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InsideOutSanta··on OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked
FWIW, OpenRouter has the exact same feature.
InsideOutSanta··on OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked
Because they're unrelated to this incident.
InsideOutSanta··on Source code of the Estonian online voting system
How can I volunteer to see the bits in a voting machine's RAM?
InsideOutSanta··on OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked
The announcement is needlessly confusing, but if you only use the CLI, you're not affected. There is no supply chain attack.
InsideOutSanta··on Source code of the Estonian online voting system
In a paper election, you have a chain of people who supervise each other. Depending on where you live, you can volunteer to be part of that and see it for yourself.

In code, you have no insight into what actually happens.

InsideOutSanta··on DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
Socialized healthcare does have large popular support, though. Lots of things have large popular support in the US and still don't get done.
InsideOutSanta··on DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
Yeah, I had a somewhat odd conversation with a Chinese acquaintance last year when she got to talking about how America sees China. Her point was that, "How am I not free? I can do whatever I want, go where I want, buy what I want. I can talk to you and say whatever I want; nobody is here listening to me."

The fact that she can't call Xi "Winnie the Pooh" on Douyin wasn't something that occurred to her, or maybe that she was aware of at all. I didn't ask. I don't like to get into these discussions when I'm in China.

InsideOutSanta··on Tesla Roadster
"Corporations are allowed to lie as much as they want, and when somebody points that out, I'll try to make fun of them online." --politician
InsideOutSanta··on Tesla Roadster
BTW, "29 points by InsideOutSanta 11 hours ago [flagged]" is wild. How in the world did people decide to flag the most benign criticism pointing out that tons of stuff Musk demos or predicts doesn't come true?
InsideOutSanta··on Tesla Roadster
Of all the flying cars I've seen, this probably isn't one. It looked like a car-shaped prop.

I'm willing to be convinced otherwise, but that will require more than a scripted demo. Meanwhile, I'll let my full self-driving Tesla drive me to my workplace in the Mars colony, where I currently live. Can't wait to see my coworker, Robby the Tesla Robot.

InsideOutSanta··on Tesla Roadster
It'll soon land on his Mars colony.
InsideOutSanta··on California is building a $400M shield for Yosemite's most dangerous highway
The Gotthard Base Tunnel cost roughly $10 billion and goes 70km through the Alps. $400 million for a rockfall gallery seems high, but what do I know.
InsideOutSanta··on California is building a $400M shield for Yosemite's most dangerous highway
Yeah, I had the same thought.

"There’s not anything like this in the world"

Dunno, these renderings look like the the things I drive through every year when I go hiking in the Alps.

It looks cool, and I'm sure it's a huge undertaking with lots of engineering involved, but neither the problem nor the solution are unique.

InsideOutSanta··on Tesla Roadster
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InsideOutSanta··on Tesla Roadster
Somehow I feel like "putting highly explosive canisters all around a car" is not the best example for why regulation is bad.
InsideOutSanta··on Tesla Roadster
You watched a demo of a car-shaped object flying. Was it an actual car, or just a shell that looks like a car? We won't know until it's actually on sale and in customer hands what this is going to be.

It wouldn't be the first time Musk demoed something and promised something and then never ships.

InsideOutSanta··on An Apology
The intelligence of stalkers is an academic subject. Findings are fairly consistent (e.g., their mean IQ is about 10 points below average).

It's absolutely true that there are many ways to stalk somebody, most of them much better than an AirTag. It's just that the people who decide it is a good idea to stalk somebody usually aren't the brightest, so making the lowest-effort way to stalk people a bit harder will likely stop many of them.

InsideOutSanta··on Grace Hopper Celebration Cancelled
> If your intent was to get people to reconsider their opinion of people like you

It wasn't. I was commiserating with someone who already shared my opinion, and then you responded.

DEI would be less of a threat to you if you made yourself less unpleasant.

InsideOutSanta··on Grace Hopper Celebration Cancelled
"The fact that you couldn't muster an actual response"

I did.

What is the purpose of your behavior? Do you think this will change anyone's opinions? Are you just trying to bait me? Are you angry and using this as an outlet?

Because responding in this childish way, parrotting everything I say, just supports my original point. If your intent was to get people to reconsider their opinion of people like you, you're failing. You just make yourself look bad.

So what is the purpose? Wasting people's time? Making them angry at you? To what end?

InsideOutSanta··on An Apology
You vastly overestimate the intelligence of most stalkers.
InsideOutSanta··on Grace Hopper Celebration Cancelled
The fact that you couldn't muster an actual response but just plagiarized my comment adds another data point to my experience.
InsideOutSanta··on Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke
Neither has Anthropic. They mention Sapling as an inspiration.
InsideOutSanta··on Grace Hopper Celebration Cancelled
This is just my subjective experience, but the only people I've ever seen complain about "DEI" in real life were the most incompetent men I've ever met. These people were clearly aware, on some level, that "DEI" is a threat to them specifically.
InsideOutSanta··on Gemini 4 Argon
It fell victim to Google's long-standing strategy of building everything twice and then killing the better option.
InsideOutSanta··on Gemini 4 Argon
Model announcement pages are the absolute worst. This has to be some kind of inside joke among labs, they're trying to see who can build the shittiest page.
InsideOutSanta··on Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default
It's funny how differently people use LLMs. I have agents that run for weeks, building something from a detailed plan with clear goals that gate progress. I don't like to constantly baby LLMs and tell them what to do. It would be inconvenient to rebuild the VM every day, then restore it and start everything again.
InsideOutSanta··on Firefox Enterprise
It's enterprise, so the cost is 500k unless you don't want to pay so much, then it's 50k.
InsideOutSanta··on Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later
> It's what you'd expect by posing "will AI do X by 2026?" and then flipping a coin to get an answer.

I think that's technically correct but misleading here, because these aren't simple yes/no predictions. They are specific, relatively detailed predictions of what will happen.

As an example, let's say you asked the questions:

- Will AI kill everybody by 2026?

- Will AI create FTL travel by 2026?

- Will AI be able to travel back in time by 2026?

- Will AI colonize Mars by 2026?

...and then flipped a coin.

Flipping a coin would say "yes" to two of them, so you'd make these two predictions. But obviously, these were all bad predictions, so you'd actually end up with a 0% win ratio.

Making detailed, specific long-term predictions and getting a 50% hit ratio means your predictions were reasonably good to begin with, since making speculative long-term predictions is incredibly difficult.

InsideOutSanta··on Denmark set to allow return of 'physical force' in school
The broom closet seems a bit creepy as a punishment. But my primary school teachers in the 80s used to lock me in the school library as "punishment", which turned out to be the wrong incentive.
InsideOutSanta··on Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default
Just garbage. Temp files, worktrees that weren't removed after subagents finished, build files... all kinds of things.
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