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Kind of feels like a variation on P versus NP

To clarify why Anthropic wants to catch these parties: they save all session logs and sell them to other LLM firms (for distillation) and have been known to use stolen credit-cards to pay for the Anthropic accounts.

I'm quite all right with the first, not with the second of course.

Hear hear. I can't believe people are content to consume slop like this.

I can't decide whether this person writes in the type of style that was apparently overrepresented in LLM training, or whether they heavily used AI to spruce up their writing. I'm learning towards the latter.

I'm surprised at this reaction, this has been standard practice for many years in various companies where I worked.

Note that this itself started as a perverse tax loophole, too. By allowing users to run alternative operating systems, the PS3 qualified for lower or zero import tax rates in various global regions.

Cloudflare is one of the most expensive providers out there once you step out of the basics. Look at their video streaming.

I do! I love skipping back 4 folders in one go.

I mean, that's not usual at all in Europe either.

Yeah, it's Google's second attempt at device attestation (ie. the widely panned web integrity tech they're trying to push through)

PopOS completely shit the bed for me on a major version upgrade, left the system is a completely inconsistent state. Luckily I was only trying it out on one (multi-boot) laptop and could easily switch, but it's put me off Pop OS.

I'm still so sad about the re3/reVC guys getting DMCA'd and then sued by Take2/Rockstar Games. It is the most impressive project I've seen so far.

Seems a bit too irresponsible and immature for my taste.

We semi-recently had Gitlab reps stop by at work to demo their new AI features (we're already running Gitlab Enterprise). It was a strong signal that we should get off the train before the next major version. None of the features seemed very thought out and to top it all off, there was an outage while they were demo-ing it, leading to broken pages and no LLM responses.

Just so you know, your comment was marked as "dead", I've vouched for it but the person you were responding to may not have seen it in time.

Such a different era.

I could have used this news 2 days ago. I've been trying out Claude Code for a few days and kept running into the limit, so I wanted to upgrade to Max. In the upgrade-flow they hit me with an identity verification through Persona. No problem, I thought, I'll just cancel the upgrade. Nope, all access to Claude Code on the old plan was now also blocked and can't be unblocked without completing Identity Verification, which I'll never do. What a bad experience.

On the plus-side, it told me how much cheaper Deepseek is and that it's on parity for reverse engineering work.

Cloudflare isn't an impartial, neutral network. People need to stop perpetuating this fig leaf.

To the outside world, Cloudflare acts as a host. Their servers serve the content fo whatever site is in their "network". It doesn't matter that some of those sites are being partially pulled from other backend servers that are outside their network again. Cloudflare is their service provider and they are their customer (free or not).

This is especially true with all their hosted stuff now like Workers, R2, etc., but don't let that muddy the discussion. Even without that they cache and serve the content.

Apart from two exceptions about 5 years ago, I've yet to encounter any of these sites in practice in Firefox.

Well, if it can still be repaired but the producer doesn't want to bother and just sends a new fan, that's fine. That doesn't mean a repairable product should be destroyed and sent to a landfill just because it makes Noctua's logistics easier.

Heya, while you're taking feedback, the link in "If you haven’t read OS/2’s side yet, you can do so by either scrolling the page up (on bigger screens), or clicking here." doesn't do anything for me when clicked. It's also not immediately obvious that the OS/2 article is in the upper-right and needs to be clicked again. Why not link to that article straightaway? :)

[2020]

The Miami New Times claimed that freedom of information laws in Florida make it easier for journalists to acquire information about arrests from the police than in other states and that this is responsible for a large number of news articles.[3] A CNN article on the meme also suggested that the breadth of reports of bizarre activities is due to a confluence of factors, including public records laws giving journalists fast and easy access to police reports, the relatively high population of the state, its highly variable weather, and gaps in mental health funding.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Man

You seem to be vouched for now, no longer dead for me.

Holy Hannah, this is such bullshit from Backblaze. Both the .git directory (why would I not SPECIFICALLY want this backed up for my projects?) and the cloud directories.

I get that changing economics make it more difficult to honor the original "Backup Everything" promise but this feels very underhanded. I'll be cancelling.

Interesting, what makes them better to you?

I thought that was the least likeable part of the article. They speculated wildly, somehow making the leap that a trained astronaut would not resort to a computer reset if the problems persisted to weave the narrative that this bug was super-duper-serious indeed. They didn't need that and it weakened the presentation.

It doesn't matter what your intention was, the point was that that was what it did. You didn't think hard enough about how people would use it given the (lack of) constraints and moderation you designed it with and you didn't take responsibility / accountability for what you had facilitated.

Your response to this seems to be: "People need to be more thick-skinned, I would take it down if they asked & it's unfair that they escalated to the dean." as if that somehow invalidates the criticism you're receiving. It doesn't. The fact that you don't really own up to that shows a lack of emotional maturity which makes it hard for people to feel sympathy for you. Until you actually understand why people had problems with what you made, you won't get a lot of sympathy for how you were treated either.

It's like those videos where some clueless racist spouting off garbage on the subway eventually gets punched by someone else. Yes, the assault is definitely "more" wrong. But you won't find a lot of people feeling sorry for the racist.

The only one I was vaguely interested in!

Oh, Blades, like the Xbox 360 Dashboard thing?

Or no, you must be referring to the Azure Portal sections.