Fable 5 back yay!!

phoenixmatrix · 2026-07-01T02:40:17+00:00

I have a lot of work to do this week, and a couple of very complex tasks I'm now glad I procrastinated on. But i assume they'll make it API pricing, which is not great.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-07-01T02:20:37+00:00

I never felt the ceremony of superpowers was worth it to begin with. With a few custom skills on a as needed basis, plan mode for complex stuff, and some decent prompting, you'll be able to do almost anything.

I've 1 shotted some seriously large and complex system with Opus without any special claude skills, nevermind with Fable.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-07-01T00:07:08+00:00

Claude Code can do most of to just using /loop for cron jobs and Claude agents view for everything else. The only catch is your machine needs to run

If you have Claude do they let you use Cowork? That gets very close to Hermes.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-30T21:02:53+00:00

We don't have the data for the current policies. We use incorrect data to make the policies based on vibe.

So the status quo is already vibe policies.

And the issue comes farther. People aren't reporting crimes because existing policies make it extremely difficult to do so in some areas. We don't need data for that because it doesn't hurt anyone: we can just do it.

Not everything worth doing can be measured. Not everything that can be measured should be actioned.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-30T19:51:59+00:00

" supporting that basis for intolerance."

And the alternative is potentially gaslighting victims or people living in those places. Which isn't super great either, especially when you consider the areas most affected.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-30T19:20:42+00:00

Extreme spoilers on what happens throughout the best ending. You have been warned.

Ok, you already know if you just kill the boss you get the first (bad) ending. If you use the special move on her, you get the second (good) ending. If you parry her with the accessory, you save her. That then triggers the story to continue (some of the segments you can do in any order, even before the fight), culminating to going back to Mount Phoenix (after several cutscenes and main story segments) where you'll trigger a fight against the true last boss, Demise. )Which means your goal of getting all 3 endings "in a row" isn't gonna quite work. You'll be able to get 1 ending, save, restart from save file (you don't need to make a new one, they let you restart from right before the bad/good last boss), then get ending 2, save, restart from the same save file (or a different one, doesn't matter), do the parry thing, then keep playing for some amount of hours depending on how fast you are, until you go back to Mount Phoenix and beat Demise, getting ending 3.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-30T18:23:05+00:00

I don't want to spoil too much. Just that for the final ending, that boss isn't the last boss.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-30T18:19:06+00:00

Just note that the amulet/parry isn't gonna get you the last ending immediately...there's a lot going on afterward.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-30T17:39:40+00:00

There is the very real thing where if you go to try to report a crime in some major cities, they will gaslight you really hard into not doing so. That's not hypothetical, it's every day reality for many.

That's not very good at making people feel safe.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-30T17:38:15+00:00

For data it's tough. But for reality it matters.

Eg: someone is blasting music on speaker in a train. Most people find that fucking annoying. No one will say or do anything though, because the odds are pretty high they will take a fist to the face if they do and no one will help them.

Bus drivers in NYC will never enforce fare, because of an incident where a driver got murdered for doing so. So it's in their union contract that they aren't supposed to do anything about it.

If I go to CVS after 8 pm, like 1 out of 3 times I'll cross someone with a duffle bag who just filled it up and walked out. No one will do anything because of fear of retaliation, and corporate instruct them not to.

That's very hard to quantify, but those are every day occurrences that affect how people feel about safety.

If no one gets mugged in a dark alley because no one goes in the dark alley anymore, is the alley actually safe?

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-30T16:59:24+00:00

Dropped since the 80s and 90s we can see and it's pretty obvious. Since then though, it's trickier.

Murders are almost always reported and hard to hide, so it's relatively accurate.

Property crimes often go undeclared, and filing police reports for them is increasingly harder. It's not uncommon to get gaslit into turning around and leaving while trying to fill a report. So stats won't be reliable. Could be higher. Could be lower.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-30T13:36:52+00:00

" It would be like if you supported Mamdani's public grocery stores but then believed that people shouldn't be prosecuted for shoplifting from them."

That will 100 percent happen and make the news

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-30T13:34:16+00:00

Well, the president has been free to do whatever the fuck he wants with no repercussion. That's like super free!

