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laylower··on Red Hot Chili Peppers ink $300M deal with Warner Music to sell catalog
I came here to write this!
laylower··on I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program
Send it to EFF - they are big in California..
laylower··on Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?
Reading this makes me even happier to pay for Anthropic.

Amodei and his sister saw through the behavior and called it out.

" “Eighty per cent of the charter was just betrayed,” Amodei recalled. He confronted Altman, who denied that the provision existed. Amodei read it aloud, pointing to the text, and ultimately forced another colleague to confirm its existence to Altman directly. (Altman doesn’t remember this.) Amodei’s notes describe escalating tense encounters, including one, months later, in which Altman summoned him and his sister, Daniela, who worked in safety and policy at the company, to tell them that he had it on “good authority” from a senior executive that they had been plotting a coup. Daniela, the notes continue, “lost it,” and brought in that executive, who denied having said anything. As one person briefed on the exchange recalled, Altman then denied having made the claim. “I didn’t even say that,” he said. “You just said that,” Daniela replied. (Altman said that this was not quite his recollection, and that he had accused the Amodeis only of “political behavior.”) In 2020, Amodei, Daniela, and other colleagues left to found Anthropic, which is now one of OpenAI’s chief rivals."

laylower··on The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos
You are a beacon of hope man. Please, please, continue the good fight, we need you.

We keep seeing the establishment resurfacing and imposing this blanket surveillance globally. What's happening in Brazil, the UK, EU, and has already happened in the US with no legislation or via the 5-eyes is scary.

Who are these people pressuring elected politicians and unelected bureaucrats to legislate against their constituents? Who are these lobbyists?

I get that there is a large constituency that wants to control dissidents and the narrative in the name of child abuse - see what's happening in the UK where people get arrested in the thousands for posting comments online.

Abolishing privacy is not the way to protect children. Police work and prosecution is. For reference see the grooming gangs in the UK, the infamous Eps*% case for which everyone is still walking free, and other cases in various EU countries. This is not whataboutism, it's proof that we have not taken the required steps as a western society to combat this. You don't press the nuclear option as your first action.

If it's bot farm meddling that is the true target, then ban bots and get technology to work properly. Creating ID honeypots on poorly protected website operator servers is not the solution.

Call your politicians, call your EU MEPs, call everyone you can. This matters because it's about our future.

laylower··on Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11
Are we pushing sambent.com now?
laylower··on I Have 30 Years of Career Left. AI Made Me Rethink All of Them
In a way, you did what you preached. You used judgement to determine what to write about and then had AI touch it up for you.

I don't view it as a bad thing.

laylower··on IRS Tactics Against Meta Open a New Front in the Corporate Tax Fight
This would not work. Investors are still based in actual countries. Jurisdictions will also always have the ability to tax a % of revenue at source / where it was generated and not on profit rolled up through spvs to a couple low tax havens ;)
laylower··on Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel
I've heard of Chris but not too well. This guy does not f*c$ around, don't get on his bad side.

The state of research is dire at the moment. The whole ecosystem is cooked. Reproducibility is non-existent. This obvious cartel is a symptom and there should be exemplary punishment.

Publishers are commercially incentivized to simply maximize profit and engagement. The main actors are academics and most of them try to uphold the high standards and ethics. Yes there is free-riding, backstabbing and a lot of politics but there is also reputation and honesty.

A few academics give academia a bad name, at the worst possible time and when society needs honest, reliable, reproducible and targetted research the most.

laylower··on How to make a living as an artist
Move to Ireland apparently https://www.reuters.com/world/ireland-rolls-out-pioneering-b...
laylower··on New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers
This is part of the wider problem and heavily relates to the right to repair

Cory talked about this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39jsstmmUUs

laylower··on U.K. physics community braces for deep funding cuts
Get a grip physicists, the triple lock won't pay for itself.

We can't be spending our hard taxed money for science and other redundant vanity projects.

