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New comment by chrisldgk in "ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style"

chrisldgk — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:34:48 +0000

The difference here I think is that the company (Anthropic, not OpenAI) was specifically selecting rare books for training (and subsequently destroying). I think the value proposition is a much different one in this case. In your example the books are still available in high enough amounts that replacing it is cheaper. If the book is rare enough to not have been digitized for training data yet (which is why Anthropic is interested in it), keeping that book around is much more important.

If Anthropic subsequently released the digitized version of it we’d be having a different discussion, but for obvious reasons they’re not.

New comment by chrisldgk in "My server is a phone now"

chrisldgk — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:40:27 +0000

It’s sluggish, it’s incredibly bloated with all the services that Docker (the company) wants to sell you and the UI is badly designed.

OrbStack is my go-to when it comes to running docker on Mac. It also uses macOS native containerization APIs so containers will be a bit more performant than they would (at least use to) be on Docker Desktop.

Another good approach if you’re fine without a GUI or want to bring your own is just ‚brew install docker‘.

New comment by chrisldgk in "I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy"

chrisldgk — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:06:02 +0000

I feel like people are focusing on the wrong thing here.

He starts off at 2027, where he’ll have a headband that can read his thoughts. That’s in 4-16 months. Correct me if I’m wrong, but last I checked we‘re quite far from being able to read people’s thought from a headband.

Do these clowns actually forget that part?

New comment by chrisldgk in "More German than many Germans"

chrisldgk — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:17:28 +0000

To be fair, that is a thing mostly done by the political elites and not an opinion that most citizens (that I’ve interacted with) hold. Most of us would much prefer all of the money that’s being put into weapons for Israel to be invested in our country instead.

Then again, there’s currently a big political shift to the right and the US/UK flavor of identity politics seems to have made its way over here, so that’s probably also not changing anytime soon.

New comment by chrisldgk in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

chrisldgk — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:47:27 +0000

I remember at the ad agency I used to work at (somewhere around 2018) we used to have a happy hour every Friday where from 5pm onwards all drinks (including booze) in the cafeteria were free, which led to people of all departments including C-Suite to get together and drink. I remember it as a good time though, I don’t remember anything ever happening that led to people having repercussions for employees. Then again, this is German drinking culture and the stiffest drink you could have was wine, so people wouldn’t usually get wasted, just tipsy.

The Christmas parties were a different breed though. HR definitely had a lot of work to do after those.

New comment by chrisldgk in "Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200"

chrisldgk — Thu, 21 May 2026 07:49:26 +0000

That’s because he is. None of these people are your friends and all of them will fuck you over if it means getting richer and more powerful.

New comment by chrisldgk in "Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML"

chrisldgk — Sun, 03 May 2026 13:01:23 +0000

At this point, why not just write the code yourself? Defining exactly what the product is supposed to do is the hard part, writing code is the easy part. Write your specs as code and you have your product - why let your LLM do the fun part?

New comment by chrisldgk in "Brain scans reveal 3 ADHD subtypes"

chrisldgk — Fri, 01 May 2026 08:17:29 +0000

One thing that I can’t seem to parse from the article is why the researchers assume that this is an unresearched part of ADHD and not a different disorder entirely. I’m sure they have their reasons, but I don’t think it’s written in the article.

To me it seems that if it’s not „treatable“ the same way ADHD is, I’m not sure if it’s useful to categorize it as such. On the other hand, I’m happy if kids with this disorder can get a diagnosis and treatment that actually helps them sometime in the future due to this research.

New comment by chrisldgk in "The Onion to Take over InfoWars"

chrisldgk — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:08:39 +0000

I would suppose it interrupts the page load after streaming the HTML and before loading and/or executing the cookie banner‘s javascript, meaning the content is there but the cookie banner will never open.

New comment by chrisldgk in "Cloudflare's AI Platform: an inference layer designed for agents"

chrisldgk — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:20:00 +0000

Per their own docs, D1 is primarily meant for things like Auth DBs that you have frequent read/write access to but that store limited amounts of data. If you need more storage, running Postgres somewhere else and querying via Hyperdrive is probably what you want to do instead.

