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New comment by szczepano in "EU rules on AI models become enforceable. What's going to change?"

szczepano — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 21:05:37 +0000

Link to report AI https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/ai-act-whi...

New comment by szczepano in "Cloudflare Drop"

szczepano — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:34:12 +0000

Works only if there is index.html file present in zip https://drop-e25b96d5-5ed.elite-seed.workers.dev

New comment by szczepano in "OpenAI models coming to Amazon Bedrock: Interview with OpenAI and AWS CEOs"

szczepano — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:12:37 +0000

It was a matter of time since their models are already there, pushed by Pentagon contract. Reuters wrote about it 1.5 months ago. https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/openai-sell...

New comment by szczepano in "You Are Here"

szczepano — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:54:47 +0000

For sure, because copy pasting from stackoverflow was already to difficult. Everyone loves writing business logic in computer understandable words. Name it LLM, programming language, calculator, there is still parser and interpreter. The only switch is attempt to replace deterministic machines with not deterministic machines by reducing machine error rate to acceptable percentage.

New comment by szczepano in "After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death"

szczepano — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:47:10 +0000

his new game link https://store.steampowered.com/app/3773590/Death_by_Scrollin...

New comment by szczepano in "Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy"

szczepano — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 15:42:20 +0000

> Each week, 800 million people use ChatGPT to think...

I think I have enough with the first sentence, no need to read more. The narration is clear, we are the brain and no one can stop us.

New comment by szczepano in "If you have a Claude account, they're going to train on your data moving forward"

szczepano — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 18:18:39 +0000

You can and should safely assume people can do anything that's possible to do. Weather something is bad or good is a term of historical debate.

New comment by szczepano in "LLMs are cheap"

szczepano — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 13:41:09 +0000

I want to see how this pricing compares with searxng.

New comment by szczepano in "FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies"

szczepano — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 14:54:57 +0000

they respect robots.txt at least major ones like meta, claude, google, openai, based on my infra observations robots.txt is enough in 90%, 10% is just banning ip ranges for couple of days but those are no AI companies

New comment by szczepano in "FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies"

szczepano — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:50:06 +0000

there is simple solution for gentlemens:

robots.txt should allow to exclude all AI crawlers and AI crawlers should be forced to add "AI" to their crawl user agent headers and also respect robots.txt saying they can't crawl this website

right now we need to do this:

User-agent: *

Disallow: /

New comment by szczepano in "LLMs and the End of Programming – CS50 Tech Talk with Dr. Matt Welsh [video]"

szczepano — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 21:33:17 +0000

Yeah let's put one computer / server room as a keeper of all knowledge. Let's make it cheap and powerfull so people instead of looking for knowledge in different places go to one place. In the meanwhile start couple of conflicts and spread fake news to make people hostile to each other so they don't like arguing. People decide to instead of arguing between each other let's just listen to computer to solve problems. Failure is painfull so just ask computer and our work is done. As more and more people would start asking powerfull computer for solution, other knowledge places will disappear due to lack of investments so powerfull computer will buy out everything that's left to eliminate competition. At some point computer gives another brillant idea to reduce our carbon footprint. Just stop printing books, selling computers with hard drives. Instead of that make lightweight terminals that stream knowledge from one place directly into human mind. What could go wrong if we eliminate that computer ?

New comment by szczepano in "A paradigm for developer productivity (2022)"

szczepano — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 23:26:09 +0000

Looks like people once again are trying to make very complicated measurements that micromanage workers instead of using classical approaches like "The iron triangle of project management" - good, fast and cheap.

Why is there no tool that shows a triangle with features, bugs and support quality. Because it would obviously show that there are no new features, terrible support and tons of bugs. Everyone is doing everything except the job that needs to be done. They do it to meet the requirements of newly created 20 indicators. And who is to blame for this ? Obviously not management, they just sit and watch indicators waiting to send those who are underperforming on the bar charts to the HR department for a little talk.

