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New comment by drawfloat in "The UK's new under-16 social media ban will cause more harm than it prevents"

drawfloat — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 09:59:39 +0000

I don’t have kids, but I live in society.

New comment by drawfloat in "Can you see three trees?"

drawfloat — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 09:54:55 +0000

City of London != London, the city

The City is indeed pretty non green

New comment by drawfloat in "The UK's new under-16 social media ban will cause more harm than it prevents"

drawfloat — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 08:40:00 +0000

“ But the social media ban does not stop there. The provision also requires internet service providers to limit the time kids spend online, and has rules about who can contact them online. These extreme rules will take decisions about using technology away from families and put them in the hands of government regulators. “

I’m not sure that “there are rules on who can contact children online” is “extreme” for anyone outside of hyper libertarian circles.

The EFF needs to start engaging with actual real world, because it’s intransigence on the issues being caused by unfettered internet usage mean it is unable to prevent bad solutions being proposed.

New comment by drawfloat in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

drawfloat — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 09:59:50 +0000

Honestly it might not be the worst thing. Facebook et al were way too entrenched in European society before the geopolitical negatives became apparent. Getting cut off now, regardless of whether it comes back tomorrow, will encourage not being overly reliant on one country’s LLM providers.

New comment by drawfloat in "New privacy frontier: Europe eyes crackdown on smart glasses"

drawfloat — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:00:20 +0000

We’re talking about Europe. The context of this entire article is Europe.

New comment by drawfloat in "New privacy frontier: Europe eyes crackdown on smart glasses"

drawfloat — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:46:05 +0000

In America. That is not true for all other countries.

And in even more countries it is legal to film, but it's not legal to send that footage back to Meta's servers for use in LLM training.

New comment by drawfloat in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

drawfloat — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:41:47 +0000

No they got away with it through a combination of lax pharmaceutical laws, and because they were rich and connected to the officials who should have investigated them.

They're also almost universally regarded as having committed evil acts at this point, so who cares why they got away with it?

New comment by drawfloat in "MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second"

drawfloat — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:16:50 +0000

We just had years of US model providers arguing it was fine to rip off the world’s cultural output for their own profit, why should their work be treated any different?

New comment by drawfloat in "Perry Compiles TypeScript directly to executables using SWC and LLVM"

drawfloat — Sat, 30 May 2026 06:03:23 +0000

Put the LLM down and talk to humans as a human.

New comment by drawfloat in "What 1,281 agent runs reveal about coding agent failure in large codebases"

drawfloat — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:56:36 +0000

Slop.

New comment by drawfloat in "Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements"

drawfloat — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:19:35 +0000

They probably don’t like it because the AI industry has spent years saying it wants to make them all unemployed.

New comment by drawfloat in "UK sovereign LLM inference"

drawfloat — Sat, 16 May 2026 12:38:45 +0000

For all its flaws and limitations in practice, you have far greater data privacy in the UK than the US. Largely because it seems you basically have none as a private citizen in the US.

First amendment has nothing to do with it.

New comment by drawfloat in "UK sovereign LLM inference"

drawfloat — Fri, 15 May 2026 12:04:29 +0000

Because they reside in the UK? Why would anyone outside the US want their data in the US, the organiser and leader of the Five Eyes?

New comment by drawfloat in "UK sovereign LLM inference"

drawfloat — Fri, 15 May 2026 10:29:09 +0000

Much the same way the word "patriotism" is more common in US national discourse, "sovereignty" is very common in UK national discourse.

New comment by drawfloat in "Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable"

drawfloat — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:39:19 +0000

That’s not how the real world works. You will be kicked out of the workplace and rightly so.

New comment by drawfloat in "All my clients wanted a carousel, now it's an AI chatbot"

drawfloat — Sat, 09 May 2026 08:18:51 +0000

Are casual users crying out for ai chat bots? From my experience the only stakeholder pushing for those is the business themselves.

New comment by drawfloat in "Stitch together lots of little HTML pages with navigations for interactions"

drawfloat — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:57:52 +0000

Could be achieved with a checkbox input and a hidden div too

New comment by drawfloat in "OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors"

drawfloat — Mon, 04 May 2026 05:46:57 +0000

Human judgement and accountability

New comment by drawfloat in "Breaking up with WordPress after two decades"

drawfloat — Sun, 03 May 2026 18:31:32 +0000

LinkedIn post nonsense

New comment by drawfloat in "Show HN: What happens when you load a webpage (Interactive)"

drawfloat — Fri, 01 May 2026 03:52:39 +0000

Assuming this is AI slop given how close its layout, design, "break down a single concept" content is to another similar link today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47967508 and usual LLM tells in the language.

If you can't be bothered to write it, why should anyone care to read it?