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qwertox··on Be wary of Bluesky
> If an acquirer disables exports, it doesn't matter that the tools existed yesterday.

Don't they have to give you your data upon request? And the cheapest way is to offer an export function? Wasn't this thanks to the EU (GDPR Article 20)?

qwertox··on Pebble Production: February Update
"programmable smartwatch from China" can you share some examples?
qwertox··on Pebble Production: February Update
Privacy, it does not push data to the cloud. And also the ease of access to the data.
qwertox··on Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use
Then why does the SDK support subscription usage? Can I at least use my subscription for my own use of the SDK?
qwertox··on Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use
It's a bit unclear to me. I'm building a system around the Claude Agent SDK. Am I allowed to use it or not? Apparently not.
qwertox··on Mark Zuckerberg to testify in landmark social media trial
There was a blip of time when Mark Zuckerberg seemed to be somewhat human, maybe the last couple of years, but since then he's shown what kind of guy he really is, that he doesn't really care.

He really had a chance.

qwertox··on DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation
This will make things so much easier.

Here, certbot runs in Docker in the intranet, and on a VPS I have a custom-built nameserver to which all the _acme-challenge are redirected to via NS records.

The system in the intranet starts certbot, makes it pass it the token-domain-pair from letsencrypt, it then sends those pairs to the nameserver which then attaches the token to a TXT record for that domain, so that the DNS reply can send this to letsencrypt when they request it.

All that will be gone and I thank you for that! You add as much value to the internet as Wikipedia or OpenStreetMap.

qwertox··on Claude Sonnet 4.6
I'm pretty sure they have been testing it for the last couple of days as Sonnet 4.5, because I've had the oddest conversations with it lately. Odd in a positive, interesting way.

I have this in my personal preferences and now was adhering really well to them:

- prioritize objective facts and critical analysis over validation or encouragement

- you are not a friend, but a neutral information-processing machine

You can paste them into a chat and see how it changes the conversation, ChatGPT also respects it well.

qwertox··on uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts
A Tapermonkey script which redirects a short to the classic YT experience is somewhat more helpful, because sometimes there are interesting snippets in the Shorts. This lets you see the video but breaks you out of doomscrolling.
qwertox··on YouTube as Storage
The explainer video on the page [0] is a pretty nice explanation for people who don't really know what video compression is about.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l03Os5uwWmk

qwertox··on GPT-5 outperforms federal judges in legal reasoning experiment
Different skills or plugins, different views and different tools for the analysis of the same object. Then the debate starts.
qwertox··on WiFi could become an invisible mass surveillance system
And you could surveil them as well, and then shoot them a directed EMP to fry their circuits.
qwertox··on GPT-5 outperforms federal judges in legal reasoning experiment
> If LLMs give only one answer, no matter what nuances are at play, that sounds like they are failing to judge and instead are diminishing the thought process down to black-and-white thinking.

You can have a team of agents exchange views and maybe the protocol would even allow for settling the cases automatically. The more agents you have, the higher the nuances.

qwertox··on Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass
you put a flickering light, pwm creating artifacts in the video and have it apologize for it, to hopefully break some watermarks. my led light started acting up since yesterday, i have no other bulb.
qwertox··on Claude Code is being dumbed down?
I absolutely love reading thoughts and see the commands it uses. It teaches me new stuff, and I think this is what young people need: be able to know WHAT it is doing and WHY it is doing it. And have the ability to discuss with another agent about what the agent and me are trying to archive, and we can ask them questions we have without disturbing the flow, but seeing the live output.

Regarding the thoughts: it also allows me to detect problematic paths it takes, like when it can't find a file.

For example today I was working on a project that depends on another project, managed by another agent. While refactoring my code it noticed that it needs to see what this command is which it is invoking, so it even went so far as to search through vs code's user data to find the recent files history if it can find out more about that command... I stopped it and told it that if it has problems, it should tell me. It explained it can't find that file, i gave it the paths and tokens were saved. Note that in that session I was manually approving all commands, but then rejected the one in the data dir.

