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I'm disturbed by everything.

Prompt moderation, GUID insertion, watermark insertion; track anything and everything, probably done in the name of "protect the children".


Not really, no. Zed’s a fine editor and I have nothing but good to say about it. I just happen to prefer Emacs more. Its keystrokes are burned into my muscle memory. And because its config files are literally executable code, there’s nothing too crazy for Emacs. Can it do XYZ? Absolutely, if you tell it to!

As to AI: Emacs continues to have zero built in. If you like it, though, it supports any agent you might want to use. I was highly amused the first time I wanted to use my own company’s agent and found it was already well-supported by a popular package.

And honestly, Emacs + a coding agent = magic for anyone who wanted to use it but was intimidated by Elisp. “Hey Droid, tell Emacs to swap the command and option keys on my Mac.” “Ok, done!” It’s a ludicrously powerful combo.


I would be surprised that anyone is surprised by this. They've been making local accounts harder and harder now to the point of being impossible.

Anyone not deep in tech will accept the "think of the children" defense without much worry, and anyone who is deep in tech already knows that if you really want an OS that doesn't spy on you, you need to go to a *nix of some flavor.


Sorry, I don't understand. What do you think will happen?

Fucking spyware.

Soon it'll literally be "you need a license to use this technology" if we're not there in some form or another already.


So deploy 5x as many on container ships, and pretend you launched them into space. That gives you the "no maintenance" part.

As for weather, OK, fine, whatever. Deploy 6x as many.


Maybe we can add some licorice root to balance the effect.

Sub Question : IS there a real successful agent product today that uses a library for harness(like langgraph etc)? Building our own worked for us. Works with our components(postgres, events ...) and scales naturally with our system.

Trump will go down in history as causing the most damage to the US, economically, politically, in terms of foreign standing, and possibly even militarily, of any president. Nixon is starting to look like a saint.

1560 is Early Modern. *Per wikipedia:* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_modern_period

There is no pre-Modern. Right after Late Middle Ages [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Middle_Ages] goes Early Modern.


> They can spin up and down

Nope. Every moment that hardware is not ran is wasted money that could have been used to buy something else that's actually productive.

Secondary effects like depreciation make this phenomenom even stronger. You've only got a few years to exploit any given piece of hardware before it's obsoleted by newer, more efficient hardware.

That's why any hardware investment with a high upfront cost operates as close to 24/7 as possible — nuclear power plants, factories. Continuous operation amortizes the costs as well as possible.


But all 3 of those use cases, plus privacy, can be addressed with [email protected]. So you may as well get the privacy bit in there.

> The two apps send the prompt to a remote server for moderation

Why? What needs tobe moderated locally?


Wealthy patronage has always steered art, and the CIA has a lot of money.

i thought tobi was too based to use a trash language like rust

All of Prot's packages[1] are really nicely designed imho.

[1]: https://protesilaos.com/emacs/


Do you have evidence that harsher punishments have a causal effect on crime rates?

you could say the same thing about AWS or Cloudflare hosting anybody and everybody. Spain actually started blocking a bunch of their IP blocks during football matches due to a poorly thought out legal decision.

Excellent work!

Does anyone have a solution for reading progress sharing across macos library (now using calibre) and moonreader+ on android? What about highlights sharing?

Sorry I've been to China plenty and the toilets aren't clean. I mean it's better than nothing but some of them are nightmare fuel. But, the "privately" owned public toilets are decent, i.e. those in malls and hotels etc. Quite the same story for many Asian countries too.

I was also shocked by the cost incurred if you get out of home diarrhoea in Europe. Might as well buy adult diapers.


This is used in all the western antibot fingerprint systems so it is kinda fearmongering

The alternative is that they lay off everyone because the entire team doesn't have metrics for the work they've done. The kind of person to single someone out who hasn't been tracking their work may not be likely to just up and forgive the entire team if they've all done it that way.

Thank you! I really appreciate it!

Watermarking is just one puzzle piece in the surveillance state; the legislation around it another.

From the HF link posted above it's Qwen3.6-35B-A3B.

https://huggingface.co/thomsonreuters/Thomson-1.0-Small


> we can freely pan the camera around to see the Moon

It looks like we can orbit or move around the Moon, instead. Panning usually refers rotating the camera from a fixed position.


I don’t know who is right or who is wrong.

The mere fact that people seem to be highly confused (I saw many posts about that the last week) speaks volumes.

Why introduce legislation that is so complex and hard to understand that people seem to be confused wether or not they’re affected. It’s highly irresponsible and arrogant thing to do.


> On Copilot+ PCs, image generation is local but prompt moderation remains remote

Anyone disturbed about that ? It's your computer, running locally, but Microsoft can tell you 'no'.

It's like you want to open a folder and it asks permission to Microsoft.


Cool use of the Bitcoin blockchain!

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