troupo

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by troupo 7mo ago
> My job was building cookie walls in response to GDPR. If you're building cookie walls, you are not building them in response to GDPR. You are literally building dark patterns intended to circumvent GDPR and trick users into accept
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by troupo 7mo ago
> I have read GDPR and don't work in adtech. It is vague As laws go, it's crystal clear > is pretty easy to find pathological scenarios Laws in general don't try to tell you how to implement every single facet of every
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by troupo 7mo ago
There are absolutely valid reasons for users to opt-in to tracking/data collection. EU is first and foremost a capitalist economy which nevertheless tries to protect people from abuse. Who are they to forbid someone to collect data,
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by troupo 7mo ago
https://gdpr-info.eu/art-25-gdpr/ --- start quote --- Taking into account the state of the art, the cost of implementation and the nature, scope, context and purposes of processing as well as the risks of varying likel
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by troupo 7mo ago
> The trouble started when lawyers correctly noticed that these are incidentally capable surveillance systems even though that isn't how we use them or what they were designed for. Many systems were not explicitly designed for surve
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by troupo 7mo ago
> Again the law establishes a rules making body that can at any time change or add rules Please quote the exact text of the law that you claim does that. And since the law has been in force for 10 years , perhaps you can point at the we
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by troupo 7mo ago
Your entire reply is both a non sequitur, and doesn't even attempt to understand what people tell you
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by troupo 7mo ago
You can literally read the entire "complicated" regulation in one sitting in an afternoon. There's literally nothing complex or complicated about it. Congrats on gullibly believing the ad tech narrative.
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by troupo 7mo ago
GDPR literally prohibits the sale of user data and tracking without user consent (because yes, you want to give people the possibility to opt in for a variety of reasons). GDPR has literally nothing to do with cookie popups. That was, and i
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by troupo 7mo ago
> IMO we should ban gathering this data without GDPR tried. And the narrative around GDPR was deliberately completely derailed by adtech. Lack of enforcement didn't help either
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by troupo 7mo ago
[Cookie] Lifespan: 13 Months Data Retention: Standard Retention (4320 days)
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by troupo 7mo ago
Don't you want random companies to store your precise location for 12 years? https://x.com/dmitriid/status/1817122117093056541
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by troupo 7mo ago
> because it doesn't have application state (in a standard runtime/setup) and needs to re-run the entire application for every request. Where "application" is basically a single page with less code than a typical Reac
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by troupo 7mo ago
Ah yes. "It's so bad that people in government agencies cannot give sensitive info to US companies or blindly rely on LLMs for their decisions since nothing has ever happened when people in governments blindly trusted black boxes&
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by troupo 7mo ago
I'd love to try and replicate, but I'm not letting any of these tools anywhere near a real browser and capabilites :)
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by troupo 7mo ago
> Just yesterday my non-technical spouse > It ended up requiring a few hundred lines of Python And she knows those a hundred lines of python work correctly and give her correct result because in this instance Claude managed to produce
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by troupo 7mo ago
> but a sufficiently smart model would be able to just do it without any steering; Yeah, yeah, we've heard "our models will be doing everything" for close to three years now. > a harness for getting this done probably e
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by troupo 7mo ago
> What are you using today? In my experience LLMs are already pretty good at this. LLMS are good at "find me a two week vacation two months from now"? Or at "do my taxes"? > how to use Cowork. Yes, and I taught my
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by troupo 7mo ago
> My current expectation is that the Cowork/Codex set of "professional agents" for non-technical users will be one of the most important and fastest growing product categories of all time, so far. They won't. Non-tech
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by troupo 7mo ago
> Is that why Anthropic recently gave out free credits for use in off-hours? That was the carrot for the stick. The limits and the issues were never officially recognized or communicated. Neither have been the "off-hours credits&quo
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by troupo 7mo ago
You mean Anthropic are the only ones refusing the de-facto standard despite a long-standing issue: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6235 And as others have said, it's a one-line fix. &quo
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by troupo 7mo ago
Brilliant :) No I wonder this, too
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by troupo 7mo ago
Ah yes, the bands that can gather more than 1000 fans at a concert are all Taylor Swifts. One of my favorite bands I've listened to since their first album is First Aid Kit. On their 10th anniversary they had several sold-out concerts
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by troupo 7mo ago
Ha, true! I somehow forgot about this post.
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by troupo 7mo ago
This essentially boycotts 99% of artists who are big enough to book a venue with more than 500-1000 people
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by troupo 7mo ago
My feeling is that Spotify couldn't care less about Anna's Archive. It's bad but doesn't hurt Spotify. Just like Steam, convenient distribution trumps piracy, always. If you look at the plaintiffs, Spotify is number 8 on
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by troupo 7mo ago
> First and foremost, I feel like Spotify is scummy. I don't like what they did when they were founded, I don't like what they do to artists. > While Spotify puts real price pressure on artists, You know that Spotify doesn&#
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by troupo 7mo ago
By Anthropic? Definitely. And that they don't have the capacity to handle these spikes? Certainly.
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by troupo 7mo ago
In the past few weeks: - Anthropic introduced stringent limits at peak hours. By "introduced" I mean announced it on a random dev's Xitter account - Users suddenly started burning through all of their tokens even on trivial t
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by troupo 7mo ago
I just use /brainstorming from https://github.com/obra/superpowers/tree/main Then I tell it to write a high level plan. And then rum subagents to create detailed plans from each of the steps in the high-

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