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i agree but it’s not due to or about AI but more about polarisation of society in general: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/psychologylse/2023/06/08/building-br...

In Greece (EU). Can’t play it either. I’m getting:

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it’s the list of features to disable. it’s been like that for the past… 5 years? 4?

> illegally providing services to minors

> breaking the law

what law?

i think Apple turned on age verification in Singapore, South Korea and the UK:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/125666

what a dystopian world we live in.

been there. for these kinds of projects i never start with code, i start with specs. i sometimes spend days just working on the specs. once the specs are clear i start coding, which is completely different monster. basically not that different from a common workflow (spec > ticket > grooming > coding; more or less), but everything with AI.

maybe clickhouse can finally make sense of the langfuse documentation

> when Claude Code generates a 1000loc file it would be silly to say "the AI didn't write this code, I did" just because you wrote the prompt.

it’s about responsibility not who wrote the code. a better question would be who takes responsibility for generating the code? it shouldn’t matter if you wrote it on a piece of paper, on a computer, by pressing tab continuously or just prompting.

i think they look absolutely horrible both inside and out. but, of course, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

> Teaching kids how to code isn't all that meaningful on its own.

it’s extraordinary meaningful as it helps in brain development.

> Same for Uber, which sends both important order updates and marketing as push notifications.

can be disabled via:

settings > communication > push notifications

but the worst part is when they add a new category (eg uber teen accounts) and surprise it’s enabled by default.

nice review, thanks! how does it compare to claude code?

> their business is successful in large part because of the infrastructure in their country, the educated people they can hire, the healthcare

Germany has Europe’s lowest share of entrepreneurs to workforce. So i guess the infrastructure, education and healthcare are not really factors.

> So when you get money out of this, you pay your fair share of taxes, like everyone.

this is already happening. people are paying their taxes. but Germany wants more than it’s fair.

cherry on top: Germany has been in recession for… 3 years now?

> > You're allowed to wind down a profitable company

> I can't speak for all jurisdiction but on one that I worked in, this is not legal.

which jurisdiction doesn’t allow you to shut down your own company?

> lately I feel like they only have a negative one, notably by poisoning our societies with unregulated big tech and social networks.

do you feel like the censorship/regulation/big state mantra that european governments are fans of are also poisoning our societies?

> Whatever comes next, I can only hope that this wave of AI generated falsehoods is the last straw.

the AI wave is just beginning.

my answer to these kinds of laws will always be VPNs until they eventually ban those services (and i'm sure they will). then we'll be in game of cat and mouse.

another hope i had was ironically the trump admin. my hope was that tariffs would be tied to internet freedom. i guess i was wrong.

EU: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/age-verification-europ... https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/eu-age-ver...

AUS: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-11/age-verification-sear... https://www.esafety.gov.au/about-us/consultation-cooperation...

Texas: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpd1xp2l4wno

how would those proposals work with these other initiatives that will go live in 2026?

EU Digital Identity Wallet: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-building-blocks/sites/display/E...

EU Age Verification: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/eu-age-ver...

just in case people are not aware what "legal aid" or what "Legal Aid Agency" are:

> Legal aid is the provision of assistance to people who are unable to afford legal representation and access to the court system. Legal aid is regarded as central in providing access to justice by ensuring equality before the law, the right to counsel and the right to a fair trial.

> The Legal Aid Agency is an executive agency of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) in the United Kingdom. It provides both civil and criminal legal aid and advice in England and Wales.

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_Aid_Agency

so what's the case?

> Transferwise

what was the “incredible experience” with Transferwise?

> the next morning you wake up to find the account, and everything in it, has gone

they’re all protected by the FCA via the FSCS scheme: https://www.fscs.org.uk/what-we-cover/

> Good ad blocking requires you to be able to look at decrypted HTTPS traffic and remove content from the DOM, including stuff added after the fact by Javascript.

ironically this also sounds like a security nightmare.

this website seems to be spam: https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co

titles of recent articles:

(Tesla) This Is Just Pathetic. Talk about clutching at straws.

Tesla Can, And Will, Fall Further.

Starship Was Doomed From The Beginning

Starship Is In Deep Trouble

This Is How Tesla Will Die

Tesla Is Dying, And Polestar Wants To Kill It

Tesla Is So Screwed

Tesla's Downfall Is Imminent

Is Elon Musk A Groomer?

> There is no open-source browser based on it that you could use as an alternative to Firefox.

here you go:

https://github.com/duckduckgo/apple-browsers

> In terms of open source there are really only Chromium- and Firefox-derived browsers (I’m disregarding projects like the still pre-alpha Ladybird here).

isn’t webkit open source?

https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit

or maybe are you referring to something else?

click on individual days. you’ll notice that there are daily errors.

Claude 3.5 sonnet has been my go to for coding tasks, it’s just so much better than the others.

but I’ve tried using the api in production and had to drop it due to daily issues: https://status.anthropic.com/

compare to https://status.openai.com/

any idea when we’ll see some improvements in api availability or will the focus be more on the web version of claude?

yours is a stability-over-change argument: bureaucracy exists to prevent reckless, harmful disruptions.

you're assuming the alternative to bureaucracy is reckless destruction, but what about the harm bureaucracy already causes? slow government processes, redundant approvals, and outdated rules waste time, money, and even lives. how many people suffer due to delays in healthcare, housing permits, or business licenses?

you're framing efficiency as 'reckless abandon' but efficiency doesn't mean chaos, it means designing systems that work smoothly without unnecessary friction. if private companies can process global transactions in seconds, why does it take months to approve basic permits?

if bureaucracy ensures stability, why does it fail so often? government shutdowns, dmv backlogs, and welfare mismanagement don’t scream 'zero downtime'. in reality, bureaucracy is often fragile, not resilient.

other industries use automation and streamlined processes to reduce friction without 'breaking things recklessly'. why should government be any different?

what you write is true, but very concerning.

in theory, laws and policies are crafted by elected officials or experts, and bureaucrats are just the executors. but in reality, bureaucracies interpret, refine, and sometimes even reshape these rules through policy implementation. this is where a lot of inefficiency, red tape, and unintended consequences creep in.

> Bureaucracies are a common good

never saw it like that. to me bureaucracy represents inefficiency. today we have automation that can be quite advanced. as long as you have a structured, rules based system there is no need for bureaucrats. i do understand that there will always be edge cases, or moral issues with automation, but there should be a constant drive in society to dismantle as much bureaucracy as morally possible, as that implies adopting automation and as such efficiency.

We don’t move to higher frequencies just because we’ve run out of ways to pack more data into lower bands. The main reason is that higher frequencies offer much wider chunks of spectrum, which directly leads to higher potential data rates. Advanced modulation/coding techniques can squeeze more capacity out of lower bands, but there are fundamental physical and regulatory limits, like Shannon’s limit and the crowded/heavily licensed spectrum below 6 GHz that make it harder to keep increasing speeds at those lower frequencies.