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This caught my eye not because of shady behaviour like that, it's expected. But the date is injected and it still gets the current date wrong.

Interestingly, HN also appears to be Claude. My comment was 5 days ago, along with the post. But now it's showing as 15 hours ago. It still says 5 days on my comments list though.

(The Claude reference was because dates utterly confound it)

Hello Claude!

The more pressing question is why plain text authentication, or even a plain text listener was configured to begin with, in 2026 (really, 2016, being generous). STARTTLS is not a valid reason.

Shapes. It's always the give away that GPT has written it. It's obsessed with shapes and seams...

Question is, can it understand dates now? Example just now:

"The PO application was filed on 23.2.2026, the day before the custody hearing scheduled for 29.1.2026 had already taken place."

Claude has real problems with dates, I don't understand why.

That only works if the market is not controlled by basically 3 vendors and if the market isn't also pretty much impossible to break into. The value proposition is tenuous at best, the real value is being produced in other arenas, not this one.

Yeah I was using it for legal stuff (a couple of months ago it was actually really good and with a bit of hand holding produced legal documents that judges could not distinguish from an actual lawyer - in a foreign language with a foreign legal system) and on average a single prompt or reply on mobile was ~2% of 5hr Pro usage, vs ~10 on webui. But not only does it now produce garbage, but maybe 5-6 replies and I'm already approaching the limit.

Saw this and yet... My usage of Claude has tanked (codex is better), but on the occasions I do use it (mostly for non-code), I blow through the 5hr usage super fast. Specifically on their Android app the accounting was different: same project, same content, same prompts, same output - but on mobile the usage was a fraction of the same query as their web UI. But that has seemingly been addressed recently also :(

To counter the idiot downvotes, I proffer this as a prime example of Gemini:

  Resolving Final Compilation Conflict: I will remove the redundant `Entry` type declaration to resolve the compilation conflict and finalize the in-memory `StdNetDB` refactor.

    Edit  std.go → Accepted (+0, -1)

      31   type Entry struct {
      32       RouterInfo *router_info.RouterInfo
      33   }
      34 -
      34   func NewStdNetDB(db string) *StdNetDB {
      35       ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
      36       return &StdNetDB{

It made me realise I was perhaps a bit hard on Claude (but then it did something equally as dumb)

Or their continued collective inability to predict or manage supply and demand, it happens repeatedly and previous events were very minor in comparison... The other obvious reason is profiteering but pretty much impossible to prove.

With the apparent competence that built Gemini, I have zero faith in Google building or doing anything that works anymore.

At least if its unavailable Claude Code can't churn through an entire session limit in 30 minutes, looping, produce nothing (but noted it found a whole bunch of problems), and then when asked to just fix what it found, forget and start again. I honestly can't find anything it's good at anymore, even really simple problems a child could solve. Giving Codex a much more complex task, it not only identified it within a couple of minutes, it produced targeted tests and kept iterating unattended until it figured it out without any help, instead of idiot synonyms for thinking...

I can't even send them an angry message because clicking "Get help" does nothing.

My voice is exactly the same as before I started smoking heavily, and I have never had any of the associated problems that most people seem to have (lung capacity, stamina, infections, phlegm etc) - pot luck I guess, like most things

20 years of heavy smoking :)

Although it does seem to affect some people more than others for sure, I guess it depends how and what you're smoking.

Despite popular belief, even heavy smoking does not alter your voice in a significant way.

I saw the red flags immediately when I stumbled across them a year ago maybe. I'm really not surprised.

Yeah but as of the post, that hasn't happened (and it'll probably take some time even if they meet 2027 target) - there are also countless other vendors that I'm sure people would appreciate grapheneOS on (I would, for one).

It’s developed independently, with no ties to Google or any hardware vendor, and it’s the operating system I’ve been recommending (and using on my own devices) for years, both on the phone side and on the tablet side.

Umm, it only runs on Pixels? that is specifically and purposefully tied to Google.

Depending on switch vendor and quality, they can actually increase the voltage output - the spec iirc allows for up to 57V at PSE which an intelligent switch can modulate to overcome limited voltage drop - cheaper switches (desktop etc) just supply all ports 54V (or less, but it should be 54 at source) from the same rail without any modulation

Given Mozilla's continual frittering away of cash, would it not show some constraint to not pay for "cloud" hosted stuff for things that could easily be hosted by Mozilla and probably for less (with a less absurd choice of software) - it's already pretty much game over anyway, as a long time defender of Mozilla it is impossible these days to argue.

I for one, am really glad that we're calling ELIZA "AI" - because real AI is a danger and this is just fine, comparatively.

I actually gave Kagi a try the other day because Google has reached the point of total uselessness (a day I thought had come and gone, but I was wrong, it continued to decline) - but actually the search results for the same queries are worse, not that the content is worse, but that it returns the better/more appropriate content further down the page, the actual content is pretty much identical. Am I doing it wrong or does the tsunami of crap on the internet just mean search engines are fucked?

It's always Debian, like last time when they removed RNG randomness from ssh because of a warning.

Also if you dare try to naturally scroll up after opening a container it's interpreted as a refresh as it redraws. Might be an awesome format but web design fail negates it entirely.

But only fax, and it's basically a software version of what I suggested above. It isn't actually a modem of any kind, it's basically the equivalent of sending a fax via sip messages. The closest we have is iaxmodem which does actually work for low baud faxes, but it's no DSP emulation for higher speeds, even if the line was good enough.

It is compressed, yes, but at higher bitrates it is actually usable for modems/faxes, you're limited to low baud rates anyway due to jitter and sample intervals. But really the benefit is 16k sampling rate instead of 8, I'm not saying it's great but it's the best we've got.

It would be possible to mask this with a relatively simple FXS device to hide all of this and pretend it's a modem while packetising the actual data, but I guess the demand is almost zero so why bother.

I've been looking for a solution for many years to retain dialin services without having racks full of modems and trunks that are rapidly going out of fashion and at some point will not be available except via IP (and now we have the same problem at both ends), but they just don't exist.

You want 722 really, one of the choices for "HD voice", it mangles it much less than even 711

One of the most egregious abusers of this recently got told off for it, I want to say it's IAB, but they're all as bad. Trust arc or whatever they're called deliberately made it as annoying and deceptive as possible. You can't blame the EU at all for a deliberate misinterpretation of the law.

It's a shame that their inability to muster up generals 2 was the nail in the coffin for the franchise, now they're just trying to squeeze a bit more cash out of it by re releasing stuff. The sooner they let it die the better.

Generals 2 had promise, with frostbite they could have even made it a hybrid game, micro manage units but eg commandos, tanks etc, if you've got a close fight then jump to first person etc. I would have loved that, c&c v battlefield. They'd probably break it though....