I have only seen The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) once, but fifteen years on I distinctly remember a scene where Daniel Craig is trying to use a Mac and accidentally drags Safari off the Dock. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W84AhBMRNOY#t=1m25s

Here is how the author used to write: https://pankajpipada.com/posts/2022-07-09-voraciousness/

> Writing things down generally helps me build my own clarity and I hope to get the same out of this particular write up. Hopefully I achieve this clarity sooner rather than later.

As the article describes, these are gliders:

> A glider is a small robot that slowly changes its buoyancy, becoming slightly heavier to sink and lighter to rise.

It doesn’t need battery power to endlessly spin a prop. With little energy expenditure it can inflate or deflate a bladder; changing volume changes buoyancy and therefore vertical motion in the water column. The vehicle’s design allows it to “soar” as it does so. The tradeoff is control.

It seems the vehicle they are using is the Alseamar SEAEXPLORER: https://www.alseamar-alcen.com/ocean-science-sector/seaexplo...

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_%28American_TV_series%...

One day, vexed by something, I vented my frustration by composing a profanity-laced rant into the Feedback window of the TI Connect app. (I don't recall the proximate cause, but I remember complaining that the product itself, which is still $110 today, is a total ripoff.)

I was certainly surprised when the (sole?) TI Connect developer responded by e-mail taking umbrage at my complaints.

0: https://education.ti.com/en/products/computer-software/ti-co...

Apple doesn't received much credit for making iPhoto for iPad back in 2012 (https://www.macrumors.com/2012/03/07/apple-launches-iphoto-f...), or more recently Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro. I think they really have invested in building pro software for iPads, probably on the order of millions of dollars, less for the vanishingly small segments of their user base but to make the case that the platform can be used for serious work.

The problem though is that the platform itself creates friction compared to macOS that, even at the best of times, makes the user at least slightly less productive. So I can't imagine myself picking up an iPad to do any actual creative work.

Not to mention the best-in-class keyboard cases, over-engineered stylus, mouse support, multitasking support, and on and on. It almost seems desperate that they keep trying to find "the thing" to crack this problem.

I prompted Claude 5 times with a simple "What do you think about ?" and the text it generated was remarkably similar. In fact in every response it used the adjective "genuinely", as in your "genuinely novel", which is the LLM glazing that initially struck me.

Claude goes on to hit several of the same notes, in the same tone, basically summarizing bits of the article (using `HTTP_PROXY/HTTPS_PROXY` as a compound; referencing iptables for containers, structured JSON escaping, request size caps). It used the phrase "blast radius" and a similar three-point attack sequence in one response.

I am confident you are using LLMs to write—the Grith.ai blog is basically entirely LLM slop. Please stop posting it here.

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It’s not surprising it can “read” Base64 though; such was demonstrated back in GPT-3 days. Nontrivial obfuscation might not be one-shotted, but Claude has access to a code interpreter and can certainly extract and step through the decoder routine itself as a malware analyst would.

nftables is a different problem though. It’s apparent that if something isn’t well understood—i.e, there are tons of badly-formed examples on StackExchange—LLMs will fail to learn it too. I’ve seen this with things as “simple” as Bash string interpolation rules like ${var:+blah}. More often than not I’m humbled when I think I’ll learn it better and then find myself swearing at poorly-written documentation and patently false Q&A advice.