httpiga @httpiga

Perfectly summarizes my view on the "let's build an AI agent" hype

Ludonauta @LudensLudonauta

6 days ago

I was studying MCPs and this comment really blew my mind.

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Chat Control 1 is back. Despite the European Parliament voting down the legislation twice this year, the Council of the European Union and parts of the Parliament today managed – through an urgent procedure – to extend it for another two years. The law was originally introduced as temporary legislation, so that its effectiveness could be evaluated. At the end of 2025, the European Commission itself concluded that it was not possible to determine whether the law had any measurable effect. Even so, it has now been pushed through. Some of today's amendments could have stopped the law. And a majority of the voting MEPs wanted to do so. By a margin of 314-276, the Parliament voted to reject the proposal through these amendments. However, since it was an urgent procedure, 361 votes were required. As a result, the majority lost today and Chat Control 1 was passed. The urgent procedure was a dirty play by the Council and parts of the Parliament – it’s a procedure not meant to be used on legislation already rejected by the Parliament. For now, Chat Control 1 will remain in effect. This means that tech companies may continue scanning communications without a warrant or suspicion. However, the real battle is Chat Control 2. Unlike Chat Control 1, it would require all providers to scan communications, and to do so far more extensively than Chat Control 1 ever has.

While the whole world is fully focused on artificial intelligence and expanding technological infrastructure, an unbelievable act of surveillance is currently being pushed through the European Parliament, even though it has already been rejected twice. What chat control is about: The EU wants to allow platforms once again to scan private messages. Officially, this is “voluntary”, but in practice it is another step toward indiscriminate surveillance of private communication. What makes this especially questionable: Chat control has already been rejected twice in the European Parliament. Yet now it is supposed to come back, through an urgent procedure. But there is no real urgency. The transitional regulation has already expired, and Parliament would have time for proper deliberation. Instead, the issue is supposed to be rushed through the plenary shortly before the summer break. And the trick is obvious: To stop chat control, a simple majority of the MEPs present is not enough. It requires an absolute majority of all MEPs. Anyone who is absent effectively helps the supporters. In other words: a massive infringement on digital fundamental rights is supposed to be pushed through after all, by exploiting timing, procedural logic and parliamentary absence, even though Parliament has already rejected it. This is not a clean democratic process. This is the erosion of fundamental rights through a procedural trick. So instead of discussing the truly important issues, such as how to bring frontier intelligence to Europe, whether through excellent open-source models or deals with US frontier labs; instead of discussing how to build our own compute capacity through data centers; instead of solving the energy problem, probably the biggest bottleneck, they are acting against the interests of EU citizens, expanding surveillance, expanding regulation and doing all of this against the will of the people. A dark day for Europe. I would appreciate it if you shared this issue. The video by Martin Sonneborn that I am sharing is worth watching. The whole world should know about this. (The speech he gave is in german, hopefully there is a translation somewhere) Thank you for your attention.

Martin Sonneborn @MartinSonneborn

3 weeks ago

Ich habe heute versucht, die Chatkontrolle zu stoppen. Am Wochenende mussten Sibylle Berg und ich Parlamentspräsidentin Metsola schriftlich mitteilen, dass das Durchprügeln der Chatkontrolle im Eilverfahren leider gegen die Geschäftsordnung des EU-Parlaments verstößt. Während

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… and they say romance is dead.

@SamoBurja Happy to get invaded by Switzerland

EU bureaucrats arriving at work

The European Horizon 🇪🇺 @europeanhorizon

2 months ago

🇪🇺🏦 ECB Temporarily Restricts Revolut’s New Product Launches in Europe The ECB has temporarily restricted Revolut from launching new financial products in Europe due to concerns over the speed of its service approvals and rollouts Source: FT

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Don’t forget to overthink the best case scenario too.

Enjoy being while becoming

"Have you tried turning it off and back on again?" IT Support, 2006 "Have you tried refreshing the page?" Web Developer, 2016 "Have you tried opening a new chat?" AI Engineer, 2026

What a time to be alive as a nerd

Claude @claudeai

3 months ago

Read more about our usage limit increases and our SpaceX compute partnership: anthropic.com/news/higher-li…

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@bofonchio1 Non ti conosco ma mi sto appassionando, stay strong my friend

Programming used to put me into FLOW state often. That’s a big part of why I fell in love with it. Late night missions building games, apps, whatever, it felt great. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has a great quote on this: “The best moments in our lives… occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult or worthwhile.” AI has kind of nuked the personal challenge part of that. I don’t fall into those same FLOW states nearly as often anymore. It’s a strange position to be in because I’m undeniably more productive, but some of the joy is gone. I still love building software, but now the enjoyment comes more from seeing products come to life and have real-world impact than from the actual process of writing the code. I’ll miss the deep flow states that came from fighting code for hours into the night, but I feel like I do need to find new areas that still offer that same sense of challenge.

I stopped tracking my sleep some months ago, after one year of continuous tracking, as I had the same exact impression: sleep score and HRV value impacted my *perceived* sleep quality more than my own body signals

Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta

3 months ago

You check your Apple Watch in the morning. Sleep score: 62. You decide it's going to be a foggy day. And then it is. A 2014 Colorado College study suggests the score itself causes the fog. 164 people walked into a lab. Researchers hooked them up to fake EEG equipment and told

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You're alone and you'll have to figure it out by yourself: act accordingly.

@antirez @liuliu Cool, keep us updated please!

@antirez @liuliu What hardware are you guys using? I think this is the main blocker for many of us