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ilumanty··on Anthropic's proposed AI watchdog METR has deep ties to Effective Altruism
https://archive.is/cw9YL
ilumanty··on Show HN: OwnTime – a chess clock for your day's priorities
I’d just use the system color palette. I would be surprised if users confuse your design with Activity.

The “Live” label looks like a Claudism. For the rest, you should be fine when you use the semantic fonts + size presets provided by Apple. They also set decent values for tracking depending on size and will react to global a11y size settings.

ilumanty··on Show HN: OwnTime – a chess clock for your day's priorities
Color scheme and typography also scream Claude. But nice idea.
ilumanty··on Nebula Sans
Free fonts always do free advertising for paid fonts made by actual professionals
ilumanty··on Stwipe Acquires OpenWouter
Wat
ilumanty··on HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript
Why did you stop doing this? What was the successor?
ilumanty··on "the very foundation of modern academia has been blown to bits"
Really depends on how the resource wars pan out. If inference continues to get monopolized and the monopolists do a rug pull in terms of availability of AI tools, the old ways will still matter.
ilumanty··on I regret migrating to Codeberg
Exactly what you would expect from a German non-profit.
ilumanty··on European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS
You will think twice before expressing your opinion in public.

Since you seem unfamiliar with the following, I will leave this here for your perusal:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument

ilumanty··on European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS
Yes, I said it before and I will say it again: We should invest our energy in the discussion whether to implement it and not already wonder how to implement it.

Shifting this question benefits only those who want to force this upon us.

ilumanty··on Show HN: Verso – A $14.99 Mac word processor with no subscription
The vibe coded website suggests that this is a vibe coded tool. Is it though?
ilumanty··on Talking to strangers at the gym
WTF, saying hi to a stranger is not harassment? What's wrong with people these days…
ilumanty··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/deportationen-unter-trump-sie-h...

Google Translate: https://www-tagesanzeiger-ch.translate.goog/deportationen-un...

ilumanty··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
What’s the situation for tech workers from Europe who want to go to the US solely for touristic purposes? There have been plenty of horror stories about people who were accused of plotting to work in the US from their laptop on false pretence of being on vacation.
ilumanty··on EU age verification app hacked, 2 minute How to posted
Yeah I don’t like how the discussion is shifting to implementation details, instead of debating whether any of this is good or necessary
ilumanty··on MacBook Neo
Absolutely ridiculous that they still offer this while macOS + Apple Intelligence already take ~30 GB
ilumanty··on Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge
Claude keeps getting SQLite's weird GROUP BY with MIN/MAX behavior completely wrong. Generally, complex SQL is not its strong side.
ilumanty··on Many Small Queries Are Efficient in SQLite
Yeah, en/decoding results and parameters from and to JS types is also quite the timewaster
ilumanty··on Approachable Swift Concurrency
Good stuff. Would appreciate a section on bridging pre-async (system) libraries.
ilumanty··on Why Nextcloud feels slow to use
Could more diligence in the codebase solve this?
ilumanty··on Nielsen Norman Group on iOS 26 usability
Judging by the poor implementation, the "last minute job" theory is not all that unreasonable
ilumanty··on Track which Electron apps slow down macOS 26 Tahoe
A trusted source once told me that Mac OS 10 system libraries contain a bunch of shims so that Adobe apps may continue to misuse them the way they did in Mac OS 9. Now that they have a tight grip over the app ecosystem, they don’t even bother to help a major OSS framework that powers thousands of apps make the transition.
ilumanty··on Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026
> people under 60 that uses cash are considered, if not criminal, at least suspicious, like they have something to hide. Or simply wackos

I feel sorry for you and those people.

ilumanty··on Online Safety Act – shutdowns and site blocks
The official narrative is beyond ridiculous: https://x.com/AkkadSecretary/status/1950318214258516161

> And for everybody out there who's thinking about using VPNs, let me just say to you directly, verifying your age keeps a child safe. Keeps children safe in our country. So let's just not try and find a way around. Just prove your age. Make the internet safer for children. Make it a better experience for everyone. That's surely what we should aspire to in this country.

It's a grave insult to think someone would even believe this.

EDIT: Pictured in the video is Peter Kyle, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kyle

ilumanty··on Litestar is worth a look
FastAPI used to have an emoji-ridden docs page for concurrency. Criticism was not handled well.

This made it clear to me that something about the project is off.

https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi/discussions/6656

ilumanty··on Munich from a Hamburger's perspective
Can confirm every single point you made.

I’d add that riding a bike is also quite stressful at times.

ilumanty··on EU Commission refuses to disclose authors behind its mass surveillance proposal
Sure, but until the courts handle this, the damage is already done. Until that point, laws can be changed.

The problem is not that the EU doesn't have checks and balances, the problem is that politicians are willing to offend common decency in the first place and drive the erosion of civil rights.

ilumanty··on Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face
This sounds pretty interesting. Can you share a link to your work or livestream?
ilumanty··on Why can't we screenshot frames from DRM-protected video on Apple devices?
If I were Apple, I'd leverage this in content licensing negotiations.
ilumanty··on Hyperspace
I would also have appreciated a version that's compatible with a non-latest macOS release.

Then again, this app was written with SwiftUI, which hasn't received some handy features before macOS 12 and is still way behind AppKit.

When I see an app that's not compatible with the second most recent macOS, I assume the dev either didn't know better or they were too lazy to write workarounds / shims for the latest-and-greatest shiny stuff.

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