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You got a .de Domain. I looked for an imprint to see if that solo dev with the right tools was a fellow German, but I didn’t find any. Any details on who you are and how you came to build this? Also, your landing page sounds quite different than what you are pitching here. Are these two different projects? Thx


sry for the late answare 1) my name is to find either on my impressum on the last rag website , my many linkdin connections with my verified account there aswell as inside the AGPL license on my github repo :D so i meam :D

https://dev.thelastrag.de/impressum

no clue how u want able to find it :D

and yes The last rag is a different Project


That isn’t the point. The point is that it’s not enough to figure out that there is an obstacle. You also have to figure out what that obstacle is, and you have to predict its movement. In the case of pedestrian, the car, for example, needs to know whether the pedestrian has seen you. Things like that you just cannot do with LiDAR. Hence you’re gonna need cameras anyway. Hence tge “anyone relying on LiDAR is doomed” prediction.


So I guess in the 90s they would’ve sued Adobe for not putting spyware into Photoshop?

If you believe in democracy, and the rule of law, and citizenship, then the responsibility obviously lies with people who create and publish pictures, not the makers of tools.

Think of it. You can use a phone camera to produce illegal pictures. What kind of a world would we live in if Apple was required to run an AI filter on your pics to determine whether they comply with the laws?

A different question is if X actually hosts generated pictures that are illegal in the UK. In that case, X acts as a publisher, and you can sue them along with the creator for removal.


Photoshop does have (since the late 1990s or so) algorithms to detect and prevent editing images of currency.

The power of the AI tools is so great in comparison to a non-AI image editor that there's probably debate on who -- the user, or the operator of the AI -- is creating the image.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation


> The power of the AI tools is so great in comparison to a non-AI image editor that there's probably debate on who -- the user, or the operator of the AI -- is creating the image.

Compute power is irrelevent. What's relevant in law is who is causing the generation, and that's obviously the operator.


Sorry. Correction: What's relevant in law is who is causing the generation, and that's obviously the user.


There is a big difference between running spyware on things running locally, and monitoring how people use a service running on your own computers. The former means you have to exfiltrate data, the latter is monitoring data you already have.

Photoshop in the 90s was the former, Grok is the latter.


> A different question is if X actually hosts generated pictures that are illegal in the UK.

If the answer was Yes, these Govt. complaints would claim so. They don't.

The Govt's problem is imagery it calls 'barely legal'. I.e. "legal but we wish it wasn't." https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/aug/03/uk-pornograp...


Apple does run software for detecting CSAM on pictures users store to the cloud.


That's to ensure Apple compliance, not user compliance.


Some people need the opposite advice: Sometimes an interaction is just a one off event. No need to teach a lesson.


And on the flip side, sometimes there's no need to learn a lesson! One of my pet peeves is when people draw huge conclusions about people/things based on way too few interactions (small sample size). Sometimes someone is just having a bad day. But if it happens again and again and again, _then_ you should draw conclusions.


Agreed. Naturally, we don't always know which event is a one off ( it used to be easier prior to proliferation of internet and then cell phones ). This likely explains some of the overcorrection I see in this area as a result. I am constantly on guard in public and if someone pulls a cell to record me, I am immediately defensive.

I guess what I am saying is that it is harder to assume it is not the type of event where we don't have to 'condition' people.


How do you handle PDFs, images, HTML/rich text snippets? Asking because Evernote supported all of those. It’s what keeps me using that app, even though I cringe every time I open it.


https://github.com/abo-abo/org-download is handy for images (org-mode shows images just fine).

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/copy-as-org-mode/ lets you copy formatted text from web pages to org-mode format

pdf's – do you mean downloading them? I mean, emacs can view pdf's, your computer can store them as files, making a clickable link to ./sicp.pdf from org-mode is just [[./sicp.pdf]] (or, while you're reading the pdf or browsing it in dired, hit your key for org-store-link and then in org-mode hit the key for org-insert-link).


OP here... I do all of these from Emacs orgmode, and more.

Ref. a presentation I did last year: https://github.com/adityaathalye/slideware/

- The org plaintext: `clojure-web-app-workshop-functional-conf-2025.org` (see the raw source for formatting directives and structure.)

- Live coding presentation delivered straight from my org source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEHVEId-utY

- The RevealJS handout presentation compiled directly from the same source (self-hosted, with images, text snippets, quotes, code snippets): https://www.evalapply.org/posts/clojure-web-app-from-scratch...

- The extended blog post for the same (I start off all presentations as longform thinking in org plaintext): https://www.evalapply.org/posts/clojure-web-app-from-scratch...

- I can also do LaTeX PDF and raw tex, for undergrad student "professor points" :D (See examples in the github repo --- the "n Ways to FizzBuzz in Clojure" presentation. Which also was a live coding demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTouODWov-A ... "demo live, or die trying", I say :D)

And... I mentioned my site... This is the build step, no Emacs needed :)

  __shite_templating_compile_source_to_html() {
      # If content has front matter metadata, it is presumed to be in a format
      # that the content compiler can safely process and elide or ignore.
      local file_type=${1:?"Fail. We expect file type of content like html, org, md etc."}
  
      case ${file_type} in
          html )
              cat -
              ;;
          md )
              pandoc -f markdown -t html
              ;;
          org )
              pandoc -f org -t html
              ;;
      esac
  }


you can show images in org. https://orgmode.org/manual/Images.html

with webpages I just store the link, but maybe you want to download them? I've used singlefile extension to download and store copies and link from org.

with pdf I just store evince /path.pdf & and triple click to select and middle click in a terminal.


I've never used anything but plain text in org TBH. I know there are tools out there that make it possible/easy to work with certain binary files, but I've just never had such a use case. At most I'll put a link to a given file that opens it in a native viewer.


The issues get trapped in the tissues.


Have you heard of “the Sedoma Method”? And/or Larry Crane’s Release Technique?


The irony is that Apple started out by discovering the the hackability of the hardware and software they found in their time. Instead of leaving something like that behind for those who come after them, to pay back what was given to them, they build walled gardens where you’re just not allowed to “bump into the walls too much”.


Vibe coded…. /s


It's a good read, actually. Includes actual specifics from the conversations, how the user phrased his requests, how ChatGPT responded, and why safety systems seemed to have failed (ChatGPT generally has a policy of not giving advice on illicit drug use, but that broke down here).


It is fairly straightforward to bypass the safety protocols just by slowly shifting the conversation towards the prohibited topic.


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