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by hedora 3mo ago
I mostly use anthropic models, but there was a big step function when claude code came out, and it’s been incremental or a plateau since then. Opus 4.6 and 4.8 are basically indistinguishable from Fable and Sonnet 5. 4.7 was a hot mess. T
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by hedora 3mo ago
I’m on the $200 claude plan, and keep getting booted down to opus or even sonnet by the broken guardrails. Why should I pay for a frontier model that I can’t use?
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by hedora 3mo ago
I just bought a pile of excellent, recent-ish games for an average of << $10 each from steam. (Summer sale; ended.) Some were remakes/successors to excellent ps2 titles from big studios, but there were multiple new genres of game
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by hedora 3mo ago
Not sure if it was an LLM hallucination, but I was looking for a wifi dongle for linux. Apparently some of them now present as an autorun usb disk until the driver they auto install sends some magic unlock handshake. So, I avoided those.
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by hedora 3mo ago
Then just install linux, and don’t tinker with it. The last desktop I bought took under an hour from linux install usb stick boot to steam installing my library of windows games.
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by hedora 3mo ago
Tou probably agreed to this when you broke the seal on the box that contained the monitor and a copy of the agreement you just agreed to. If you think that’s bad, don’t ask what you agreed to by reading this comment. I miss the days when co
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by hedora 3mo ago
Not spam? There’s no “do not ask me again”. Not typosquat? I responded with a sentence beginning in “1” once, and it jumped in during the race. It should have prompted with something like “WARNING: This will allow us to use this session
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by hedora 3mo ago
Does the affiliate program still work for AWS? When do I get my referral fee?
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by hedora 3mo ago
And to think the federal government claims inflation is in the single digits this year!
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by hedora 3mo ago
Class action lawsuit time! Either that or 1000’s of small claims court cases. Even with arbitration, the overhead of dealing with that would be crippling. Hopefully someone over there decides to do the right thing, and auto-refund.
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by hedora 3mo ago
Anthropic constantly uses dark patterns to steal training data from customers (like the “how is claude doing” spam, data retention loosening when the safeguards false positive, etc).
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by hedora 3mo ago
DeepSeek didn’t really change any trends though, unless you count the stock market. It was impressive work, but models were commoditizing and inference costs were dropping rapidly already. They were neither the first nor the last 10x optim
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by hedora 3mo ago
It’s open weight, so the price will end up being the marginal cost of hosting it. Personally, I like that there is an option to not send data to companies that have strong financial incentives to steal it. Also, open weight foundation model
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by hedora 3mo ago
Does it have safety guardrails that constantly false positive like Claude does? The only obvious change I’ve seen since opus 4.6 came out is that it constantly flags my requests (no, I’m not doing biology research or security research, ye
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by hedora 3mo ago
This came out of Microsoft Research, which was a bit of a safe haven from such stuff back then. MSN Chat was the full corporate bundled with windows program that matches your description of ‘90s Microsoft. A non-monetized chat app targetin
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by hedora 3mo ago
Zoom level, at least on an iPhone mini. Default: Pure static. Zoom in: Written in ghost font. Zoom in more: Now you can read it.
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by hedora 3mo ago
In fairness, on mobile, the decoy font is the only thing a human will be able to see unless they zoom in the right amount. Is the LLM really wrong if most humans and it agree that the decoy message is the real message? It is still at fault
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by hedora 3mo ago
Has anyone tried asking an LLM to write a program to decode the message? I’m guessing it is a one-shot task. On the other hand, it’s illegible to a large percentage of humans. I always thought that once computers got better at solving capt
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by hedora 3mo ago
We have starlink. It’s better than a lot of ISPs we’ve had. I think of them as the new hughes.net. If you are worse than them, you go out of business. They can’t remotely repeat with local ISPs now that fiber is being rolled out. Starlin
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by hedora 3mo ago
I wonder how long it will be before they offer bounties for internet scrapes. Cloudflare captchas have made the internet unusable for me, and I'm sure it will only get worse over time. I'd much rather just browse (or even torrent
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by hedora 3mo ago
Agents will be able to pay orders of magnitude more than humans, since they can just cache the documents at openai or anthropic, then use them over and over.
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by hedora 3mo ago
If they only charge agents a fee, then people will just set up a mcp endpoint or whatever to desktop chrome/firefox. As it is, their captchas are already blocking tons of human traffic. The idea that the price will be low unless you ac
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by hedora 3mo ago
Yes. In the past, in the US, library checkout records were private / not recorded, specifically to protect the right to privacy, which is specifically protected by the UN human rights charter. The systems you described not only record
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by hedora 3mo ago
You realize humans are going to be the first wave of collateral damage right? I already basically cannot browse the internet for technical information, since most high-quality forums are behind captchas that block my iPhone. If I ask an ag
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by hedora 3mo ago
Presumably, like their captchas, this will completely break things like ad blockers, browsers with strict cookie policies, and probably things without hardware attestation. Unless there's a privacy-preserving way this can be used to se
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by hedora 3mo ago
As a parent, I strongly disagree with the priorities of the people setting the policies for the age gates. For instance, roblox is full of pedophiles. Minecraft displays pro-surveillance propaganda to my kid every time they run a game that
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by hedora 3mo ago
Chickens ate our environmentally friendly AC line insulator wrap. They won’t touch the cheap gray stuff, at least not after I wrapped it in foil tape. (They can’t taste capsaicin, though now that I know that exists, I’ll pick some up for o
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by hedora 3mo ago
Not sure where you are, but thanks to climate change, the Bay Area and parts of the UK are suffering a massive influx of rodents (breeding season is now 12 months). So, now I’m a bit of an expert. You’ll find it’s less effort to mouseproof
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by hedora 3mo ago
Any advice on how to bypass their captchas these days? In normal browsing, I hit infinite captcha loops about half the time I get a cloudflare challenge. The same sites are typically blocked from archive.org. Is there some other archive s
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Cloudflare to block cynical search-and-scrape bots from ad-supported web pages(theregister.com)
2 points by hedora 3mo ago|1 comments

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