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Ursula von der Leyen has confirmed that everyone in the EU will need to use the EU's app for identity authentication before being able to access or post on social media websites. 🇪🇺 As an expert in online child safety, I am here to expose the misinformation and misdirection in von der Leyen's statements. Today von der Leyen said: "This is not about whether children can access social media, it is about whether social media can access our children". 💡The first part is true. This isn't about children. It's about surveillance and combating political dissent. A state that can't control its own citizens is more dangerous than a state rife with criminals. The second part is a PR soundbite that politicians are using like a campaign slogan straight out of 1984. 🇪🇺"The question is no longer if children face risks online, but what can we do to give children a safer start online". 💡No. You can't give children a "safer start" online any more than you can offline. In the offline world, the government doesn't enforce curfews or ban children from entering liquor stores, bars or restaurants. That's a parent's responsibility. The digital world should be no different. 🇪🇺"The age verification app is one of the tools to get it done". 💡This is a contradiction because she also said "It won't be foolproof". 🇪🇺"It's easy to use, it is privacy preserving and it is open source". 💡The app was compromised as soon as it was released. "Privacy-preserving" age verification is an oxymoron. You can't verify a person's age without verifying their identity. Where or how that age is shared afterwards is irrelevant. 🇪🇺"This is basically about putting back the power into the hands of parents". 💡More from 1984. The EU is doing the opposite. Parents are having their authority stripped by politicians who think they know better. Many parents are capable and unaffected by peer pressure, and they know how to use parental controls to block any app classified as 13+. Some teens are safe, their parents trust them, and the state has no business overruling that trust. 🇪🇺"We don't give our children keys to the car before they have their licence" 💡Comparing an app to a car is a false equivalence used to justify mass surveillance. Governments don't decide when a young person is ready for car keys, guardians do. 💡Forcing every adult and child into a biometric checkpoint just to use an app or website is not licensing drivers. It's the state seizing everyone's keys, locking the garage, and forcing every driver to ask a private company for permission to take a drive. 💡 This is a gross, unethical overreach that strips authority from parents while imposing state sanctioned identity verification on every adult who doesn't even have a child. 💡Additionally, people who pass a test, obtain a licence and drive a car aren't forced to use an app to constantly authenticate their suitability to drive. 🇪🇺"We do not let them buy alcohol until they are legally allowed" 💡False equivalence. We don't force every person to show ID at a shopping mall entrance just because a few people might buy alcohol with a meal at a restaurant. Some parents are okay with their 12 year-old going to the mall with friends while others aren't. Either way, it's their choice. Whatever irresponsible decisions some parents might make, every adult in the country shouldn't be forced to pay the price. 🇪🇺"It won't be foolproof" 💡This is all the proof we need to show that the EU and every government know that banning social media for teens won't protect them. When pressed by journalists about VPNs being used to circumvent a ban, politicians always state the ban isn't a silver bullet and will take time. The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan went as far as to say "we know it's not the solution". 💡Either age verification works, or it doesn't. As a technical expert in this space, I can tell you there are no additional steps to take and no progress to be made. Either the approach does what it is supposed to do, or it's not fit for purpose. If they claim a bulletproof solution is coming, it can only mean one thing. They intend to ban or restrict VPNs to people who verify their identity. 🇪🇺"It will take time to invite the cultural change that is already taking shape in our society, just as it took time to outlaw drink driving, just as it took time to use seatbelts in the cars. Great change never happens overnight, but when it comes to our safety it is always worth it". 💡Comparing a social media ban and age verification to seatbelts is a completely broken analogy. Seatbelts are a safety feature that protects children while allowing them to travel in a car. A ban doesn't give kids a seatbelt. It kicks them out of the car entirely. 💡Instead of supporting parents who want to guide their own children through the digital world, this heavy-handed law strips away parental authority by banning the apps and websites that many parents are perfectly fine with and actively monitor. 💡Furthermore, enforcing these bans requires biometric age verification, which means forcing millions of adult citizens to scan their IDs, faces or credit cards just to browse the internet. That isn't a common-sense traffic law. 💡It's a digital checkpoint on every street. True safety means teaching kids how to navigate the digital world safely with real guardrails and parental guidance, not burning down digital spaces for everyone under the guise of protection. 🇪🇺☠️ The EU wants to ban teens from social media so every person is forced to verify their identity before they can read, share or post anything online. In their words, this is to protect children from dangerous content. 🇪🇺☠️ The EU wants to enforce "Chat Control" so every app has to monitor everything people say privately inside it, including apps with end-to-end encryption. In their words, this is to protect children from dangerous criminals. 💡Where this ends 🇪🇺 "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever". George Orwell, 1984.

@carygolomb Thanks for clearing that up!

