sargunv · HackerTrans

há 9 horasdiscuss

That's the decoy message, "written in ghost font".

I wish articles like this bothered to link to primary sources.

> It advised users to uninstall the software or update to its latest version.

This implies the government believes the monitoring mechanism was removed in the latest version. That's interesting information; if only the WSJ linked to it.

Here's a better source in Chinese: https://m.huanqiu.com/article/4SIOWXCLN6f where the government statement is reproduced and the guidance is specifically for versions 2.1.91 through 2.1.196.

> In a response to the allegations on Reddit, an Anthropic employee said on X that the code was part of an experiment the American startup started in March.

Seriously, why not link to the tweet? Here it is: https://x.com/trq212/status/2072079729331777817?s=20

> Hi, this is an experiment we launched in March that was meant to prevent account abuse from unauthorized resellers and protect against distillation. The team has landed stronger mitigations since then and we’ve actually been meaning to take this down for a while. We merged the PR and this should be fully rolled back in tomorrow’s release.

So, Anthropic intentionally included spyware targeting users in China, then removed it when it got discovered because they've since built "stronger mitigations". But if you just read the WSJ, you'd never know.

sargunv

há 3 mesesdiscuss

If they really need to guard the thinking output, they could encrypt it and store it client side. Later it'd be sent back and decrypted on their server.

But they used to return thinking output directly in the API, and that was _the_ reason I liked Claude over OpenAI's reasoning models.

sargunv

há 3 mesesdiscuss

I'm not aware of a name, but I'm also curious if there is one because I had a hard time searching for it.

I came across it on ThePrimeagen's YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/u1WmiqlrqL0

sargunv

há 3 mesesdiscuss

Even with strict flags on, there are failures. A trivial example:

  function mutateArray(
    arr: (string | number)[]
  ) {
    arr.push(1);
  }
  const a: string[] = ["one", "two"];
  mutateArray(a);

a is now a string[] with a number inside

sargunv

há 10 mesesdiscuss

I agree with this take. Desktop Linux is better than ever and I can do just about 100% of what I need on my Linux PC. I still use macOS regularly and even Windows sometimes, but I’m not too worried about Apple or Microsoft locking things down. The more they do, the more I’ll just use Fedora where the same apps I need are available.

The most critical apps for me on mobile are banking, payments, transportation, and messaging. Banking I can’t do much about. Payments I can still handle with physical cards. Messaging is getting better thanks to people adapting proprietary services to Matrix, so with some effort you can use one open source client to reach them all.

Transportation is the area I’ve been working on. I’ve been getting MapLibre (an open source map rendering library) running on Compose Multiplatform, including Compose Desktop (so map apps built in Jetpack Compose could extend to Linux based phones like Librem) and also on Huawei’s HarmonyOS. If I can cover my everyday needs with open tools, then walking away from the Google/Apple duopoly stops being a thought experiment and starts being a real option for me.

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