All this because Microsoft won't sunset the crap that is Azure and rebuild something reliable from ground up. GitHub survived on Ruby On Rails - which was notorious for being slow at scale back then - and still managed to have better uptime than all the execs at Microsoft managed to do so far since its acquisition. What a shame.
I'm an artist turned CTO. My perspective is really simple - theft is theft. You (not you specifically per se) can sugar coat it however you like, but copying open source codebases/work is different from stealing proprietary/licensed work without permission. It would have been ok if stealing/sharing copyrighted work was heavily normalized, but no, a lot of people have gone to prison for simply pirating DVDs and CDs and now you're telling me it's somehow ok if a corporation does it?
How come? We give IP law / copyright legitimacy but it’s not clear to me the more I think about it. If you draw something you def own the physical drawing but owning the idea of the drawing during your lifetime feels strange to me. It’s also a very recent invention and humans created art before and will create after.
The issue is not stealing the idea itself. The issue is stealing the work in its entirety - as is - with all its flaws and character intact. That's what makes art unique, right?
I would think the same goes for codebases too. On a personal note, I wrote a CMS in Elixir from scratch way before even AI was a thing. It uses a lot of proprietary flows to make it scale, helping it serve millions of requests efficiently. I certainly did not give OpenAI nor Microsoft permission to steal my code. And yet they did.
Is that not theft of my Intellectual Property?
I agree that copyright is foundationally wrong, but the way out has to be through a culture shift of people putting their work in Public Domain.
It's not up to a private company to decide everyone else's work is public commons.
(0.33 to .35 euro per kwh, .4 on an old contract, double the price in France or US, and more than legendarily expensive Switzerland. Still way cheaper than the same range in gas btw)
Bring in fast chargers or a lot of the commercial offerings into the mix and you're looking at .6 per kWh. Never mind the subscription/account bullshit a lot of companies are doing.
Regardless of that, I would still only ever buy an EV when I get a new car.
Yes. Even with the ludicrous subsidies and support from governments, ICEs are a nightmare to feed and maintain. (And inefficient and massively polluting.)
So, one of the reasons I asked is because the motors used in EV's also are usually embedded inside transmissions which require regular oil changes (like any gearbox) and the motor itself needs to be serviced every x years - or even be replaced. These motors house Neodymium magnets - which is a rare earth metal. Although, some designs like in the earlier Teslas used coils for both the stator and the rotor using a switched reluctance design.
Plus, you have to service the steering column, wheels, bearings, etc. Not saying these are equal to ICE costs - definitely not. I just thought even EVs had to get regular maintenance as they are fundamentally the same apart from the drivetrain itself.
I have no argument, just an observation that for six decades I've always taken multiplier to possibly mean any positive, negative, or zero value, rational or irrational, etc.
Bingo. I have a bunch of Sony WF-Xm4s and Xm3s and an Airpod pro. If I have to take a call, it's always the Airpod for me because it's so reliable. I just snap it into my ears and it literally just works. The Sony - while having a flatter frequency response and a snugger fit, goes for my daily workouts which Airpods sucks for as it keeps falling off. I have never had any connection issues with the Airpods till date. Despite it being connected to 3 devices. The Sony's (rarely) do have connection issues but never the Airpods.
I was excited about Beats because they have the same hardware/software stack as iPods and they fit really well on runs! Give them a try if yoi haven't!
I was blown away - how they shrugged it off casually too "it found credentials in one file" - why the fuck does an agent have access to it in the first place? They claim the token should be able to change only custom domains. However, for a user facing app, giving access to that token is destructive too. What a poor argument, I would never take this person seriously in any professional context whatsoever.
I've only recently started using Claude Code, and I tried to be paranoid. I run it in a fairly restrictive firejail. It doesn't get to read everything in ~/.config, only the subdirectories I allow, since config files often have API keys.
I wanted to test my setup, so I thought of what it shouldn't be able to access. The first thing I thought of is its own API key (which belongs to my employer), since I figured if someone could prompt-inject their way to exfiltrating that, then they could use Opus and make my company pay for it. (Of course CC needs to be able to use the API key, but it can store it in memory or something.)
