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by aleqs 3mo ago
> lol, no, it's really not. Yeah it definitely is lol. > Why would I want the data to be decrypted at each point and why would datacenters do that? When we talk about data that is sent for processing to a 3p server (like anthropi
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by aleqs 3mo ago
You have no control about where TLS is terminated when you're talking to a 3p cloud service (with services you don't control/run like cloud LLM APIs). You also have no control about what spyware is installed on/around VM
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by aleqs 4mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM https://www.wired.com/2013/10/nsa-hacked-yahoo-google-cables... https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying
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by aleqs 4mo ago
Explain to me how you are going to encrypt your LLM API calls with your let's encrypt cert. There are also multiple ways/places traffic you send to typical cloud/tech company is decrypted and can be intercepted. (Surprised I
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by aleqs 4mo ago
Of course it's feasible, you just intercept the traffic post-decryption on the cloud/server side. You don't control how/where your traffic to 3p cloud services is decrypted.
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by aleqs 4mo ago
You just intercept the traffic after its decrypted on the server side, or are you suggesting you somehow send encrypted traffic that never gets decrypted?
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by aleqs 4mo ago
Yeah... NSA literally has MITM proxies/interception of any traffic they want inside every major US tech company (based on my reading/following of Snowden leaks and others). Anthropic wouldn't be able to exist without implicit
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by aleqs 4mo ago
Spotify is one of the apps I've noticed continually getting worse and more buggy over time. The Android app is very annoyingly buggy and the WebOS (LG tv) Spotify app is completely unusable at this point. Also, a bunch of (non-English)
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by aleqs 4mo ago
Firefox on Android supports ublock, not sure why it wouldn't support it on iOS
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by aleqs 4mo ago
I'm working on a general repo shape/structure linter (language agnostic)[0] - the idea is to enforce things like directory structure, existence of various files (LICENCE, etc.), file naming patterns, jsonpath + schema over json&#x
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by aleqs 4mo ago
Signed, thanks for sharing.
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by aleqs 4mo ago
Curious what your company is called (or website) if not secret, or privacy concern for you
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by aleqs 4mo ago
I've made a general repo linting tool [0][1]. Originally it's purpose was to replace a bunch of repo hygiene/structure validation scripts I ended up adding as I noticed various sloppy AI changes. I ended up going through a bu
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by aleqs 4mo ago
Shameless plug - I've been working on a general repo linting tool alint [0], which helps keep a repo cleanly structured and hygienic - essentially a linter for everything in a repo that a language-specific linter doesn't cover. It
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by aleqs 4mo ago
I've been building a general linter tool to help keep repos in a consistent and clean shape when working with AI [0]. You can define repo and file layout, structure, hygiene rules and have them checked in pre-commit, in ci, or manually
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by aleqs 4mo ago
I found myself writing a bunch of scripts and AGENTS.md for ensuring certain structure/organization for projects when using AI. The maintenance, performance, and reliability of these eventually became a problem, so I built this tool. I
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by aleqs 4mo ago
Experience is one of the only objective signals we have, but you're right it's not the only one. I've seen plenty great junior engineers and interns, and plenty of incompetent staff/principal engineers.
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by aleqs 4mo ago
The corporations and executives are already winning if you swallowed the concept of 'rockstar' engineer. Sure there are more and less experienced engineers, but even interns can and often do provide good input and spot mistakes ma
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by aleqs 4mo ago
Oh I definitely agree that AI can and will help create great software. It's just that creating great software isn't really the SV/VC/big tech business model or main goal.
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by aleqs 4mo ago
> should expect maybe 5x faster cycle in major software apps To what end and what would that even look like though? Enshittifying everything at maximum speed? The apps/platforms I use regularly - GitHub, Spotify, Google maps (just
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by aleqs 4mo ago
Very well put.
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by aleqs 4mo ago
There's a pattern I noticed, especially on this site, where people claim various VC/ad/tech dark patterns, enshitification, privacy violations, dishonest marketing, etc MUST be allowed, otherwise open source or 'the inte
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by aleqs 4mo ago
Marketing is really Stripe's main competency and focus.
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by aleqs 4mo ago
They can't even seem to get their usage metering consistent.
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by aleqs 4mo ago
That seems like an assumption based on basically nothing. There is a lot of code at the infra layer, and based on the stack choices for Claude code and based on how buggy and unreliable ~everything from anthropic is, it seems pretty bizarre
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by aleqs 4mo ago
Okay, so anthropic has amazing AI which supposedly writes most of their code and can continuously improve... meanwhile they have outages on a regular basis, and any kind of long-running work will now consistently hit 'API Error: Server
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Introducing alint(alint.org)
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by aleqs 4mo ago
Why do you assume that any alternative to ads has to be centralized? You also seem to assume the advertising space is not centralized (lol). If we can build a (centralized or decentralized) system capable of querying/serving content ba
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by aleqs 4mo ago
Except it isn't a level/merit-based 'matching and branding system', it's exactly the opposite - people see what others pay for them to see (and what's most likely to influence the viewer in a generally detrimen
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by aleqs 4mo ago
I believe something like this is the future... fully open and cooperative organizational structures, where members fund projects and all decision making and financing is fully transparent. Also no idea whether it could actually work, but I

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