Gheorghe @Ferossgp

Ursula von der Leyen has confirmed that everyone in the EU will need to use the EU's app for identity authentication before being able to access or post on social media websites. 🇪🇺 As an expert in online child safety, I am here to expose the misinformation and misdirection in von der Leyen's statements. Today von der Leyen said: "This is not about whether children can access social media, it is about whether social media can access our children". 💡The first part is true. This isn't about children. It's about surveillance and combating political dissent. A state that can't control its own citizens is more dangerous than a state rife with criminals. The second part is a PR soundbite that politicians are using like a campaign slogan straight out of 1984. 🇪🇺"The question is no longer if children face risks online, but what can we do to give children a safer start online". 💡No. You can't give children a "safer start" online any more than you can offline. In the offline world, the government doesn't enforce curfews or ban children from entering liquor stores, bars or restaurants. That's a parent's responsibility. The digital world should be no different. 🇪🇺"The age verification app is one of the tools to get it done". 💡This is a contradiction because she also said "It won't be foolproof". 🇪🇺"It's easy to use, it is privacy preserving and it is open source". 💡The app was compromised as soon as it was released. "Privacy-preserving" age verification is an oxymoron. You can't verify a person's age without verifying their identity. Where or how that age is shared afterwards is irrelevant. 🇪🇺"This is basically about putting back the power into the hands of parents". 💡More from 1984. The EU is doing the opposite. Parents are having their authority stripped by politicians who think they know better. Many parents are capable and unaffected by peer pressure, and they know how to use parental controls to block any app classified as 13+. Some teens are safe, their parents trust them, and the state has no business overruling that trust. 🇪🇺"We don't give our children keys to the car before they have their licence" 💡Comparing an app to a car is a false equivalence used to justify mass surveillance. Governments don't decide when a young person is ready for car keys, guardians do. 💡Forcing every adult and child into a biometric checkpoint just to use an app or website is not licensing drivers. It's the state seizing everyone's keys, locking the garage, and forcing every driver to ask a private company for permission to take a drive. 💡 This is a gross, unethical overreach that strips authority from parents while imposing state sanctioned identity verification on every adult who doesn't even have a child. 💡Additionally, people who pass a test, obtain a licence and drive a car aren't forced to use an app to constantly authenticate their suitability to drive. 🇪🇺"We do not let them buy alcohol until they are legally allowed" 💡False equivalence. We don't force every person to show ID at a shopping mall entrance just because a few people might buy alcohol with a meal at a restaurant. Some parents are okay with their 12 year-old going to the mall with friends while others aren't. Either way, it's their choice. Whatever irresponsible decisions some parents might make, every adult in the country shouldn't be forced to pay the price. 🇪🇺"It won't be foolproof" 💡This is all the proof we need to show that the EU and every government know that banning social media for teens won't protect them. When pressed by journalists about VPNs being used to circumvent a ban, politicians always state the ban isn't a silver bullet and will take time. The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan went as far as to say "we know it's not the solution". 💡Either age verification works, or it doesn't. As a technical expert in this space, I can tell you there are no additional steps to take and no progress to be made. Either the approach does what it is supposed to do, or it's not fit for purpose. If they claim a bulletproof solution is coming, it can only mean one thing. They intend to ban or restrict VPNs to people who verify their identity. 🇪🇺"It will take time to invite the cultural change that is already taking shape in our society, just as it took time to outlaw drink driving, just as it took time to use seatbelts in the cars. Great change never happens overnight, but when it comes to our safety it is always worth it". 💡Comparing a social media ban and age verification to seatbelts is a completely broken analogy. Seatbelts are a safety feature that protects children while allowing them to travel in a car. A ban doesn't give kids a seatbelt. It kicks them out of the car entirely. 💡Instead of supporting parents who want to guide their own children through the digital world, this heavy-handed law strips away parental authority by banning the apps and websites that many parents are perfectly fine with and actively monitor. 💡Furthermore, enforcing these bans requires biometric age verification, which means forcing millions of adult citizens to scan their IDs, faces or credit cards just to browse the internet. That isn't a common-sense traffic law. 💡It's a digital checkpoint on every street. True safety means teaching kids how to navigate the digital world safely with real guardrails and parental guidance, not burning down digital spaces for everyone under the guise of protection. 🇪🇺☠️ The EU wants to ban teens from social media so every person is forced to verify their identity before they can read, share or post anything online. In their words, this is to protect children from dangerous content. 🇪🇺☠️ The EU wants to enforce "Chat Control" so every app has to monitor everything people say privately inside it, including apps with end-to-end encryption. In their words, this is to protect children from dangerous criminals. 💡Where this ends 🇪🇺 "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever". George Orwell, 1984. x.com/jon_delorraine…

