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New comment by budududuroiu in "London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces"

budududuroiu — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:40:19 +0000

Not surprised by this move, the UK is preparing to silence dissent, for a very simple reason: tough times ahead. Guardian reported yesterday the UK might face food shortages, their young are increasingly burdened with supporting the triple lock through their taxes, and people are making exit plans rathert than be milked for their hard work.

New comment by budududuroiu in "Building an Advanced Agentic Harness"

budududuroiu — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:33:23 +0000

> The plan is a graph

I much prefer giving the LLM a REPL loop, and injecting all the tools as functions inside the REPL loop.

That means that the LLM isn't constrained to writing a DAG, it can write code that loops, exits early, etc.

New comment by budududuroiu in "NYC may require landlords and realtors to disclose the use of AI in listings"

budududuroiu — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:45:15 +0000

> Studios at $5500. 1 beds at $7500.

Zillow quotes: "The average rent for all bedrooms and all property types in New York, NY is $3,710."

Where are your figures sourced from?

New comment by budududuroiu in "What will be left for us to work on?"

budududuroiu — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 05:28:08 +0000

I've had this exact feeling about the article. I partly switched off after that paragraph

New comment by budududuroiu in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

budududuroiu — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:17:35 +0000

That's a good thing. We complain about lack of industrialisation. China has historically protected their fledgling industries, if we want industrialisation back, we need to as well, to the detriment of mindless consumption of cheap stuff

New comment by budududuroiu in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

budududuroiu — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:16:17 +0000

> Do you have zero idealism or regard for internationally agreed upon rules? Do you want a world where might is right?

Internationally agreed upon rules don't come from first principles, they're downstream from power. The world was, and will always be, might makes right.

New comment by budududuroiu in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

budududuroiu — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:10:48 +0000

You're asking too much from bureaucrats that stand to directly gain post-mandate by consulting the companies they legislate for, and also believe that the legitimacy of the EU as a whole should be driven by output (economic prosperity, etc), rather than input (democratic mandates, political participation of their constituents)

New comment by budududuroiu in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

budududuroiu — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:09:06 +0000

> the laws and regulations imposed upon citizens are hostile.

Let's not forget that these laws are supported and pushed for by national governments in the EU Council, there's no shadowy cabal that materializes these laws out of thin air, the EU is a blame-laundromat for domestically unpopular laws passed through backroom deals

New comment by budududuroiu in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

budududuroiu — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:05:04 +0000

The slipperiness comes from the fact that the EU already admits that scanning of private messages didn't improve the catching and prosecution of perpetrators. Also, the biggest lobbyists for breaking E2EE argue that criminals are moving to encrypted platforms, and targeting encrypted platforms is actually the thing we need to finally put a dent in stopping the dissemination of CSAM

New comment by budududuroiu in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

budududuroiu — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:58:06 +0000

If local scanning of CSAM flags a post, that post will have to be analysed by a human operator. If you send a sensitive photo of your kid's rash to your spouse, and it gets flagged, are you ok with a random cyber enforcement officer seeing your child in that way?

New comment by budududuroiu in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

budududuroiu — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:21:09 +0000

"We decide on something, leave it lying around and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back". -- Jean-Claude Juncker, VDL's predecessor

New comment by budududuroiu in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

budududuroiu — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:53:14 +0000

I agree, my point about political capital was about the overton window shifting to allow a more mainstream EU-skeptic platform for national parties, platforms which up until recently were easily labelled Russophiles or European traitors for US money.

I was aware that VDL obtained her role by routing around the Spitzenkandidaten process, but I was never aware that her confirmatory vote was done in this way.

Her unpopularity at home also reinforces the idea that unpopular politicians can be sent to Brussels, because "in Brussels, you can't hear them scream".

New comment by budududuroiu in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

budududuroiu — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:28:23 +0000

Afaik, EU rules provide for urgent procedure only for proposals at first reading, while here it was used to compress a second reading vote and skip committee, just perfectly timed for the last sitting before recess.

The absolute majority seems to be an anti-paralysis instrument, where the onus is on the Parliament to reject something put in motion by the Council. I think the the asymmetry is that a vote to trigger the urgency procedure only requires a simple majority, whereas a rejection of that same legislation requires absolute majority.

To my reading, this reinforces the idea that Parliament is designed to be more of a rubber stamp for the Council.

New comment by budududuroiu in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

budududuroiu — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:02:04 +0000

Sure, then just let the normal legislative process run its course, no need to bleed political capital and get an already polarised electorate to hate the EU even more by shoving this legislation through in this way.

New comment by budududuroiu in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

budududuroiu — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:55:22 +0000

The Internet Watch Foundation, the group, funded almost entirely by big tech, who pushed for this vote to be held under emergency procedure, is already at work lobbying for the end of E2EE [1].

In a couple years time, Chat Control 2.0 will come about, and the same tyrants will use the EU admission [2] that there is no evidence that suspicionless scanning of private communications has led to an increase in criminal convictions or in rescued children to argue that we need to go further, and break E2EE.

[1]: https://www.iwf.org.uk/resources/end-to-end-encryption-and-k... [2]: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE...

New comment by budududuroiu in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

budududuroiu — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:52:00 +0000

The regulation was rejected today with 314 votes against, 276 in favor, and 17 abstentions, but because of Metsola's lawfare that classified this regulation as under an "urgent procedure", an absolute majority was required to reject.

New comment by budududuroiu in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

budududuroiu — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:22:59 +0000

Roberta Metsola's actions this week jeopardise the legitimacy of the EU project as a whole.

It's clear that member countries use the EU as a blame-laundering mechanism to pass domestically unpopular laws, but the forcing of this vote under the urgency procedure that requires absolute majority to reject, on the last EP session before summer break is so blatant that it might awaken people that might've overlooked the structural failures of the EU and finally radicalise them

EDIT: bad wording, it's not that the urgency procedure causes the voting to require absolute majority, it's that an absolute majority second-reading is forced through an emergency procedure which is designed for first readings of legislation that's the implied meaning above

New comment by budududuroiu in "EU now one step away from reviving private message scanning rules"

budududuroiu — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:20:06 +0000

"We decide on something, leave it lying around, and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back." -- Jean-Claude Juncker

New comment by budududuroiu in "EU now one step away from reviving private message scanning rules"

budududuroiu — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:17:44 +0000

Other governments across the Channel also want to protect children online, while at the same time dismissing thousands of reports of grooming, for fear of being labelled "racist".

New comment by budududuroiu in "EU now one step away from reviving private message scanning rules"

budududuroiu — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:12:25 +0000

The Internet Watch Foundation, an organisation funded by almost all of big tech, is already at work pushing for client side scanning next [1], for the children, of course.

[1] https://www.iwf.org.uk/policy-work/preventing-the-upload-of-...