Splendid

New comment by szczepano in "Working quickly is more important than it seems (2015)"

szczepano — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 21:20:33 +0000

When I read about speed of doing things this always reminds me a tale of two programmers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=677655, archive link https://web.archive.org/web/20121226223216/http://mail.linux...

I'm not against or in favour of speed. History showed us many times that most people don't care about truth and correct solutions, people care about efficiency and moving things fast. Just look at gaming industry and preordering. Agile project management. This is what is called taking risks and making a jump into abbyss before we look what is underneeth. Taking risk is always praised. Question is which jump will be last one and will kill us all?

New comment by szczepano in "Ask HN: When did 7 interviews become “normal”?"

szczepano — Sat, 02 Apr 2022 21:49:03 +0000

Hiring today is like meeting your wife after a wedding and just before you go to bed. And there are bigger questions, why we even need resumes if those are disconnected from hiring process and mean nothing except passing trough ATS algorithms. Hiring got broken exactly at the same time when it became separate profession not strictly connected with demand from people who need help with their work. I never fully understood why developer who need help can't hire people directly to help him. Those people would spend together 8 hours a day for at least couple of months if not couple of years and they often meet at the very end. If there's no chemistry between them why hire ? There's lots of talks about scaling and toxicity, but this is result of hiring people who don't talk with each other cause they didn't know they would work together before they got into this big brother show on company island called agile team. What was wrong with this idea of helping each other that worked 15 years ago that established this whole industry ?

New comment by szczepano in "The phones of Ukrainian president Zelensky"

szczepano — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 12:17:19 +0000

No he's on dark side of the Moon. James Webb telescope secret mission was to deliver him there and they also created surrogate that imitates his poses on Earth. Russia plans to launch moon lander mission in July this year to kill him.

New comment by szczepano in "My own phone number is now spam texting me"

szczepano — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 11:38:04 +0000

The problem with data protection acts is that they try to protect data and it won't work cause the data they try to protect is outside people houses. Everything that is outside house is public and we just need to assume you need to provide data about it so we can verify your identity like with public key. Just to give example, when you live the house anyone can ask you anything ex. ask your neighbour about your name, anyone can read your house number, can see you or take photo of you legally or illegally that's different topic but we should protect peoples privacy inside their houses instead of trying to protect something we can't cause everyone see us how we are when we leave the house. It's basic public / private key problem. Everything outside house is public key and everything inside is private key.

So with phone we shouldn't protect people identity, address and/or company name but protect people from disruption with calls they don't want to answer and give them ability to verify who was calling, by even seeing their photo cause yes if I'm your neighbour I can see you and if I move next to you next year I can see you too. Wow.

There should be 2 call indexes one for contacts that should behave same as it's behaving now and second index for anything else that you shouldn't receive notifications but you can check this spam missed calls index and verify anyone that called you and add them to contacts - just how the old good paper phone book worked.

This empowers people to be able to make decision if I want those people to call me or not, cause you can always call back and it should be widespread when you call someone first time expect they might won't answer your call same as if you email someone they might not answer cause your mail is in spam.

New comment by szczepano in "EU is going to require interoperability between messaging platforms"

szczepano — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 15:03:47 +0000

first step to enforce identity across different messaging platforms, goodbye anonymity

New comment by szczepano in "Docker for Mac Without Docker Desktop"

szczepano — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 02:38:43 +0000

Docker Desktop is just closed source fork of abandoned kitematic. https://github.com/docker/kitematic

New comment by szczepano in "I made my first web0 website today. It's so cool it just works"

szczepano — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 00:19:05 +0000

https://thebestmotherfucking.website/

New comment by szczepano in "CD Projekt Red is under investigation"

szczepano — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 00:49:30 +0000

Probably cause there is not much possible technology set in future oriented IP around so demand is bigger than media coverage. Decent movies you can count using hands, same with manga / anime. Books are a little better but book authors are mostly the same and not writing anything right now. RPG I know around 3 - maybe. Games are not many. Whole genere is very exploitable cause it's near future but hard to imagine and describe.

Now compare it with series about police / gangsters or war.