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I'm a big space fan, don't get me wrong. But your exuberance uh, needs tempering.
* Banning OpenClaw via system prompt filtering
* Unclear TOS, citing Matt Pocock who sells a course on Claude (and therefore his interests are aligned with Anthropic):
> I have never before experienced, from any developer tool, such a frustrating lack of clarity over the basic terms of usage. I personally asked, 3 weeks ago, and have received nothing but delays. The recent @bcherny announcement did absolutely nothing to clarify things.
More details: https://xcancel.com/mattpocockuk/status/2040536403289764275
* And finally refusing to help a user debug issues with Dropbox, repeatedly saying "I'm best suited for software engineering" and "this is a question for Dropbox support" (paraphrasing Claude).
Slop article. gtfo my front page.
https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/4ta3hh/cmv_th...
There are many reasons to detest the current political landscape. Don't get distracted.
(Lightning at 1:03)
Reported 2025-11-17, and multiple "no responses" after repeated attempts to contact the maintainers... not a good look.
Note that the OP links to a version from 2021. A version dated October 29, 2025 is here https://maddalenaronchi.weebly.com/uploads/1/1/7/4/117435661...
Marginal Revolution post https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/11/da...
Podcast with the author https://www.thevisiblehand.uk/episodes/episode-27
AI absolutely is capable of doing damage, and _is_ currently doing damage. Perpetuating inequality, generating fake news, violation of privacy, questionable IP/rights, etc. These are more pressing than the idea that someday we will give AI the ability to manufacture nano-mosquitos that will poison us all, as Yudkowsky suggested on a recent podcast. He's so busy fantasizing about scifi he's lost touch with the damage it's currently doing.
Frankly, if we give black boxes the ability to manipulate atoms with no oversight, we _deserve_ to go extinct. The first thing we should do if we achieve AGI is to take it apart to see how it works (to make it safe). I believe that's one of the first things a frontier lab will do because it's our nature as curious monkeys.
orly. wtf is the point of this vibecoded bullshit
Ref: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/12/why-wont-steam-machin...
If you wanna make charged statements, at the very least substantiate them. (To be clear: I don't necessarily disagree with you, but you gotta admit your language is emotionally laden and lacks substance.)
> Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase knew as far back as January about a customer data leak at an outsourcing company connected to a larger breach estimated to cost up to $400 million, six people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat...
> On May 11, 2025, Coinbase, Inc., a subsidiary of Coinbase Global, Inc. (“Coinbase” or the “Company”), received an email communication from an unknown threat actor claiming to have obtained information about certain Coinbase customer accounts, as well as internal Coinbase documentation, including materials relating to customer-service and account-management systems.
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1679788/000167978825...
Not so much now, but maybe it'll come back!
I think there's an analogous subset: "llm-security theater".
There's so much pearl-clutching, pedantry, and noise from people who are obviously 1) not contributing to KeePassXC AND 2) never would contribute AND 3) are unaware of EXISTING bugs/issues/CVEs with KeePassXC. All they provide are vague abstract arguments from their own experience with LLMs, and they argue with the maintainers of KeyPassXC without giving specifics, as though they have the right to tell others how to run their repo when they're unable to link a single concrete problematic issue or PR.
Instead, all they have are "vibes", which is ironic.
The only 2 occurrences of "phase" are comments: `// Plan phase: analyze dependencies, detect errors` and `// Produce phase: create instances`. I'm mostly familiar with DI in C#, and SimpleInjector in particular.
Does "phased" mean "we iterate the dep graph to detect lifecycle/circular dep errors"? Similar to how `.verify()` works in SimpleInjector?
https://docs.simpleinjector.org/en/latest/howto.html#verify-...
Worse, GPT hallucinated: "To alleviate concerns, Comet is designed so that much data is stored locally by default. For example, by default email/calendar content etc. is not uploaded unless you explicitly request an action that requires it."
From its citation: "Comet may process some local data using Perplexity’s servers to fulfill your queries. This means Comet reads context on the requested page (such as text and email) in order to accomplish the task requested."
Perhaps I'm too cynical, but chatGPT is farrrr more generous than what Comet's FAQ states.
I _suppose_ that Comet would save me from copy/pasting, but the fact that they would read my emails is quite deterring.
I suppose what I'm asking is: what is Comet's unique value prop?
> How are different news outlets covering this differently?
I want less news, not more.
> Organize my tabs by category and close the ones that are distractions
I use a tree-style tab manager. You will close my tabs over my dead body.
> Build a basic website for me using the best website generator tool
Are you fucking serious?
> Draft a reply that shares my upcoming schedule
Emails _could_ be useful, but I'm not sure how I feel about Comet reading my emails. From their privacy policy:
When you use Comet, we collect and store certain information locally on your system, including: Interaction data, including browsing history information, such as URLs of pages that you visit, text, images, and other resources from those pages...
> Create a study plan given this syllabus for the next week to help me on my test
This does not need to be in a browser.
> Buy a high quality, comfortable yet cheap office chair
...is anyone really doing this???
Some libs do not expose "vanilla" js/ts functions that I can call - e.g. `LiveKitRoom` https://github.com/livekit/client-sdk-react-native
It only takes 1 hook to pollute your entire factory pattern; the comparison to colored async functions wasn't spurious. Hook-only options seem especially prevalent in the React Native ecosystem (ironic, given the memory constraints of phones).
Of course, I could fork/go down to the native layer, but this just proves my point that React DX is hot garbage.
My conditional beef: in my app, users can choose between using the built-in mic for speech recognition or a 3rd party service (LiveKit). If the user chooses the built-in mic, I still must allocate memory for LiveKit's services because it's exposed as a hook, even if the user will never use it. This problem compounds - every option that I expose that uses a hook requires that I allocate memory for an option that may never be used. Also TTS - users can choose to use the phone's TTS, or a remote service, etc. Every option I offer, if the library exposes it as a hook (and they virtually always do), if I naively implement the feature, allocates memory for a hook that might never be used.
Fuck. React. Hooks.
My workaround is to conditionally render empty fragments. These fragments wrap hooks, which I then inject into the context. This makes it so I can conditionally run hooks. This is why I complained that React can handle conditional components, but not hooks. Concretely: https://pastebin.com/sjc3vXTd I'm using Zustand because god I need a lifecycle outside of React.
Y'know how people complain about how Async "colors" functions? Hooks are also a type of function coloring. And they don't compose with Async.