🇪🇺 Chat Control has passed 😔 They can and will now legally scan any person's messages, emails and photos you send without a warrant The way they passed this law when the majority of the European Parliament was against it will shock you: They waited until most EP members were on holiday so only a few were present and then created an "urgent" vote for it to pass it through There's nothing democratic about any of it and big powerful forces are behind this that can manipulate the EU for whatever they want Democracy in Europe died a bit today 😔

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For me Da Nang is the perfect place to work from. Everything is quickly accessible, great food and the best coffee in sea. And in Feb-March weather is comfortable under 25 celsius

David @dayonefoundry

5 months ago

OK fine no gatekeeping. Da Nang has amazing beach clubs and they are all free entry. Menu prices are reasonable too ($5-10 for an entree). The photo is this post is from Blush Beach Club (hidden gem) and here are some of the other top tier ones: Esco, Maia, Paradise, Kala Kala,

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The new meta

Nastya @nastyarods

9 months ago

Building on @Polymarket? Then you should know that every user action is onchain The problem: transactions are unreadable without context I built an open-source tool + guide how to: * Subscribe to Polymarket events via RPC * Decode transactions into human-readable messages

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11 months ago

🚨 I was just targeted in a sophisticated phishing attempt that almost got me. But I got the scammer on a live call (video recording below), strung him along, and trolled him with Kim Jong Un gay porn while dissecting his $3k/month malware kit. Buckle up, this gets wild. 🧵👇

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@MichaelArnaldi We are big fans of Effect at @3loop_io cc @nastyarods

Swift has come a long way since then, though.

I started with React Native because the startup we were building had separate apps in Kotlin and Objective-C. The apps had a bunch of bugs and were slow, and took long to update whenever new features were released. I decided to convert our React app into RN, and in just 2 months we shipped apps that were better in every way.

Jamon @jamonholmgren

a year ago

Apple today took a shot at React Native and other cross-platform frameworks. I have thoughts. First, the quote in question, from their keynote (around the 40 minute mark): "Some other frameworks promise the ability to write code once for Android and iOS. And that may sound

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@dcinvestor @Apple I played with it today, and the only place it feels a bit too much is the Control Center. They can easily add more blur and darken the background more to create the illusion of greater distance. They do that in app library, and it looks more than fine

By too complex, I was referring to the API, it requires a lot of smaller blocks to be composed manually. I think having one place to configure everything through parameters has less mental overhead when re-reading the code. By limiting, I was referring to the fact that other frameworks already handle multiple providers and have a good abstraction. For example, switching from model it just a small change, and they will handle different specifics like how to handle the reasoning output on a model. Overall my experience was with Effect AI I had to look into internals to understand something. With Vercel AI, I just had to look at the type and I would directly understand how to achieve my goal. I'm pretty sure Effect team can also achieve a good state for this package (I love how effect/sql turned out for example), but for now I just have a simple wrapping service and the experience was pretty good.

@schickling @EffectTS_ @tylerangert I have migrated the other day from it to a custom wrapper service of vercel AI. I found effect version too complex and limiting. The worst was the dependency on the third party tokenizer which gave me a lot of headaches. Vercel AI just worked for every usecase

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@EffectTS_ Ngl, I fed it a lot of context and an example implementation in a PR from @imax153 I have to update some code style, but I'm pretty sure 80% will remain from AI But here is the code github.com/3loop/loop-dec…

Claude 4 + Agent mode has just helped me to write a Circuit Breaker and Request Pool with @EffectTS_ It is mind-blowing how good it is. The Agent wrote the module, documentation, tests and fully integrated it in the current system.

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LiveStore @livestoredev

a year ago

Introducing LiveStore (beta) LiveStore is a next-generation state management framework based on reactive SQLite and built-in sync engine.