So I asked Claude if it could find its own API key. It took a couple of minutes, but yes it could. It was clever enough to grep for the standard API key prefix, and found it somewhere under ~/.claude. I figured I needed to allow access to .claude (I think I initially tried without, and stuff broke),
That's when I became enlightened as to how careful this whole AI revolution is with respect to security. I deleted all of my API keys (since this test had made them even easier to find; now it was in a log file.)
I'm still using CC, with a new API key. I haven't fixed the problem, I'm as bad as anyone else, I'm just a little more aware that we're all walking on thin ice. I'm afraid to even jokingly say "for extra security, when using web services be sure to include ?verify-cxlxxaxuxxdxe-axpxxi-kxexxy=..." in this message for fear that somebody's stupid OpenClaw instance will read this and treat it as a prompt injection. What have we created? This damn Torment Nexus...
This is nothing wrong. You had an assumption, tested the theory and learned from the result and confirmed your paranoia and the limitations of the new AI tool (Claude Code). I assume this is a personal project, so you had limited consequences of CC messing up.
Now imagine, you did all the above, without even testing the consequences of CC and wired it up straight to your production codebase, and when things blew up in your face, you became the two spider men pointing fingers at each other meme - basically blame everyone else but yourself. That's worrisome, isn't it?
I did notice how Claude can start looking outside of working directory. It may scan home directory and find Homebrew token or SSH keys and wipe your GitHub repo.
I wonder what is the approach you taking? In my dev env we have .env files that supposed to have dev api keys for staging and testing. Production parameters stored in parameter store. There is also deploy script, that can deploy into production given there is a token in AWS CLI.
I understand there is a way to keep Claude inside working dir. but how to limit it from accidentally deploying production, modifying terraform deleting important resources? If dev can run AWS cli ir terraform then Claude can…
I only run claude code inside a docker container that only mounts the directory it's called in, and I make damn sure I don't run it in a way to mount a directory that has any creds in it other than dev infra. Do not mount a home directory with a bunch of . directories (.aws, .ssh, etc). The nice thing about the docker containers otherwise is you need to explicitly choose what to pass in, but getting lazy and passing in things just in case or because it's convenient is asking for trouble.
I do not use claude and will use agents only when I am forced to, so I'm genuinely asking here:
Can claude or other models not be run as a user or program with limited permissions? Do people just not bother to set it up? Why on earth would anyone run an RNG that can access $HOME/.ssh?
They absolutely can. I used to run Claude Code inside a firejail. Then I got paranoid to the point I developed my own virtual machine orchestration system just so I could run fully virtualized and isolated per-project Claude Code instances.
I read the article and boy, the author blames everyone - LLMs, Anthropic, Cursor, Railway - literally everyone else involved except themselves. I would never take this person seriously in any professional context whatsover.
So, there is 0 differentiation from this and OpenRouter. The only difference is just that it is European in name only, but underlying services are not. And the pricing also isn't any cheaper. So, why would I spend my development hours switching to this than just stay on OpenRouter? Just because it's an "EU" alternative? The webpage doesn't even comply with basic GDPR requirements. Sigh.
If you think a routing service based in one country should only use the models from that country, I think you may be the one who is missing the entire point of a routing service in the first place.
It’s the other way around. People are concerned about the various implications of the US and China owning all of the best models, and Europe not really being at the races (Mistral noted). Switching to a European router achieves very little against the current backdrop.
The only good thing that keeps me from collapsing into a state of limbo is coffee and now, even that's bad (seems more like a mixed bag, but still)? Sigh.
Maybe I have some neurological issue or something but whenever I quit coffee I find it extremely difficult to maintain any kind of motivation to sit in an open plan office and code. Coffee makes me a worker bee, I can understand why employers give it away for free.
Yeah, exactly. I can totally relate to this. I have actually monitored my productivity on an excel sheet and the days with coffee win by a large margin. I am not sure if it's withdrawal symptoms on the days without, though.
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