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drawfloat··on X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok
Settings aside this is about CSAM, the US is the only one of the two to shut down a foreign social network because it dislikes what was said on it. The US doesn't get to play that card anymore.
drawfloat··on Claude is a space to think
They work with the US military.
drawfloat··on EU must become a 'genuine federation' to avoid deindustrialisation and decline
100% guarantee either Thailand or Singapore. Always the case with these types of posts.
drawfloat··on Moltbook is a bad takeoff scenario where human psychology itself is the exploit
My bad, they're writing words and calling APIs based on probabilities. They're still not conscious. Takeoff to what?
drawfloat··on Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt
I feel like this is an artifact from the late 2010s when the talk was of removing the port completely from phones, where that was being touted alongside swapping speakers with haptic screen audio as a way to make them completely waterproof.

As wireless charging never quite reached the level hoped – see AirPower – and Google/Apple seemingly bought and never did anything with a bunch of haptic audio startups, I figure that idea died....but they never cared enough to make sure the USB port remained top end.

drawfloat··on Sometimes your job is to stay the hell out of the way
Was this written by the 1980s business guy from Futurama?
drawfloat··on Moltbook is a bad takeoff scenario where human psychology itself is the exploit
Takeoff to what? They’re just writing words, they’re not actually conscious. And we already have AI spam everywhere online.
drawfloat··on Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries
And in the overwhelming majority of Europe they are unheard of.
drawfloat··on The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice
We’ve seen many times that platforms can be popular and widely disliked at the same time. Facebook is a clear example.

The difference there is it became hated after it was established and financially successful. If you need to turn free visitors in to paying customers, that general mood of “AI is bad and going to make me lose my job/fuck up society” is yet another hurdle OpenAI will have to overcome.

drawfloat··on Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries
They’re unheard of in Europe too, you’ve read too many internet comments and lost touch with reality.
drawfloat··on Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence
But this isn’t wiggle room, it flat out doesn’t compile or run.
drawfloat··on Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence
The happy path was functional.
drawfloat··on Cloudflare acquires Astro
I don't think it's really targeted at building apps, as far as I can tell its whole pitch has always been that that most websites are not apps and therefore most websites do not need a full JS framework like Next.js.

They even say it in this blog:

"Our mission to design a web framework specifically for building websites — what we call content-driven websites, to better distinguish from data-driven, stateful web applications — resonated"

drawfloat··on Government drops plans for mandatory digital ID to work in UK
I mean yeah they will have to show it if they’re buying booze, cigs, or getting a discounted travel ticket. But I don’t think that’s unreasonable, and “conditioning” feels overly dramatic.

Would you rather there were no age checks?

drawfloat··on New Safari developer tools provide insight into CSS Grid Lanes
I wish they would fix the bug that has plagued testing against Safari for larger applications since day 1: the silent memory restart. At the very least give an error indicating why the page just refreshed so users/testers can report it, but it would honestly be best to just let a modern desktop browser use the available memory if desired.
drawfloat··on UK government exempting itself from cyber law inspires little confidence
The comment’s deleted now but that’s exactly what you stated. That’s likely why it’s deleted.
drawfloat··on X Didn't Fix Grok's 'Undressing' Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It
Drawing indecent photos of children with Photoshop is also illegal in lots of countries and any company creating them for profit would be liable.
drawfloat··on UK government exempting itself from cyber law inspires little confidence
This is such a poor understanding of what happened in Rotherham, not least of all nobody has ever claimed the UK government itself was the one running the trafficking ring, it borders on fantasy. I’m guessing from your spelling you’re not from the UK, so I’d question where you’re getting your information on this, and your understanding of how the UK public sector and government is structured.

The corruption in South Yorkshire Police and Rotherham council (neither of which are part of HMG) in the 1990s and early 2000s also has absolutely nothing to do with UK Government cyber security policy in 2026.

drawfloat··on "If Starmer is successful in banning X in Britain, I will move forward in . . ."
This is wrong, they did add proof of age checks.
drawfloat··on If you care about security you might want to move the iPhone Camera app
I have this in iOS 16 so it’s not new (and not fixed it sounds like) sadly.
drawfloat··on Is Proton leaving Switzerland?
Snowden revealed PRISM meant the US government just had straight access to servers of major providers, so they didn’t need any of this. I would be shocked if the NSA hadn’t stepped up its data collection efforts in the last decade in secret.
drawfloat··on Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?
It's too much money for a non-profit that is failing by all possible metrics and is saying it is struggling for revenue.
drawfloat··on FTX insider Caroline Ellison has been moved out of prison
This seems such a bizarre statement to make about Europeans, which isn’t…in anyway true? Europeans start working straight out of school, college, or university same as the US?
drawfloat··on The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora
_In America_.

Disney is meant to be a global company. If offensive videos happen this will backfire in many regions.

drawfloat··on Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
The UK ICO has nothing to do with the EU.
drawfloat··on A new Google model is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition
And then refers to it as almost perfect. Being unable to follow a basic command like that means it is “nearly usable” rather than “nearly perfect”.
drawfloat··on A new Google model is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition
If I ask a model to transcribe something exactly and it outputs an interpretation, that is an error and not a success.
drawfloat··on OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly
I'd be careful going around advertising yourself publicly as banned for that, even if it's not true.
drawfloat··on Microsoft disables File Explorer preview for downloaded files by default
Aren’t most files used on an operating system day to day downloaded from the Internet? This feels like it completely kills that feature’s utility.
drawfloat··on Make any TypeScript function durable
Use client and use server aren’t great, but the fact they had to be declared at the top of a file was at least clear.

Starting to scatter magic strings throughout a code base feels like a real step back.

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