Robin Darlington

code for the web & make music.
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[Robin Darlington @robindarlington]

But most importantly, today I shipped: https://t.co/6lU3VmxUTK

[macabeus @bmacabeus]

@AnthropicAI

[Infinite Reign @InfiniteReign88]

Dario:

“Oh no! People are really pissed because we’re sabotaging their work.”

Handler/Sister Wife:

“Don’t worry. They like us when we argue with the government.”

Dario:

“B-b-but the government isn’t talking about us anymore…”

Sister-Wife, picking up the phone:

“Hello, DOD? I need to report a jailbreak.”

[@levelsio @levelsio]

After this post my Google Maps has now also been banned from reviewing places

No wonder every place is now a 4.7/5, they all converge to that rating if you just remove all the bad ratings

Interestingly, my account has been banned because of my reviews in Dubai from ages ago, I know UAE has strict defamation laws, so I think businesses use that to remove reviews there

I don't know why the Google Maps team is allowing this though, a review or rating is not defamation, it's just an opinion, and Google needs that opinion for people to know where to go

What Google should be doing I think is defending the people who review and rate places in court wherever they live, because by just allowing any business to remove bad ratings/reviews, they make Google Maps completely non-credible!

Long term people will just use other apps to find good places and I don't think you want that @sundarpichai

Maybe we need @X Maps with real reviews @elonmusk?

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

I am remembering right now for my own sanity. There is so much peace in deep thought instead of some insane frenetic agent orchestration fever dream

[@levelsio @levelsio]

I'm gonna get annoying so don't block me but another reason I don't use frameworks or dependencies

It's hard to attack vanilla code

[Robin Darlington @robindarlington]

Creepy

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

To prevent "programmatic use", Claude Code may now request webcam access to assure user is present when prompting

[@levelsio @levelsio]

If Claude Code keeps being slow like this while I pay $200/mo (and they don't let me pay more)

They will essentially force me to leave to Codex and I don't want to

But it's soooooo slooooooooooooowwwww

[Monica Amgwerd @monica_amgwerd]

It is inacceptable as what von der Leyen says means identification and surveillance of the whole population on social media. It doesn't stop children form accessing it, they find ways, as studies show. Over 400 international researchers and experts in the field opposed this in an open letter, see here: https://t.co/cQ1oiZHvdu

What von der Leyen suggests is outrageous surveillance and not in any way compatible with privacy as a human right and thus not compatible with democracy.

Von der Leyen wants to hand over the identities and connected to it intimate personal data of citizens to BigTech. She empowers these oligopolys further - wrong move. The people should protest this with all democratic means possible - do not comply.

-> CHOOSE DECENTRALIZED SOCIAL MEDIA INSTEAD, like Mastodon or pixelfed.

If one wants to stop children from using social media then one should make it illegal for them to use smart phones - as there are many more apps on there that make them addicted, like snap chat, games and more. This would be analog to how it's illegal to use alcohol for children.

There is no Big Tech surveillance necessary - it is inaceptable. It is wrong and further harms democracy - it worsens the situation we are already in. This approach is also against studies that show children bypass control - it is disturbing that the EU considers this.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Someone just opened a pop-up in NYC displaying all 3.5 million pages of the Epstein files.

Walk in. Read. See for yourself.

[JT @jiratickets]

boomers sending DMs to AI-generated women on instagram

[the tiny corp @__tinygrad__]

@APompliano We need stacks of GPUs in every house, not really big stacks of GPUs controlled by companies who are trying to extract value from us.

[alpha @omarsbigsister]

In every single country that passed age verification laws:

1) databases got leaked
2) innocent websites got censored
3) governments became more censorship heavy
4) protests became more criminalized
5) information got harder to find

[smolting (wassie, verse) @inversebrah]

💀

[anul agarwal @anulagarwal]

i saw a mouse with an X-shaped battery compartment.

first thought: this is stupid - who designed it?

5 seconds later: oh.

10 seconds later: OHHH!

the X slot fits an AA or an AAA battery - whichever you've got lying around.

the part most people miss is that the shape also makes it physically impossible to load both at once.

there is no warning label, no instructions and no way to screw it up.
the geometry does the thinking for you.

japanese has a word for this.
poka-yoke = "mistake-proofing."

the product refuses your stupidity before you can offer it.

i wish more things worked like this.

[VolkerKetzer @VolkerPetzer]

Fixed it.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Of my European friends
- one is burn out for years getting paid by the government to sit at home and not work (free money)
- one is building an app for people to use AI to apply for subsidies (free money) from the government
- one is building an app to get emission credits (free money) from the government
- one is trying to get subsidy (free money) for building this app below

Entire economy built on free money from the government

[Robin Darlington @robindarlington]

@TheFigen_ What are those chemtrails tho?

[Robin Darlington @robindarlington]

Dumb indeed

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

🚨🚨Breaking

Smart people are dumb too

[Don Keith @RealDonKeith]

🚨EU plans VPN crackdown: New age ID system “cannot be bypassed” via VPNs.

Couldn’t stop illegal migration, but suddenly goes full North Korea on controlling what Europeans read online.