Why dumb it down?

qwertox··on Claude Code is being dumbed down?
It was because of the (back then) new Haiku model, maybe 3.5, that i decided to subscribe yearly. more than good enough for a language layer to interact with the mcp server. Now I'm even hesitant to use it.
qwertox··on Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun
I didn't care at all about Wero until Trump indirectly declared us Europeans as enemies. Now I really hope that it manages to replace Visa/Mastercard.

Though at least in Germany we have "girocards/EC-cards" that are not owned by Visa/Mastercard. Some banks are phasing them out in favor of a Visa/Mastercard debit card.

So maybe this is just an attempt to make Wero a bit stronger in comparison to PayPal. AFAIK Wero does not replace a credit card.

qwertox··on America has a tungsten problem
we'll let it slip, this one time.
qwertox··on Mimes directing traffic in Bogotá had surprisingly loud impacts (2025)
Bogotá is at 2640 m, so there is more unfiltered radiation. Like 20-25% more UV. And it's cooler so you don't notice it as much as you should. You can get sunburns even with clouds at that altitude.
qwertox··on Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock
Thanks to both of you for bringing FRAM onto my radar!
qwertox··on GitHub Agentic Workflows
Crazy times.
qwertox··on GitHub Agentic Workflows
I want to see where we're at in 2 years, because these last couple of months have been pretty chaotic (but in a good sense) in terms of agents doing things with other agents. I think this is the real wake-up-call, that these dumb and error-prone agents can do self-correcting teamwork, which they will hopefully do for us.

Two years, then we'll know if and how this industry has completely been revolutionized.

By then we'd probably have an AGI emulator, emulated through agents.

qwertox··on Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server
MCP servers are the correct way to offer this service. Webpages are for humans, these served documents are for agents.

You could argue that they could just let the agent curl an agent-optimized API, and that is what MCP is.

qwertox··on Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI
It is a workaround, so we can assume that this will be temporary and in the future the ai will then start using them once it can. Probably just like we would do.
qwertox··on I miss thinking hard
AI is way less of a problem in regards to thinking than digital media consumption is.

I used to think about my projects when in bed, now i listen to podcasts or watch youtube videos before sleeping.

I think it has a much bigger impact than using our "programming calculator" as an assistant.

qwertox··on Sandboxing AI Agents in Linux
You can consider these agents criminals, or treat them like babies. Both can do harm for a while, but one offers a future.
qwertox··on Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings
Deserves an award.
qwertox··on Ask HN: Do you also "hoard" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?

  - task project (Todoist/Things/Reminders)
  - issues/boards (GitHub/Linear/Jira)
  - a doc/wiki page (Notion/Docs)
  - calendar
  - "in my head"

  Which one would you actually allow a tool to read?
None. Unless self-hosted and open source.
qwertox··on Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts?
Price. 1 vCore, 2GB RAM, 20GB SSD, unlimited traffic (though throttled to 200mbit/s after transferring 2TB within 24 hours) = 1.85€

That is a nice way to have a static IP on the internet and enough resources to do small things like host a nameserver and/or OpenVPN/Wireguard.

I may have had 4 hours of downtime in one year, always announced days in advance.

qwertox··on Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds
Isn't it more like this: JEPA looks at the video, "a dog walks out of the door, the mailman comes, dog is happy" and the next frame would need to look like "mailman must move to mailbox, dog will run happily towards him", which then an image/video generator would need to render.

Genie looks at the video, "when this group of pixels looks like this and the user presses 'jump', I will render the group different in this way in the next frame."

Genie is an artist drawing a flipbook. To tell you what happens next, it must draw the page. If it doesn't draw it, the story doesn't exist.

JEPA is a novelist writing a summary. To tell you what happens next, it just writes "The car crashes." It doesn't need to describe what the twisted metal looks like to know the crash happened.

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