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espeedon Claude Code is being dumbed down?

I sent email to Anthropic (usersafety@anthropic.com, disclosure@anthropic.com) on January 8, 2025 alerting them to this issue: Claude Code Exploit: Claude Code Becomes an Unwitting Executor. If I hadn't seen Claude Code read my ssh file, I wouldn't have known the extent of the issue.

espeedon Claude Code is being dumbed down?

Such as Claude Code reading your ssh keys. Hiding the file names masks the vulnerability.

espeedon X For You Feed Algorithm

Have we entered the age of AI programming people?

espeedon Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo

Rather than develop its own AI (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45926779), Firefox should develop a system to pipe your html rendered browsing history in real time so external local services can process it (https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/archive-your-browser-hi...). See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45743918

Firefox probably won't suddenly have the best AI, but it could be the only browser that does this. Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46018789

espeedon The Mozilla Cycle, Part III: Mozilla Dies in Ignominy

Does the cache store the rendered DOM?

espeedon The Mozilla Cycle, Part III: Mozilla Dies in Ignominy

Someone needs to convince Firefox rather than develop its own AI (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45926779) to develop a system to pipe your html rendered browsing history in real time so external local services can process it (https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/archive-your-browser-hi...). See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45743918

Firefox probably won't suddenly have the best AI, but they could have the only browser that does this.

espeedon Gemini 3

I paid for Gemini Pro. Am I getting Gemini 3 Pro (https://gemini.google.com)? "To be precise: You are currently interacting with Gemini 1.5 Pro." https://x.com/espeed/status/1991333475098718601

espeedon Tim Bray on Grokipedia

Grokipedia vs. Wikipedia Jesus Entry https://espeed.dev/Grokipedia-vs.-Wikipedia-Jesus-Entry

I also asked ChatGPT and Claude: https://chatgpt.com/share/6902ef7b-96fc-800c-ab26-9f2a0304af...

https://claude.ai/share/3fb2aa34-316c-431e-ab64-0738dd84873e

espeedon ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web

Being able to index and own your data changes the model of the Web.

espeedon ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web

It's your personal AI running locally on your machine, you can opt out of what you index. You own your data.

espeedon ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web

Due to the dynamic nature of the Web, URLs don't map to what you've seen. If I visit a URL at a certain time, the content I see is different than the content you see or even if I visit the same URL later. For example, if we want to know the tweets I'm seeing are the same as the tweets you're seeing and haven't been subtly modified by an AI, how do you do that? In the age of AI programming people, this will be important.

espeedon ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web

Knowing this is the direction things were headed, I have been trying to get Firefox and Google to create a feature that archives your browser history and pipes a stream of it in real time so that open-source personal AI engines can ingest it and index it.

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/archive-your-browser-hi...

espeedon Are we decentralized yet?

The universities need to get together and develop their own open-source search engine as part of an ongoing research project. It should be hosted in a distributed fashion from the universities themselves. They have the expertise and the resources these days to do it. And much of the high quality content on the public web originates from the universities anyway. It will be like the Library of Alexandria and not subject to censorship.

espeedon Mozilla Firefox Is Dying

There needs to be a browser that archives your browser history and pipes a stream of it in real time so that open-source personal AI engines can ingest it and index it. The future of the Web will be built on this. Google may not do it. Firefox could.

espeedon Knuth on ChatGPT (2023)

Unable to Access URL Content https://gemini.google.com/share/6a09f6e5293d (part 2)

https://espeed.dev/Knuth's-ChatGPT-Experiment-Insights

https://espeed.dev/Unable-to-Access-URL-Content

espeedon Knuth on ChatGPT (2023)

Knuth's ChatGPT Experiment Insights https://gemini.google.com/share/3768c883b67c

espeedon Starship Flight 7

Depending on the precise launch time (4:36/4:37 PM CST) "Ship exploded at ≈T+00:08:26": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_flight_test_7

espeedon Transcripts for CNN Broadcasts

Is CNN the only network that provides an archive of transcripts online?

espeedon Remembering the Crystal Radio (2020)

The Internet Utters Its First Word (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u1twwqt4sw)

espeedon Bifrost: A peer-to-peer communications engine with pluggable transports

Show an example of how two NAT peers communicate, via hole punching and/or libp2p.

espeedon Datomic is Free

https://sqlite.org/wasm/doc/trunk/index.md

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/sqlite-wasm-in-the-browser...

espeedon Datomic is Free

Datomic Wasm backed by SQLite.

espeedon Datomic is Free

Is SQLite Wasm on the horizon?

espeedon Click Here to Kill

Mind your words. Imagine the world you want. The things you want to see. Not the world you don't.

espeedon Learning at work is work, and we must make space for it

Working and learning at the highest level: What's the difference?

espeedon Facebook announces Horizon, a VR massive-multiplayer world

Seek don't simulate.

espeedon Apple’s New Mac Pro to Be Made in Texas

Part of it may be moving away from the coast. Until we can find a way to stop hurricanes, likely not.

espeedon Apple’s New Mac Pro to Be Made in Texas

It's not just Apple, and it's not just Austin. Tech is moving to Texas en masse. There's several reasons why, and this is just the beginning...

~> Amazon just announced it's now adding 1400 tech jobs in Austin (600 more in addition to the 800 it announced already).

~> Ericsson is adding 400 tech jobs and is opening its first 5G factor in Dallas.

~> Google is building a 375-acre data center campus in Midlothian, Texas ("one of the largest such projects in the country").

[1] "Amazon expanding Austin presence with 600 new tech jobs" https://www.statesman.com/news/20190919/amazon-expanding-aus...

[2] "Ericsson picks North Texas for its first 5G smart factory in the U.S." https://www.dallasnews.com/business/2019/09/19/ericsson-pick...

[3] "Google's massive $600M data center takes shape in Ellis County as tech giant ups Texas presence" https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2019/06/14/g...

espeedon United States Files Civil Lawsuit Against Edward Snowden

We will see.

espeedon United States Files Civil Lawsuit Against Edward Snowden

The DoD hires tech talent, partners with tech orgs on R&D, and contracts with tech companies for expertise. When trust is broken, those relationships are strained.