New comment by chrisldgk in "Peptides: where to begin?"

chrisldgk — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:02:10 +0000

Reading this back, I did entirely misinterpret your comment and may have acted on that a bit more emotionally than I would like to admit.

Thank you for clarifying and I wholeheartedly agree.

New comment by chrisldgk in "Peptides: where to begin?"

chrisldgk — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:41:31 +0000

You sound exactly like the tens of doctors that misdiagnosed my aunt (who passed away through euthanasia after her symptoms got too bad to live with late last year).

I understand that the symptoms of ME/CFS might be similar to being obese/depressed or housebound, but the problem is that doctors often jump to that conclusion too quickly and don’t take efforts to diagnose ME/CFS leading to situations like my aunt’s. She was also obese and depressed and has been struggling with those symptoms for about 30 years and has constantly been misdiagnosed the entire time because doctors didn’t figure out that those were symptoms of ME/CFS and not two unrelated conditions coming from two different diagnoses.

Thanks to long-covid putting the symptoms of ME/CFS on the forefront lately, there’s finally been some much needed research into the disease and people like my aunt finally get the diagnosis they should have been getting many years ago.

New comment by chrisldgk in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

chrisldgk — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:25:45 +0000

My main question here is mostly why so many people still rely on axios for their fetch implementation. Native fetch has been a thing in the JavaScript world for so long, and the DX gains to using axios over it are miniscule. The only thing I can think of is axios instances, but you can easily write a tiny wrapper for fetch that would do the same.

This is a genuine question - if you still use axios, why exactly?

New comment by chrisldgk in "Windows 11's Start menu was built using React – now switching to native WinUI"

chrisldgk — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:18:54 +0000

People tend to forget that React != React-DOM (i.e. HTML).

React is just a framework for declaratively defining components and reactivity, the end result can be whatever you want. That’s what react-native is for mobile apps, and as another commenter pointed out, in this case it was using React Native for Windows[1], which apparently calls native Windows APIs in the background.

I like to jump on the MS hate train as much as the next guy, but React itself is not the reason the start menu is bad.

[1] https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows/

New comment by chrisldgk in "Fentanyl makeover: Core structural redesign could lead to safer pain medications"

chrisldgk — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:07:21 +0000

Notice the word „decriminalize“, not „legalize“. It’s about not throwing people already struggling with addiction in jail but rather offering safe alternatives (counseling, safer use, etc.).

The government‘s not passing out drugs in the street, like US media likes to suggest.

New comment by chrisldgk in "Goodbye InnerHTML, Hello SetHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148"

chrisldgk — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:50:52 +0000

It’s simple, you use innerHTML if you know for sure where the input comes from and if it’s safe (for example when you define it as a hard coded string in your own code). You use setHTML when you need to render HTML that is potentially unsafe (for example forum posts or IM messages). Honest question, which part of that isn’t clear?

New comment by chrisldgk in "Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle"

chrisldgk — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 23:57:00 +0000

They did carry over into the USB era! I specifically remember my stepdads copy of Cubase (music production software) requiring a USB dongle to open.

New comment by chrisldgk in "State of the Windows: What is going on with Windows 11?"

chrisldgk — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 23:19:41 +0000

There are sites that will happily sell you keys, though I don’t feel qualified to comment on their legitimacy.

You could also sail the seven seas and run an AutoKMS script, though that might (and probably will) include some malware.

New comment by chrisldgk in "Turbopack: Building faster by building less"

chrisldgk — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:11:59 +0000

Is this a quip I’m not understanding or is there really something here that bun‘s bundled wouldn’t be able to do? Because I can’t find anything.

New comment by chrisldgk in "Turbopack: Building faster by building less"

chrisldgk — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:10:36 +0000

Which is mainly NextJS (old and new), since under the hood that still seems to rely on Webpack.