crossroadsguy

At this point any coder that forgot (or rather deliberately chose not to) to tell their agent

    'oh btw, add the light theme as well and maybe read the system's, if that's not such a bother of course'

isn't worth the time, and they probably didn't bother about the 'a' of accessibilty/ux in the first place anyway, neither is their tool no matter how famous it is or would become.

I suspect I may soon start seeing "u" for "you" everywhere. Maybe "r" for "are". Because why the hell not. Even at places that don't do it right now (and even frown) and I won't be able to avoid it anymore by just avoding text-speakers. It will result in perpetual dehydration for me due to excessive vomiting.

> Look we can just stop pretending that India isn't largely technically incompetent

Or we can just stop pretending that no one in this sub-thread is a racist.

> Let's just be honest on the internet and stop pretending not to understand things.

Yeah, let's do that. You wanna start? Come on now. Go on.

The only true country. Land of the free. Gaad's country. (Mallu mates, it's different from God's country, fret not).

> The fact this CA was based in India ultimately has nothing to do with it

Oh, then you will be missing more than half the fun of this thread. The sleeper agent racist in good people of the good part of the globe come knocking whenever a third world country (with a somewhat decent economy) comes in the news for bad reasons. You have also seemingly missed the threads about space related failures and accidents related to this country here. Those will be interesting to read. There are very subtle terms being used in some comments like "their worldview" et cetera.

> genuine need for an Indian company CA

Should be for pretty much any country and those certs should be trusted like other certs are trusted!!! Otherwise change the way these chains/trusts work.

> since not every body can/wants to use Let's Encrypt or whatever.

No they don't. It's an American company. (Let's not begin about "non-profit" part of it).

It's a legal system, not a justice system. That distinction is the point. Legal systems are not meant to be for justice. It's to protect and empower the people already in power or in a position to buy and control power.

One of these days someone, or some people, will finally lose it and this time hopefully they aim away from the schools.

They never bother to make an effort. All these decades and they still say "Gey-ndi" and "Jeena" and as if they will get constipated if they learn to pronouce country names correctly. It's not "Pack-istan. They just don't care. I am from India and whenever I hear any of them say that country name, or say Aef-gan-istan, or Eye-ran (that gan, ran are as in "run ran run"), I feel like reaching into the screen or the earpiece and deliver a hard one across one of the speaker's cheeks and hopefully being isnpired by Gey-ndi they'd offer the other one.

Every harness thinking right now… "if we want do something like this we won't even have to compromise anything."

All the sandbox-exec and all the Lulu rules are not going to protect against something like this.

At one point permission pop-up fatigue sets in we start giving any permission as if it's normal. We also become desensitised to isntalling tools: brew, npm, it becomes second nature.

"Oh, those 367 tools installed by package X? Yeah yeah, must be normal, that's how all these work now".

"Brew shows 59 packages outdated?". "Must upgrade". "Yeah, done. Perfect".

And the advent of agents and harnesses. It's not a matter of whether, it's when! OSes need to do something about it. Help users have complete separate "program space" at ease with better, easier, and lighter VMs if nothing else. I know, I know - Unix and Linux solved all this even before Alexander III of Macedon started wearing his nappies. Of course.

Shall we start counting what % of that identity is from bsky.app alone?

True randomness respected.

Maybe the choice was between the hideously designed paths and pathetically named fodlers of macos/osx so the authors just stuck to not adding to the madness.

I recently discovered (I knew of it but had never tried) debrid and now I resent all the time I wasted on private trackers over the years. Next step is trying an easy and stable alternative to Stremio (which has been down the hill for quite some time). This serves both my laptop and my old fire stick (which is fire os ← android tv) as of now.

VC and valuation (alone) backed success has never been dependent on a business or product being good. All that is needed is finding the bag holder(s), and the way our economy and financial systems are designed that's the core competancy of this system.

Cloudflare now shows the blocker warning:

    Warning
    Suspected Phishing
    This website has been reported for potential phishing.

So either that site is a bit shady (that I didn't notice) or people have been actively at work to paint is as shady.

But then I often see this for any source:

    (source text not published for this record)

And the top also shows this

    SUPPORT THIS ARCHIVE — MONERO
    <and probbaly a monero address>

So can't really say.

So I think [flagged] for this source/post is rightly served, one way or the other.

This is the American way. More often after WW2. The country routinely goes to wars to impose and enforce its businesses. They have been known to do this in the name of democracy, the culture, and quite often in the name of freedom. This time it's safety; and no, it's not a war, not yet anyway – that's why this ban is nothing in comparison. Had it not been China, I'd not put any of those off the table for the land of the free.

That is literally my next sentence :D

This really makes me sad. They devoted time and effort to support something as locked and as broken as Apple Time Machine. That thing is a bad choice even within a 100% Apple ecosystem.

