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i've got to wonder how much of this is intentional, and how much of this is just google being their usual terrible selves at anything consumer-product related.

Google's biggest and most important customer for all this AI stuff is google. Do they actually want other customers, or is having other people use their AI just an annoyance at this point, where we use up compute that they'd rather use internally...

sure, but that doesn't mean we get to ignore it.

From my perspective it wasn’t death by a thousand cuts, it all comes back to just one cut: an over-reliance on volunteer moderators. If they paid staff to run their communities, they could have issued a simple “don’t be a dick or we’ll fire you” rule. But because they relied on volunteers, they had to cater to those volunteers to keep them. And the volunteers drove the site into ruin to make it a better experience for moderators.

>shakes fist at cloud

the reason "shakes fist at cloud" is something to laugh at is because clouds aren't sentient. they aren't blocking out the sun to annoy you, they're just clouds. it's a natural phenomena, not something you can do anything about.

people who modify their cars to intentionally disturb the people around them are (theoretically) sentient. the guy in this article is not an uncontrollable natural phenomenon, he's just a guy who's chosen to make loud noises his hobby. shaking your fist at him is perfectly reasonable.

i'm guessing the primary market for these will be free gifts to enterprise customers at sales meetings.

Yeah? I use a $15 cable for my mouse. And then when my mouse is done charging I put the cable back in the bag with my portable monitor, which the same cable also works for.

you'll never guess what solution i'd suggest for that specific problem...

okay, i mean, that's exactly what my original comment said: this is only a problem if you buy cheap cables.

amazon hides some prices because i'm viewing the page from canada, but it looks like that says the cable you linked is $15?

that's what i've been paying for cables, and it seems reasonable to me.

This is really only a problem if you buy cheap cables. Pick the baseline spec you want your USB cables to meet, and throw out all the ones that don’t. Problem solved.

It’s still a minor frustration if you have to borrow a cable, but that’s solved by packing a cable, and by encouraging as many other people as possible to also throw out their cheap cables.

My understanding of the ai circular financing racket is that not everyone will be running for a chair.

Nvidia owns all the chairs, and they’re letting other companies pretend to for a while, but if it all falls apart the backstop to the collapse will be nvidia.

they don't just sell to law enforcement, they install surveillance equipment under contract to law enforcement.

if they didn't get to have cameras everywhere, they wouldn't have as much to sell.

i thought my comment was pretty clear that i wasn't asking what the law should be, just what the law is.

>it’s also that company’s responsibility

Is it? I mean legally. Obviously it’s dumb of Apple to have left this guys access open, but that doesn’t mean they actually had any legal responsibility to lock him out. As far as I understand, the law is pretty clear that you can’t access anything you’re not allowed to by policy, whether there’s a technical block or not.

It does. Claude has a built in review and it’s pretty good. But it doesn’t know exactly what you want. This is a way to tell it.

Good way to double your token use though, if you’re concerned about that.

i mean, they're succeeding. whether it's coordinated or not the conclusion is the same.

but i think "linux distributions are dangerous" is the wrong conclusion. the right one is to treat each distribution based on their own security practices, and not "linux" as a whole. one distro's bad practices doesn't make others unsafe any more than one distribution's good practices make other safe.

>planning tasks though. I think that's what Fable is for.

this is how i've been using it, and where i've found it really excels over anything else i've tried. get fable to write a plan, and get something cheaper to follow the plan. the code fable writes isn't significantly better than the code opus writes, as long as they're both following the same plan. but a plan written by fable is much better.

i'm not sure all those "installs on actual phones" in china are real - 107k installs all on the same device, vs ~30k installs on the next most popular device. and 150k devices on an unknown carrier. is the Xiaomi Mi 8 really that popular for lineageOS, or is this some measurement artifact or common emulation setup?

Using something third party isn’t free - even for zero monetary cost there’s integration cost, documentation, support, and maintenance uncertainty.

The choice between rolling your own and third party is already a trade-off. The future uncertainty around third party services without a clear business just tips the scales, it’s not the whole justification.

Yeah, we rolled our own auth as well. Everybody says you shouldn’t, it’s a risk, etc etc.

but to me that’s less risk than our auth getting bought by somebody whose business goals don’t necessarily align with mine.

Amazon doesn’t care what you do, piracy isn’t a threat to Amazon, they just want to deliver the drm that the publishers demand in the easiest way possible. And they’ve made a fairly reasonable business decision that a customer who hasn’t bought a new kindle in ~15 years isn’t an important source of revenue worth supporting old devices for.

And yeah, it sucks. But it’s the ecosystem you bought into when you bought a kindle. This is what drm does. If you care about open systems, support them.

i've yet to see a case where opus "ignores whatever it likes".

opus will definitely ignore instructions if you give it contradictory instructions, or a plan that has steps that obviously don't work with each other. but if you give it a coherent plan, it will follow it.

>But I also hate the "you had one job" meme and want to argue against its mindless usage

the "you had one job" meme could pretty much always be followed up by "because i refused to consider the actual complexity of your job"

I don’t think that’s true. Some people really do have product ideas that they want to share with the world.

The problem is that those people are really bad at making money, and have a hard time competing with the people whose motivation is money.

Not similar at all, as explained in the article below the headline.

which cameras do this?

Is this talking to claude code, or to claude api (and paying api rates)? programatically routing requests through claude code sounds like a good way to get banned, just like the opencode and openclaw users.

You don’t need to detect it, you just need to incentivize employees and competitors to snitch on companies using unapproved models.

this is the backup strategy. the "AI doesn't pan out" scenario is basically if claude and openai go bankrupt, we continue running local models on our hardware.

there isn't a future where we all just decide that nah, we don't want AI anymore. usefuly things don't disappear.