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lifty··on EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0
We’re talking about erosion of privacy and draconian internet surveillance. Brexit was a major screw up and I’m not here to defend any side, just to dispel this illusion that somehow the left are the good ones and the right is the bad far right.
lifty··on EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors
The whole left vs right is a useless caricature. And it’s especially meaningless when comparing ideologies across country borders. Better talk in terms of policies.
lifty··on EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors
Can you give an example of what happened in UK that points to this issue?
lifty··on A new bill takes aim at government pressure to silence lawful online speech
But do you agree this bill is positive?
lifty··on Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users
The first wave will be to mandate ID verification for online services. Some people will then start using p2p services, so the next step is to ban devices that can run non-approved software. Probably having your own VPS running your own software will also not be allowed. And like that, all the avenues for escaping control will be closed… for your safety, of course.
lifty··on Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models
Indeed, it’s also crazy to think that some people vaporize tin pellets in order to etch nanometer scale drawings on silicon crystals while others make mud pies. I think that disparity is even bigger.
lifty··on WASI 0.3
If you have used WASI in the past, can you mention your use case? Very curious if you found it to give you an edge compared to other sandboxing like containers or VMs.
lifty··on The Future of Email
Sure, I do it, and many others. Some people say it's hard, but I think it's much easier than it used to be, technically. You have projects like https://stalw.art which make it quite easy. Single binary setup which covers all functionality you need. Setting up SPF, DKIM and DMARC is also easy. The only thing that remains is IP reputation, but even then, I haven't had major issues. People seem to receive the few emails that I send.
lifty··on Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption
Yeah, but you get to choose who gets to rip off your data. Joking aside, perhaps there would be some privacy focused alternatives and most importantly for Europeans, they would be hosted in the EU.
lifty··on Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption
More like EU became anti-Musk. And Tesla had great sales in the first half of 2026 in the EU.
lifty··on Retro-Tech Parenting
At what age are you planning on introducing it?
lifty··on Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T
It’s very risky to make these kind of claims. If the denominator (USD) gets obliterated they might very well be worth $1T. It’s all about liquidity and central banks have a whole bag of tricks at their disposal. They never want to see deflation shocks again and they prefer asset inflation.
lifty··on Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
What are you talking about? The Mac platform is so much more friendly for doing Linux related work. First of all it’s Unix so most tooling has MacOS variants, and secondly you have a miriad way to install WSL like VMs with shared disk.
lifty··on Mumbai's famed dabbawalas fed millions for over 100 years
Is this comment really necessary?
lifty··on Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness
Anyone here using Zot and can share their experience?
lifty··on My two-part desk setup (2025)
He’s a software engineer with taste. I know taste is subjective but I happen to like he’s taste.
lifty··on Antigravity 2.0 Tops the OpenSCAD Architectural 3D LLM Benchmark
You might combine a general world model with a python coding model in that case. Not sure if it's better, just saying.
lifty··on Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI
I like this approach, it's what I had in mind, but Crux doesn't seem to support desktop targets. I know on MacOS you can get nice looking apps with their native toolkit, on Linux you have GTK4 which can be decent looking, but not amazing, and on Windows, I truly don't know. Native apps on Windows look crap to me (without even mentioning the advanced fragmentation in UI toolkits in Windows). Maybe someone has some good examples for Windows and Linux, using native SDKs.
lifty··on Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI
Thanks, I will keep an eye on this as well. Wish you success!
lifty··on Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI
I have my eyes on that, looking forward to V3, maybe they manage to ship mobile support as well. That would be fantastic. For anyone that doesn't know, it's still a browser based stack.
lifty··on Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI
Slightly off topic, but what is the best way to build a cross platform GUI app these days, but something with good graphics, typography, etc. I mean a beautiful app. I would prefer to have a shared core in Go, and then something around it to give me the GUI. I know on MacOS it is straightforward to build something beautifully looking with their native Swift toolkit, but not sure on Linux and Windows. Is it better to just use a web view, or perhaps Flutter?
lifty··on Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem
I see a lot of negative feedback here, but I don't agree with it. This is really fantastic what you have built, especially for longer running agents that are used repeatedly, in which case the initial investment of giving only the permissions it needs is worth the effort. To that end, ability to combine several agents which have different roles, which are narrowly scoped in terms of permissions, would be a very useful feature. Perhaps you could even have an agent or UI overlay driven by AI, which can quickly scope the permissions for a new agent, so that users don't need to do it manually.
lifty··on Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants
There's a very dark scenario where for some reason or another (all out nuclear war or asteroid hit) sunlight is blocked, in which case having stable base load energy production from nuclear would be very useful. I know this is an unlikely scenario and hopefully it never happens, but it's always good to think about tail risks like these.
lifty··on Zed 1.0
Now that Zed supports remote development, I really hope they can release it for tablets (iOS/Android) so that we can use it as a client for a remote development machine. That would be delightful!
lifty··on Claude.ai is unavailable
Productivity dipping hard across the world.
lifty··on DeepSeek v4
My work is on a p2p database with quite weird constraints and complex and emergent interactions between peers. So it's more a system design problem than coding. Chatgpt 5.x has been helping me close the loop slowly while opus did help me initially a lot but later was missing many of the important details, leading to going in circles to some degree. Still remains to be seen if this whole endeavour will be successful with the current class of models.
lifty··on DeepSeek v4
Wondering how gpt 5.5 is doing in your test. Happy to hear that DeepSeek has good performance in your test, because my experience seems to correlate with yours, for the coding problems I am working on. Claude doesn't seem to be so good if you stray away from writing http handlers (the modern web app stack in its various incarnations).
lifty··on I am building a cloud
There are several things going on even now, 1 hour after your comment. But I appreciate that they list them. That hopefully means that they have a good culture of honesty, and they can improve.
lifty··on I am building a cloud
Those managed databases from the big cloud providers have even more machinery and operator patterns behind them to keep them up and running. The fact that it's hidden away is what you like. So the comparison makes no sense.
lifty··on Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th
I made this switch months ago, ChatGPT 5.4 being a smarter model, but I’ve had subjective feelings of degradation even on 5.4 lately. There’s a lot of growth in usage right now so not sure what kind of optimizations their doing at both companies
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