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New comment by Filligree in "Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy"

Filligree — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:08:07 +0000

> It's also a terrible practice that I hope the Justice department and the CFTC will put an end to soon.

How is hiring people "terrible practice"?

New comment by Filligree in "What even is an OS now?"

Filligree — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:04:27 +0000

I’m already edging in the article’s direction on my desktop. I recognised a lot of this, and it makes a great deal of sense.

The only question is if it’ll still make sense in six months, or if an even more unreasonable approach will be the correct one. Feels like a singularity.

New comment by Filligree in "You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflow"

Filligree — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 11:40:02 +0000

The programmer adjusted the way it works to make it slightly less OP. Just so we could all be sure the bug was now a feature.

New comment by Filligree in "AI Is Powerful Enough to Crack Our Hardest Math Problems–and Kill Us All"

Filligree — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 11:33:41 +0000

I wish I could be sure this was a joke.

New comment by Filligree in "Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue"

Filligree — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:44:33 +0000

The purpose of a prompt like that is to have it rephrase it in its own words, so you can spot any misunderstandings and correct them.

If you're of the belief that this is a contradiction in terms, then what can I say? It works.

New comment by Filligree in "Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera"

Filligree — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:45:34 +0000

But that wouldn't have put him in prison for life.

New comment by Filligree in "AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late"

Filligree — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:29:46 +0000

Usually it means the opposite. Books that are old and valuable tend to be out of copyright, so they do see new printing runs.

New comment by Filligree in "AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late"

Filligree — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:28:11 +0000

They are. They can’t release it; that would be copyright infringement. But they’re absolutely planning to make further use of the book later.

New comment by Filligree in "AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late"

Filligree — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:27:03 +0000

Obviously. Copyright infringement is settled law.

New comment by Filligree in "AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late"

Filligree — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:24:01 +0000

B is illegal, and Anthropic ate a billion dollar fine for trying it, so you can’t even claim they don’t want to.

New comment by Filligree in "AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late"

Filligree — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:22:00 +0000

Because that’s illegal.

New comment by Filligree in "Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload"

Filligree — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:20:26 +0000

I use urllib.request. It works fine, it’s always available, and I don’t need to push it through an audit.

New comment by Filligree in "The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates"

Filligree — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:50:18 +0000

They definitely are successors to some of those. Two Point Hospital for one.

It never quite recaptured the charm of the original, but that might just be because I’m older.

New comment by Filligree in "The AI Credit Resale Economy"

Filligree — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 05:42:14 +0000

I am not, but would be interested to hear. Any articles?

New comment by Filligree in "Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?"

Filligree — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:12:18 +0000

The authors of the alternative books, which you might have bought instead if your weren’t reading old books like a high seas pirate.

New comment by Filligree in "Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?"

Filligree — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:06:48 +0000

That keeping the physical copy intact would mean creating a copy, and they don’t have the copy right.

New comment by Filligree in "Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?"

Filligree — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:06:03 +0000

That is an element, but given the PR cost I’m sure they would use non-destructive scanning if they could.

No, the core problem is that keeping a scan is legal if and only if you destroy the physical copy.

New comment by Filligree in "How Claude marks AI-generated content"

Filligree — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:19:56 +0000

For watermarked long-form text, it is actually possible. Makes the watermark more fragile, but the math is considerably more forgiving than usual.

New comment by Filligree in "Everything you do is being recorded"

Filligree — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:51:41 +0000

The word means what it does. I’m not changing my use of language just because some people misunderstand the dictionary definition.

New comment by Filligree in "Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection"

Filligree — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 11:02:05 +0000

Isn’t it MIT-licensed?

That’s not theft. The author explicitly told people he wants them to do this; the company is just taking him up on the offer.