We have motability cars to fund and house visits at 2m mansions to arrange.

laylower··on ICE and Palantir: US agents using health data to hunt illegal immigrants
I am sorry, but what did you expect? Since before Snowden we knew this was coming and this dystopian future is here only because we didn't care enough to do something about it.

Now, where are all these 'I don't have anything to hide people?' I don't see them anywhere...

laylower··on Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?
That's the way.
laylower··on Ideas are cheap, execution is cheaper
I agree with your vision of endgame. We wouldn't even need a screen, we will communicate verbally or with signs with our agents with some device that will have a long battery life and will always be on.

I just hope that we retain some version of autonomy and privacy because no one wants the tech giants listening in every single word you utter because your agent heard it. No-one wants it but some, not many, care.

Agents deployed locally should be the goal.

laylower··on Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app
Is it deployed locally or does it send data to your servers?
laylower··on Opening the AWS European Sovereign Cloud
Anything is better than nothing but the fact of the matter is that it's still Amazon. It's the same amazon than gives ring cameras unfettered warrantless access to people's home, literally pays homage to kings and is a US company through and through.

Go European if you can - there was an article not too long ago that described how it was actually cheaper to use a EU cloud provider than AWS.

Also I read the article and the term 'digital sovereignty' is used. I don't think it means what the author thinks it means...

laylower··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
https://www.newsminimalist.com/ has been doing this for a couple of years with reasonable success. I think yours is a fresh take, I like it.
laylower··on Discontinuation of ARM Notebook with Snapdragon X Elite SoC
Yeah, w11 unfortunately, with bloatware removed fortunately.
laylower··on Discontinuation of ARM Notebook with Snapdragon X Elite SoC
I'm typing this from a snapdragon x elite HP. It's fine really but my use is fairly basic. I only use it to watch movies, read, browse, and draft word and excel, some light coding.

No gaming - and I came in knowing full well that a lot of the mainstream programs don't play well with snapdragon.

What has amazed me the most is the battery life and the seemingly no real lag or micro-stuttering that you get in some other laptops.

So, in all, fine for light use. For anything serious, use a desktop.

laylower··on Shader Glass
Can I change the pixel emulator to something else?

And also, I read it talks to #device capture input (webcam/capture card)#

Can't cheater providers use this to inject colors?

laylower··on Checkout.com hacked, refuses ransom payment, donates to security labs
Even if it were, it'd be much more than anything others that got hacked have been doing..
laylower··on Ask HN: Any actual AI projects in production at bigcorp?
Yes but only with people in the middle. You can't operationalize most of this properly.

So tasks like coding, summarizing, personas for editing, finding excerpts from long pdfs, answering questions based on documents feeding, it's generally useful to some extent.

laylower··on Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach
Will the British Government be held liable for ID Thefts from this? If they hadn't created a honeypot with minimal security would this info now be out there?

WTF were they thinking about?

laylower··on One-man campaign ravages EU 'Chat Control' bill
Joachim - we need more of you.
laylower··on Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)
So anyone else besides Airvpn and Mullvad is even worth considering?
laylower··on A New Internet Business Model?
How grateful should we be to cloudflare that they are able to help us make the internet a fairer place? I for one am indebted that they want to hold the keys and guard the doors.
laylower··on Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?
Can someone competent pull together a manual to set a vpn with obfuscation? I am sure it will be well received.

A github repo would be ideal really

laylower··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
So, you need to have a youtube subscription to watch through selectube? As a parent, can't I just set more than 1 category and whitelist what goes through?
laylower··on Startup Equity 101
None of this applies for start-ups outside the US.
laylower··on Beyond the Black Box: Interpretability of LLMs in Finance
Thanks Ariye. What does group risk think about this paper?

I imagine these metrics would be good to include in the MI but are you confident that the methods being proposed are adequate to convince regulators on both sides of the Atlantic?

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