bro we're court authorized, give us all your PII to join the class action" setups on random domains. Makes
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by akersten 9mo ago
The most confusing part of terraform for me is that terraform's view of the infrastructure is a singleton config file that is often stored in that very infrastructure . And then you have to share that somehow with your team and be ver
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by akersten 9mo ago
Like it or not, this whole VC funded ivory tower where you can insulate yourself from the reality of what's happening outside depends on the civil stability of this country. You can choose to ignore it at your own peril.

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