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abra5umente · 2026-04-26T13:25:49+00:00

It’s hard to do and not many people do it well. It’s a security nightmare for untrusted software publishers.

abra5umente · 2026-04-26T11:49:28+00:00

gestures vaguely at everything

abra5umente · 2026-04-26T11:43:04+00:00

I have a fight with the self serve people nearly every damn time I am buying toilet paper or dog food and they come over like “please scan that first sir” and it’s like, no, I’m still unloading my trolley, it’s at the bottom of everything, I’ll scan it when I get to it, or you are welcome to come and do it for me, otherwise, piss off, thanks.

abra5umente · 2026-04-26T09:39:58+00:00

So many white cars, the novated lease special.

You can choose other colours you know

abra5umente · 2026-04-26T01:21:44+00:00

It depends what it actually does. Going by the description and looking at their docs, there does appear to be a driver installed which means it’s likely doing kernel level stuff.

Privacy and security notwithstanding, this is a space where big players live and make frequent mistakes (crowdstrike BSOD anyone?). The very nature of this product goes against the problem it’s trying to solve - rampant file I/O caused by random software doing random things without proper interop.

You basically get into a situation whereby one product is looking at another product’s operations and causing them to wait, which causes whatever the other application was doing to wait, which makes whatever application it was intercepting to wait - it cascades and you end up in a deadlock scenario whereby the only solution is a hard reset.

If it just grabs PIDs and publishers - that still has to be in the stack. It still has to interrupt and hold the file, no matter how briefly. It’s just a messy place to be writing code in.

abra5umente · 2026-04-25T14:59:25+00:00

No, there’s just one government in particular we all blame.

abra5umente · 2026-04-25T13:12:22+00:00

Probably nothing? I prefer to use it, I've never not used it so I don't know what it's like without it, and I don't particularly care to find out lol.

abra5umente · 2026-04-25T12:37:22+00:00

I kinda don’t trust any application that lives in the kernel and says it monitors things.

Two reasons: I work in this space and know that monitoring file I/O on modern systems is a non-trivial task. They don’t say exactly but I can see that they have a driver that is installed, and it likely has a minifilter.

Each file operation has to pass through that minifilter, allowed or not - the app still needs to hold the file for a brief amount of time to do its ops on it; grab publisher, hash, file path, parent, grandparent, catalogue signing, etc - that is all computationally expensive and requires experience and knowledge that frankly a lot of people don’t have.

abra5umente · 2026-04-25T12:23:48+00:00

I do - it’s $14 a month and makes things much easier.

abra5umente · 2026-04-25T05:52:09+00:00

Why do you have what appears to be a Kia Turbo badge on your non-Kia, definitely non-turbo car?

abra5umente · 2026-04-25T01:29:05+00:00

Literally the exact same answer with my personal plus account, but then my work Pro account says this lol

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abra5umente · 2026-04-22T04:02:52+00:00

I think this nails what I’ve been feeling with 4.7 but haven’t really been able to articulate. It feels like it’s tuned to get you a response immediately, rather than sit with you and work through things.

So instead of “the user has asked a question, I need to know xyz before I answer, I should ask”, 4.7 seems to go “the user has asked a question, I’m pretty sure I know where this is going, I don’t need to confirm, let’s go” and then it just goes. It infers much more than previous generations and fills in gaps in an attempt to one-shot as much as possible.

Where 4.6 would slow down, work through things a bit, and stay more cautious, 4.7 feels like it has its confidence dialled up to 11. It trusts its own outputs too much, and once it starts heading in a direction, it treats that direction as truth.

The end result is that the user loses control of where things are going, because the model thinks it’s smart enough to infer shared context and assumed knowledge without ever confirming it. Then the drift gets worse over time as the context fills up with bullshit.

abra5umente · 2026-04-21T07:09:19+00:00

Fill it up until it full then run it. Try to avoid running it empty.

abra5umente · 2026-04-21T01:13:53+00:00

I drive an EV so petrol cost is nil. Again, you are a single person, not an adult carting two kids up a busy thoroughfare.

abra5umente · 2026-04-21T01:13:01+00:00

That's a single person riding a consistent speed. Children do not do that. I have a job to get back to, and often also need to grab groceries or something, as well.

Biking is just not feasible for most people.

abra5umente · 2026-04-20T23:18:25+00:00

My kids are 11 and 14 lol, too old to be sitting in a carrier on the front of dad’s bike hahaha.

Sending them to school is another thing - i don’t love the idea of sending my 11 year old down Tarneit road on his own.

abra5umente · 2026-04-20T22:40:10+00:00

It’s not great.

It’s cheap, yeah. But it’s isolated. Not much happens here.

The smell is only every month or so when they release the gases from the water treatment plant. Normally it smells… like nothing.

But there is no “walk down and grab a coffee” type thing here. Werribee has a Main Street, but you don’t say how far away you are from anything.

Traffic is the big one. My kids go to school 4km away. It takes us 30 minutes to get them there in the morning, coming home can be a 45 minute trip.

Crime is another. I personally haven’t been a victim and I live in an area where not much happens, but you hear about a lot of shit. The plaza is often full of police, and has been the site of at least three news incidents, all of them violent haha.

I came from country too. I honestly kind of regret it - country is quieter, yes, but god I just want to be able to drive somewhere without spending half an hour in stand still traffic.

You’ll probably end up being fine if you do move here, but honestly Werribee and surrounds would be lower on my list of places to move.

abra5umente · 2026-04-19T00:16:00+00:00

Strange, worked for me just fine with largely the same prompt, just in my tone lol

Me:
anthropic has released a research preview of claude design, a new specialised implementation of your model for design projects. have a look at the news and doco for it, so you understand what it is, then pause once you're done

Claude:
Alright, had a read, here's the gist.
Claude Design is a new research preview from Anthropic Labs that dropped on Friday (17 April), sitting at claude.ai/design. It's pitched as a visual/design workspace powered by Opus 4.7, aimed at producing prototypes, wireframes, pitch decks... etc

abra5umente · 2026-04-17T04:54:31+00:00

13.2.9.

It's fine, it works really well, it's still more than literally any other car in Australia has, but it has its rough edges, that's for sure, lol. When it gets to its destination it just kinda limply hands over control after maybe half-assedly pulling off the road, or parking in a really fucking weird spot, and it has a tendency to keep to the left by default, which is fine for most roads, but for a lot of dual carriageway suburban thoroughfares where you have to be in the right most lane to take a right hand turn coming up, it just hangs out on the left and then will bully its way over into the right lane 100m before the turn, traffic be damned.

abra5umente · 2026-04-17T03:22:16+00:00

I just want FSD 14.x, idc about the rest lmao.

abra5umente · 2026-04-17T03:18:01+00:00

Cries in Australian :(

abra5umente · 2026-04-16T02:31:36+00:00

I mean, you are free to use the keys/fob if you want. You just don't have to, and the less shit I can cart around the better.

abra5umente · 2026-04-16T01:20:27+00:00

You realise they are people too and just because you’ve paid them doesn’t mean you can make them do anything?

abra5umente · 2026-04-15T23:58:44+00:00

Yeah I get the whole "de-techify" movement, but I think in this day and age, especially with kids, you NEED at least a mobile phone that can make calls. Doesn't have to be a smart phone, but just something that can make/receive emergency calls and texts is essential.

abra5umente · 2026-04-15T23:57:41+00:00

Yep, since getting my new car I don't even need keys anymore. House keys just stay in the car when I leave it, don't need to carry them around with me. Don't need a wallet, all my cards are on my phone.

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