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We still maintain phpbb forums, but activity on them is close to nil when compared to the Discord server. This is for a MUD client too, not exactly a mainstream audience!

Before Europe gets lumped in as one country, founding a company in Netherlands and Sweden, speaking from personal experience, is a breeze.

Although Sweden is a bit strange in the fact that banks have as much equal say as the government authority does in you starting a company, and if they don't want you as a customer, they can simply deny the right for your company to start!

How can you practically use this in software if you're to deploy this to users? Asking a user to create and enter their own API key is a bar too high for good UX.

I had the same discussion with the color of a river in Albania with my wife. The test says my boundary is a bluer than 85% of the pop - sounds about right!

Appreciate the honesty from the team.

At the same time, personally I find prioritizing quality over quantity of output to be a better personal strategy. Ten partially buggy features really aren't as good as three quality ones.

ChatGPT for Excel 3 months ago

Can it work with comments in sheets as well? When I looked into it, that seemed like a limitation.

I'm in Europe and ended up creating an organization since I have my own company, but they messed up the verification of one of the legitimate documents, and there was no way to reach them once they made that mistake. Frustrating, and definitely a lost customer for them.

A year ago I used Azure Trusted Signing to codesign FOSS software that I distribute for Windows. It was the cheapest way to give away free software on that platform.

A couple of months ago I needed to renew the certificate because it expired, and I ran into the same issue as the author here - verification failed, and they refused to accept any documentation I would give them. Very frustrating experience, especially since there no human support available at all, for a product I was willing to pay and use!

We ended up getting our certificate sourced from https://signpath.org and have been grateful to them ever since.

I'm not one to believe the Silicon Valley hype usually (GPT-2 being too dangerous to release, AI giving us UBI, and so on), but having run Claude Opus 4.6 against my codebase (a MUD client) over the weekend, I can believe this assessment.

Opus alone did a good job of identifying security issues in my software, as it did with Firefox [1] and Linux [2]. A next-generation frontier model being able to find even more issues sounds believable.

That said, this is script kiddies vs sql injections all over again. Everyone will need to get their basic security up on the new level and it will become the new normal. And, given how intelligence agencies are sitting on a ton of zero-days already, this will actually help the general public by levelling out the playing field once again.

1 - https://www.anthropic.com/news/mozilla-firefox-security 2 - https://neuronad.com/ai-news/claude-code-unearthed-a-23-year...

Gemma 3 E4E runs very quick on my Samsung S26, so I am looking forward to trying Gemma 4! It is fantastic to have local alternatives to frontier models in an offline manner.

These security failures from Anthropic lately reveal the caveats of only using AI to write code - the safety an experienced engineer is not matched by an LLM just yet, even if the LLM can seemingly write code that is just as good.

Or in short, if you give LLMs to the masses, they will produce code faster, but the quality overall will degrade. Microsoft, Amazon found out this quickly. Anthropic's QA process is better equipped to handle this, but cracks are still showing.