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Not everyone was calling for the murder of a VP, but everyone who did is walking free - with everyone who attacked the police. Which narrative is that?

I’d hope, as I think you do, that those only guilty of association would find themselves exonerated.

This isn’t the controversy the title suggests. Taking the dev at their word, the measures are pretty reasonable; they asked for help maintaining, nobody stepped up, and so it needs funding somehow. You only need a license to access a release binary, and a paid license to access the Pro binary. Source code is open, compile it yourself to avoid. Some features went into the Paid tier: well, something had to. Commenters are mostly supportive.

The dev did yank the previous releases, which wasn’t maybe the wrong choice.

I think we’ve found a great use for generative ai. Mutant frogs!

Grok is great, it carries a lot of useful signal: either you are self-important, or you are enamored by what’s-his-name; either way, I can choose to care less about your words. For me though, it’s a reserved word per RFC-Michael-from-Mars, held in a special inside place, and so maybe this is just a Me problem.

This was a pleasant surprise; I fully expected a gutting of the rules, based on what’s been on the front page these past few months. I’m glad to see that someone in the federal govt is paying attention to the risk landscape.

Author is blocking AdGuard VPN; while I understand the goal - especially today - this is the only tool I’ve found which appears to reduce tracking, and I just never turn it off. Without it (for example) my Amazon visits become TikTok ads within minutes.

Ah, the ole’ “were doing better than Germany ca 1937” argument. /s

A few months ago I’d have been right there with you; however recently there have been a number of high profile multi-thousand-head layoffs attributed to budget pressure of deploying AI - and so technically it’s more of an indirect rather than “a robot stole my job” replacement, but still causal. Those tokens will be “doing” labor, rather than the human.

As a customer of ClickUp, I have very little confidence in their engineering ability. Leader calls for “100x” development, and I think he’s being more honest than most - they may actually *need* to burn it all down to make it better, and now would be the time to initiate that.

Both from safety and volume perspectives, I’d imagine. Openness has value.

Keeps their videos from being taken down automatically by platform content filters. It’s an additive audio track - a running summary of the clip most of the time, and so I imagine this is some fair-usey anti takedown protection. It’s everywhere on short form sites.

Great, deploy cameras there, and have them monitored by the local police for violent crime.

Don’t:

- use the cameras to capture license plates, vehicle type/color/trim/stickers/personalization, and individual persons with clear biometric markers like faces, gait etc

- use that data to populate a commercial database of citizen movements spanning the nation, which can be used to trivially match to an identity (if that annotation isn’t present already)

- permit wide access to that commercial database to surveillance companies, guided by a terms of service authored by your company rather than by legislative bodies

- use that database to train a “pre-crime” artificial intelligence model which will be monetized

- implement an access system for law enforcement which facilitates warrantless access of citizen movements

All of the above are in place or are stated goals of flock et al.

Is this controversial?

I’m also getting a ton of these; what’s the solution? Dedicated GitHub email account, aggressively filtered? I’m not sure this will work for me, given I’ve used GitHub SSO liberally for tools which interact with repositories (of which there are many these days).

Not answering your question, but I just realized the new Anthropic billing changes are affecting ACP clients like Zed :(

https://zed.dev/blog/anthropic-subscription-changes

The Hermes agent (Python) follows something similar; it defines a HOME dir and enumerates plugins and memory extensions present there.

https://github.com/nousresearch/hermes-agent

Functionally, it fits more in the openclaw space than pi-agent.

1. I am full of anxiety about layoffs (engineering role), my org is shifting at a rate and in ways I’ve never experienced, and the job market is scary;

2. I have dropped all of my hobbies and most of my homeowner responsibilities to go all in on AI, to make sure I stay ahead of [1];

3. I am spending a lot of time in Claude Code, Jupyter, and more things like this;

4. I am creating a bunch of interesting coding projects (see [3]), which is cool - stuff I wouldn’t have had time for before and that I’ll probably use a few times more;

5. I’ve set up some fun hardware to hack on LLMs and do ML stuff (3, 4), which is cool and aligns with my interests but it’s not fun at all because I’m forced to do it;

6. I’m on antidepressants and anti anxiety medication now, which is nice;

7. I’ve lost some weight which is nice, but I didn’t mean to. It’s going great, if wealth was measured in repositories I’d be bill gates.

If you prefer your sycophants be national socialists, this is for you!

I though this was just a crazy commenter, but here:

https://rabbit-labs.com/product/cancommander/

Crazy commenter, tell us a little about this. Can I use it on any Can bus?

I’m not going to read this for credibility reasons, but I feel that national leadership during a crisis isn’t exactly biasing to honesty - they are accountable for everyone’s safety and the continuity of society. Would you really blame some other human in a leadership position for deciding to hide information like this? Beyond just generic upheaval, I can see Asians being straight up shot in the street.

Am I alone in being extremely sensitive to LLM-style writing, observing it in this article, and feeling a little upset about that? The letter to employees ticks several of the boxes, and if I’m not wrong that’s kinda shitty. Or perfectly aligned with the spirit of the announcement (or both).

I keep seeing this term “earned” ITT; what does this mean to you? Did you earn something which you were denied when a less-experienced other person got a job? We all have two brain cells and understand there’s a tradeoff being made here, and it sucks being on the other side of that, but i struggle to see what privilege you believe you have or should have.

It’s easy to make an objective case for how ‘D’ is a strength, however E and I are imo more values which intend to attract diversity.

It’s there, at the end, -ish:

> Interpersonal excellence: individuals who are good humans, embrace diversity, inclusion and belonging, assume good intent and treat everyone with respect

Almost every “call tree” I’ve needed to navigate has seemed designed to prevent customer escalation to a human at all costs, despite not meeting my needs as a caller. In this way they are user hostile, and I expect the new technology to be used similarly to much greater effect.

That being said, if the technology can remove the need for human escalation, I’ll certainly change my view.

I follow the same strategy, but loosely - I need those emdashes to signal that I’m using the tools.

Maybe, but they’ve got everyone scared shitless. My entire org (30k employees, not just engineers) is in sprint 2 of a remediation effort, where we are systematically fixing every high+ finding across hundreds of workloads with decades of system bloat.

I’ve never seen us so aligned on a goal! Wiz is doing pretty well for itself also…

Are you using their TUI, or just their APis in another harness?

TIL my $company has used the same consultants as this guy. We started with Training and Champions, to Leadership/Lab/Crowd with a CoE/brown bags.

We are definitely struggling with the same issues author describes, but even worse the leaders down at the Crowd level have some perverse need to achieve reuse across their teams, rather than letting their Crowd experiment. One team does something interesting, we must stop and get that thing out to all teams in that group, so everyone “benefits”. This is a scarcity mindset, which made sense pre-AI where code was costly and ideas were more valuable.

At the same time, everyone not only has to do their work, they need to be 25% more efficient from AI (new KPIs), and so their own learnings slow to a halt, and the team with the cool idea has to give presentations instead of hacking.

I quite like the “shape” term; every type of (sigh…) stakeholder … understands it, and I don’t need to swap in terms like “interface”, api, contract, architecture, structure, etc - unless I want to talk specifically about that thing. Everyone can fit a triangle and parallelogram in their mind, which is just dandy when I’m just trying to communicate difference.

“Lands on”? I like that less.

To be fair, that’s a role which most companies don’t have; even if they have a titled “SRE”, many times it’s a sysadmin in a hat, looking very tired and nervous. It must be fun right now tho