Frédéric Husson

[Mikko Ohtamaa @moo9000]

YouTube has just taken down the political discussion clip about the EU's Chat Control, and the video is no longer viewable in the EU.

This has been confirmed by several parties. The video is still available outside the EU.

@puheenaihefi podcast is a Finnish current affairs program with 60k subscribers. In this episode, Peter Sund, CEO of the Finnish Information Security Cluster (Kyberala ry) offered pointed criticism of the EU's new Chat Control directive, which was enacted under questionable circumstances.

Because the media is in Finnish, it is highly likely the censorship request came from a Finnish government official or a related party.

This makes it troublesome.

Because the Finnish constitution §12 guarantees freedom of expression.

Preventing political publications is a criminal offence: Abuse of Official Position, punishable by a fine or imprisonment for up to two years.

You can listen to this episode on Apple Music and Spotify.

Spotify link https://t.co/lw249mESyf

Dysfunctional YouTube link https://t.co/1kYDSECM5l

[Christophe Boutry @Ced_haurus]

Encore un beau mensonge pour vous faire gober l'utilité de #ChatControl et justifier son vote :

Notre eurodéputé annonce que les signalements du scan volontaire de nos messages avec ChatControl sont à l'origine de 80% des arrestations de pédocriminels !

Une statistique introuvable. Nulle part. Ni la Commission européenne, ni Europol, ni aucune étude publique ne mentionne ce chiffre.

Par contre un 80% existe bel et bien dans ce dossier. Il vient de la police fédérale suisse. Et il dit l'exact inverse de ce qu'affirme M. Bellamy : 80% des contenus signalés par ces algorithmes ne sont PAS illégaux.

Photos de vacances, discussions médicales, sextos entre ados, tout y passe.

En Irlande, seulement 20% des signalements correspondaient à un abus réel. En Allemagne, la moitié des signalements n'ont aucune pertinence pénale.

Alors soit ce chiffre sort de nulle part, soit il a inversé la seule statistique à 80% qui circule vraiment sur ce sujet. Dans les deux cas, une question simple : d'où sort ce chiffre, monsieur le député ?

En attendant une réponse, arrêtez de nous vendre la surveillance de masse avec des stats inventées.

[SaxX ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @_SaxX_]

🚨🔴 Chat control qui passe en Europe !
Quel échec !
Quelle folie...

[Olivier Poncet 🦝 @ponceto91]

mettre « [...] capables de tout voir et de tout entendre pour capturer chaque moment de la vie de l'utilisateur [...] » et « [...] assure mettre l’accent sur "la protection de la vie privée dès la conception [...] » dans la même phrase me fait un peu tiquer

[Armin Ronacher ⇌ @mitsuhiko]

This btw falls into some general work towards supporting what underlying models can do a bit better. The tricky bit is doing that without creating a system that does not translate between providers. https://t.co/LAg4pwbkls

[Sven Clement @svnee]

The European Parliament voted AGAINST Chat Control. 314 to 276.

And it passed anyway.

Let me tell you how: they needed 361 votes to say no. On the last day before vacation. Every empty seat counted as a yes.

They lost the vote. They won the law.

That’s not democracy. That’s a trick. #ChatControl

[SaxX ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @_SaxX_]

Êtes-vous OK que le facteur lise tous vos courriers avant de le déposer dans votre boîte à lettres ?

Vous n'y verrez bien entendu aucune réticence ! C'est juste au cas où quoi...

Voilà le scandale avec chat control.

*Désormais vous pourrez l'expliquer facilement à votre grand mère ! Ou cet été en discutant avec vos potes.
C'est grave ce qui se passe !

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

I have been trying to find something meaningful to say about the Id Software layoffs.

My “Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand” statement isn’t aging well, and this is certainly going to dampen the mood of the founder reunion at QuakeCon next month.

I’m saddened, but I can’t muster anger or outrage over it. I don’t have access to the books, but I suspect that Id Software was a marginal business from Microsoft’s perspective. I believe the reports that Minecraft revenues have been carrying several other studios.

To continue being produced long term, games need to succeed, not just be beloved.

Games are competing with every other option for spending your leisure time and money, and the competition is brutal.

You can’t rule out the possibility that executives are idiots, but that shouldn’t be your default belief. I don’t think there is any obvious path that would have doubled the revenue from Id games.

Could they have gotten more with a different pricing strategy?

Could they have created more things for fans to buy?

Could they have cost effectively marketed in a way that reached more players that would have loved and bought the games?

Could they have changed the game designs and broadened the appeal to more players without alienating existing ones?

Could they have produced the games at a lower cost, faster or cheaper?

I really don’t know.

The game isn’t over yet, and I hope the studio rallies through.

[SaxX ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @_SaxX_]

L'obscurantisme numérique européen ! Quelle décadence.

Ce soir je suis inquiet pour la suite.

On se moquait de la Corée du Nord... de la Chine... de la Russie...

Et désormais, probablement, très probablement... le prochain bastion qui tombera sur la liberté numérique sera l'Europe.

Bordel, mes parents, mes amis, mes potes, mes voisins... ne se rendent pas comptent de l'énorme faille qui s'ouvre avec Chat Control.

Je suis tellement en furie ! À quel point nos députés européens sont si nuls ! Si matrixés ! Si désensibilisés sur le numérique !

Je n'arrive pas encore à comprendre ce qui vient de se passer.

[...]

