If we're viewing this as a _bad_ thing, I don't really see that it is any different than how Claude encrypts it's thinking. Take a peek at your ~/.claude jsonl files. You're sending thinking ciphertext back and forth to Anthropic. Presumably the thinking is either considered proprietary, or, more likely, leaks embarrassing or confidential information.
Similar experience. I liken it to merging onto a freeway: you want to get up to speed first, then change lanes. If you don't, it feels like you're always fighing the pressure. If you equalize the pressure correctly breathing is as easy (easier) than without the mask.
As a Canadian I don't really think Americans have really understood how upset we are. Most US-facing talk is about tariffs, but the repeated threats of annexation and taunting (Governor, 51st state, Noem's despicable actions at Haskell Library) are both enraging and terrifying. I have no intention of returning to the US for any type of tourism or business travel indefinitely. People are ensuring their flight paths to other countries do not even cross US airspace.
This audience will likely call me paranoid, or try to downplay/deflect, but we can see clearly what's going on and the gaslighting does not help.
Anecdote: I'm helping a family member set up a personal brand website. He has a brand/marketing person for the content/design, but wanted me to manage the tech side of email, domains, providers, etc. I've used Wordpress a handful of times in my life, but it's an easy recommendation to make. We've spent maybe 30 mins a week for the past few weeks chipping away at it. We chose https://getflywheel.com/ as the managed WP provider[1]. They are owned by WP Engine.
Today, we got to installing the WP Mail SMTP plugin[2]. Oops, can't search for plugins. Maybe this has something to do with what I read on Hacker News yesterday, I think out loud. The Flywheel status page tells us to download the plugin zip and upload it, and we do. Crisis averted. But now... the plugin itself depends on talking back to the wordpress.org plugin registry. And it's blocked. The setup wizard fails with an unrecoverable javascript error. And we give up for another week.
I showed him the TechCrunch article. We agree that this is petty. Does he care about who is at fault, or the intricacies of trademark infringement, or the stewardship of public APIs? Nope. He just knows his first impression of Wordpress is that it's unreliable, both technically and organizationally.
[1] Could I have hosted it for him on DigitalOcean for cheaper? Yes. But I want him owning everything and pay someone to support it who isn't me.
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When US (NTSC) shows are aired in Europe (PAL), the framerate difference necessitates a small speed-up. It's barely noticeable, except when music is playing, at which point it is very, very noticeable. Yes, it's a little higher pitched, but it just feels wrong and is immediately noticeable. I think it's about 3% speed up, which is exactly what's being described here.
A family member owns a Jeep (2016). It's been nothing but problems for them. They were brand loyal. But they've really gone off the rails lately. Jeep ranked 34/34 (dead last) in consumer satisfaction in Consumer Reports' 2024 rankings.[1]
Except cupcake shops and craft breweries are allowed to differentiate (gluten free, superhero themed, we only sell wild fermented German beers...) while the legal cannabis retailers in Canada are more akin to owning a Subway franchise.
You must purchase your cannabis from a select set of suppliers chosen by the government (yes, the very same ones your competition must purchase from), you are not allowed to offer discounts/freebies on cannabis products (only rolling papers or similar non-psychoactive products). It is still illegal to operate any kind of venue that allows consumption, so while you can decorate your retail space like an Apple store or a Pier 1, you can't run trivia nights or do movie screenings or anything that might result in people patronizing your business over the one next door offering the same product for $0.05 cheaper.
Pre-legalization, I could go to a store (not legally operated) and look at the bud in the jar, smell it, and make decisions based on something other than a sealed package with no artwork or description on it. Some stores even offered consumption of "dabs" which is a great model: those things cost a lot of money and aren't really fun to have in your home and maintain, and it was very competitive with "a pint after work". All of this went away after 2017.
Social media has been the boogeyman for almost a decade now, and (red) states are at least sending out trial balloons regarding banning minors from accessing social media[1]. Prior to that, it was porn, and now we have age verification required by law.
I'd argue that AI is a much bigger boogeyman than Instagram/Tiktok/Pornhub ever was.
[1] No judgement of whether this is a good idea or not; in some sense it probably is; but I feel the current discourse is reactionary/political and not really about actual people's actual well being.
How many social media sites allow you to do anything without an account? Twitter used to be wide open but X competely locked down. Instagram lets you click 2 things and then the paywall pops up. I'm not sure about Facebook but it isn't much better.
Check out Ben Eater at eater.net, he has 2 kits, one where you build an 8-bit CPU, and another where you build a custom computer using a 6502 CPU, all on breadboards (no soldering). The newest third kit is a very primitive VGA card. His Youtube videos are a great resource and really help you understand without just painting by numbers.
I'm very bearish on Passkeys as a concept. As a technologist and security advocate, I'm glad that it helps to defeat phishing attacks, and the problem of reusing passwords/credential stuffing. But the UX is just not there yet. I jumped on the hype train and set up Passkeys for my Google account using 1Password, from Chrome on my iPhone. At some point, the enrolment procedure "failed", that is to say, my passkey was set up, but I didn't know it, so I repeated the procedure. This meant I had two "identical" passkeys for Google in my 1password, and two passkeys to which to sign into Google.
Neither Google nor 1password had any way to distinguish which key was which. There's no export functionality (yes, I understand this is by design). There's no (user facing) key IDs. So, my choices were: accept that I have two passkeys, and never know which is which; risk deleting one or the other, or abandon the whole notion and go back to hardware 2FA.
This doesn't even get into the mess of:
* browser based passkeys: what if I switch computers or phones? Now I have the "yubikey problem (have 3 so you can safely lose 1)" for every single device I own.
* hardware security tokens (Yubikey): in the case of Google, they aren't accepted as a "sign-in" passkey, only a "verification" passkey. However, a browser passkey is accepted. Do I need hardware 2FA? Do I need a password? I have no idea.
Let's be clear. There are absolutely solutions to all of the above. I am certain I made bad assumptions or mistakes here. But I also have been using computers with a bent towards security for my entire life. If I can't get this right, how is the average user being pushed to go "passwordless" on eBay going to deal with this mess in 3 years?
If you're a company considering implementing this, I'd be taking a very hard look at the ongoing support costs dealing with confused and panicked users locked out of their accounts.
It's funny, watching films in 48fps in theatres (specifically the first Hobbit movie that pioneered the concept) to me looks like the actors acted in 2x slow motion and then someone pressed fast forward. Everything looks incredibly unnatural.
Yeah, the reaction here is as though the forestry department can just pull up texts/phone logs from random citizens - but if this is just for their own staff, it's a bit of a nothing burger.