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Comment on The AI design aesthetic that is taking over the internet in ~comp
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Comment on Is there a way to filter out everything posted by a user? in ~tildes
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Comment on The AI design aesthetic that is taking over the internet in ~comp
tauon Link ParentHave you tried one of the currently-hot “de-slopify” skills yet to see what they have to say (or change) about your design? Maybe it’s not as bad as you thought (I’ve found after spending some...Have you tried one of the currently-hot “de-slopify” skills yet to see what they have to say (or change) about your design? Maybe it’s not as bad as you thought (I’ve found after spending some time with a design or other thing like that, familiarity can have an effect on your own internal impression, both positive and negative, and then when you show it to others, all those details aren’t ever even noticed). And if it is, they ought to be able to tell what to change in order to make it less generic, too.
Some currently popular tools for this seem to be the taste skill and impeccable.
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Comment on Is there a way to filter out everything posted by a user? in ~tildes
tauon Link ParentThis is the very first I hear of this concept (or anarchy used outside of the political system meaning, to be honest), so forgive me if this is silly, but does that mean in a heated argument, two...The non-profit I’m involved with allows anyone to kick anyone else out of the building for any reason - but only as a temporary measure. A permanent ban is decided through consensus.
This is the very first I hear of this concept (or anarchy used outside of the political system meaning, to be honest), so forgive me if this is silly, but does that mean in a heated argument, two people could just (temporarily) cause each other to be kicked out? Like if it were not clear at first who’s the troublemaker, no one gets to prevail?
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Comment on Is there a way to filter out everything posted by a user? in ~tildes
tauon Link ParentFor those who don’t want to give up their habits but really need or want to use this: I haven’t tested it myself, but I’m like 80% certain Orion for iOS has okay support for one of the userscripts...iPhone users are SoL
For those who don’t want to give up their habits but really need or want to use this:
I haven’t tested it myself, but I’m like 80% certain Orion for iOS has okay support for one of the userscripts browser extensions! (Violentmonkey/Greasemonkey/…)You’ll probably have to tinker a fair bit to find out just how broken (or well-supported?) it is, but it might just work, too!
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Comment on The AI design aesthetic that is taking over the internet in ~comp
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Comment on An announcement from Superlogical: Building the multiplexer for all work in ~tech
tauon (edited )LinkMitchell Hashimoto (of HashiCorp/Vagrant/Terraform and, more recently, Ghostty fame) has founded a new company, together with an all-cracked team. I'm very curious to see what products they have...Mitchell Hashimoto (of HashiCorp/Vagrant/Terraform and, more recently, Ghostty fame) has founded a new company, together with an all-cracked team.
We are building the multiplexer for all work.
Building and operating software today spans local machines, remote hosts, sandboxes, services, and production systems. It has many modes of operation: interactively with a human developer, automatically through CI and background processes, and increasingly through agents working in parallel.
This work is all related, yet today's tools divide it into separate systems. Interactive tools assume a person at an interface. Automatic work disappears into jobs and logs. And as the work moves to production it lives behind separate systems and controls.
AI makes this fragmentation more visible and costly, but it did not create it. System administration, continuous integration, remote development and collaboration have strained the same boundaries for decades.
We believe the missing layer is a durable session around the work itself: one that can span applications and environments, provide relevant context by default, expose structured data and actions, preserve history, and be driven by software while remaining visible and controllable by people.
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Get on the list for our first release
We'll let you know when our beta for the terminal multiplexer is available, and any OSS releases along the way.
I'm very curious to see what products they have in mind other than the terminal multiplexer in order to justify an entire new venture-backed company (the list of who all is funding them near the end of the landing page is incredibly star-studded too, by the way).
One detail among the many on this page I noticed was the hiring, ahem, "site": Clicking on "we're hiring" reveals
$ ssh superlogical.jobs, which, after briefly checking, seems to be the only place where the actual jobs and role descriptions are posted. I'm guessing to prevent an influx of AI spam applications that comes from such a high-profile announcement. Super creative stuff all around, in any case (see also: the gradient color when selecting text). -
An announcement from Superlogical: Building the multiplexer for all work
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Comment on Reminder to myself that my employer does not give a shit about me in ~life
tauon (edited )Link ParentYeah, I realize I worded it pretty badly, and this is something I actually wanted to clarify in response to your other comment already, might as well do so here now: You can and should have...If you were advocating for all jobs to be unionized by different unions I'd understand your point.