Je ne suis pas inquiet pour moi. Je suis inquiet pour mes proches. Je suis inquiet pour la population.

Nous autres experts ont saura tjrs passer entre les mailles du filet.

1984 se vit en 2026 et désormais pour les années à venir.

NOTA: Si vous êtes pour ChatControl, vous pouvez vous désabonner de mon compte. Je vous c*nchie.

Cybèrement vôtre,

SaxX ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Denzil O’Neill @DenzilONeill]

Thanks everyone for the kind words!
Here are some of the characters I was fortunate enough to work on at id over 12 years.
Bittersweet for the DLC to drop today (Please support it!) but still grateful to have been able to finish the trilogy.

[Mario Zechner @badlogicgames]

Reasoning summaries on the Codex backend are fire atm. <!-- -->. Love it.

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

This was a famous Microsoft interview question back in the day - given a linked list, detect a cycle in it.

The cheapest way is to send TWO pointers through the list, one stepping one node, the other stepping two nodes per move.

If there are any cycles eventually the fast pointer "catches up" to the slow pointer, and they equal.

[Jilles Soeters @Jilles]

I've loved using Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode since the very beginning.

But a few weeks ago, I tried out pi to see what all the hype is about. And now, it's my daily driver. I'm in full control. No unexpected changes to the harness.

Check out pi in about 6 minutes.

[Arpit Bhayani @arpit_bhayani]

Fun fact: OpenAI handles 800 million users on ChatGPT with just one PostgreSQL primary and 50 read replicas 🤯

Today, OpenAI published an engineering blog explaining how they scaled their Postgres setup to support a massive 800 million users using a single primary and 50 multi-region replicas.

They dive into details around their scaling approach, the PgBouncer proxy, cache locking, and cascading read replicas. It is genuinely neat and impressive.

Some time back, I published a video on my YouTube channel where I dissected the blog and broke down the nuances.

Give it a watch - it is short and fun.

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

Mind boggling to me that I can make a thing faster and there's always people that ask "but why?" What kind of mentality is that? The pursuit of excellence does not need justification. Also, I find in so many cases, we can't know the impact of an improvement until we do it.

For example, one I've talked about before: Ghostty's high IO throughput has enabled terminal program (emulator and TUI) fuzzing at a speed thats incomparably fast to prior solutions. This has resulted in upstream patches to resolve issues in popular projects like btop, tmux, and more.

Speed enabled that anecdotally example that lifted the tides of adjacent communities that don't rely on Ghostty technology at all. I didn't predict this.

Make things better because they can be better and let the results naturally play out.

[JFK Files @read_jfk_files]

tfw you laugh at idiot Microsofty lusers being globally tracked by the NSA because their GUID is hardcoded inside their TPM, but then you suddenly remember Linux also has /etc/machine-id and you forgot to setup your init daemon to periodically truncate and regenerate a new machine-id so you can't also be tracked because you are pretty sure that Chrome is reading it and sending it to Google as harmless "user telemetry analytics."

i stand by my claim that mf'er asshole Lennart Poettering really is the NSA's man on the inside on a mission to destroy Linux and install the NSA's backdoors through all his systemd slop

[Com Feed @thecomfeed]

⚠️ UPDATE: New Court Files Reveal How Microsoft Helped the FBI Identify Peter Stokes "Bouquet" (Scattered Spider Member)

The court files reveal that Microsoft helped the FBI track Peter Stokes down using GDID — a Global Device Identifier, which is assigned to every Windows installation and cannot be changed unless the OS is wiped. The GDID helped them track:

• IP history
• Full web activity
• Video game activity and games played
• Logged-in social accounts, including Snapchat, Facebook, and Apple

According to the court documents, the critical mistake was using a VPN to create the ngrok account used in the May 2025 Tiffany & Co. hack from the same Windows device associated with his GDID.

Although the account was created from a VPN IP address ending in .168, Microsoft records show that the same GDID (6755467234350028) accessed the ngrok signup page at the exact time the account was created, linking the hack to his personal social accounts.

[Frédéric Husson @fhusson]

@mitsuhiko 1) How to create/manage your loops.
2) Multi agents using local models, with/without switching llm and with memory constraint.

[stevibe @stevibe]

You know that "But, wait..." moment in every LLM thinking trace?

I made it visible.

I asked 8 models the same tricky probability question and rendered their reasoning as trees. Every time a model rejects its own idea and pivots, every "But...", every "Wait, actually...", a new branch grows.

Same question. Completely different minds.

[stevibe @stevibe]

Which LLM has the guts to answer first? I built a game to find out.

I made 4 LLMs play a guessing game: an image hidden behind 100 tiles, revealed one by one. The only question: who dares to answer first (and correctly)?

The results say a lot about model "personality":
> 🎈Balloon: Qwen3.6 35B A3B guessed after just 2 tiles. TWO.
> 🌕Lighthouse (with a moon as a trap): 35B guessed too early again "moon". Meanwhile Gemma4 26B A4B waited for 15 tiles before committing.
> 🦉Camouflaged owl: everyone got it, 3–7 tiles. 35B again the first one to answer.

Takeaways:
> Qwen3.6 35B A3B = the gambler. Fastest when right, but the only one that failed.
> Qwen3.6 27B & Gemma4 31B = balanced.
> Gemma4 26B A4B = the accountant. Correct on everything, but needed 2–5x more evidence.

Speed vs certainty is a real tradeoff in these models, and you can literally watch it happen.