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New comment by robomc in "Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing"

robomc — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 01:06:40 +0000

I assume they are just passing off AI prose as their own and don't want anyone to be able to tell. Which is surprising for someone who's been blogging for a thousand years. But I don't really see any other reason for this amount of heat and FUD.

New comment by robomc in "Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing"

robomc — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:43:39 +0000

This is moronic. This is like being mad that the slot machine you think is lucky is occupied.

New comment by robomc in "'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout"

robomc — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:06:03 +0000

Do employers in the US look at your university marks?

New comment by robomc in "Chartreuse, a case study in how scarcity and authenticity can drive desirability"

robomc — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:05:26 +0000

Yeah you can buy it in pretty much every liquor store on earth, it even comes in those little single-slurp mini bar bottles, in tiny bottle stores in broke ass towns at the edge of the world.

New comment by robomc in "The Dunning-Kruger effect may just be a data artefact (2020)"

robomc — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 22:13:39 +0000

My favourite aspect of DK, which isn't changed by this argument really, is that people who reference it very often believe it said that low skill people are MORE confident in their abilities than high skill people, when the authors never claimed that. Which is kind of like doing a DK yourself when trying to deploy the DK findings.

New comment by robomc in "'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout"

robomc — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:43:35 +0000

i don't even understand the benefit of cheating on a college course, unless you think you're going to fail

New comment by robomc in "Karpathy’s Pelican"

robomc — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 21:11:59 +0000

Yeah that seems like an enormous problem with this example.

New comment by robomc in "Is The Economist Always Wrong?"

robomc — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 03:23:53 +0000

yeah imagine thinking biden was too old and infirm

New comment by robomc in "I am worried about Bun"

robomc — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:50:31 +0000

"I have a vague concern, so I'm now using a shittier toolchain. You shouldn't do it though." is a weird post format.

New comment by robomc in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

robomc — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:17:32 +0000

Yeah the really misleading part of the screenshots in this article is that it doesn't show the "resize cursor", which basically makes this a non issue.

Also, for anyone reading this who hates the general aesthetic, go into Accessibility and hit "reduce transparency". This has been a desirable setting for last few OSX versions.

New comment by robomc in "Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortem"

robomc — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 20:25:27 +0000

> If the cloud service you’re using doesn’t support OIDC or any other ephemeral access keys, then you should store them encrypted. There’s numerous ways you can do this, from password managers to just using PGP/GPG directly. Just make sure you aren’t pasting them into your shell otherwise you’ll then have those keys in plain text in your .history file.

This doesn't really help though, for a supply chain attack, because you're still going to need to decrypt those keys for your code to read at some point, and the attacker has visibility on that, right?

Like the shell isn't the only thing the attacker has access to, they also have access to variables set in your code.

New comment by robomc in "I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude"

robomc — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 03:49:02 +0000

He's using it correctly, in its secondary sense of "belonging or appropriate to an earlier period, especially so as to seem conspicuously old-fashioned or outdated."

New comment by robomc in "Valve is about to win the console generation"

robomc — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:12:11 +0000

It's not a deal breaker for me, but it doesn't sound like a recipe for "winning the console generation".

New comment by robomc in "Valve is about to win the console generation"

robomc — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:08:05 +0000

no but the headline is "valve is about to win the console generation"

New comment by robomc in "Valve is about to win the console generation"

robomc — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 02:52:57 +0000

Yeah I mean... can I play Fortnite, BF6 or the upcoming GTA on steamOS?

New comment by robomc in "AWS outage shows internet users 'at mercy' of too few providers, experts say"

robomc — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:40:10 +0000

This. And when a service goes down it's a lot easier to explain to your client/boss that "half the internet is down" than "our boutique solution is broken so it's just us actually".

New comment by robomc in "Ortega hypothesis"

robomc — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 20:51:59 +0000

To me this kind of sounds like the other side of the same thing. Lunchpail scientists accumulate data within an area of research made interesting by a landmark work by a big name. Future big names make breakthroughs by drawing together a lot of the lunchpail work. etc etc

New comment by robomc in "Amazon fined $2.5B for using deceptive methods to sign up consumers for Prime"

robomc — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 21:31:20 +0000

I found out recently that I've been paying for Prime Video since 2020. I think I did legitimately sign up for it. That's not my complaint.

But it's fairly scummy how it doesn't seem to send you any email, the payments have a very vague generic coding like "AMZ2318971239", and the actual subscription management is super buried. I only noticed it, after years of using Amazon a fair bit, when I went deep into my account panes looking for something else.

New comment by robomc in "That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus"

robomc — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 10:25:33 +0000

You're right, it could be the sensible most likely thing AND the far-fetched thing.

New comment by robomc in "How we exploited CodeRabbit: From simple PR to RCE and write access on 1M repos"

robomc — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 01:23:21 +0000

> because researchers from Kudelski Security most likely tried different static analysis tools and they didn't work the way Rubocop did.

Yes but that's kind of the point - they say this issue that takes you directly from code execution to owning these high value credentials was only present on rubocop runnners but isn't it a bit coincidental that the package with (perhaps, since they chose it) the easiest route to code injection also happens to be the one where they "oops forgot" to improve the credentials management?

It just seems very convenient.