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New comment by hendersoon in "MCP is dead?"

hendersoon — Sat, 30 May 2026 01:01:07 +0000

Claude code basically fixes MCP context usage with tool search, so MCPs are only loaded into context when actually used. Unfortunately codex doesn't support that functionality.

Until that happy day arrives I run every required MCP with mcpc.

[1] https://github.com/apify/mcpc

New comment by hendersoon in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

hendersoon — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:08:43 +0000

There's a big difference between "Yo GPT, copy this webpage for me in a different voice" and blaming LMs wholesale for being plagiarism. The former is of course a problem. The latter warrants a much more nuanced discussion about learning and generalization.

New comment by hendersoon in "GPT-5.5 is generally available for GitHub Copilot"

hendersoon — Sat, 02 May 2026 03:41:04 +0000

Oh yeah? Still think so?

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-copilo...

New comment by hendersoon in "OpenWarp"

hendersoon — Sat, 02 May 2026 00:39:13 +0000

That was exactly my question; why fork? I assumed the project owners were preserving their business model, but if you allow it to be opened-up and turn off the cloud features, I see no reason to fork.

New comment by hendersoon in "GPT-5.5 is generally available for GitHub Copilot"

hendersoon — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:11:27 +0000

As of this week, the "request" gravy train is over. Github copilot now meters tokens not requests.

New comment by hendersoon in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

hendersoon — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:35:55 +0000

The forced telemetry and blocking local user accounts is particularly egregious. I've been running Shutup10 for over a decade now, disabling their telemetry after every update. It's outrageous that they force mt to do this.

And local accounts, all the methods required following a guide, using a hidden hotkey like shift-F10 and typing in an obscure command. Nobody did this by accident, or was coerced into it. These were sophisticated users who did not want to login to a MS account. Microsoft not only didn't care about their users' preferences, they actively fought us. It's downright offensive.

And like a battered spouse, we lived with it, we took the hits, because we wanted to play videogames. Well, now Windows is no longer required, thanks to Valve's work on WINE. And suddenly they're apologetic and conciliatory. No thanks, Microsoft.

New comment by hendersoon in "Our Agreement with the Department of War"

hendersoon — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:29:31 +0000

Executive Order 12333, referenced in the OpenAI agreement, has been widely used by the NSA for warrantless mass surveillance of American citizens without judicial scrutiny. It does prohibit targeting specific American citizens.

This EO is far more permissive than the FISA act from congress which explictly forbids bulk collection.

In naming EO 12333, this agreement explicitly allows using OpenAI services to conduct mass surveillance on American citizens, so long as that data is gathered abroad and specific citizens were not targeted when it was gathered.

But it's bulk collection, so your data is in there.

New comment by hendersoon in "Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw"

hendersoon — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 01:39:02 +0000

The -p flag should be fine, so long as you don't use their oauth in a third-party tool. Gemini also supports A2A for this sort of thing.

New comment by hendersoon in "Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue"

hendersoon — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 22:48:13 +0000

Yes, I also use Handy. It supports local transcription via Nvidia Parakeet TDT2, which is extremely fast and accurate. I also use gemini 2.5 flash lite for post-processing via the free AI studio API (post-processing is optional and can also use a locally-hosted LM).

New comment by hendersoon in "Speed up responses with fast mode"

hendersoon — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 19:58:03 +0000

Could well be running on Google TPUs.

New comment by hendersoon in "Nvidia just paid $20B for a company that missed its revenue target by 75%"

hendersoon — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 17:46:26 +0000

Yes, this was a defensive move from Nvidia.

My understanding is Groq failed to deploy their second-gen chips on time, which caused their stock to deflate.

Groq's primary advantage over Cerebras and SambaNova, as I see it, is they don't fabricate on TSMC. That's attractive to Nvidia, who doesn't want to give up any of their datacenter GPU allocation.

New comment by hendersoon in "Proxmox virtual environment 9.1 available"

hendersoon — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 15:24:51 +0000

So with support for OCI container images, does this mean I can run docker images as LXCs natively in proxmox? I guess it's an entirely manual process, no mature orchestration like portainer or even docker-compose, no easy upgrades, manually setting up bind mounts, etc. It would be a nice first step.

New comment by hendersoon in "WBlock: A New Ad-Blocker for Safari"

hendersoon — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 22:30:37 +0000

Chrome can do that too on desktop, and on iOS Chrome can't run any extensions at all. Safari web extensions have been around since iOS15, so several years now.

New comment by hendersoon in "WBlock: A New Ad-Blocker for Safari"

hendersoon — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 17:17:41 +0000

It's just another declarative adblocker, as that is all Safari (and now Chrome) allows. There's vanishingly little room for differentiation in this space.

New comment by hendersoon in "What if you don't need MCP at all?"

hendersoon — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 21:23:38 +0000

MCP is convenient and the context pollution issue is easily solved by running them in subagents. The real miss here was not doing that from the start.

Well, stdio security issues when not sandboxed are another huge miss, although that's a bit of a derail.

New comment by hendersoon in "I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla"

hendersoon — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:29:28 +0000

Google approached this the right way. No, not with "ai mode", that sucks. With the Chrome dev tools MCP. You allow AI to control the browser if the user opts-in and sets it up.

New comment by hendersoon in "DeepSeek OCR"

hendersoon — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 02:57:19 +0000

Exactly right, the OCR isn't the interesting part. 10x context compression is potentially huge. (With caveats, at only ~97% accuracy, so not appropriate for everything.)

New comment by hendersoon in "Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform"

hendersoon — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 14:54:20 +0000

Gemini 2.5 pro is generally non-competitive with GPT-5-medium or Sonnet 4.5.

But never fear, Gemini 3.0 is rumored to be coming out Tuesday.

New comment by hendersoon in "Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform"

hendersoon — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 14:52:54 +0000

I wish claude code supported the new memory tool. The difference is CLAUDE.md is always in your active context while the new memory stuff is essentially local RAG.

New comment by hendersoon in "Kagi News"

hendersoon — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:04:50 +0000

I would love to replace google/apple news, but publishing once daily doesn't work for me.