Hacker News: EdiX

New comment by EdiX in "EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors"

EdiX — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:53:41 +0000

"Cookie banners are malicious compliance" is starting to wear thin as an excuse. GDPR went into law in 2018, almost ten years ago and for almost as long websites have been "maliciously complying". If you don't don anything about it at some point it's not malicious anymore, it's just how the law is meant to be interpreted.

I have a different hypothesis for why the GDPR exists: it is to create a market for EU based compliance companies.

New comment by EdiX in "Japanese verb conjugation the simple hard way"

EdiX — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 07:42:17 +0000

煽る is a godan verb, consistent with your example conjugations (if it was ichidan it would be 煽た、煽たい, etc)

New comment by EdiX in "Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures"

EdiX — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:14:18 +0000

Days since last being disappointed by the EU: 0

New comment by EdiX in "UK Brings in Full Social Media Ban for Under-16s"

EdiX — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:52:39 +0000

Hate speech laws are already in place. All that's needed now is for everyone to doxx themselves for the speech-to-arrest pipeline to work smoothly.

New comment by EdiX in "UK Brings in Full Social Media Ban for Under-16s"

EdiX — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:26:55 +0000

Of course, that's the whole point. Gotta prevent another Belfast.

New comment by EdiX in "Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails"

EdiX — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:06:03 +0000

Soon thanks to Digital ID all your important business will have to go through the devices you trust the least.

New comment by EdiX in "Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails"

EdiX — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:01:57 +0000

> Immigration will be vital to the survival of Europe. We are far below replacement level birth rates and we'll need new young people to keep our societies functioning

Third world immigration actually makes things worse in two ways. The first one is that we have recently discovered that third world immigrants are net negative economically across their lifetime due to social security. The second one is that they all move to the big cities exacerbating the sponge city problem and its effects on fertility.

> But we can't just let Europe die out because of some sense of racial superiority.

What we are actually doing is we are letting europe die out of a sense of moral superiority, that we can do away with nasty (hydrocarbons) or scary (nuclear) sources of energy, that we must take in every third worlder because letting them live in the thrid world is a crime, that AI must be regulated to death because it enriches billionaries and "technofascists", etc etc

It reminds me of that scene in the ninth gate, we are going bankrupt in the way former nobility goes bankrupt.

New comment by EdiX in "Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails"

EdiX — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:16:30 +0000

The point of all this free trade ideology is that it would make the whole world into peaceful liberal democracies. If it doesn't do that, why are we doing it? We're just making ourselves dependent on dangerous dicators while simultaneously enriching them.

New comment by EdiX in "Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails"

EdiX — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:23:51 +0000

Free trade didn't stop Russia from invading Ukraine and it didn't convert China into a democracy. And the india's deal is saddling us with more third world immigration that will only make things worse.

It seems to me that this is still all the EU not keeping up with where the world is going. We started drafting the mercosur agreement 27 years ago so we finalize it and call it a victory, all that it's probably going to do is precipitate the demise of our domestic agribusiness, so that farmers won't be able to cause a ruckus in Brussels anymore.

New comment by EdiX in "Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails"

EdiX — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:19:05 +0000

We've known this since the Snowden leaks 13 years ago. In a couple of years there will probably be a president in the US that will be more palatable for the european political class and we'll all be able to go back to pretending this doesn't happen.

After all the EU is too compromised energetically, militarily, industrially, burocratically and democratically to ever achieve independence. Talking about digital sovereignty as we ban construction of new datacenter is just too cute. This is all just political theater as we peacefully sunset into a museum continent.

New comment by EdiX in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

EdiX — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:47:16 +0000

Here's my theory about the dotcom bubble. The market correctly identified the internet as hugely valuable and correctly identified search engines as being able to capture a large share of this value. Consequently early search engines, chiefly Yahoo!, obtained (merited) high valuations. What Yahoo! did with their stock (they IPOd in 1996) was go on a big startup buying spree. This is what actually started the bubble: invest in some random dotcom crap company in the hopes that Yahoo! swoops in, buys and you get a big payday.

What caused the crash was Yahoo! being unable to do anything with their acquisitions and Google coming out with a better search engine, undermining Yahoo!'s core product. Google basically pulled the rug from under the dot com bubble.

The situation we're in now with LLMs is different, if I'm right we're actually pre-bubble, the bubble hasn't even started yet.

New comment by EdiX in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

EdiX — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 06:30:11 +0000

I was hoping for something more insightful from Ted Chiang than just regurgitating the usual "it's just predicting the next token that's not consciousness". Maybe the topic of consciousness is just too ill-defined and vacuous to say anything intelligent about it.

Or maybe man is the product of his social circle and all his white collar and artist friends being anxious about AI is preventing him from thinking about this at all. Maybe we should ask if Claude can be conscious without a friend circle judging him behind his back.

New comment by EdiX in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

EdiX — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:08:40 +0000

Yes, nuclear power regulations are unreasonably strict because that was the method we used to soft-ban it.

New comment by EdiX in "macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses"

EdiX — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:46:31 +0000

> ever since the "iOS-ify everything" zeitgeist took root

That started in 2010, a bit more than 5-10 years.

New comment by EdiX in "Layoffs at Block"

EdiX — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 07:52:43 +0000

Cry more.

New comment by EdiX in "Layoffs at Block"

EdiX — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 08:49:23 +0000

> And twitter hasn't launched one single meaningful anything since.

Longer tweets? Analytics? Premium? Grok? AI autogenerated news summaries? Livestreaming? I honestly have a harder time trying to think of features launched between 2011 and 2022, besides spaces.

New comment by EdiX in "DOGE Bro's Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?'"

EdiX — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:43:36 +0000

If you can use a criteria to finance academia [1] you can use the reverse to define what DEI is. Every major corporation had DEI departments and yet it doesn't exist, it's a ghost.

I really hope the backlash to this bullshit finally reaches europe.

Same song and dance for 14 years straight, there is no SJW you're just imagining them, it's just called being a decent human being, they say as they kick me repeatedly in the face.

[1] https://archive.is/UmkH3

New comment by EdiX in "MinIO repository is no longer maintained"

EdiX — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 12:52:29 +0000

It used to be that annoying noobs were aggressively told to RTFM, their feelings got hurt and they would go away. That probably was too harsh. But then came corporate OSS and with it corporate HR in OSS. Being the BOFH was now bad, gatekeeping was bad. Now everyone feels entitled to the maintainer time and maintainers burn out.

It's a trade off, we made it collectively.

New comment by EdiX in "Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog"

EdiX — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 08:06:26 +0000

Why does this say it's been posted 8 hours ago but on hn.algolia.com is archived 2 days ago, also I'm sure I already saw it yesterday.

New comment by EdiX in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

EdiX — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 07:54:06 +0000

If they didn't say it they heavily implied it to the point that journalists were fooled. For example you can read about it in this very quaint 2018 article that went with a woke "it's your fault I'm disfunctionally paranoid" angle: https://www.cnet.com/culture/amazon-go-avoid-discrimination-....

    No one cared what I was doing. Is this what it feels like to shop when you're not black?

Turns out people did care what she was doing.