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by cedws 5mo ago
Ordinarily I wouldn’t care, but since Apple were forced to stop offering encryption in the UK I don’t want to use iCloud anymore. I’d rather my data be in my own cloud if iCloud is going to offer it up to GCHQ.
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by cedws 5mo ago
I guess we'll find out but it would be surprising if they use Let's Encrypt for their backend services. The front door is issued by Google Trust Services.
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by cedws 5mo ago
Discord is out too right now, probably unrelated though.
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by cedws 5mo ago
It was pretty obvious to me that the merger was a way of quietly shutting xAI down in a way that keeps investors happy. With it also being used as a vehicle to offload the Twitter debt to the public, he certainly has good accountants.
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by cedws 5mo ago
The point of my reply was not that caning equals less terrorism. It was that lenience kills. Your cherry picked numbers also don't really demonstrate anything, much of that 3,262 figure was due to the Troubles.
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by cedws 5mo ago
Assuming these sociological studies are robust (which they're likely not as sociological studies have poor reproducibility) am I also supposed to reject the evidence of my eyes and ears? Families have been destroyed by terrorism in the
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by cedws 5mo ago
After seeing with my own two eyes how soft touch policing and parenting leads to a shitty society for everyone I’m completely in favour of this. Singapore, Japan, among other Asian countries are safe and prosperous for a reason - if you do
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by cedws 5mo ago
How? Getting domains has never been a barrier for malicious actors. You don’t even need agents.
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by cedws 5mo ago
I’m in my 20s but I’ve felt the same way for years. If I were growing up now, I’m not sure I would still make it into my career. I just updated my iPhone and now it’s demanding I scan a credit card to “prove” my age. Everything is so saniti
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by cedws 5mo ago
Anyone have a nice way of mirroring between two forges such as GitHub and GitLab? I know git can push to multiple remotes but that only solves the problem for me, I still have to mirror commits from others. I want to keep repo configs in sy
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by cedws 5mo ago
The disappointing thing is that if you do some digging, you'll find the majority of that it's slop and just outright spam. There's a page on GitHub where you can see recently updated repositories and it's very rare I see
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by cedws 5mo ago
Agreed. I dread GUI development, hence I never build GUIs. If there were a library for my language of choice that worked multi-platform and used native components then I’d be interested.
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by cedws 5mo ago
I don't want to verify my ID. OpenAI uses Persona which recently was found to be doing very dodgy stuff. https://www.therage.co/persona-age-verification/
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by cedws 5mo ago
Yep, and with ID verification, it's not like you can just make another account either. At least, I'm guessing if they don't already, they'll soon be blacklisting individuals, not accounts. Imagine your livelihood dependi
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by cedws 5mo ago
The biggest differentiator for me: DeepSeek just does what I ask. I've tried using both GPT and Claude for reverse engineering recently, both refused. I even got a warning on my OpenAI account.
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by cedws 5mo ago
AI companies have been using synthetic data for ages now. The data doesn't need to yield new insights to be useful for training.
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by cedws 5mo ago
Z.AI, Moonshot, DeepSeek all have a pipeline of data of their own now due to capturing a slice of the market through cheap tokens. It's not impossible to imagine that they might share the data too if the CCP thinks that will help their
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by cedws 5mo ago
Can't wait for the Chinese models to completely wipe the floor with them in 6 months.
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by cedws 5mo ago
We know that AI will ultimately just end up enriching a very small group of people with no change in prosperity for working and middle classes. CEOs are openly saying as much. For the past number of decades the rise in productivity has been
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by cedws 5mo ago
Man I really want to like this thing but this jargon is so stupid.
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by cedws 5mo ago
AI should not even be part of this discussion, it’s frankly irrelevant. None of the complaints Mitchell or anyone else has would be fixed by deleting Copilot or adding new agentic features. Deliver a stable and secure development platform f
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by cedws 5mo ago
I was expecting something more pragmatic than 'lean into AI even harder' to be honest. GitHub needs to slow down with the AI shit and spend manpower fixing what's broken. Actions is a complete fucking disaster. Also I have no
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by cedws 5mo ago
>manage all these different accounts for each place they contribute For me that's a minor problem. The struggle of working across multiple code forges or making my code available on multiple is syncing CI/CD, issues, releases b
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by cedws 5mo ago
I wonder if they’ll end the free lunch we’ve been having since the MS takeover. There’s been a deluge of spam and crapware projects due to the LLM wave which is visible in that graph. Can’t see them sustaining being a public dustbin for low
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by cedws 5mo ago
Just be aware OpenRouter charges a 5.5% fee, I didn’t know until recently. I like the product, and I think the fee is fair, but if you want the absolute best pricing then go direct.
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by cedws 5mo ago
Seems like a strong signal the money burning party is coming to a close. Nearly all AI companies have tightened their belts in the past month. Anthropic removed Claude Code from the Pro plan, Z.AI increased their prices, GitHub removed some
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by cedws 6mo ago
In the time I’ve had agents I’ve never abandoned more projects. Vibe coding especially just leads me to feel no attachment. I don’t feel proud to put my name on it. Despite coding from a young age I always thought that I cared more about th
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by cedws 6mo ago
Open to all except it’s not because as soon as you try to use it for security purposes it will shut down and silently route you to a worse model. I was trying to use GPT 5.3 for reverse engineering and got an account warning.
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by cedws 6mo ago
He who is a ripper off-er cannot be ripped off.
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by cedws 6mo ago
There’s little to no evidence of such “genocide”, but I can go on YouTube to watch videos of the US bombing civilians in the Middle East.

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