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New comment by webstrand in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

webstrand — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:44:50 +0000

If anyone's looking to sandbox network, I've had good experience with pasta [1] networking. I make a pasta+bwrap sandbox and expose only specific services via local sockets to cross the boundary.

[1]: https://passt.top/passt/

New comment by webstrand in "I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys"

webstrand — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:53:13 +0000

I don't actually know of any? I've long since removed the key from my keyboard, and haven't come across anything that actually used it. What games?

New comment by webstrand in "Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos"

webstrand — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:45:23 +0000

They had similar messages on Opus, they never fixed or relaxed the topic-related safeguards there. I doubt they will here, either.

New comment by webstrand in "I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys"

webstrand — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:46:17 +0000

I wish I could remove the insert key, but unlike the caps-lock that no application rebinds, insert does get rebound. I wish there was an OS level control "pressing insert by accident should not turn on mangle-my-text-mode".

New comment by webstrand in "I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys"

webstrand — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:43:57 +0000

MMORPGs and games that have many different mechanics might be more prone to it, versus first-person controlled games? In my experience its pretty common.

New comment by webstrand in "I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys"

webstrand — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:34:43 +0000

Games often bind skills or other game mechanics to the function keys.

Anecdotally, I switched from `ctrl+shift+i` to F12 for opening the web inspector due to many websites capturing that keybinding for their own purpose (claude and code editors) if I didn't have a function row I'd have to find an even more arcane hotkey.

They're just a nice set of purpose-undefined keys that you or the application can bind to useful functions.

New comment by webstrand in "Claude Fable 5"

webstrand — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:47:57 +0000

Still unconditionally rejects prompts like

> Are there any wild populations of Tetanus that lack the dangerous plasmid?

useless

New comment by webstrand in "Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can"

webstrand — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:47:24 +0000

Do you have a solution for auto-merging conflicting changes? Because I think that's the real difference, editing on a laptop and on a desktop before the sync can occur, can cause data-loss (for my potentially naive use of keepassxc anyway).

New comment by webstrand in "OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool"

webstrand — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:21:13 +0000

Its the framing story that implies them committing fraud.

> I immediately said yes, even though I wasn't entirely sure. They wanted to play games, so I decided to play along.

The article never says the generated images were used to make a fraudulent claim, but its implied by the juxtaposition.

A few words to indicate that the challenge to break SynthID was for their own amusement would break this implication.

New comment by webstrand in "Everything in C is undefined behavior"

webstrand — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:02:43 +0000

I think as compilers got smarter, UB changed somewhat in meaning. Originally the compilers didn't perform such complex analysis, and while invoking UB could break your program, it would still do something reasonable.

New comment by webstrand in "Google changes its search box"

webstrand — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:20:37 +0000

As a counterexample, I've been seeing more "safety rejections" from Claude. Unlike search, being unable to ask _anything_ about botulinum, or details about the recent Copy Fail vulnerability (without giving my fingerprints to Anthropic to become a "verified security researcher") we're only just beginning to see the ways LLM can be used to distort information and its availability.

New comment by webstrand in "Apple unveils new accessibility features"

webstrand — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:35:32 +0000

Another fun thing is if you use an extension you can fast-forward through the advertisements too. For some channels I use around 3.5x playback speed.

New comment by webstrand in "How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences"

webstrand — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:47:52 +0000

I don't think it's been co-opted? Mirroring the emotions of another person you're actively observing doesn't give you insight into why they're feeling that way. It's just mirroring, but its an excellent starting point for learning. To have empathy, for people you're not actively observing, or for future states of people you are observing, you have to be able to model them first, and then mirror the emotions that the model predicts, which can then update the model. This loop is empathy, its both "experiencing other's emotions" and "the ability to understand and predict".

New comment by webstrand in "Claude Opus 4.7"

webstrand — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:06:30 +0000

Tried it, after about 10 messages, Opus 4.7 ceased to be able to recall conversation beyond the initial 10 messages. Super weird.

New comment by webstrand in "jj – the CLI for Jujutsu"

webstrand — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:46:10 +0000

If you don't provide it a it reads from the index (staged files). So you're right its not really pointed anywhere, since the index isn't a ref.

New comment by webstrand in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

webstrand — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:46:47 +0000

Container tabs, independent proxy config (chrome only respects system-wide proxy), vertical tabs, and functional adblockers are the four big features for me.

New comment by webstrand in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

webstrand — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:34:30 +0000

Ah, you mean Empire Earth. I loved that game, it had a great soundtrack.

New comment by webstrand in "Building a Mostly IPv6 Only Home Network"

webstrand — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:09:35 +0000

IPv4 pricing isn't a good enough reason? If all of my devices had nice ipv6 connectivity I could ditch the public ipv4 addresses, but I have to keep them so that my ipv4-only devices can still reach them.

New comment by webstrand in "Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft"

webstrand — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:53:02 +0000

Just because something is copyleft doesn't mean the person who gave you the binary you're using has to supply you with the code the used to build it. That's what the GPL does.

New comment by webstrand in "Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft"

webstrand — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:10:41 +0000

Its purpose "if you run the software you should be able to inspect and modify that software, and to share those modifications with your peers" not explicitly resist copyright. Yes copyright is bad in that it often prevents one from doing that, but it is not the purpose of the GPL to dismantle copyright.

Reducing it to "well you can clone the proprietary software you're forced to use by LLM" is really missing the soul of the GPL.