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subscribed··on Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model
So are we just holding it wrong, or is the distinct absence of any mechanism to tune/turn it off for our own good?

Also why you're so dismissive with the 2/4% figure while completely ignoring the TFA analysis and the other examples in their linked github issue?

Seriously, you're adding a feature that silently burns 15-25% tokens (that is burning money for API clients while hiding that fact), take away everything that could be used to mitigate it, and your response is basically, "eh, your numbers are unimportant and ours say it's negligible but since you complain we'll make it a bit cheaper".

Seriously, that looks so intentionally customer-hostile and revenue-friendly, but reading the room no one is surprised.

subscribed··on Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking
There are several surprisingly good horror games my daughter likes to play with me.

Roblox is mostly trash content form my perspective, but there are definitely gems in terms of playability.

subscribed··on Somebody please stop the spam texts
Twilio is complicit so it rightly affects the number reputation.
subscribed··on Lula wins election after final votes tallied
An hour before sending this comment you read that BOTH sides asked the court for the extension and the COURT has granted it.

I don't think it was the same situation last time.

Not sure what axe you have to grind but it sure looks like you love to present only half of the truth.

subscribed··on Root shell on Samsung TV
Well, there's a reason I don't use Google Gemini at all, just in case their dumb, twitchy autobanner locks me out of everything.
subscribed··on Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads
Right, I see, so when there's an opportunity for a rant you get one specific, narrow meaning, discarding anything else, even if more relevant and sensible, and then you go off.

Maybe try Claude Code one day, then you'll recognise what that phrase was actually about.

All the best! You must need it with such attitude to life.

subscribed··on Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS
Ah, not being logged in can be a problem. Can pass the Play Services check if you're not logged into Play Services.
subscribed··on Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS
Complain to other hardware vendors that they sell insecure crap or do not release updates :/

And yeah, it'll be Motorola from the next year on, but a proper, first party cooperation. I think that Motorola wants to become the answer to the question: "what's the best, safest android smartphone?"

subscribed··on Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS
Weird, you should pass the basic and fail the remaining two:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gr.nikolasspyr...

(FWIW, sometimes when you _block_ the app from the Play Integrity API (in this pop-up) the app that wants to perform the check works, while it fails when you do not block it)

subscribed··on Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads
LOL, speaking about the projection.

OK, explain, what to the "just use Claude code" means in your opinion.

From your words it's literally using the coding harness to access Google Photos and fopy/backup these photos/videos, still within the Claude code.

Is this what you'd do? Because that's the only way I'd understand someone to go on such rant.

subscribed··on Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads
You're not syncing photos to anthropic services, you're not even using Claude code to run rclone for you, and specifically you're not ingesting every synchronised photo or video into the context.

You're not authorising CC to access your photos.

Claude Code is used to prepare the rclone run.

What do you mean that by using cc you're handing over your data (presumably synced photos) you're handing over your data"?

subscribed··on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
The DAC I specifically linked is the size of my index finger, but since you seem to be casually suggesting that the "shitiest locked full of crapware android phone" and PCs dac are comparable with the dedicated hires dac, maybe you don't really need a phone jack and your audiophile headphones :D

Take care!

subscribed··on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
Instead of relying on the crappy built-in DAC with utterly nasty audio on this shitty phone, you can use a good phone AND your quality headphones: https://www.whathifi.com/best-buys/hi-fi/best-dacs#section-t...

Best of both worlds.

subscribed··on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
Yesno. Not fully because a functionality is not enabled yet.

It wouldn't be advised to buy the latest pixel now anyway, either get the previous one or wait a few months for Motorola Signature 27, where GrapheneOS will be first party OS, and not hated-by-the-vendor bolt-on.

If you insist on the latest pixel, go check the GrapheneOS discussion forum for all the details.

subscribed··on Docker is weird
Or multi-container compose files with atypical networking, or troubleshooting daemon permission issues.

Docker is much more than memorising a handful of Dockerfile directives.

subscribed··on eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business
Haha, yeah, I love these dices; I needed all sorts of weird ones switching between World of Darkness systems and Cyberpunk 2020.

