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Did they give a reason why it was declined? Was it some bureaucratic "form not filled in correct" thing, or are they actually against the concept of it?

That's not really what "being the product" is commonly recognised as.

Vivaldi go out to their customers (that's not you) and say "We have 1000 suckers who have downloaded and use our closed source, Chromium cloned, browser. We can serve your website as a bookmark to them, or add you to their search engine list if you give us $x."

Since you are not their "customer" (that's the people paying them to appear in your settings) what are you? You are the "product", you are what Vivaldi is selling.

Happy to discuss.

I'm not sure if this [1] is still relevant, but it appears that Vivaldi makes money by promoting search engines and bookmarks to their users via their closed source, secret, Chromium fork.

If my usage of their Chromium clone is being used to sell search engines/website bookmarks, then I am indeed the product.

There does also seem to be a VPN option on their site that I'm assuming I can pay for, which seems it could be an actually buyable product rather than selling my usage of their browser.

1. https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-business-model/

Because it's a proprietary closed source fork of Google Chromium. There's nothing to trust. If it's free and closed source, you are the product.

I'm building yet another terminal [1][2] for macOS and Linux. I've been unsatisfied with the window management of iterm2 and other terminals, my one acts a bit more like Chrome with projects at the top level.

It also allows remote control. I don't like AI harnesses (Claude / OpenAI) having remote control inside, it feels like it should be at the terminal level, not the cli.

It also allows commands at the terminal level. So if you use multiple ai cli's you don't only need to write the command once, then use cmd+l to inject into any cli.

I've put macros in too, that again can automate doing the same thing in a terminal.

Anyway I'm sure this will just end up another terminal in a sea of already existing ones.

1. https://github.com/markwylde/terminay

2. https://terminay.com

Good job! Now since we don’t really need to go that faster, ill fire half of you so I and my investors friends can make more profit.

Is this a thing? Are there companies out there that don't want to go faster?

Absolutely. Thing is, I'd actually rather take a worse model than Anthropic, so long as it's consistent. Like, a model that can successfully do well for 80% of tasks is much better than Anthropic that some days will be 90% other 60%.

When you have a consistent model, you can incorporate fixes/prompts into your workflow to make it behave better. But this, always having to guess if Anthropic has quantised the model today, wastes so much time and effort.

Yeah I understand. I think my point is don’t add any other friction to the password strength other than length. If you want more security increase the min length, if you’re happy with less, lower it.

I’d personally have a 12 length password enforcement, a password strength meter and nothing else. Possibly less if you introduce 2fa.

There really are only two dials you can turn to increase the security of a password, and that's length of the character set (the characters that the user can use in their password) and length of the password itself.

People should be using a password manager, then they can set that to 100/200 characters. Even if all lower case, it will be unbreakable (assuming a modern/secure one way hashing algorithm, and the password manager is truly random.).

If they are not using a password manager and use something like `waterfall!X` (because you enforce a special character and capital letter) you haven't actually increased entropy by that much, compared to a longer password. Them making up a 100 character password will almost guarantee more entropy than a short password they make up like `waterfall!X`

Also, because it's the internet [1]:

1. https://xkcd.com/936/

What a waste of tokens. No wonder Anthropic can't serve their customers. It's not just a lack of compute, it's a ridiculous waste of the limited compute they have. I think (hope?) we look back at the insanity of all this theatre, the same way we do about GPT-2 [1].

1. https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/17/openai-text-generator-dang...

Yeah it's much better, another plus is you can use it with OpenCode (or other 3rd party tools) so you can easily switch between Codex and most other models by alright companies (not Anthropic or Google).

This is amazing news. I look forward to my bills going up again next month!

I switched a year ago and have been absolutely loving them. Not just because we can support a EU based CDN, but their Magic Containers are amazing. I can have global instantly scalable API's that cost me barely $1 a month until used.

It's so disappointing that we could have had Usenet, but instead have centralised/corporate/ad/spyware invested Facebook/Reddit/Xitter/Tiktok.

Maybe the bakery expands to make more than just loaves of bread, maybe different cakes, sandwiches, maybe expand delivery to nearby towns.

They build that using GPT-5.4

Theme park simulation game made with GPT‑5.4 from a single lightly specified prompt

GPT literally built that game.

Google are also destroying that path by delaying the releases more and more.

This was the analogy I was looking for! It feels like a very creepy way to make money, almost scammy and the gym membership/overselling hits the nail.

Codex is Open Source though, so I wonder at what stage me adding features to Codex is different from me starting a new project and using the subscription.

But I believe OpenAI does let you use their subscription in third parties, so not an issue anyway.

I'm not sure if you'd call it a productivity gain, but I have to host our infrastructure on a system that runs processes entirely in Linux userland.

To bridge the containers in userland only, without root, I had to build: https://github.com/puzed/wrapguard

I'm sure it's not perfect, and I'm sure there are lots of performance/productivity gains that can be made, but it's allowed us to connect our CDN based containers (which don't have root) across multiple regions, talking to each other on the same Wireguard network.

No product existed that I could find to do this (at least none I could find), and I could never build this (within the timeframe) without the help of AI.

Can you explain how to use it? I’ve tried asking it to do “create 3 files using multiple sub agents” and other similar wording. It never works.

Is it in the main Codex build? There doesn’t seem to be an experiment for it.

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/2604

Created a quick map dashboard that shows the prices on a map with pins:

Preview:

https://bf31ed2a-ec85-460a-a503-fa9bf86bf63b.paged.net/

Source:

https://github.com/markwylde/uk-fuel-price-map

You have to download the CSV manually from the gov.uk link.

This looks great. I've been using OpenWebUI for a while now and the weird licence and inability to just pay for branding has frustrated me.

This looks like it's not only a better license, but also much better features.

There seems to be a big movement (UK specifically) from governments using age gateing as an excuse to increase surveillance and online tracking. I don't know where Roblox is based or it's policies, but it's likely they are just implementing what the government has forced them to do.

We need to push back against governments that try and restrict the freedom of the internet and educate them on better regulations. Why can sites not dictate the content they provide, then let device providers provide optional parental controls.

Governments forcing companies to upload your passport/ID, upload pictures/videos of your face, is dangerous and we are going to see a huge increase of fraud and privacy breaches, all while reducing our freedoms and rights online.

A closed source wrapper around a web view? I have to advise that no one install, never mind use, this closed source, proprietary blob. Especially not for anything confidential like banking, health, etc.

This is amazing, and I hope this sets a precedent for other companies. Stuff like this would definitely sway my buying decision, if I know when a product becomes EOL I can tinker with it.

Seems like great publicity for Anna's Archive. I've heard an increasing amount about Anna's Archive over the last 12 months. It has popped up a lot. I wonder if they've seen their traffic spike a lot.

I’m nearly the same. Though I do find I’m still writing code, just not the code that’s ending up in the commit. I’ll write pseudo code, example code, rough function signatures then Claude writes the rest.

Yeah you are right. Can you think of any way we could capture that traffic too?

Thanks chjj. Yeah it's always LD_PRELOAD. There is wireproxy [1] though that might do what you want?

1. https://github.com/whyvl/wireproxy