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Re:Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok on Monday February 23, 2026 @01:35AM (#47118840)
Is this using ATProtocol? I wasn’t clear from the site.

Congrats!

Me too!

And a load of fake DMARC setup confirmation emails for a domain I own.

Re:'Askers' vs. 'Guessers' (2010) on Friday January 23, 2026 @06:08PM (#46739223)
They are, yes
Re:'Askers' vs. 'Guessers' (2010) on Friday January 23, 2026 @04:07AM (#46730243)
Having said that, I have become a lot better at being direct these past few years, so I'd likely just say "I'm not able to, sorry. I can recommend some good hotels though".
Re:'Askers' vs. 'Guessers' (2010) on Friday January 23, 2026 @04:06AM (#46730235)
I think guessers agonise over HOW to say "No" in contexts like this, and what it says about them as people.

"Can my family and I stay for two weeks?".

Then:

"No." (looks cold and heartless; do I want to project cold and heartless? Will they hate me?).

"I'm so sorry but I'm not able to. The house is a mess and it's really small" (performative, hand-wringing reluctance; we both know I'm lying).

"I just don't like to share my environment" (most truthful; might look petty to those who don't understand the need for privacy to that degree).

Show HN: PEC – A proposal for compliance metadata in the Model Context Protocol

https://usepec.eu

What it is:PEC (Protocol-Embedded Compliance) is an academic proposal to extend Model Context Protocol (MCP) with compliance metadata, so AI agents can make compliance-aware tool selections.The problem:When an AI agent discovers tools via MCP, it has no standard way to know where that tool processes data, what certifications it holds, or what use restrictions apply. Each deployer has to figure...

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I feel that his pretentious, overwrought and unctuous writing was perhaps all because of an emptiness or inadequacy… His final years as a nice old gay man seem much more _normal_ and real, and he seems less of a fantasist at that stage…
Re:AI Agents Break Rules Under Everyday Pressure on Thursday December 04, 2025 @05:19PM (#46153936)
I’m more optimistic. I see there being iterations developed in conjunction with industry. It will sooner or later become strongly enforced and then to whatever extent it provides guardrails will be down to provisions in the act, plus interpretation.
Re:Transparent Leadership Beats Servant Leadership on Thursday December 04, 2025 @05:13PM (#46153854)
I don’t really relate to many comments here stating “my approach is X”, or “I went from servant-leader to process-master-whatever leader”.

I’ve found that trying to be anything but flexible to the environment is unrealistic and even egotistical.

E.g, There are some environments where the CEO is so “command and control” that the “I want us all to bring our authentic selves to the peace circle of work, and from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs, we will figure out a synergy that works for all” just won’t ever work.

And for me, being unable to adapt the approach to environment suggests ‘one trick pony’.

Re:AI Agents Break Rules Under Everyday Pressure on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @02:17AM (#46131167)
I tried to think about how we might (in the EU) start to think about this problem within the law, if of interest to anyone: https://www.europeanlawblog.eu/pub/dq249o3c/release/1
Re:AI Is Breaking the Moral Foundation of Modern Society on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @02:14AM (#46131143)
Perhaps sovereign compute is the answer? We have open weights models, as a sort of ‘public commons’ that democratises that layer, but compute is still the bottleneck for big companies..
How so?
Re: on Friday October 31, 2025 @08:18AM (#45771210)
My company (live with a few design partner users, but still on waitlist publicly) just experienced “search hijacking”.

Our site is https://visibil.ai, and somebody has created “visibili.ai”.

Our response is to throw more vowels at the problem: https://visibilii.vercel.app/

Re:Affinity Studio Now Free on Thursday October 30, 2025 @02:26PM (#45763390)
I expressly bought this software (Designer, Photo, Publisher) out of principle, against Adobe's enshittification and monopolisation, and because it was premised on "pay once; own it forever".

This is obviously the 'tech circle of life' in action, but... how depressing...

I've always been guilty of preaching market diversification but sticking with the big(ger) players, but this sort of thing illustrates the need for multiple, viable players that all have good market share, so that – whenever one gets cannibalised and debased into some VC-money-addled marketing funnel – there are others to which people can flock in support/protest

Re:Make Any TypeScript Function Durable on Thursday October 23, 2025 @04:04PM (#45686352)
"use turnMyBrainOff";

"use blackBoxWrapperForEverything";

Re:HP SitePrint on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @02:42PM (#45673393)
You beat me to it!
Re:Ask HN: Why is LinkedIn's job search so bad? on Monday October 20, 2025 @12:19PM (#45645643)
I suspect none of it is a mistake. Allowing granular search would not get companies the job advert views they might be “paying for”, and also might reveal the sparseness of the jobs that match your exact criteria.
Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM on Friday October 17, 2025 @02:56AM (#45613990)
To be clear: I am currently _not_ paying for it; I can just foresee a day where I'd have to.
Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM on Friday October 17, 2025 @02:56AM (#45613989)
There's a cloud-based sync service (500mb of books; 10k translation chars). I'm currently storing 24 books (as I haven't moved them all across from the Kindle app yet) and I'm using 12% of this storage.

I suppose if you want to implement your own cloud-based (Dropbox? Google Drive?) storage service and circumvent the author's monetisation model, you could.

Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM on Thursday October 16, 2025 @05:48PM (#45611088)
I’ve been using https://readest.com and very much enjoying it. I just wish there were a “lifetime purchase” option.
Re:Like Vercel, but open source and for all language on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @08:33AM (#45502307)
Okay, thanks for the info!
Re:Like Vercel, but open source and for all language on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @08:05AM (#45502106)
How (if at all) does /dev/push fundamentally differ to Coolify? Or does it not, but it's just an alternative?

(I saw the comment re: Streamlined UX, but is there anything else?)

Thank you!
Re:Disqus Turned My Blog into an Ad Farm – So I Killed It on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @05:58AM (#45423726)
Try using a Bluesky-based solution so that everyone owns the content?

I made Bluniversal Comments partly for this, but there are other Bluesky-based solutions out there if you prefer.

How does this differ to Mastra?

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