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InsideOutSantaon Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default

"In my dev VM". Everything of value in there is in a git repo.

Muse Demon Core.

It sounds like you're disagreeing with the person you're responding to, but you're both saying the same thing.

InsideOutSantaon Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default

All of the harnesses I've used are terrible at cleaning up after themselves. They leave all kind of clutter behind, to the point where on my dev VM, I now have an LLM run once a day to just look through the disk and delete everything that looks like it's leftover garbage.

It's like fighting fire by employing an arsonist.

InsideOutSantaon I guess I'm using WebP now?

For a while, I charged my car with a long cable coming out of my second-story flat window

InsideOutSantaon I guess I'm using WebP now?

Hm, yeah. Mine is in a garage.

InsideOutSantaon NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect

I have no doubt that they will eventually enshittify Affinity, but combining the three apps into one was, imo, a good move. The suite was clearly meant to be one app from the start, but was sold as three separate apps for commercial reasons.

All three original apps contained each other's functionality. As a result, the new combined app is barely larger than one of the three previous apps, and switching between the modes is now much more convenient and has a better UX.

InsideOutSantaon I guess I'm using WebP now?

We have snow half the year. The car goes about 20% less far. That's all.

InsideOutSantaon I guess I'm using WebP now?

> Assuming you have the setup to charge it at home

This feels like another point where people may not think about how this works in the real world. Sure, you may only have a regular plug for your car, but how long does the car stay in the garage? If you work ten hours a day, it's in the garage for 14 hours, which is plenty of time to charge the battery even if you have an hour+ commute and a slow charger.

InsideOutSantaon Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones

Yeah, I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that the people working on these clones aren't focused on making smart economic decisions for themselves with these projects.

"You failed at the thing you didn't try to do" isn't a strong point.

InsideOutSantaon Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones

Yeah, I think the article writer is too confident in the idea that these issues won't be solved:

"Those defending the poor performance of vibe coded apps have parroted the famous lines AI guys used in the past - “It is only days old” and “this is the worst it gets”. They make the mistake of equating human app development time with generative AI development time (hundreds of times faster). A vibe coded app is, in human hours, not only a few days old but closer to two or three years old. If a brush engine or transform tool works badly after the human equivalent of three years of development that is a demonstration of bad planning or an AI model not doing a good job."

I don't understand how this argument makes sense. Sure, yes, the vibecoded Photoshop clone is three human years old; I agree. It would probably take me about three years to build something like this. But that doesn't change the fact that its development velocity is, and will remain, "three human years in a few LLM days."

So if the brushes are a pain point, tell the LLM to focus on brush performance and let it run for a few hours.

InsideOutSantaon I guess I'm using WebP now?

I also think people don't consider how EVs are actually used when they think about longer "refueling" times. It's not like you usually bring your EV to a charger and wait for it to charge. You just plug it in at home in the evening and start every day with a charged car.

I've owned EVs for a decade, and I've never actually waited for one to charge.

InsideOutSantaon A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad

You don't have a nonjudgmental attitude. What you're describing is a prime example of virtue signaling: you pretend to be nonjudgmental toward people, but secretly judge them.

You're so used to your own behavior that you literally cannot fathom the concept that others might not work like you ("you’re fully guilty of the behavior I described").

I hope you can see that your opinion of others only tells us something about you, not about others. You see "virtue signaling" everywhere because you do it constantly, not because others lack a moral compass and only try to behave well to "signal" something to others. That's you.

InsideOutSantaon The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening

They're there, but in my experience, lots of them are for edge cases that almost certainly wouldn't have been hit in prod. I think this is a major reason why LLM-generated code can be much longer for the same problem than human code. Humans won't think of every edge case, and occasionally that bites them in the butt, but they also won't cover all the edge cases that happen rarely enough that they will not matter.

I'm unsure what the right solution is. I currently tend to let LLMs resolve these bugs because it does fix genuine issues that would have affected real users. But this also means that LLM-generated code is often twice as long as what I would have written, and much of it is for defensive behaviors that will never matter in prod.

InsideOutSantaon Documents add to evidence in climate deception case against ExxonMobil

These people doomed humanity to make a buck. Jail would be too good for them.

InsideOutSantaon Show HN: WallHop – 12ft.io is gone, so I built a replacement

I'd love to see some kind of cross-publication subscription service where I pay 20 bucks a month, and I can read, say, 100 articles from the 40 largest publications.

InsideOutSantaon Nvidia in talks to acquire US 'open' model startup Reflection AI

> It helped created behemoth corporations

What's the mechanism for this? Genuine question: I read an overview over Sarbanes-Oxley and it seems like a reasonable idea.

InsideOutSantaon Nvidia in talks to acquire US 'open' model startup Reflection AI

I doubt Nvidia wants to be fully dependent on the success of two highly unprofitable companies that could implode at any moment. It makes much more sense for them to commoditize LLMs so that their target market grows to every mid-sized or larger company.

InsideOutSantaon A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad

You're still doing it.

InsideOutSantaon My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack

The problem is neither the human, nor the LLM. The problem is companies selling a faulty product and telling people to connect it to their bank account.

InsideOutSantaon Bitwarden Dual License Model

Is there any reason to? It's kinda nice that they all stick to the same contract. I don't really like the Bitwarden desktop app, but because there's so much code out there, it was pretty easy to have an LLM write a detailed spec for a client and then implement something that works for me.

InsideOutSantaon Bitwarden Dual License Model

OK, don't leave us hanging like this.

InsideOutSantaon Bitwarden Dual License Model

I think Proton Pass is currently the best non-self-hosted option, and Proton's corporate structure offers some protection against enshittification.

InsideOutSantaon A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad

> If you’re someone who doesn’t outwardly judge people for anything IRL

Well, you certainly make yourself look like a swell guy. I feel like you're supporting my conclusion: the only reason you think others "virtue signal" is that you extrapolate from your own behavior, not because you have any insight into theirs.

InsideOutSantaon Food processing influences metabolism and brain activity

Not eating too much processed food is not one of the maha ideas most people disagree with.

InsideOutSantaon A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad

You certainly know a lot about what happens inside other people's heads. Me, I only know what happens inside mine, and extrapolate from that.

InsideOutSantaon Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B

> there is shit ton of due diligence at the tech level

Maybe in some cases. But counterexample, courtesy of The Information:

"It took just 15 minutes for Blue Owl executives to agree to invest up to $10 billion in future projects alongside real estate firm Primary Digital Infrastructure during their first in-person meeting two years ago, said Primary chief investment officer Bill Stein."

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/blue-owl-eyes-new-de...

AI seems to make some people lose their damned minds.

InsideOutSantaon A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad

> The implication of the term “virtue signaling” is that you’re primarily seeking acclaim (or dodging criticism) by taking a given position, and that your position likely isn’t sincere.

Exactly. Now, who would think that other people's ethical decisions aren't made for sincere reasons?

InsideOutSantaon US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize

> which I recognize as legitimate

I'm sure you can see the problem with your own argument.

InsideOutSantaon A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad

> "We support free speech, unless it's speech we disagree with"

You can defend someone's right to say something while disagreeing with it, not supporting it, and not wanting to be associated with it. By publishing that blog post, Tor isn't attacking free speech; they are participating in it. As are you, when you respond to them, and I, when I respond to you.

> They decided it's more important to virtue signal

I'm always a bit confused by people using the term "virtue signaling". Do you never try to make ethical decisions in your life? If you do, why is it so hard to believe others are, too?