I also had to do a chargeback recently because I was double billed and Anthropic refused to refund me. This seems very frequent from what I’m reading here, I wonder if Stripe will step in or something because they must be getting absolutely blasted with chargebacks and surely this should be affecting their reputation right? Not sure how the banking side of things works.
As a Spaniard, this also happens to me. You can either use a VPN or just switch DNS servers to one that doesn’t have anycast nodes in Spain.
Cloudflare’s authoritative DNS uses EDNS Client Subnet (ECS) to return different IP pools based on where the query originates. Spanish resolvers get IPs from a range that La Liga blocks. If your recursive resolver is physically outside Spain (or you use DoH/DoT to tunnel to one), Cloudflare returns a different, unblocked pool.
I looked into this a while back and IIRC, the consolidated legislation doesn’t cover all legislation but only a handful.
Also, in my experience (having built in this space before), regulations aren’t really the issue. Court rulings are, because there’s no open data for them in Spain. And the potential users for a paid product (legal professionals) already know the law; the key players (big law firms) have their own databases of annotated and verified court rulings and other documents.
I’m 26, probably terminally online and a professional software engineer too and I just accept cookies every single time because it’s the lowest friction path to just get the banner out of the way. Too bad for those sites tho, because I use uBlock origin on the browser, whitelist cookies by site (all cookies are otherwise always blocked everywhere) and use an always-on VPN to route all my network traffic to my PiHole DNS server.
Maybe it’s a little bit overkill but I set it all up once and only have to whitelist sites every once in a while so it’s not really an annoyance. Besides, I’m not 100% sure now but I’d say that just using uBlock is enough (if properly configured) to prevent cookie-based tracking so my setup is definitely over-engineered.
I love Claude but both the desktop and the web apps are incredibly janky when compared with their OpenAI counterparts (I won’t even comment on Gemini’s because it’s also incredibly broken and unreliable).
Start times are atrocious, long conversations literally break rendering (and I’m using the desktop app on a MacBook Pro with an M3 Pro CPU and 36 GB of RAM so an electron app shouldn’t feel so janky so frequently, right?).
IMHO they just don’t care right now (and I get it from their perspective) but I’m pretty sure there’s a lot of low hanging fruit they could fix to make the experience 5x or even 10x smoother. Claude Code (TUI) is also another memory hog and I’ve even had Ghostty literally crash with enough open sessions.
Fortunately Anthropic models are also incredibly so at least I’ve been able to speedrun my own desktop client using Tauri and fix many of the issues I encounter every day. I might release it at some point.
This is precisely what happens in the Apple TV series “For All Mankind” an I think it’s a pretty realistic take on how future lunar and Martian settlements would work (either everyone cooperates or everyone is cooked)
Yeah, I can’t recommend gpt-5.3-codex enough, it’s great! I’ve been using it with the new macOS app and I’m impressed. I’ve always been a Claude Code guy and I find myself using codex more and more. Opus is still much nicer explaining issues and walking me through implementations but codex is faster (even with xhigh effort) and gets the job done 95% of the time.
I was spending unholy amounts of money and tokens (subsidized cloud credits tho) forcing Opus for everything but I’m very happy with this new setup. I’ve also experimented with OpenCode and their Zen subscription to test Kimi K2.5 an similar models and they also seem like a very good alternative for some tasks.
What I cannot stand tho is using sonnet directly (it’s fine as a subagent), I’ve found it to be hard to control and doesn’t follow detailed instructions.
Yeah, it’s pretty much ready, I’m just squashing a few last bugs. Launching this week, trying to move fast for exactly that reason.
Good call on the examples, I’ll add some that show off browser automation and more complex workflows.
Memory at launch is what’s baked into OpenClaw, but I’m planning to upgrade it to vectors + a continuously updated doc shortly after (similar to what Claude Web does)
If you want early access I’d be happy to get you set up personally, just shoot me an email at ramon <at> agentmode.co
This is pretty cool! I'm not sure how you'd make a business out of it, but I can definitely see myself using it to justify some decisions on my day to day stuff.
I'm also a sucker for serif fonts so points for that.
Hosted OpenClaw, one click and you get a full agent with configurable skills, channels and the whole thing, all running in its own sandbox.
I love OpenClaw but setting it up is a pain: VPS, Docker, API keys in plaintext, security patches... So I’ve spent the last couple weeks building a hosted version that handles all of that. Each user gets their own isolated environment on Cloudflare Workers.
Still doing some testing with friends before opening signups but planning to launch properly this week.
Would love feedback on the landing page in the meantime!
You wouldn’t even believe the stuff I’ve heard in “startup” and “innovation” spaces about regulation and stuff like government grants.
I usually hear the “we [europe] have some of the brightest minds, we can do anything” and sure, granted, but that’s not the issue and it has never been. Why would those bright minds want to build something in a place that’s so obviously against the very same idea of free competition? Of course they don’t, those who can just flee and those who can’t usually end up building some useless grant-ware in an endless cycle. That’s not to say that we don’t have great startups and entrepreneurs, we do, but I find myself fighting every day against a system that’s built for the state to decide what, when and how citizens must innovate (and live).
That’s crazy cheap, I pay close to 400€ (!!!) monthly for Tirzepatide (GLP-1) and close to 50€ for Lisdexamfetamine (ADHD) in Spain. Truth be told, the ADHD meds are covered by the Social Security health insurance or I’d be paying double that, but I don’t think GLP-1s will ever be covered here.
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You can reach me at ramon<at>agentmode.co