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ishouldnotbutk8on It may soon be possible to create "mirror life"

>Do we have to fucking discover everything? Don't we have enough already?

Isn't that the point of science? To discover things? I don't think we know enough already.

Now should we pursue this specific dangerous research direction? Probably not. But I don't think broad statements like "we have enough already" are warranted.

ishouldnotbutk8on State of Devs 2026

What about shopkeepers? Construction workers? Cleaners? Notaries? Bookkeepers? Only a very small fraction of humanity works on something meaningful that can be said that it advances human civilization (I think education is also a non-banal pursuit). Unfortunately, most works are very mundane.

ishouldnotbutk8on Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS

>Money is paid already. If you do not agree, you cannot use the device

Well, you can always return the phone. For online purchases you have 14 days to return it just because (you don't need to provide a reason).

ishouldnotbutk8on What happened to the Snowden archive

He needs to invent a time machine first. He obviously doesn't have access to the leaked documents anymore.

But I agree that there is no reason for the journalists that have access to not do this.

ishouldnotbutk8on Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain

This is to prevent bubbles, extreme polarization, and psychological manipulation. The goal is to prevent another Cambridge Analytica.

Also if you think about it, it would be bad if different people saw completely different political ads. Party could "promise" one thing to some people, and completely contradictory thing to other people. Since people would live in their tight bubbles, most of them wouldn't notice. And this ("dark ads") is something that is definitely technically possible right now.

ishouldnotbutk8on Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain

>Meta decided that the revenue wasn't worth the compliance burden, so they do not accept any political advertising at all

Obviously, Meta's most important revenue stream comes from scam advertisements, so all other ads are expendable.

As far as I know, political ads just must be labelled as such and there are some other small restrictions. Definitely not something that is hard for meta to implement, if they wanted to. But I admit that fines are very severe (up to 6% of annual turnover, in theory), so I see why they don't want to risk it.

ishouldnotbutk8on CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3

Wasn't Germany the original country that forced google maps to censor all houses unless they opt-IN? And faces, and driving plates.

I think they are quite privacy conscious, as a country.

ishouldnotbutk8on Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026

>successful deployment of a biological weapon by a rogue state actor

I was under impression that any medium or large state actor would have no problem developing biological weapons? They certainly have enough resources and talent. A much bigger problem is if every wannabe-terrorist suddenly could build a biological weapon in their garage.

ishouldnotbutk8on That's a Lot of YAML

Wouldn't this be a backwards compatibility nightmare? All of the unexpected parses from this blog post suddenly change behaviour?

Google put forward KYAML recently (https://www.kubernetes.dev/resources/keps/5295/), it looks like a more sane way forward.

ishouldnotbutk8on That's a Lot of YAML

Ctrl+F "KYAML", 0 results

I think KYAML[1] is very relevant here. KYAML is a strict subset of yaml[2], supported natively by kubernetes tooling in most recent versions.

In my opinion it's closer to JSON with comments than to YAML, but overall it looks like a pretty nice format, that solves some of pain points of both technologies. This is not the first nor the only JSON-with-comments format, so I wonder if it manages to break out of kubernetes world and become popular.

[1] https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/08/11/how-to-pretty-print-ku...

[2] https://www.kubernetes.dev/resources/keps/5295/