Hacker News: iamacyborg

New comment by iamacyborg in "The EU Open Source Strategy"

iamacyborg — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:17:31 +0000

> Why is it that all of the enforcement effort been so unevenly directed specifically at non-European companies?

Do you have any evidence of that?

> You are replying to a comment complaining about the annoyance for users that the law has created. When will that be fixed?

The law isn’t about fixing an annoyance to users. If you’re annoyed by bad UX, tell your boss to cut that shit out because they’re probably part of the problem too.

What I struggle to understand is you’d rather have your privacy right absolutely derailed just so you have a couple things less to click. Wild.

New comment by iamacyborg in "The EU Open Source Strategy"

iamacyborg — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:40:11 +0000

> People dislike it because they dislike its practical effects, and frankly the EU should take responsibility for that and try to fix it.

What’s to fix?

A business needs a legitimate reason to process personal data, people need to be sufficiently informed about how their data will be processed. These are not impossible obstacles. Anyone who claims otherwise is acting in bad faith because they know that people would not agree to what the business wants to do with their data.

New comment by iamacyborg in "The EU Open Source Strategy"

iamacyborg — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:47:19 +0000

NOYB have raised a complaint on the second one for a publisher in the Nordics.

https://noyb.eu/en/nordic-media-giant-schibsted-switches-pay...

New comment by iamacyborg in "The EU Open Source Strategy"

iamacyborg — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:09:18 +0000

AFAIK, those are not legally compliant.

New comment by iamacyborg in "The EU Open Source Strategy"

iamacyborg — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:44:21 +0000

What loopholes?

New comment by iamacyborg in "The EU Open Source Strategy"

iamacyborg — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:43:55 +0000

I read it in full years ago and found it quite clear. Which parts did you find to be vague?

New comment by iamacyborg in "The EU Open Source Strategy"

iamacyborg — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:21:34 +0000

> Instead of letting the best product win by consumer choice, they're forcing every messaging product to become mediocre.

Do you really believe products win because they’re the best? I’d strongly argue that monopolistic power and loss-leading VC investment is what drives success.

New comment by iamacyborg in "The EU Open Source Strategy"

iamacyborg — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:19:06 +0000

> Most EU initiatives have damaged everyday UX on the web and in tech.

Are you really trying to suggest that GDPR and PECR are bad pieces of legislation because businesses have decided that they’d prefer to give you a bad UX?

AI needs shame, not taste

iamacyborg — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:28:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.jacquescorbytuech.com/writing/ai-needs-shame-not-taste

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48433824

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by iamacyborg in "Stop Ruining It"

iamacyborg — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:31:31 +0000

> at work

A lot of performance issues are down to MDM software.

New comment by iamacyborg in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

iamacyborg — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:29:30 +0000

That won’t help a PM hit their bonus

The CDP Is the AI

iamacyborg — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:20:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.jacquescorbytuech.com/writing/cdp-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48375697

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by iamacyborg in "Squillions: How money laundering won"

iamacyborg — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:27:26 +0000

> The UK did this already and ML is out of control there: criminals just don't care.

From 18th May:

“A new £30m High Street organised crime unit has been announced by the government after the BBC's year-long investigative reporting into illegal mini-marts, vape shops and barbers.”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3pzwx449no

Of course, remains to be seen what, if any, impact this ends up having.

New comment by iamacyborg in "Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute"

iamacyborg — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:41:15 +0000

> It is odd that they cite customer demand just after people leave Google for DuckDuckGo due to AI enshittification.

You’ll probably find this is extremely limited to whatever circle you find yourself in

New comment by iamacyborg in "Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute"

iamacyborg — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:38:22 +0000

Being discoverable is one thing, having your content stolen wholesale is another

New comment by iamacyborg in "Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC"

iamacyborg — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:36:18 +0000

Just look at Corning’s lifetime chart

New comment by iamacyborg in "MCP is dead?"

iamacyborg — Sat, 30 May 2026 09:19:26 +0000

I definitely see it going that way from a marketing perspective if you want what you send/produce to be machine readable and actually used in intermediated surfaces like email and web search.

What Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Apple are doing to your email

iamacyborg — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:19:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.jacquescorbytuech.com/writing/what-google-yahoo-microsoft-and-apple-are-doing-your-email

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315655

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by iamacyborg in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

iamacyborg — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:33:40 +0000

> Are there any VCs looking to give away a few billion dollars to disrupt the ossified, wasteful, poor customer experience taxi app market?

Waymo are rolling out, slowly. No one'll be in a real position to compete against them.

New comment by iamacyborg in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

iamacyborg — Thu, 28 May 2026 10:10:55 +0000

One could take an equally uncharitable approach to what engineers and product teams do.