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I think I should turn off my refferal flywheel while I get a handle on what I have right? Or NO because I want lots of users who might destroy me but maybe not?

The jump from "we can compute this" to "we computed it for the entire planet" is what makes this impressive. A lot of projects stop at the proof of concept. Running hundreds of AMD Turin cores for two days straight to actually finish the job is a different kind of commitment. Curious about the edge cases, how do you handle atmospheric refraction at those distances? At 530km the curvature of the earth and atmospheric bending would meaningfully affect whether a line of sight is actually visible to a human observer versus just geometrically unobstructed.

I've been using Claude Code heavily for the past few weeks on a production project. Opus 4.6 is noticeably more capable than what I was using before, longer autonomous runs, better contextual awareness across files, fewer hallucinated edits. The UX changes I'm less sure about. The progressive disclosure thing makes sense in theory but sometimes I want to see exactly what it's doing without clicking through. The terminal is where I work, don't hide things from me.

Boris's response here is the right move though. Acknowledging the miss and committing to a fix in the next release is how you build trust with a dev audience.

I wasn't trying to be dishonest, possession of the material you are referring to is a serious federal crime in the United States. Furthermore, I find it sickening that some of you do not agree with me, or the law, on this subject and think it's ok.

Lolicon is child sexual abuse material.

Things seem to have gotten a lot worse over the last few years, the reports and allegations shot up dramatically since 2020, there are just too many reports of those reporting CP having their accounts suspended, with the reported creators allowed to continue over the last few years to believe that this isn't a deliberate policy.

I believe the association with THORN and INHOPE are great steps, but I can see that they have not had much affect on the rising number of reports and allegations over the last few years, the problem seems to be increasing under their watch over Patreon. The cynic in me thinks they are convenience camouflage and nothing more.

On the subject of Patreon creators vehemently attacking those who blemish the platform, I have seen the opposite to be true, the prominent creators from the infosec space that I have spoken to have told me that they are really worried about this. For the most part they have gone quiet, nobody wants to create content and build audiences alongside paedophiles, and these allegations are just allegations at this point. One of them (DarknetDiaries) showed me evidence of people canceling their subscriptions and stating the reason was Patreons child porn issue in their exit surveys, they can't be the only creators seeing people vote with their money.

The former security team have gone quiet, understandably. I have been told that they are bound by very generous exit packages and very tight NDA's, you also have to assume that they have been verbally warned against responding to these allegations publicly. We just do not know if the firing of the security team is connected to the allegations online, but in my view security talks to trust and safety all the time, their workloads overlap, I think it was common knowledge internally that they had a massive CP problem.

HOLY SMOKES AT LEAST. In my view someone needs to go to prison, in my view they have enabled crime rings to distribute child porn on the platform for over a decade. Patreon needs seriously investigating by law enforcement, they KNEW about this for years and did not act. Their recent statement said nothing, and clearly indicated that they do not see a problem, its a scandal.

I have discovered HUNDREDS of allegations going back a decade. I found different glass door posts from a couple of years ago talking about child porn, HUNDREDS of Trustpilot reviews from Patreon users saying that they have reported CP and been ignored, in many cases those reporting CP had their accounts suspended. I have spoken to a number of people who have told me that they have repeatedly tried to report what look like organised CP rings on Patreon, only to be ignored time and time again. There is also petition signed by 95k people to try and persuade Patreon to stop monetising CSAM content, the signs are all there.

Am not sure how much more smoke needs to billow out of this tech company before people realize that there is a serious problem over there.

There is MUCH more to it than that. I have discovered HUNDREDS of allegations going back a decade. I found different glass door posts from a couple of years ago talking about child porn, HUNDREDS of Trustpilot reviews from Patreon users saying that they have reported CP and been ignored, in many cases those reporting CP had their accounts suspended. I have spoken to a number of people who have told me that they have repeatedly tried to report what look like organised CP rings on Patreon, only to be ignored time and time again. Then there is that petition signed by 100k people to try and persuade Patreon to stop monetising CSAM content.

How much more smoke do you need to convince you that there is a fire?

Hey amigo, I founded the site, am not sure what you mean by legit, we are a private members club of information security professionals, who write and publish alongside each other. We do not monetise content, have any sponsors, or try and make money.

