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New comment by sharperguy in "Hamburg's Stadtpark: A Park Built to Be Used"

sharperguy — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:39:31 +0000

"everything the author mentions" I wouldn't say this is totally accurate. There are no swimmable lakes in the central part of the city for example. Certainly there are parks that have volleyball, running tracks, kids parks and grilling areas, which is great. But it sounds like the Hamburg one goes above and beyond.

New comment by sharperguy in "Big Companies Are Starting to Hire Again, Defying Predictions of AI Wipeout"

sharperguy — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:54:33 +0000

I suppose because, inflation is down, and additional interest rate hikes are looking less likely.

New comment by sharperguy in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"

sharperguy — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:37:57 +0000

I would love it if I could disable bluetooth on the TV. I have never connected it to any network and its still blaring "HELLO SOMEONE NEARBY HAS AN LG TV" to the entire neighbourhood 24/7.

New comment by sharperguy in "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"

sharperguy — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:33:08 +0000

No blockchains here. Nostr is just a standard signed message format being relayed by simple store and forward relay servers.

New comment by sharperguy in "Wikipedia escapes Category 1 designation under the UK Online Safety Act for now"

sharperguy — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 04:35:47 +0000

Sadly many of those countries are now in the EU which will force them to adopt similar legislation

New comment by sharperguy in "Herdr: One terminal to rule them all"

sharperguy — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 23:40:58 +0000

seamlessly jumping from local to remote sessions is something ive been hoping for in zellij for quite a while so if herdr supports this it could be interesting.

Until I try it, though, I don't think I'll understand why it needs a specific feature for running an agent tool in a side panel, which is appartently one of it's main selling point.

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

sharperguy — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:56:23 +0000

They are talking about mandatory on-device scanning. E2E doesn't solve this.

New comment by sharperguy in "The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy"

sharperguy — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 17:19:39 +0000

I'm not certain that local police forces are always consulting the NSA or Palantir to find out who is behind a particular account. I would guess that the vast majority of arrests for offensive posts were made openly under a real identity, with only the most extreme cases leading to a deeper investigation.

New comment by sharperguy in "The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy"

sharperguy — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:53:42 +0000

The biggest angle for me is censorship. You associate your online identity with your legal identity, there is no longer any recourse if you are banned from a platform. You could easily be arrested if your posts are determined to be 'offensive' in some manner considered to be in breach of the law, or simply have no ability to rejoin a platform under a new identity, or have identities across multiple platforms banned in parallel.

I've found that many people are actually in favor of these when they believe that it will only be enforced against people they disagree with. I'm hoping that people will be more likely to listen when they realize that their enemies may in future be able to get into power and change the definition of what is 'offensive', 'misinformation' or 'disinformation' to their own personal opinions.

New comment by sharperguy in "Spying on kids to save kids from spying is stupid"

sharperguy — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:44:23 +0000

Doesn't _have_ to be except not enough voters can tell the difference which is exactly the goal.

New comment by sharperguy in "window.showDirectoryPicker opens up a whole new world"

sharperguy — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:09:16 +0000

You could implement it this way:

- the first time you select a directory it must be empty

- you can drag files in there afterwards

- the directory gets whitelisted for future use

Probably has bad usability, but would be more secure.

New comment by sharperguy in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

sharperguy — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:47:46 +0000

Considering the Trump administration's policy on Isreal / Palestine / Iran seems to be a direct follow-on from the previous administration, I'm not so sure about that assertion.

New comment by sharperguy in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

sharperguy — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:00:43 +0000

In a two party system, do you vote for the party that promises small government and never delivers, or the party that promises bigger government and does delive?

New comment by sharperguy in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

sharperguy — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:34:38 +0000

I can't find a Pi Zero 2 W for sale anywhere that will deliver to me

New comment by sharperguy in "Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism"

sharperguy — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:48:57 +0000

Free speech doesn't mean that we don't desire filters. Go check your gmail spam folder. Twitter would look identical to this with filters at all. What we really want is:

* transparency about the filters we have on our feeds

* the ability to tweak them if they're not working

* the ability to change providers without losing your entire social graph / reach

New comment by sharperguy in "Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts"

sharperguy — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:08:00 +0000

So in future we will have "retro" streaming platforms that buffer with the spinner a random times for nostalgia and have menus full of promotional material that are impossible to navigate to just find what you're looking for.

New comment by sharperguy in "About LLMs at Zig Days"

sharperguy — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:14:35 +0000

You're assuming a file containing a statistical model that exists on your hard drive has agency. It doesn't. You as the user have sole agency and what you use the statistic file for.

New comment by sharperguy in "About LLMs at Zig Days"

sharperguy — Sat, 30 May 2026 12:50:26 +0000

You could say it's more akin to if we have all been writing in a assembly and suddenly we got access to compilers and high level languages. Would we all be complaining that every conference is "about compilers"?

New comment by sharperguy in "About LLMs at Zig Days"

sharperguy — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:40:42 +0000

It's hard to avoid the topic when it literally redefines what it means to create software. If I'm using it to create some piece of software, then I turn around and say "I wrote this" am I even being truthful? But if I'm trying to avoid mentioning LLMs what other wording could I use?

New comment by sharperguy in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

sharperguy — Thu, 28 May 2026 11:04:00 +0000

I'm someone who makes extensive used of LLMs and agents for daily research, and I 100% of the time ignore the AI summary that google gives at the top of the page. If I am performing a web search, I've already decided that I'm explicitly NOT looking for an LLM summary.