Ill take a look at the game, thank you!

subscribed··on eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business
It was selected with a fair dice, guaranteed to be random! :)
subscribed··on mitmproxy adds --emudhra option
OMG, that would be brutal
subscribed··on Show HN: SimCity, but with Permits
There are fully planned and built cities, like around here so called "Garden Cities": Welwyn Garden City, Milton Keynes.

I've been in several and they actually feel okay to live in, to run errands, to shop.

It only sounds funny if it's cranked up to the extreme -- like abusive housing associations, a cancer growing on the corpse of the old communities which just wanted some quiet evenings and the bins to not be overflowing, but it can be done well.

subscribed··on Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier
You'd need at least 150-200 kg payload to account for thinks like clothes and equipment ;) but indeed, the difference with the cost of purchasing, flying and servicing the helicopter are stark.
subscribed··on Footage of the Flock search that a judge ruled was uncosntitutional
What is the fabricated bullshit?

All these examples have been widely reported nationwide, some worldwide. No need to even dig through the local reporting.

Are you saying there have been no cases when the "routine" traffic stop resulted in the cop killing an unarmed civilian still sitting in the car?

Or maybe that roadside "drug testers" are solid so when the untrained rookie uses a tiny piece of glazing to "check for drugs", the use is according to the manual and thus gives no false positives? John Oliver has a very good video on that.

Cops are no-ones friend and the multiple examples from the bodycams proved exactly that.

subscribed··on WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator
No one said backups.

Deletion of the account should be as simple as overwriting a row on a few tables. If they can handle authentication process, disable accounts based on some automated processes, deletion or the process equivalent to it is similarly possible.

Even in case of backups it can easily be done (delete decryption key for this user's row, if you planned your backups right), but even if it isn't (historical backups for example), even the regulator will agree it's fine (BT, dt).

subscribed··on Show HN: Qwen3-4B with the AI writing tics trained out
Does ESL user write like human to you, even though they could make a mistake?
subscribed··on Show HN: Qwen3-4B with the AI writing tics trained out
What?
subscribed··on Footage of the Flock search that a judge ruled was uncosntitutional
If I can be shot dead for being pulled over for a broken tail light, or for reaching into a pocket for the driving licence the cop just requested me to produce, or being robbed from all my cash and debit cards without reason, or jailed based on the wrongly conducted roadside "drug" analysis of my donut, yeah, I have every right to be nervous.

Cops are definitely not my friend, I fully expect them to lie, fabricate "evidence" and look for any excuse to cause problems, and it's all on them.

subscribed··on I Became a Citizen of Japan
I presented a foreign (EU) passport and opened a bank account in one of the biggest banks operating in the UK.

That was almost everything I needed, I didn't even have UK driving licence at the time.

subscribed··on I Became a Citizen of Japan
I've never been there but the clean streets and waters, customary politeness (even if sometimes play-pretend only) and exceptionally healthy environment in some way, allowing people to live in the good health for ages, is very alluring.

I'm very aware there are many dark issues as well, but you asked why.

Oh, you asked why _obsessed_? You don't really think everyone thinking Japan is an attractive country is automatically obsessed with it?

subscribed··on I Became a Citizen of Japan
Same in the UK, mate, same here. You'll be always worse.

It's less hidden since the Brexit campaign encouraged the xenophobia on the streets, TV, papers, even one of the past PMs was famously racist and xenophobic and it flew without any issue.

Japan is not the only one.

subscribed··on I never authorized an integration that scans my secrets
Maybe engage with the argument instead of knee-jerk rejecting them.

I did read all the comments in this branch and I disagreed with the way you put something.

You didn't "defend" the dev stance but you called someone considering a fork due to the unwanted features "threatening the dev", probably due to the fact it's a negative outcome to them, but somehow you are okay with the dev making the arbitrary decisions that are negatively impacting some users.

You cannot have both. They're either allowed to walk away branching out, or he's not allowed to make "threats" to them.

And you cannot pretend you're engaging with my arguments in the good faith while ignoring clou of my comment and calling it "knee-jerk response" instead, LOL.

subscribed··on Israeli settlers attack European diplomats in the West Bank
80% only?

Why do you support for the arbitrary number (20%) of the brutal, illegal occupiers involved in the countless, documented human right abuses and murders to remain on the land they stole and have absolutely no right to occupy?

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