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Sebgueron Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

Yes, and the person you are replying to is clearly referencing Windsurf which was another vscode fork...

Sebgueron OpenAI – vulnerability responsible disclosure

It was the classic "oh no we did caching wrong" bug that many startups bump into. It didn't expose actual conversations though, only their titles: https://openai.com/index/march-20-chatgpt-outage/

Sebgueron Unlike ChatGPT, Anthropic has doubled down on Artifacts

The extra system prompt can definitely cause some performance issues, and it can over use them. The deleting every line behavior is gone though. It's definitely not something you should turn on for every conversation, but it's quite compelling for creating little capsule web apps.

Sebgueron OpenAI – vulnerability responsible disclosure

Models do not possess awareness of their training data. Also you are taking at face value that it is "accurate".

Sebgueron OpenAI – vulnerability responsible disclosure

Do you understand what a hallucination is?

Sebgueron LLM Inevitabilism

Have you heard of TPUs?

Sebgueron Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers

Managed challenges are just CAPTCHA by another name.

Sebgueron My AI skeptic friends are all nuts

this is only a compelling counter-argument if you are referring to a single, individual person who is saying this repeatedly. and there probably are! but the author of this article is not that person, and is also speaking to a very specific loop that only first truly became prevalent 6-9 months ago.

Sebgueron Google is winning on every AI front

Who decides what's in the interest of the user?

Sebgueron DOGE staffer is trying to reroute FEMA funds

https://xkcd.com/932/

(Don't get me wrong, I think the existence of DOGE is a farce, but this website is literally just a blog... It's not hosting secrets, and getting caught up in conspiracy theories of it being 'hosted offshore' is missing the forest for the trees)

Edit: After reading https://www.404media.co/anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-... (which lol, what competence!) it sounds like the 'not on american soil' is bowdlerized from the fact that they're running on Cloudflare pages so there isn't a 'server'.

Sebgueron DOGE staffer is trying to reroute FEMA funds

It's fronted by Cloudflare, so not sure how someone would assess that, or why it wouldn't be on US soil (or why that would matter).

Sebgueron Sam Altman said startups with $10M were 'hopeless' competing with OpenAI

You're totally right on the last point: if they stopped training models and fully focused on inference efficiency, then they could totally get to profitability (but presumably would be obsolete in the medium-term unless all progress stopped). But right now, inference is very expensive, and your wife's case is the exception not the rule.

Sebgueron Sam Altman said startups with $10M were 'hopeless' competing with OpenAI

Every single thing you said here falls apart at 'it costs on average $5/mth to serve the $20/mth customers'.

Sebgueron TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday

What kind of content do you think's going to end up filling a platform like that?

Sebgueron Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow

CIA officer Allen Lawrence Pope flew a B-26 bomber targeting civilian merchant vessels in Indonesia as part of an operation to overthrow the Indonesian president by weakening the economy and inspiring local discontent. He personally claimed to have "enjoyed killing Communists". His plane was shot down, and he was eventually returned to the US, where he continued to fly planes for the CIA.

Does this count? Or is the government allowed to indiscriminately kill civilians whenever and wherever they feel like it?

Sebgueron Apple squandered the Holy Grail

My favorite is that for ~8 years after they killed their theater movie showings service at movies.google.com, that subdomain still pointed to the deprecation notice. They finally must have noticed earlier this year, because it changed to a hacky redirect to https://www.google.com/search?q=movies and now much more sanely points to the Youtube movie storefront. (This drove me crazy for years because I'd always instinctively type in movies.google.com thinking it'd intuitively take me to the Play Store... I was so excited when it finally changed off the deprecation notice.)

Sebgueron Vultr Raises $333M at $3.5B Valuation

they got really mad about our desks

Sebgueron Hetzner cuts traffic on US VPSs, raises prices

Were you using your real information when you signed up? Were you using a disposable / privacy-first credit card? Did you try to obscure your name or register from a VPN? You're very upset at them accusing you of abuse or fraud, but you haven't actually made it clear whether any of the signals you provided them when signing up were aligned with what they'd usually see from abusive or fraudulent users.

Sebgueron Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic

It's a selectable style at any time in Claude.ai, FYI!

Sebgueron Why so few Matt Levines?

I assume you're being downvoted because it is absolutely impossible to understand what the point you're trying to make is.

Sebgueron Bullenweg.com is no longer available following threats of legal action

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Sebgueron World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating

I'd recommend finding more important things to be disturbed by.

Sebgueron The ACF plugin on the WordPress directory has been taken over by WordPress.org

WPEngine is already suing Matt, so this will get added to that pile, it seems like.

Sebgueron Secure Custom Fields by WordPress.org

Eventually you are going to have to confront that the distance between 'technical correctness' and 'moral correctness' is vaster than you apparently think it is.

Sebgueron Secure Custom Fields by WordPress.org

Why don't you mention this in the post at all?

Sebgueron Secure Custom Fields by WordPress.org

The mental gymnastics you keep doing to defend your boss are impressive, and I'm sure will reflect well on your next perf cycle!

Sebgueron Secure Custom Fields by WordPress.org

The fucked thing is that per the article, they're not even dedicating any resources to maintain it going forward, they've just made this one fix and are throwing it to other people to maintain if they want:

> Going forward, Secure Custom Fields is now a non-commercial plugin, and if any developers want to get involved in maintaining and improving it, please get in touch.

Sebgueron Secure Custom Fields by WordPress.org

*Has fixed, but can't post the fixed version to wordpress.org, to be clear

Sebgueron Secure Custom Fields by WordPress.org

Details haven't been made public yet: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-9529

Though, Automattic posted publicly that there was a vulnerability shortly after filing the CVE, while simultaneously blocking WPEngine from being able to push a fix to it because they'd cut off access to wp.org

Sebgueron Helping wikis move away from Fandom

Not in the contexts that the author is talking about, when you have the canonical answers in your data set and know roughly where to look for them.