Bonus rant: every time I accidentally launch Chrome and try to quit it and it blocks me with its stupid non-standard highjacking of what cmd-Q means, I’m tempted to defenestrate my laptop until I remember that I can fix that broken setting in its preferences.
I remember when I use to like Chrome and appreciated its design. Believe it or not, it was a pretty nice browser nearly 20 years ago.
Why yes, you can run Factory’s Droid on a Raspberry Pi. Not officially, sure. This isn’t part of our CI/CD pipeline and we’re not publishing packages for it the way we do for our supported platforms. Still, it works!
Uber’s tired of getting sued for breaking laws so they’re trying to change them. Vote no.
Honestly, getting me to take the side of ambulance chasers is quite the accomplishment. I’m impressed by their dedication to evil.
Some tourists flagged me down outside the 4th and King Caltrain station to help with transit directions to Golden Gate Bridge. Their app had them walking up through the TL to catch a bus. I got them safely loaded onto a Muni to Powell to make that leg of it a lot easier. I hope. I wish they’d just taken my advice to get a cab or rideshare.
From the text of the agreement to end Trump’s War:
- Pending the final Deal, the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America agree to maintain the status quo; the Islamic Republic of Iran will maintain the current status quo of its nuclear program, and the United States of America will not impose any new sanctions, and will not deploy any additional forces in the region.
This return to the status quo cost 7-10K killed and 50K injured and $113B to the US alone.
Please, can we stop winning now? We can’t afford any more of these stupid victories.
Welp, I’ve agreed to be a panelist in a Shark Tank-style event where CISOs judge startup ideas. This is incredibly far out of my daily routine and comfort zone, so I felt obligated to say yes and commit to it before I had a chance to let myself back out.
Currently reading: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 📚
I deliberately know nothing whatsoever about this book, except that people liked it.
Finished reading: Accelerando by Charles Stross 📚
Alright, so this was not the best written book I’ve stumbled across. It was alright, but Strunk & White cried a few times along the way. But the world building and imagination and prediction accuracy? Fantastic. It’s not high art, but art nonetheless.
Anthropic’s leaning in to the whole nanny state thing.
(This is a real, actual screenshot.)
I was talking to some AI industry leaders last night. Their words helped crystalize my own thoughts on Anthropic’s “guardrails” around using their models.
A lot of what I do is legal only because of context. I carry lock picks in my bag. I use them to get into my own stuff (and to satisfy my own curiosity) and never use them to gain access I shouldn’t have. Is it bad to use lock picks? That’s impossible to say without knowing why they’re used.
I ask AI to find security flaws in my software to identify those problems (and to satisfy my own curiosity) and never use it to gain access I shouldn’t have. Is it bad to use Fable — or any number of “hacking” tools like Burp Suite or Metasploit or John The Ripper? That’s impossible to say without knowing why they’re used.
And damned if I want to come to Anthropic, hat in hand, and beg them to please, sir, may I use this tool I’m paying you for, and I’ll let you watch over my shoulder the whole time to see if I’m doing it alright? If they think they might not want my money sometimes, they shouldn’t take it at all.
I didn’t have to explain to the lock picks guy what I’m doing with them.
