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endunless··on Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era
Very interesting, thanks for sharing.

> I doubt they're being misleading or even overly grandiose here

I think I agree.

We could definitely do much worse than Anthropic in terms of companies who can influence how these things develop.

endunless··on Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era
> If a bunch of CVEs do in fact get published a couple months (or whatever) from now, are you going to retract this take?

I would like to think that I would, yes.

What it comes down to, for me, is that lately I have been finding that when Anthropic publishes something like this article – another recent example is the AI and emotions one – if I ask the question, does this make their product look exceptionally good, especially to a casual observer just scanning the headlines or the summary, the answer is usually yes.

This feels especially true if the article tries to downplay that fact (they’re not _real_ emotions!) or is overall neutral to negative about AI in general, like this Glasswing one (AI can be a security threat!).

endunless··on Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era
Another Anthropic PR release based on Anthropic’s own research, uncorroborated by any outside source, where the underlying, unquestioned fact is that their model can do something incredible.

> AI models have reached a level of coding capability where they can surpass all but the most skilled humans at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities

I like Anthropic, but these are becoming increasingly transparent attempts to inflate the perceived capability of their products.

endunless··on GitHub Monaspace Case Study
Given GitHub is owned by Microsoft, I think VS Code supporting mixing fonts in a buffer would be a good start!
endunless··on GitHub Monaspace Case Study
Fair points on the technical implementation.

I more meant the idea of using different fonts in the same buffer to represent different kinds of text.

endunless··on GitHub Monaspace Case Study
I do like these fonts, but DJR had this idea with the (excellent) Input family of fonts years ago:

https://input.djr.com/

A bit weird to not mention that.

Unfortunately until editors start supporting this (and I’m not sure what would motivate them to), these remain great ideas only.

endunless··on Helium Browser
What is the auto-update mechanism on macOS? One of the primary reasons I use ungoogled chromium is because I can update it via homebrew myself. I don’t trust browsers with running invisible background auto-updaters.
endunless··on Keystone no longer used to update Chrome?
Keystone had a pretty mixed history on macOS, with things like the WindowServer bug and that one time it deleted the /var symlink. Do you know if the new updater is safer to use? I can't find out much about it.