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The URL is sent using http inside the https connection, so it's encrypted too. Your ISP shouldn't be able to see it unless they have root certs on your device.

It's not impossible that someone sees the URL, and if it's stored in an email the backups or local clients could store it plaintext, but I don't see how the URL is any more likely than the password to be sniffed during the connection itself

Using these tools can you switch everything off immediately (or at least within a minute) of total billing going over $X? Because if not, you're being disingenuous

What's with the strawman? Why don't you verify the balance you keep track of is correct periodically?

This is true for almost everything. The bank is still open for 2 hours a day if you want to check your balance. The point is that this anti-pattern is being pushed for more and more functionality.

From a website like that where you expect them to go missing, maybe. But that's not the point, the point is that useful functionality is getting gated.

I don't think you can track a package now without the app on aliexpress. It might be another website but expect it to become more common

> When we first got computers, this is simply what they were. By default they did nothing. They sat there and waited for you to have an idea.

It's ironic that we've come full circle here. This is generally what AI does - nothing that isn't prompted, and yet still part of the end and nothing like the beginning of the internet

It's interesting about MiSTer. It was wedged into the article so awkwardly and suddenly that it felt like a definite advert, but it mostly said it was shit and only get it if you like frustratingly broken systems. I still think it was a reverse psychology form of an ad

This type of low-hanging sarcastic rebuttal doesn't belong here

The latter. I think they took OpenAI at their word

Of course it is. Rogue is only mentioned in the headline, and comes from their previous releases about the huggingface incidents. OpenAI and Anthropic want these models regulated and open weight models banned, they have a lot of benefit from presenting this as totally unprompted and not their responsibility, and it feeds directly into marketing for Fable and newer "cyber" models.

You're believing the marketing that the agents were uninstructed. They could be, and Sam Altman going to the UN to advise about how everyone should be regulated is a coincidence.

That's a bad faith metaphor. A better one would be something like a new battery that exploded and killed someone - perhaps it was always your intention, perhaps not.

Funnily enough the US already has one similar real argument around guns - should gun manufacturers be liable for damages caused by their product?

Why do we assume "rogue"? At this point it's just accepting their marketing at face value

I might be wrong but I was under the impression that these were one time pads and only cracked because of bad key hygiene when it came to generating them. If that's true, it's entirely possible

I totally agree, and I agree with the article in general. I just don't think it follows that code that's bad because humans had to maintain it is necessarily bad by definition.

I've vibecoded loads of AI apps for myself and almost none of them are still in use. Not because I didn't really want them or they didn't work, but because the more I used them the dirtier I felt, as though I could feel the bad decisions and the bugs underneath just by interacting with it.

As much as I agree with this article, I feel that there's a logical flaw here. The author admits that it's difficult to measure bad code - but continues with the assertion that it exists. If the only negative to "bad code" is that it's difficult to maintain once the author has left or difficult to refactor, then the question really is whether or not LLMs will continue to be able to maintain their spaghetti code.

Just because it's bad for a human doesn't necessarily mean everything will fall apart - unless a human has to maintain it unaided.

Not sure if there's push back or something behind this but a lot of premiership teams this season in the UK have a second kit where the sponsor is either missing or the same colour as the shirt so barely visible. Examples: https://www.safcstore.com/en/c-18416 https://www.brightonandhovealbion.com/media-article/125th-an...

I gave you prices from UK sellers for all of them. You gave me three different currencies which suggests you're picking and choosing, and ignoring taxes. Probably because newegg in the UK doesn't sell them anymore.

You're also implying that Kiwi Electronics sell an 8GB raspberry pi 5 with SD card, housing, cable, power supply and fan for 5 euros less than they sell an 8GB raspberry pi 5 without any of those things: https://www.kiwi-electronics.com/en/raspberry-pi-5-computers...

> Total 205 GBP, which is 70.7% cheaper than a MacBook Neo. Quite a discount!

With 85% less storage, and nowhere near as powerful. The idea that a raspberry pi is worth a third a macbook, do you really believe that?

The raspberry pi's day as cheap hobbyist computing has long gone.

A PDP-11 serving adverts for an AI-written site in 2026 was not on my bingo card. Imagine being brought back from the dead for that.

The email contains the full subscriber agreement (which is also the link in the email).

The full text for that section:

All Service Plans may include: (i) promotional content, (ii) sponsorships, and (iii) advertisements before/after playback of Content and in channels, live/as-live, special events, and any third-party services content.

Perhaps you could share, from the email, what you read that everyone else is missing.

> Happy to be correct, though.

Not normally one to point out a typo but this one made me smile

> No, RPis are very inexpensive computers.

This hasn't been true for 5 or 6 years and there is very little reason to buy one over a second hand 1L PC these days. They are expensive and notorious for screwing SD cards.

To put it into perspective, an 8GB raspberry pi with a 32GB SD card and cable but no monitor, no keyboard, no mouse is 251GBP. 35% the price of a macbook neo.

Use BBC from abroad and you see scam ads and the "which bar would you move to save the king" crap. They're not morally above this, only legally within the UK

It could be my bias

It's interesting that I've seen this argument 4 times on hacker news, all in the past 2 weeks and never before. Really is quite a small bubble

I'll be clear that no I didn't - I read the announcement when Disney+ emailed it to me with no further context, plus adding this disclaimer was the reason for the email. So I disagree that this is our fault.

Once again, you're asking the wrong person

> Now, finally, I have an idea. It's gonna take 5000 words to get there, though, so if you don't have that kind of time, skip to the part about registries.

This article is full of LLMisms, which is to be expected but maybe it wouldn't be 5000 words and wouldn't need this disclaimer if they wrote it themselves

You asserted that it was never going to happen first