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I've ordered things from AliExpress shipped from the local warehouses (2-3 days delivery) ; I've ordered things on Amazon UK that were fulfilled and shipped from Amazon UK that were delivered in 3-5 working days.

Not a £1 tat, and not one off. Not that AliExpress is my choice, no, far from it. Sometimes it's better, closer to the manufacturer, that's all.

I see this kind of fakes on eBay or Amazon all the time. It's even harder to report it than on AliExpress and I never had an obvious report of fakes upheld (AND eBay warns they will forward your identity to the seller. Great thing if the organised crime is involved in this)

Case in point, fake 2TB Sandisk ExtremePro microSD:

- £17 on eBay: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/336728033240 - even the images prove it's a fake (also $570 on sandisk.com)

Agreed, there's more of that on AliExpress but Amazon is not free from that either.

Well done!

"Open" is a load bearing reference we all get :p

Plenty of bribes to go around. For politicians, press, "think-tanks".... They make sure system is not changing.

Oh well, it's fairly common.Maybe not in a singular/several rarely used (and not monitored) desktop computers, but.... it's common once you have quite a few under your care.

Do they upload them to Anna's Archive or IA?

Or do they keep it on their private, warded off storage?

Anthropic settled for $3,000 per book(1) in the settlement, so it provably depends of whether the government likes you or not.

(1) https://apnews.com/article/ai-anthropic-copyright-settlement...

I don't think "lies" is a fair word to use against a game that doesn't promise historical accuracy.

This is not just a breath of the fresh air, it's a juxtaposition of the human qualities in an AI and AI qualities in a human.

My plan and implementation files are task specific (so specific workhorse reads only its own slice), and the workhorse itself is spawned from an orchestrator with a very specific small prompt.

I managed even the orchestrator to NOT read the plan whole, at once, but in sections.

The most useful thing is the task ledger the task agent leaves behind, which alongside its structured status message makes a very resilient handoff between all stages.

Oh, so there's whole _skill_ for that!

I now feel a bit silly but I reinvented the wheel during my last lil project and indeed found it very powerful. A variant of it is the "implementation (handover) prompt" when I conclude the planning session with plans and design documents, updated handoff, clean tree and a file for a new Opus implementing orchestrator (unusually do a single, highly specific implementer and a single, highly specific tester).

After implementation and task-level tests I end up with a long and very detailed implementation progress ledger and a summary findings from the orchestrator.

Then in the new session I do the whole branch tests.

Works really well, uses much less tokens than any other approach with more of Opus and very little repetitions/corrections.

README is the first document of the repo read by the human stumbling upon the repository. Even if it's written by LLM it should be edited and managed by the human maintainer.

Sharing unedited documentation like this is sloppy and speaks for itself ("I can't be bothered to control it"). Leaving readme only to agents is no class, since an alternative is one line of reference to the complete documentation for bots - no need to hijack the repo's first document designation with _that_.

README is for humans if a human comes up and says "this project is for humans".

Slop is excessively redundant. Basically "purple prose" of the technical documentation.

But primarily: if its not worth writing, its not worth reading.

(I use Claude to prepare half of my technical documentation but then i review EVERY single file. And every single one gets extensively edited despite being coherent from the outset. I just feel like it would be disrespectful to get LLM spit something out and ask my colleagues to read it. Like.... come on.)

Absolute for me. In the next project I'm going to twist its sandbox further and just bind mount the actual project directory as /wtf and make it work there.

I can't use it at all except for inconsequential notifications from my laptop (residential IP) or my phone (mobile IP).

Publicly hosted version is nearly useless if you'd like to use it to send notifications from your tiny workers/scripts/processes in the big datacentres - I have a minuscule worker in CF that needs to send one notification once every few days, and I *ALWAYS* get a 429. Always.

So this is good maybe if you're using it to sent from your laptop to your phone.

Intelligence agencies have been known for exploiting and planting software and hardware Buga for decades, going as far as weakening cryptographic standards or intercepting hardware in transit to implant a backdoor device.

Why do you _not_ believe it's a possibility?

In general? It doesn't, at least negatively. Aristas are great.

Why is that a problem for you?

It's XR, for them it's a notes app in the convenient place, for me it might be a next meeting reminder on the wall next to my work screen, so I can work less distracted and more focused.

Why is their way of enriching their connected life a problem?

I think some of the worst attitudes on this website is projecting own worst case scenarios and implying bad intentions to the most innocuous or honest signals. That's the problem much bigger than someone's glasses - you support polarisation and teaming (us vs them) instead of seeking connection or understanding.

Is the ad personam the best you can think of? You come off as rude, not thoughtful.

Exactly. I can find more positive and beneficial uses of these than a negative ones.

And unless I see proponents of the wholesale ban to foam at people holding smartphones equipped with cameras, I think it's safe to assume they didn't think their opinion carefully and honestly.

"People started using it for X" like this is a world apart of "People are usually using it for X".

They do the same with cameras. They even post creep shots. Do you call out loudly everyone owning a smartphone with a camera?

Why not?

I'm on holidays now, and I'd love to preserve so much more of what I see, or see live translation (subtitles), of all the people I struggle to communicate with.

Not everyone has the most perverted thoughts in their mind all the time.

Eh, you don't get "high" on modafinil. Adderall or other amphetamines used in therapeutic doses (or even above that) don't make user "get high".

Modafinil is extremely easy and cheap to get for anyone with one eye and one working finger, Adderall a tiny bit harder but easy for a "trader".

"Possibly every smart drug, including modafinil" is just many guesses mixed up, nothing to actually discuss with. I'll stop wasting electrons here, you do you.

Are you saying people are using Adderall AND Modafinil at the same time?

That'd be either exceedingly rare or borderline unwise.

I'd love to see some actual forums or papers about that because this seems very unusual given the partly overlapping effect but significantly different paths.

Especially in the case of the UK which famously permits seabed trawling in the Marine "Protected" Areas.

https://oceandesk.org/destructive-bottom-trawling-occurs-in-...

We need heroes like this: https://planetwild.com/missions/21-underwater-sculptures-ita...

It promotes wakefulness and (allegedly) concentration. It's not a magic or amphetamines, not sure how is that an "abuse"?

Do people drinking coffee in the morning *abuse* it?

That's okay, they're elsewhere.

Modafinil is available for ages, acts close to this (it's mentioned in the article), and I don't hear of people abusing it.