Something tell me that at this point anyone saying stuff like war footing etc, against or for the AI (or anywhere in its immediate vicinity), are just doing it so that they can be one of the few who get benefited from it and are one of the few who also get to be in control and get to have power. Because they can see the writing on the wall and know that one either gets on this bus, or under it. A lot specialist creds/USPs are getting diluted every hour, every day.

I find these local infra costs crazy heavy duty. I always assume these folks are getting their values worth or that infra is serving multiple people's requests at and justifying the cost. Like I once thought of buying a 48-64 GB RAM laptop (not even clsoe to what these models need) and I realised the equivalent cost will serve me for years of ≈ $30 per month API/sub access. So I assume the usage is also heavy duty, or if nothing then for privacy and safety and then I guess the price, if one can pay, will totally be worth it.

A bit like influencers of the benchmarking world. Milking it while all this trends. Are there financial/tie-up disclosures that are audited for benchmarks?

Aren't we close to decentralised domains or some sort of easy and open web indentifiers? But I think whatever we go for there are always middle-entities (aka middlemen). Crypto, and everything else. The choice comes down to either having to something like a SHA256 hash as an identifier or pay somone and then also get controlled by that someone and then with that comes the whole charade and laundry list of potential problems. That's why classic domains stuck around. Everything is a hassle and controlled, so go with something that is actually established.

Same goes for payment methods. I recently tried to buy some crypto to pay for (legally) at some "legit" sites like openrouter. I gave up after 2-3 days. Tried exchanges in my own country and also some famous non-local ones that are legally compliant to operate in my country and goodness it was a clusterfuck of darkpatterns and nightmare of steps and waits and locks and what not. I finally just created a temp card on my banking app with tiny credit spend limits and got done with it.

We attack the wrrong problems. Like "make it decentralised"! The thing is the decentralised immediately becomes centralised for any meaningful usage and often much worse and slower and in some cases costlier. Imho, we should rather work for "make them accountable" and the accountability should be decentralised to different countries and eventually to people. But then this happens via Govts and even the ones that are actually elected by people don't like to give such powers into the hands of the people and lose contorl.

It is strange to see, in this thread, people supporting (not having any problem with) NC's actions to ban everyone who had registered from Russia when Russia attacked Ukraine, unprovoked. By those standards companies everywhere ought to ban people from USA for Trump alone and in this case they actually democratically elected the guy and didn't rise up in arms to overthrow him :-) No, then we will talk degrees and nuances and apples and oranges will join the table. For a lot of NC customeres from rest of the world, at that time, it was a wake-up call. Their migrating domains to elsewhere had noithing to do with solidarity or any such thing with Russian users who got caught up in that crossfire. Yet another beautiful example of some customer hostile actions are more equal than other customer hostile actions as long it's not aimed against certain geographies.

Porkbun for me. I tried using CF's domain service and at least at that time it was hard for me to tell head from the tail on their interface. Hope that has changed. (I just wanted to distribute my domains between the two serices, otherwise Porkbun is fine as it is).

edit: I remember now – I could't even see pricing easily on their domains page and I still can't. If I am picking a domain registrar I'd rather pick just a domain registrar that does normal domain regisrar things (and preferably nothing else, or not much).

Some don't need to. Not yet anyway. There's config, there's control, and then there's setup-theatre as a hobby.

Isn't this partiuclar characteristic a bit too late in her case?

It wastes my time. A lot! In different ways. That's the tl;dr. Really.

Keeps repeating things I settled as accepted or rejected. But what really gets on my nerves? The language it uses – that aweful, useless typical LLM languages! No AGENTS.md instruction, no per session instruction, no just two-prompts-prior instruction seems to work, hell sometimes instruction regarding that in same prompt doesn't work. GOOD/BAD example along with instruction don't work. That wastes time and zones you out! Not to mention the fatigue of to and fro. DS has been working much better. Hell Gemini 3.1 Pro works so much better than GLM. I don't have extended experience with OpenAI and Anthromic models but the free claide.ai works quite well and better than GLM 5.3 (not even flash). Albeit I must say I rarely use claude.ai for coding, but technical tasks? All the time!

GLM's best response: "No excuse. My fault. You exactly asked me not to do exactly that and so did the AGENTS.md. I failed". Love it. Except that if I press I will get that response every 5 prompts.

> it doesn't try to be too clever

DS is miles better than GLM in this regard. I wanted to add that as PC is planning to go to GLM next.

> not being randomly blocked for cyber review

Just to test, will GLM – hosted by an infra provider other than Z.AI – also stop answering if I asked controversial questions from the pov of its country of origin? Or third party infra providers can perform some unhinging on the model before hosting? Or actually the blocking happens even before the question reaches the LLMs in that country?

(Note: my paid LLM access at this point are only via DS and GLM subs - 90-95% usage; and a free Gemini Pro access. I hope that adds some cred that I am not trying to take potshots at the their country of origin).