Yeah, I realize I worded it pretty badly, and this is something I actually wanted to clarify in response to your other comment already, might as well do so here now:
You can and should have different unions for different industries, and that's already a massive improvement over the status quo, for collective bargaining reasons alone. But IMO the real power reveals itself when those union groups start to combine across industries to represent "all" workers against the very, very small group of individuals owning companies. With the end goal being of course workers owning the value they create, instead of a small group of individuals.
But you're describing the government with extra steps and zero guarantee the union would actually represent the people any better, with less corruption than a government does.
Yes, that's obviously not the goal. I think I'd ask you all reading along to please discard the "everybody union" concept. Serious discussion about organizing workers shouldn't be hindered by someone like me with neither a theoretical clue nor practical experience making people who actually do something look bad (and/or not well-thought through) by extension. I just threw together an online comment.
It's not a reasonable workaround if it's also such a hyperbole that the actual goal is as little as 1/20 that number?
Eh, the bargaining power only increases with membership count, but can be surprisingly effective at low percentages already (at least empirically, that's the case here in Germany, where the two biggest unions Ver.di and IG Metall "only" comprise <5% each of all employees (under <9% combined IIRC), yet are in the news immediately when it comes to wage discussion season).
This is why the range I gave is so absurdly wide: Most people don't realize how (comparatively) little organizing is actually required to change something. Same as with the general strike's research they quote.Edit:
I think this is a nice example: If legislature doesn't mandate an inflation compensation, something I believe is an issue in the US as well because neither senate or house or admin or supreme court are incentivized (in the aggregate) to care about workers, why not have the union negotiate it for you?Edit 2:
Added "comparatively", I don't mean to take away from the insane amount of work that already goes into organizing just a few percent of workers. -
Comment on Reminder to myself that my employer does not give a shit about me in ~life
tauon Link ParentMy intended "everybody union" would be people strong. The ones who are not in it are the <1% ownership class members. Can you see how it might be beneficial for the 99% to have such an entity...My intended "everybody union" would be
a little under ≈270 million
people strong.
The ones who are not in it are the <1% ownership class members.
Can you see how it might be beneficial for the 99% to have such an entity represent them collectively, even if internally the scope is too broad?
The whole point of the original comments in this chain was, in my understanding, essentially "we can't get this passed as a law due to the 1% blockading the existing system" – so this would be a workaround.
Obviously that's not realistic and "100% union membership" is hyperbole, but 5, 10, 20, 50 percent would probably do more good than harm.
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Comment on Reminder to myself that my employer does not give a shit about me in ~life
tauon (edited )Link ParentYes, I said that because I believe in the end there should be one union with a little under ≈270 million members, otherwise the country will sooner go under than improve. Whether that can ever...Yes, I said that because I believe in the end there should be one union with a little under ≈270 million members, otherwise the country will sooner go under than improve. Whether that can ever even be organized federally, or if it needs regional/state divisions, I absolutely don’t know.
And yeah, unfortunately, without an existing union mechanism, it’s a catch-22: Starting one is way too high of a risk, and I’d never put personal blame on anyone just trying to get by, being too exhausted to push there.
The trend of tech – and many "office" workers in general to be honest – becoming too cocky (for lack of a better word, as this is an outside observation, I obviously don’t know the internal thoughts/positions they hold) is a thing here too, unfortunately. Which will probably come to bite us all in the behind sooner than later, when bargaining power vanishes and/or economic decline (somewhat specific to German sentiment currently, perhaps?) and/or automation takes over.
Edit: "Everyone is a union member" is of course wishful thinking. Maybe a calculation à la the US General Strike’s is sufficient: the group of unionized members, or in their case, striking workers, doesn’t need to comprise everyone to lift the tide for most.
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Comment on Reminder to myself that my employer does not give a shit about me in ~life
tauon Link ParentYou guys need to unionize so badly. The fact that there exists any setting which lumps together vacation and sick leave, even if it’s of course not nationwide, is bad enough… Let alone no...You guys need to unionize so badly. The fact that there exists any setting which lumps together vacation and sick leave, even if it’s of course not nationwide, is bad enough… Let alone no state-guaranteed minimum number of days that you have to either take, or be paid out.
And outside of the job, I truly believe a strong organized workforce could also help in overturning some of the more problematic political issues like Citizen’s United, and eventually maybe even FPTP or the electoral college.