So we are as legit as any bunch of hackers publishing online could be :)

Hey there, this my article you are discussing.

I can tell you that I have discovered HUNDREDS of allegations going back a decade.

I found two different glass door posts from a couple of years ago talking about child porn, hundreds of Trustpilot reviews from Patreon users saying that they have reported CP and been ignored, in many cases those reporting CP had their accounts suspended. I have spoken to a number of people who have told me that they have repeatedly tried to report what look like organised CP rings on Patreon, only to be ignored time and time again.

Social media is littered with complains about this going back years, allegations are EVERYWHERE. There is very clearly a serious problem over at Patreon, and I have been told it is because internally they have a policy of not taking action against creators unless law enforcement or a court order is involved.

Hey, author of the article here. It is difficult to prove anything when none of the former members of the security team are talking and Patreon is stonewalling. I can tell you what I have discovered though, HUNDREDS of allegations going back a decade.

If you read through my article a little more, I found two different glass door posts from a couple of years ago talking about child porn, hundreds of Trustpilot reviews from Patreon users saying that they have reported CP and been ignored, in many cases those reporting CP had their accounts suspended.

I have spoken to a number of people who have told me that they have repeatedly tried to report what look like organised CP rings on Patreon, only to be ignored time and time again. Social media is littered with complains about this going back years, allegations are EVERYWHERE. There is very clearly a serious problem over at Patreon, and I have been told it is because internally they have a policy of not taking action against creators unless law enforcement or a court order is involved.

I would argue that the allegations you see stretching back years are a direct result of this policy. Patreon is in serious need of law enforcement investigation, this has obviously been allowed to develop into a systemic issue internally.

You need to check out WEBGAP.io, its the future of endpoint security and solves the big problems in browser isolation.

FYI am the CEO.

After spending a ton of money on SSL certs over the years, I not only salute Let's Encrypt but also fart in the general direction of those orgs who fail to support it.

What specifically in my well sourced article do you disagree with, most if it is sourced from wikipedia and reputable media sources. What is wrong with my article?

What specifically in my well sourced article do you disagree with, most if it is sourced from wikipedia and reputable media sources. What is wrong with my article?

What specifically in my well sourced article do you disagree with, most if it is sourced from wikipedia and reputable media sources. What is wrong with my article?

I do not once call the Spanish fascists, you seem to be a little defensive there. Where does my article say that?

You are not Catalan or a resident of the region clearly, which means you don't get to vote. The Spanish do not have a say in Catalan independence and all you have left is violence.

Watch the Guardia Civil show the world how fascist the Spaniards are and remind us of who won the civil war.

Thats the typical Spanish response. We own you and you cannot declare independence unless we say so, typical Spanish arrogance towards their colonies, we saw it in the Philippines too just before you got thrown out my the Americans.

No necesitan permiso de Madrid.

Thank you so much for spreading FUD around my article without actually addressing any element of it, you are just what the Catalans need right now. Did you have anything to say about its content, or did you find it well sourced and accurate?

Agreed, tis quite nice.

I seem to be the first writer to break this story anywhere.

It's all tongue in cheek of course, but I cannot take it anymore.

Sorry guys, I have had enough of third wave harpies.

You guys shouldn't read this in the dark ;)

Hello all, OP here! I have taken inspiration for a fair bit of content in this article from comments made around the subject here on HN, so please do let me know if I got it right, or if I did not and why.

Ah, but nothing catches the eye or flares the nostrils as somebody calling somebody else a psycho :)

Thank you for this, I do intend to drill down into the subject a little more and this will make for good reading, as will this entire thread.

I had not considered this angle, thank you for commenting.

Although I would like to expand on my true if I may. The dribble of defectors to the completion fuels a virtous cycle, I myself migrated to Pixelmator (I have little use for vector as a marketer) and since then I have seen its capabilities jump.

I like to think those capabilities jumped because the new influx of Adobe refugees provided them with enough revenue to supplement their dev team. Or am I wrong?

I would argue that the more psychos in the market, the better for startups and I am quite comfortable with that idea.

You divined my thoughts exactly Sir. As others have expressed in this conversation, we lament the rent seeking world.

I agree with you, this is a topic that could use a good article and as OP, I did not write it. My hope was that others would pick up the thread and run with it, thank you for pointing this out.

It is true what they say, there is a silver lining in everything.