@simjnd You can *kind of see* the opened fins in this pic. I used safety scissors to open my fins up

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@wookash_podcast @jarredsumner He said ~165k USD at API pricing

This blog post is fascinating. Few people now have the budget to run 64 Fable Claudes in parallel to work on a problem for 11 days. It's great to see @jarredsumner exploring this frontier. Really liked the adversarial Claude setup to work on an issue! I have so many questions @jarredsumner! > What was the cost, even approximate, of this rewrite? You give an estimate of "a small team of engineers a full year" to complete this rewrite. From a business perspective it would be great to compare the costs and speed of this rewrite! > Do you have any idea how to measure the efficiency of this rewrite? Could it be done quicker / cheaper with lower level of thinking? Why 2 adversarial agents instead of one? Why work split in 4 worktrees (only)? > Would it be possible to compare the similar scope effort to fix the memory bugs? I can imagine having similar large-scope run over the existing Zig code, fixing the memory issues, and setting up the adversarial reviews as part of the PR check. Same rewrite could take a look for making it smaller, start up faster, etc. I understand the premise is "Rust will give us safety by default" which is debatable if you end up with unsafe{} blocks. I wonder to what extend such large-scope "memory safety improvement" run would be possible. (This is not me being "Rust bad", genuine question, how do you feel the more costly & rigorous agent memory safety emphasis would pay off) > This huge rewrite seems to hinge on the existing test set. What's possible without it? This rewrite leaned on the huge test suite to verify it's correctness and completeness. If someone would have a free ticket to use this much Claude / Fable resources, and would like to build something big from ground up - how would you estimate their chance of success? Is the test suite the core differentiator for the success of this rewrite? Always happy to talk about more in depth on the podcast as well! bun.com/blog/bun-in-ru…

@amfonte @raunofreiberg @merycodes I yearn for higher density interfaces, especially for a desktop dashboard. A simple media query can keep it larger on mobile to be an easier tap target.

@raunofreiberg @merycodes Curious to hear the rationale behind decreasing click/tap heights (40 -> 36).

this week @merycodes and I are refining the vercel design system by tweaking sizing, alignment, deleting redundancies... doing the "boring work" why are we doing this? because we care :)

@garyexplains Still a public IP is shared between all N users behind the NAT, so because this IP was used at one point in time by the device with this GDID doesn't mean the same device made all the other requests. I guess if he lives alone and it's his home network then that's enough probable

@simjnd The GDID bit is just that the machine accessed a Microsoft service like a virus update and so they can match the IP address and that machine.

PSA: All the Linux users ranting and raving about the Windows Globally Unique Identifier (GDID), go look in /etc/machine-id and tell me what you find. Also check out my script that shows you lots of globally unique data from your machine: github.com/garyexplains/e…

@garyexplains But they couldn't match a public IP with a specific device. They could know who the customer is from the ISP data but couldn't know what device specifically connected, and here they seem to be using the GDID to narrow down to that single device.

@simjnd IP address matching would also work if the guy used Linux rather than Windows.

@garyexplains Ok I took what the article said at face-value. It would surprise me that a hacker would leave the default telemetry on, but I have no way to know.

@simjnd Well, not actually true. I have been researching this since it all blew up and checking what telemetry Microsoft sends. If you disable "diagnostic data" then I haven't yet found any "tracking of online activities" via telemetry. I am still researching.

The beauty of Inter is that it's beautiful while neutral. Geist has more of a personality and because of that it creates this Bootstrap effect of seeing and noticing it everywhere.

@garyexplains And that kind of software would rightfully be called malware. Microsoft includes it out of the box with no way to remove or disable it. On Linux it depends on the software you choose to install, which makes it a very different situation.

@simjnd This issue is quite nuanced. ANY software installed on a Linux machine can track your online activity and send it to a server using the machine-id as a GDID. So the existence of such an ID is point 1. Then 2, how is it used. They are separate issues, but connected.

@BitrigApp It looks so generic, I miss the previous one already 🥲

Today is new icon day for Bitrig.

@jamesm @onlook_cam These microphone and speaker button 🥹

Added some extra lil' details to this 🍋

@krzyzanowskim This is huge, so excited for this!

devlog: update on a text editing journey on Android/iOS/macOS/Safari/Chrome - it works. still not done, but the progress is promising. all platforms aligned 1:1 pixel-perfect text layout and rendering with first class native rich text editing. Portable text layout and editing is not a solved problem. There are so many factors that play a role and result in one thing: the same text renders differently on every platform. Even worse, it renders differently between web browsers (Firefox, Safari, and Chrome). That is how we ended up with PDF documents.

@BitrigApp Any chance we can use a Cursor or OpenRouter account at some point instead of Claude / ChatGPT?

@krzyzanowskim @SIGKITTEN I liked that about mitchell's take: let's focus on outcome, impact and result, not intermediary measures like LoC, deploys, commits, or whatever else

@krzyzanowskim @SIGKITTEN And if they're going to use this meaningless number as an advertisement (for them and/or Claude), it's fair game to ridicule them for this meaningless number yet decreasing software quality

just imagine - when u open slopify this morning - its 4500 production deploys different than when you opened it yesterday