> I wonder if there could be a large security situation playing out behind the scenes right now.
There absolutely is in the sense that Mythos via Project Glasswing has uncovered over 10,000 critical vulns and counting. I don't know that this incident is directly related, but there's a lot going on at the moment in this area.
Yes but parent was saying use passphrases, which is the same, just more like "correct horse battery staple". Parent then correctly pointed out there are a large number of sites that enforce special characters, numerical digits, etc., also being part of the password. So that idea falls apart very quickly in practice.
I built a news aggregator that pulls in hundreds of RSS feeds and uses multiple large language models to synthesize daily briefs. There's also Tech and Finance editions, plus local editions for some US locales. https://feedpunk.com
I'm also building a modern HTTPS-only transport utility called curb. It's an alternative to curl and wget. It's written in Go using only the standard library. curb can stream output or download files and picks the right behavior based on what the server returns and whether the output is going to a human or a pipe. It also has a '--vet' mode that runs the body through security sieves; this is meant to add some protection and friction for the 'curl | sh' use-case. https://gocurb.dev
I hear you on IP law, but how it applies to AI training is far from settled.
I don't believe we should have software patents, and I am highly skeptical of the US copyright system in general.
As for why I didn't use a piracy analogy: humans don't need to pirate books to access them for free. They can just go to the library. That is exactly my point. Reading books isn't a crime. Why would we stop an AI from reading publicly available material just because it's automated and upsets the commercial status quo?
"Amazon's CEO knew what he was doing" is not a fact. That's speculation.
When it comes to highly technical, fast moving developments like frontier AI and blue team / red team perspectives, I could see any CEO getting out over their skis. Now mix in some incompetent Trump admin officials, including apparently Howard Lutnick. I am guessing many of these people don't understand the subject matter very well at all.
Imagine a super intelligent speed reading human in a library. If they read all the books and are able to understand, conceptualize and summarize that knowledge for others, is it theft? The books weren't stolen, after all, just read. The knowledge in the books wasn't taken away; it's still there for others to read.
I personally do not believe knowledge can be stolen.
> Open 3 terminal windows. Try to switch back & forth between just two of them with a keyboard shortcut
cmd+` gets me there, no problem at all
> Open a browser and two terminal windows. Try to switch terminal and the browser window, without also bringing the other terminal above the browser window
you got a point there. alt+tab is gonna surface both terminal windows above the browser.
Knoll's Law of Media Accuracy: "Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true, except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge."
See also, Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.
Most reporting is garbage once you get into the details.
Gboard hasn't been updated in 4 years and as a result the UI doesn't always display properly. It's especially jarring on iOS 26. It doesn't fit into the OS keyboard target area properly (on my iPhone 17 Pro, at least).
I've tried pretty much every reputable third-party keyboard app in the App Store. Unfortunately, there's really nothing better than the stock one.
I’m struggling with the utility of this logic. The argument seems to be "because malware can intercept /proc output, any tool relying on it is inherently unreliable."
While that’s theoretically true in a security context, it feels like a 'perfect is the enemy of the good' situation. Unless the author is discussing high-stakes incident response on a compromised system, discarding /proc-based tools for debugging and troubleshooting seems like throwing the baby out with the bathwater. If your environment is so compromised that /proc is lying to you, you've likely moved past standard tooling anyway.
I just installed it and it seems really promising. Glad you shared it here.
I’ve spent more time than I care to admit searching for a good keyboard app in the App Store, and I’ve tried a lot of them. This one never surfaced for me in any of my usual searches, which is a shame (likely more on Apple’s search than on you).
I really like the T9-style approach, and I appreciate the clean App Privacy section and straightforward privacy policy.
"Your Affinity V2 license (via Serif) remains valid and Serif will continue to keep activation servers online. But please note that these apps won’t receive future updates."
But... don't you want people to use it? You seem passionate about it otherwise.
I'll admit, I almost didn't click past the animation either. I did, and the doc quickly answered "what is it?", but why not just put that sentence on the landing page? I don't get the unnecessary obscurity either.
There absolutely is in the sense that Mythos via Project Glasswing has uncovered over 10,000 critical vulns and counting. I don't know that this incident is directly related, but there's a lot going on at the moment in this area.