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intunderflow··on Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave
Hi Matt, why did the Board vote for you to go on paid leave? It must have been a serious set of accusations?
intunderflow··on We must pace the frontier
> so controlling they are the only US company blacklisted by the US government

Very proud that they refused to sell AI for mass domestic surveillance and lethal autonomous weapons.

People who criticise that in my view are showing their true colours.

intunderflow··on OpenAI and Anthropic are ruining San Francisco
City that refuses to build housing and is stacked to the brim with NIMBYs has skyrocketing rents.
intunderflow··on Access to telemetry data: Automotive industry criticizes intelligence reform
Remember when EU citizens were saying as little as a month ago having always on distracted driver cameras in all cars is completely fine because the government would never have access.

Hard to tell if it's naivety or cope.

intunderflow··on Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls”
Priority date of March 4 2026 and claims this patent is novel on that date, clearly trying it on. Hope it gets struck down.
intunderflow··on Dario worried people were joining Anthropic for the money, not the mission
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/03/ai-talent-wars-openai-googl... is the original source and probably a better link
intunderflow··on Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects
Oh good, my mistake in not knowing what the tag meant
intunderflow··on Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects
I've just got back from my day, and I see the Codeberg PR has been stormed by new accounts.

Please dont. I posted this here to spark a discussion on HN, not as a license to raid Codeberg. They're at liberty to set their own policies in the same way I'm at liberty to not use their services.

If you want to discuss this and you're not already an account holder at Codeberg, the comments section is right here.

intunderflow··on My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite
> But having graduated from the Thiel Fellowship school of thought rather than university, he was essentially groomed from a young age into uncritically embracing the Silicon Valley mindset, and he took venture capital.

Dunking on someone for not having a degree? Seriously? Low blow.

From someone with a degree they mean nothing and anyone who looks down on people for not having one reveals a lot about their character.

intunderflow··on Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
FYI that Codeberg is currently holding a vote to broadly ban projects written mostly using AI, so its not a neutral space for hosting your projects like GitHub: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253 https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116880003584050912
intunderflow··on Trump Orders US Agencies to Drop Anthropic After Pentagon Feud
https://archive.md/Uqy08
intunderflow··on USA to cut Anthropic from government contracts in six months
https://archive.md/wip/1hZd0
intunderflow··on Court orders Acer and Asus to stop selling PCs in Germany over H.265 patents
> Munich court

This court is famous for being a racket. Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30135264

intunderflow··on Ubisoft cancels six games including Prince of Persia and closes studios
Stock down over 39% since this announcement, brutal.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/UBI.PA/

intunderflow··on Denmark sees US as potential security concern
Same country that spied on Europe on direct orders of the USA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Dunhammer
intunderflow··on Bye, Mom
Incredibly well written and powerful post, I teared up.
intunderflow··on Strong earthquake hits northern Japan, tsunami warning issued
That's a bit like comparing apples to oranges. One was published by social media, one was published by the Government of Japan.
intunderflow··on Strong earthquake hits northern Japan, tsunami warning issued
Was in a hotel in Sapporo, almost got thrown out of bed. Lot of people in the hotel lobby now.

Considering leaving Hokkaido by air if a Hokkaido and Sanriku Subsequent Earthquake Advisory is issued, don't really want to be in a potential megaquake.

intunderflow··on Sam Altman’s DRAM Deal
https://fortune.com/2025/11/23/ai-rivals-like-openai-nvidia-...

Obviously kind of a moot point because whether it violates antitrust law or not, what is guaranteed is the US Government is not going to do anything

intunderflow··on Alaska Seized a $95,000 Plane over Illicit Cargo: A Six-Pack of Beer
https://archive.md/OF4pe
intunderflow··on Israel launches strikes against Iran, Defense Minister says
Yesterday he barely won a vote to dissolve the government in the Knesset which politically hurt him
intunderflow··on Private Japanese lunar lander enters orbit around moon ahead of a June touchdown
I do worry the incentives for this will always be at the whim of state support for exploration, unfortunately there's no natural incentive to really kick private spaceflight off in a major way
intunderflow··on U.S.-born man from Georgia held for ICE under Florida's new anti-immigration law
> Wouldnt be surprise if this story ends up getting flagged for being "too political."

Appears your prediction was completely correct. No talking about the US government in a potentially negative way on the orange site, that's political.

intunderflow··on FAA Officials Ordered Staff to Find Funding for Elon Musk's Starlink
> The sources note that these internal directives have mostly, if not entirely, been delivered verbally

No one wants a record because spending funds Congress has not appropriated is normally known as stealing from the government.

intunderflow··on All federal agencies ordered to terminate remote work–ideally within 30 days
You can see 18F frantically making policy updates on https://github.com/18F/handbook/commits/main/
intunderflow··on Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion
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intunderflow··on They have not been trained for this
No, and frankly if the Polish government won't do anything with this overwhelming evidence then they've got the train manufacturer they deserve.

You can lead a horse to water...

intunderflow··on Lfgss shutting down 16th March 2025 (day before Online Safety Act is enforced)
The purpose of a system is what it does
intunderflow··on Lfgss shutting down 16th March 2025 (day before Online Safety Act is enforced)
A lot more, the Online Safety Act is just a symptom of the structural problems (Lack of de-facto governance, A hopelessly out of touch political class, Voting systems that intentionally don't represent the voting results, etc).

Argentina has had nearly 100 years of decline, Japan is onto its third lost decade. The only other party in the UK that has a chance of being elected (because of the voting system) is lead by someone who thinks sandwiches are not real [1]. It's entirely possible the UK doesn't become a serious country in our lifetimes.

[1] https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-tory-leader-sandwiches-no...

intunderflow··on Is Wordpress.org GDPR Compliant?
My past experience is that yes you can DSAR scorecards if you are covered by GDPR, aka you are in the EU.
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