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zaphirplane··on Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026
We don’t need to speculate do we, there are tons of real non company run OSS projects

Now I personally wish lawyers and plumbers also got into the free work thing but here we are

zaphirplane··on Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive
Are there real acknowledgments cases of multiple companies coming together to bribe some state level people to increase their profit and splitting the bribe across the companies? Like GM, BNW and Honda coming together bribing and splitting the bill. Seems unlikely thou there was a RAM price fixing agreement caught but then again they were caught cause of the number of people aware
zaphirplane··on LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do
rewrite SAS, salesforce or SAP, will never have the breadth and business know how
zaphirplane··on My Software North Star
Everything we do is about anticipation, from cooking to walking to driving. You maybe thinking 100% or nothing
zaphirplane··on My Software North Star
What does nothing matter mean thou ? The extrapolation is very plausible outcome thou
zaphirplane··on LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do
That’s just not economically viable. Even if it becomes viable after some singularity event the path there will be 1000 the upheaval seen during the wipe out of manufacturing and mining
zaphirplane··on LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do
How strange or at least unintuitive. Buying should be cheaper than creating for a customer of 1
zaphirplane··on How LLMs work
But … how close a simulation is it. I can see why people are wondering
zaphirplane··on MCP is dead?
How do you ensure the cli can use the auth without knowing how to read it ? It’s potentially a bearer Token
zaphirplane··on Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)
Oldie but a goodie. Why would it matter thou
zaphirplane··on I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
> 200m knowledge workers in the world, 30m developers

1 in 6 knowledge worker is a developer ! Surely that’s too high thou explains the job market

zaphirplane··on Bay Area mom out thousands after scammers use AI to mimic daughter's voice
This sounds targeted, like 2 degrees of separation
zaphirplane··on Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs
What is the governance and audit trail on offer ?
zaphirplane··on DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost
Like which country allows companies to not follow a legal directive. How weird
zaphirplane··on Claude is not your architect. Stop letting it pretend
Why does it “sound” like a good thing for the company?

Unless it’s a mega establishment product people move on and don’t stick with buggy crashing products

This wouldn’t be acceptable for a car safety, well I could like a whole bunch but you should get the idea

zaphirplane··on Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment
The redirect to a bank is worrying, isn’t it trivial to fake redirecting to a fake bank ?
zaphirplane··on Claude for Legal
I think they are asking about privileged communication
zaphirplane··on Claude for Legal
> pass a(n oftrn horrifically thorough) character background check.

Explains why so many let loose afterwards ;) jokes

zaphirplane··on Claude for Small Business
Wtf giving a non deterministic model access to use money! Seriously skynet ( terminator reference) isn’t going to be thru control of weapons it will be by buying itself and building a million trillion financial empire
zaphirplane··on A Caddy Cert Expired Because Systemd-Resolved Was Selectively Broken
Some docker issues archaeology says that there was tension between docker team and redhat / systemd
zaphirplane··on Debian must ship reproducible packages
Hmm, it prevents Trojan binaries which is a small subset of backdoor IMHO.

Defense in depth obviously is a good thing

zaphirplane··on AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved
We should let the IAM service team know if this glaring gap the hn thread figured out /s

I’m 99% ;) certain dependencies of foundational services are a well discussed topic

zaphirplane··on AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved
Services outside of us-east-1 don’t call us-east-1 for IAM data plane thou right ?
zaphirplane··on AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved
You forgot the /s
zaphirplane··on Going Full Time on Open Source
How is that counted ? Is it unique installs or counting updates as well It is very very frequently updated
zaphirplane··on An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
Well there were a bunch of articles about resuming a parked session relating to degradation of capabilities and high token usage. Ironic Another example of attempting to treat the LLM as an AI
zaphirplane··on GPT-5.5
Why would an AGI be slaving away for ~~humanity~~ one of the 5 Chaebols in a dystopian future where for 12 billion people just existing is a good day ?
zaphirplane··on DeepSeek v4
I think people worry about monopolies, be it financial or otherwise
zaphirplane··on Columnar Storage Is Normalization
That forign key column is saving duplicating multiple columns

But I don’t think that’s the top 5 reasons of normalization

zaphirplane··on Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux
Qt looks nice as a user and gnome gtk isn’t too bad either
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