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> just stops shy of asking Australian tech companies, like Fastmail, to build backdoors into their products so that the government can "legally access" data from them It stops just…

Basically the same phrasing was widespread before LLMs were invented. So I don't think it's specifically motivated by that.

I don't have any special certification or arrangement with Anthropic; this is vanilla Opus 4.x via Claude Code.

It may be worth noting that Claude can and will (if it believes you own the code, at least) produce PoC exploits for exploitable bugs that it finds. My only source for this is pers…

I've regularly heard something similar said of consulting work, too. Many people new to the game worry about charging too much, because if a client is paying more then surely the p…

Amazon, for example, charges us for cloud resources and then charges us again (handsomely) for the privilege of submitting bug reports to them. And then sometimes, even with a clea…

Claude won't answer questions about what cities you should nuke in what order. The Pentagon wants Claude to answer those sorts of questions for them. Edit: oops, I misunderstood. T…

Or in case some folks find the addition of a computer confusing here, if someone sends you a physical letter and they've used correction tape or a black marker to obscure some part…

It's possible without specific hardware acceleration, but murderous for mobile devices.

RDS, Route53, and Elasticache are decent, too. But yes, I've also been bitten badly in the distant past by attempting to rely on their higher-level services. I guess some things do…

Additionally, what has been the correct choice five years in a row might be catastrophically wrong in the sixth year. We need some randomness injected into our behaviour so that so…

And with a little work you can even use them to map ranges of keys to values in a way that's reminiscent of interval trees — e.g. https://crates.io/crates/rangemap . (Disclosure: t…

This email is from a Debian maintainer, about Debian introducing a new hard dependency on Rust. It's not some random Rust advocate telling Debian folks that they should use Rust ag…

Good question. I'm not primarily blaming Discord or the other company for this (even though they both obviously share some responsibility, too) — I'm blaming government/legislators…

The third party company shouldn't ever need to see the IDs, either. Same issue.

There is no reason for a company like Discord to ever see the ID. The owner of each relevant form of ID — usually a government agency/department — should provide an attestation ser…

Don't get confused here: they didn't decide that their policy change was wrong — they just didn't expect quite as much backlash. Make your purchasing decisions accordingly.

I think the person you were replying to might have intended sarcasm.

My Android phone prevents me from taking screenshots if an app author doesn't want me to. My Android phone prevents me from recording phone calls at the request of my carrier, even…

In Australia: Centrelink, Service Victoria, Medicare, myID (formerly MyGovID), ATO (tax) — for a start. There's no great reason for these to be Android/Apple specific. I'm just off…

I took a swing at something vaguely similar a long time ago now: https://github.com/jeffparsons/planetkit My approach was to build a hex grid on a geodesic sphere. It's a very diff…

I didn't specify the challenge clearly. I meant to allow blocks in any orientation, as long as they would be stable. So you can, for example, have blocks sloping down from the edge…

This would be easily solved for customers who care about it by allowing you to pay a one-off fee to reserve the name for ~100 years. Or they could just absorb that. Any idea why it…

That's basically the direction I was going in my head. I just remembered we have a bunch of Kapla blocks in the house, so I may be able to do this "IRL"!

> My goal here is to develop an intuitive sense of comfort with the behaviors of these stacks. If I succeed, you will not just understand that the physics allows the stacks to be s…