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Another day, another journo. Today it’s a guy named Ali Breland. He’s been spamming our members for months, because the oligarch Laurene Powell Jobs is paying him to write a hit piece on our startup society. Let’s talk about the specific angle he was tasked with writing about, and how our hard numbers completely disprove his journo rumors. Then let’s go through the general context of why he was assigned to write this fake piece in the first place. We'll end with the obvious observation that an Atlantic that abolished the police and bombed the Middle East actually has no moral standing whatsoever — and certainly cannot stop the free people of the world from pursuing our God-given right to self-determination by peacefully building new societies. HARD NUMBERS > JOURNO RUMORS First, the specifics. Ali was assigned to harass us using a common journo tactic one might call “Trouble in Paradise.” That’s when the journo finds a few people you had to let go, puts their worst-sounding complaints under a magnifying glass, and then uses those distorted outliers to tar the entire organization. Now, for years, the way journos did this was to baselessly accuse people of rayyycism. They could usually find some party claiming you had secret bigotry, and failing that they’d just manufacture an accusation themselves. And indeed that’s exactly the line Ali pursued on a different company, as you can see from his past unsolicited DM to me in 2023: Of course, it wasn’t just this DM. Given that he’s a journo, Ali has falsely accused many things of being rayyyycist over the years. A partial list of things he’s tarred as Nazi-adjacent include NFTs, e/acc, Telegram, Gamestop, AMC, DeSantis, Elon, Reddit, and even Silicon Valley itself. But calling everything rayyyycist isn’t as effective anymore, and it’s particularly ineffective on another brown guy like me, so Ali had to come up with a new angle: rather than secret bigotry, he’d accuse us of being secretly unhealthy! Behold the message he’s been spamming to our community members since at least Jan 2025: Note the part about “mold”. That’s meant to sound bad. Except it’s completely misleading. Because mildew in Southeast Asia is as common as sand in the Sahara or frost in Canada. It’s just a common building maintenance issue in Singapore’s humid climate, and present even in beautiful new places like Nanyang Technological University: With that context, you can understand what actually happened: we rented several buildings in late September, we heard about spots of mildew a few weeks later in October, and we hired a top Singapore firm to remediate it out of an abundance of caution. Their professional opinion was that it was just cosmetic with zero health implications. I’ve attached their letter below: In addition to this expert opinion stating no health issue, we looked at the instrumental record of air quality measurements across the facility from our dehumidifiers and air purifiers. The absolute worst reading we got was well within the normal range of Los Angeles air, and of course the average air quality was much better than LA on average. So: that’s a fatality for Ali’s fake story. Because when journos accuse you of racism, there isn’t a geiger counter for bigotry. There’s no numerical way to prove yourself innocent of their false accusations. But because there is a geiger counter for air quality, we can prove ourselves innocent of the charge that there was any health issue. Essentially: against mere journo rumors, we have hard numbers. So Ali will have to give up his attempted cosplay as a molecular epidemiologist, and return to his original job of accusing people of rayyycism in his capacity as a fake news journalist. By the way, this is exactly how Elon knocked down a fake NYT story that claimed Tesla cars ran out of charge on the side of the road. He proved the NYT journo was faking the story, because he had the instrumental record. Similarly, we too have the instrumental record of air quality measurements from all our IoT devices. And now that they’ve been informed that both expert opinion and on-the-ground quantitative measurement detected no health issues whatsoever, any attempt by Ali and his oligarchic bosses at the Atlantic to defame our startup society could be considered actual malice…with all the consequences that entails for their media corporation. But why do these oligarchs want to defame us in the first place? For that let's go to tweet #2:

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This playground uses hardcoded mapping. Initially the library was designed for a realtime transformation pipeline and LLM are way too slow for this use case. But one can easily pass the decoded object to LLM, and it would work just fine with a right prompt Available interpreters github.com/3loop/loop-dec…

@hklst4r Additionally, we have an interpreter that makes it human-readable. Devs don't need to learn specifics of a contract to show transactions into their app, the library will abstract all of them loop-decoder-web.vercel.app/interpret/100/…

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@hklst4r Thank you for spending time to check it out. This is a library intended for developers who want to integrate it directly into their app. It's free and one can build tenderly like features inside their own app using this library, but it's not limited to this use case.