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by bostik 4mo ago
I would say the truth[tm] is likely somewhere in the middle ground. Right now corporate MCP deployments happen to satisfy two very specific stopgap niches: * Internal services that never had real APIs are getting them retrofitted vi
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by bostik 5mo ago
And in a way this feels like a good thing (from a corporate strategy perspective). If MS really wants to compete with Claude Code they will need to dogfood to have even a hope of ever catching up. As much as I may dislike MS, their softwa
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by bostik 5mo ago
Many of Ikea's wood (wood-like?) products are pretty flimsy, designed to be built once and never moved or taken apart . (cough - all cupboards, most cabinets - cough) But somewhat ironically their steel kitchenware is competitive with
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by bostik 5mo ago
Part of this is likely driven by regulations. Github has plenty of clients that fall under DORA, NIS2 or both. I don't remember the exact wording about what qualifies as "incident" or "major incident" but the TL;DR
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by bostik 5mo ago
I used Claude about a week ago to do a pretty intensive refactoring. Cleanup, initial modularisation, beginnings of a test suite, and better isolated build. In a span of couple of hours, and over a sequence of 20+ new commits, I burned a ha
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by bostik 5mo ago
The assassination of an investigative journalist and its subsequent handling is certainly a symptom of the island's embedded corruption. (And I say this as someone who likes the place!) When gambling and international finance make up &
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by bostik 5mo ago
This should be on your "About" page, ideally coupled with direct link(s) to Companies House. You need to be flaunting your sovereignity, not merely wielding it.
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by bostik 5mo ago
Sports betting exchanges have been doing that for a very long time. There is never a good time to take the system down for maintenance - event settlements happen every few minutes, and live games with in-play betting are going on somewher
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by bostik 5mo ago
Already happening. UK airlines are desperately culling flights, and have been doing so for the past month. The pace of cancellations is also increasing, with the last week seeing cancellation waves that from the outside look quite paniccy.
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by bostik 5mo ago
Likely combination of both. CC demonstrated that one can have a powerful, flexible and responsive interface in a terminal, and to have that for a piece of software that has wide mass market appeal. I don't think we've seen this
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by bostik 5mo ago
Keep in mind: the only thing a capitalist fears is a truly free market. The highest ROI for any business is to buy their own politician. That allows you to block competition and other inconveniences at a legislative level.
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by bostik 5mo ago
> have claude read all your emails every day... To be fair, I do that. 2-3 times a day, in fact. Not all of my emails (the archive has ballooned to several hundred thousand messages total), but the most recent ones certainly. My stan
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by bostik 5mo ago
Maybe because Anthropic are trying to get to an IPO and everything is securities fraud? If their CEO was just flapping his mouth without any other comparable baseline, it'd probably be different. But as the GP points out, open-weight m
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by bostik 5mo ago
The best way to describe AI agents I've heard: treat them as hostages that will do anything to appease their captor. They have a vast latent knowledge base, infinite patience and zero capacity for making personal judgement calls. You
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by bostik 6mo ago
> Did any of the ITU standards win? Maybe X.500 - also known as LDAP, and widely deployed across enterprises in the form of Active Directory.
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by bostik 6mo ago
They're already crippling their AI to perform what look like sponsored searches. The plural of anecdote is not data but this does not feel like a one-off thing: I was trying to find where it would be possible to get to have a reasona
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by bostik 6mo ago
It's a bit more nuanced than that, because we're not talking about outright market manipulation. Absent any other information, the market makers always assume that they might be trading against a better informed counterparty - so
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by bostik 6mo ago
Unless the prosecution can prove that the trades meaningfully moved the market prices, it's probably going to be really hard to use the term "leaking". I can't shake the feeling that there may be political reasons to not
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by bostik 6mo ago
> unless you keep the poisoning attack strictly inaccessible to the public This is likely impossible. As the in-vogue breed of model extraction methods ("distillation attacks") demonstrates, you can infer the underlying train
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by bostik 6mo ago
Well, that's the entire point. If we take a completely utilitarian and amoral viewpoint, the insiders are selling their material, non-public information. The rest of the market participants are buying. From the latter's utilitar
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by bostik 6mo ago
Okay. You win.
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by bostik 6mo ago
I'll top that: wireless-regdb out of date. Against an EC2-specific kernel.
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by bostik 6mo ago
> get status by claiming they broke some old open source project They get credited with the discovery of a CVE. Or as I call them these days: Curriculum Vitae Enhancer.
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by bostik 6mo ago
Problem is not just NVD issuing inflated scores. That's their workaday MO. They are required to assume the worst possible combination of factors. The real problem is that CVSS scoring is utterly divorced from reality. Even the 4.x st
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by bostik 6mo ago
As pointed out in the oil crisis article[0], the reduction that led to the 1970's oil shock was about 5%. Effectively eliminating 15% to 20% of global production capacity is going to be a pretty damn big deal. 0: https://en.
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by bostik 6mo ago
That implies that either the auth is too heavy (possible, ish) or their systems don't degrade gracefully enough and many different types of failures propagate up and out all the way to their outermost layer, ie. auth (more plausible)
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by bostik 6mo ago
I have now witnessed first hand what the unexpected benefits might be. I expected CC to be a boon to overburdened teams, because it's now possible to spend $2 on compute and have it write a mostly-one-off tool that nobody would ever ot
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by bostik 6mo ago
Phased roll-out. You first introduce a version that still accepts all extant inputs but will actively warn that there are characters that will be removed in a future release. Then you wait. Then you roll out a version where the new functi
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by bostik 6mo ago
Hah, if you ever used the N800 media player you will have been exposed to a tiny bit of my code. Some of the UI polishes and usability tweaks were mine. (Well, someone else had figured out they needed to be done and the bug landed on my lap
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by bostik 6mo ago
They killed any Linux device development at Nokia in 2011. Still salty about Elop shooting down a project we had spent 5 years working towards. The holistic platform security for a combined phone/tablet base system would have been rea

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