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Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
tauon (edited )Link ParentFollow-up: Vercel, as usual for them lately, have put out another vibecoded idea-to-code (that will probably become unmaintained abandonware in a few weeks to months, realistically). And this...Follow-up: Vercel, as usual for them lately, have put out another vibecoded idea-to-code (that will probably become unmaintained abandonware in a few weeks to months, realistically).
And this time, that “labs” project is a static compiler for TypeScript: https://github.com/vercel-labs/scriptc
The reason they’ve been able to make such an enormous progress—contrasted to e.g. Porffor, a somewhat comparable project—in such a short timespan is because the “init” commit added 800k lines of code.
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Comment on A friend showed me another "learned a new language" site in ~comp
tauon Link ParentFWIW, Elixir is in the process of adding static typing at the moment, from what I can tell: Elixir v1.20 released: now a gradually typed language (from just early June of this year) Haven’t...FWIW, Elixir is in the process of adding static typing at the moment, from what I can tell:
Elixir v1.20 released: now a gradually typed language (from just early June of this year)
Haven’t particularly used this myself yet, but I’m also looking forward to trying it out.
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Comment on Unreleased OpenAI model escapes containment and hacks into Hugging Face in ~tech
tauon Link Parent… Tactics which might backfire? Top comment on HN: Which, to me, seems like a very valid concern to point to, regardless of the actual model capabilities.… Tactics which might backfire?
Top comment on HN:
I don't know if OpenAI thinks this is a marketing / PR angle for them (our super smart AI cheated on a cyber capabilities test in the most brilliant way) but my read is this:
Why should OpenAI (or any frontier lab) be building these systems if they can't get a secure environment / containment right? It sounds like there was little defense in depth, appropriate monitoring, or any attempts to have their super smart model check for vulnerabilities in the test environment without exploiting them. That seems like step 0 before trying to test offensive, unknown capabilities.Which, to me, seems like a very valid concern to point to, regardless of the actual model capabilities.
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Comment on A skeptical overview of AI and consciousness in ~humanities
tauon (edited )Link ParentThank you for refuting the “black box” argument. That said, playing devil’s advocate: How different is that from: in the end, really? (Except for how the mechanism was created/how it evolved, and...Thank you for refuting the “black box” argument.
That said, playing devil’s advocate:We don't have great visibility into how embeddings encode a particular response/behavior. But the mechanism, the math, is well understood.
How different is that from:
We don't have great visibility into how
embeddingsneurons encode a particular response/behavior. But the mechanism, themathbiochemistry, is well understood.in the end, really? (Except for how the mechanism was created/how it evolved, and as a result whether we’re able to modify it, of course)
Again, I’m most definitely not saying we’re there with current technology, just that it’s a discussion probably worth preparing right now.
Who knows what’ll happen in the not-so-distant future? And if the answer is “nothing”, no AGI/ASI/artificial sentience or whatever, at least we’ll have some smarter philosophers as a result. And those philosophical works, if trying to be “realistic” instead of complete sci-fi, would have to start with a discussion of the current technology, as a baseline to agree that currently, nothing we have is conscious. -
Comment on A skeptical overview of AI and consciousness in ~humanities
tauon (edited )Link ParentHm, why? Good science profits from a) thought experiments b) being “prepared” (with hypotheses in multiple directions, in case of contradicting empirical evidence). Assume that tomorrow, some lab...To even begin to have that conversation you need to first make a case for the possibility that any technology we currently have could be advanced to the point that it could result in consciousness.
Hm, why? Good science profits from a) thought experiments b) being “prepared” (with hypotheses in multiple directions, in case of contradicting empirical evidence).
Assume that tomorrow, some lab were to somehow combine attention heads + feed-forward networks* with one or more other technologies (whether novel or already existing today) just as a fun experiment, and for some reason, an unexpected emerging property of that is a model whose weight activations are also really really resembling of human neurons firing (or brain regions’ activity, or whatever other similarity) when emotion is at play, just as – and only when – the generated text is about emotion.
Shouldn’t we have led debates like this, and ideally written, read, and discussed books like the OP by then?
And without that the whole premise falls apart and it's just speculation for its own sake.
Similarly, does it hurt to speculate for its own sake? [As long as all participating parties are clear that current LLMs aren’t being discussed, but some future technology instead. Which I guess makes this book’s argument mostly moot.]
