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samvines

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    Online safety laws have failed to protect children in UK, Ofcom admits. Campaigners call lack of progress ‘staggering’ as online regulator issues review of first nine months of new regime” It’s very tempting to be like “surprised Pikachu face dot gif” but like… This failure can and will be used I introduce new more stringent censorship measures to protect the kids - I reckon they will blame VPN use and enforce Thiel-based id scanning on all personal VPN plans next.

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    [New fun consequence](https://xcancel.com/theo/status/2049645973350363168) of Claude code being a pile of cursed regex and spaghetti: keyword blocking on "OpenClaw" makes it refuse to works on Pro or Mac subs unless you open your wallet sO inTelLiGenT

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    Claude Mythos... I'm already sick of hearing about it. The self-imposed critihype is insane. A friend just pointed out that Anthropic are making all this big noise about having an AI that is "too good" at finding bugs and security problems 1 week after [the source code for one of their flagship products was leaked to the public and was found to be riddled with security holes](https://venturebeat.com/security/claude-code-512000-line-source-leak-attack-paths-audit-security-leaders)....

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    Cloudflare casually [license-laundering wordpress](https://blog.cloudflare.com/emdash-wordpress/) > While EmDash aims to be compatible with WordPress functionality, no WordPress code was used to create EmDash. That allows us to license the open source project under the more permissive MIT license. Oh really. So you're sure you Claude wasn't trained on wordpress? It's all irrelevant anyway because AI generated code can't be copyrighted or licensed. Silver lining, it might...

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    [Ads in pull requests](https://www.neowin.net/amp/microsoft-copilot-is-now-injecting-ads-into-pull-requests-on-github-gitlab/)? Sure why not *sigh*

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    GitHub have [finally achieved zero 9s](https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/) stability for the last 90 days. Congratulations to all involved ![screenshot showing 89.91% uptime with 95 incidents in the last 90 days](https://awful.systems/pictrs/image/30ea71b7-2cc8-4ee8-8223-b49ba5da2d20.jpeg)

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    AI bros are seizing the means of computation: RAM, GPUs, SSDs and now HDDs… I don’t think there’s an actual conspiracy, just lots of MBAs following their noses towards the $$$. That said, time to buy a new lipo battery for that 10 year old laptop in the loft and stick Linux on it - before the lithium miners announce they’ve sold the next 12 months global supply of Lithium to Altman because he needs it to sleep at night…