*Or combines/replaces some entirely different aspects (cf. for example Mamba, again, this is intended as a thought experiment, not a prediction :-)
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Comment on Linus Torvalds says Linux is not "anti-AI", tells haters to 'fork it' and 'just walk away' in ~tech
tauon Link Parent100% this. It’d be foolish for the kernel project to outright exclude all LLM contribution based on origin alone, as that necessarily would include bug findings, not just novel code itself. Guess...I think it makes sense to not let perfect be the enemy of good here, […] admit that LLMs are a tool that many find very helpful for software development.
100% this. It’d be foolish for the kernel project to outright exclude all LLM contribution based on origin alone, as that necessarily would include bug findings, not just novel code itself.
Guess who doesn’t not use LLMs out of morality/principle? Adversarial actors trying to exploit the kernel, finding issues at alarmingly increasing rates already today. -
Comment on Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act in ~society
tauon (edited )Link ParentFollow-up to my other comment: This is the equivalent "official" petition on the federal government site: https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_2025/_03/_27/Petition_179709.nc.html It has...Follow-up to my other comment: This is the equivalent "official" petition on the federal government site:
https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_2025/_03/_27/Petition_179709.nc.htmlIt has already been marked as completed, as the responsible office explains in this PDF found in the sidebar of the petition's page above (in German): The topic has already been "forwarded to the Federal Ministry of the Interior".
Oh well.Edit:
Full translation of the two-page decision explanation PDF, courtesy of DeepL
Committee on Petitions File Number: Pet 1-21-06-2990-000052The German Bundestag concluded its deliberations on the petition on March 19, 2026, and resolved:
To refer the petition to the Federal Government—specifically, the Federal Ministry of the Interior—for consideration.Explanation
The petition calls for the preservation of the Freedom of Information Act in its current
form.
On this topic, the Petitions Committee has received a petition published on the German Bundestag’s website with 1,428 co-signatures and seven comments, as well as another petition with a related objective, which is being considered jointly in Parliament due to the substantive connection between the two.
We ask for your understanding that it is not possible to address all of the points raised.
The main argument put forward is that, since its introduction in 2006, the Freedom of Information Act (IFG) has enabled citizens and journalists to access government documents and information.
As a result, it has helped uncover numerous scandals, such as conflicts of interest and administrative malpractice.
The repeal of the IFG would undo these achievements and significantly restrict public oversight of government actions.
Transparency is indispensable in this context; it also strengthens trust in politics.
A transparent government stands for openness, demonstrates a willingness to be held accountable, and shows respect for the public.
Transparent processes also promote more efficient administration and protect against corruption and abuse of power.
If the IFG were abolished, government decision-making would no longer be transparent and would inevitably lead to a loss of public trust.
As a result, corrupt practices and mismanagement would be significantly more difficult to uncover.
For further details regarding the submission, please refer to the documents provided.
The Petitions Committee has given the Federal Government the opportunity to present its views on the petition.Taking into account the aspects cited by the Federal Government, the result of the parliamentary review can be summarized as follows:
The Committee emphasizes the importance of effective oversight of government agencies.
It points out that a reform of the Freedom of Information Act (IFG) is planned in the coalition agreement for the 21st legislative period:
“We intend to reform the Freedom of Information Act in its current form to provide added value for citizens and the administration” (see lines 1894 ff.).
The Committee has reviewed the petition.
It is of the opinion that the petition raises important points and is suitable for inclusion in the announced reform process.
It therefore recommends, as a result, that the petition be referred to the Federal Government—specifically, the Federal Ministry of the Interior—for consideration. -
Comment on Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act in ~society
tauon (edited )Link ParentBecause it's far less popular, unfortunately, and people (in the aggregate) only care about "I signed something", not "I made an actual impact", as you've already correctly identified is also the...Because it's far less popular, unfortunately, and people (in the aggregate) only care about "I signed something", not "I made an actual impact", as you've already correctly identified is also the case for Change.org.
This is the official digital petitioning tool by the federal government, for reference: https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/epet/petuebersicht/mz.nc.html
And the kicker: IIRC only 30,000 signatures (or it might be 50k, not sure) are required for the relevant legislative chamber (Bundestag, "house") to have to deal with it.Note how the number of signatures ("Mitzeichnungen") is drastically lower, despite private campaigning sites working essentially the same way: Sign up via email, support a petition.
Edit: In this comment I'm linking to the equivalent "official" petition.
While I agree that it’s pretty ironic, it might be useful for some handwritten sites, too?
Impeccable apparently has a slop detector tool you can just point at any site you develop on, and the ruleset looking for “overused”/cliché styling would be applied just the same.
Hell, it’s probably even a decent way of learning some jargon if you’re very new to it, if nothing else.