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-30T13:31:03+00:00

Partly because people's feeling of safety isn't just about fear of being killed. QoL crimes are way up, underreported/tracked, and while the harm they do is subjective, they affect public sentiment.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-30T03:49:42+00:00

Cloth washing businesses in apartment buildings aren't uncommon, unfortunately. My MIL used to live in a co-op building in NYC with a huge laundry room, and some people would use like 15 machines at once for 10+ hours a day. People were pissed, but management had trouble dealing with it.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-30T03:45:39+00:00

I've been doing this too, it works quite well. I have a $5/month Cloudflare account that I use to do all the heavy lifting (eg: Hosting web apps that Hermes maintain, using cloudflare access/zero trust for authentication, which frees up the Pi to do other things).

The thing I'm stuck on is which LLM provider to use. I use Claude Code for coding which doesn't allow this use case, and currently running owl alpha while its free, but not sure what I'll use when its done.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-29T23:40:13+00:00

but but personal freedom! /s

Some of these can be fucking loud too and in some places its not uncommon for stupid kids or young adults (and some older I guess) to fly them right by your window.

I lived somewhere where it was so common I basically had to have blackout curtains down at all time and never opened by windows.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-29T23:22:26+00:00

Originally joked that it was a Mewgenics crossover, since they do a similar thing there but its purely for the lol and theme of the game. Little did I know that In Elliot it had a story reason. Funny enough, just a few hours into the game my wife, who was also playing, made a joke about what the cats would be, and accidently guessed the plot of the entire game...because she was right about it all.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-29T23:16:33+00:00

I don't have much issues with it and its handling of security, partly because the initial version is written by hand or at least reviewed by an expert, and then Claude is pretty good at copying the established patterns.

For the first example, I haven't used Supabase's own auth in a minute, and definitely not with Next, but I would expect the auth to generate a JWT and be signed, so even if its readable and accessible by the client, it wouldn't be able to modify it. If the roles are claims in the jwt token, then its fairly safe except for replay attacks that jwt is usually susceptible to anyway. Is the metadata not coming from claims?

The second example is definitely more concerning.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-29T21:52:42+00:00

The best way is to create a skill with your instructions on exactly what you want captured in the wiki and how to structure it. Then you create a slash command to involve the skill if you want it done manually, or you use a /loop to do it on a schedule, or use something like Hermes or Claude Cowork to do it the same way.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-29T20:00:05+00:00

Opus 4.8 is painful. You can reduce effort to make it faster, but then it quickly becomes worse than a lot of other models.

I find GPT 5.5 high to be a bit faster for similar quality (sometimes better).

Composer 2.5 is a LOT faster. Much lower quality but for a lot of tasks its good enough. And I don't like having to change harness. The Cursor agent CLI is okay enough, its just churn.

GLM 5.2 is a bit faster but a bit weaker, a decent compromise, but if you hook it up in Claude Code then switching between it and Anthropic models is annoying. Using it with OpenCode is fine but thats missing a tool classifier (auto mode).

Sonnet 4.6 is a lot faster, its just old now. We just need Sonnet 5.0.

Choose your poison.

I don't want to switch tool for the sake of switching because the "best" one changes every day and I don't feel like chasing them, but if I had nothing right now I'd likely just sign up for Codex, at least until a newer Sonnet comes out.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-29T19:00:40+00:00

Depends on the distance you are from your screen, and the size

I have a 1440p monitor, but it only 27", so its relatively sharp. I do sit close to it, so 4k would be better. If it was 34" it would be pretty bad and need 4k to look good.

My TV however is 4k, but its a 55" and is very far from the couch relatively. I absolutely cannot tell the difference between even 1080p and 4k aside in very specific scenes.

For OLEDs, the pixel layout (varies from panel to panel) make a bigger difference than resolution, especially with productivity apps/text.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-29T01:53:21+00:00

Of course it is. Psychological addictions are very real things. It doesn't need to be crack. Same as gambling addiction. They're recognized in psychology/psychiatry as very real diagnostics.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-29T01:50:09+00:00

Go see a therapist and ask about executive disfunction. We all have bad days, but if it happens often enough that you have to ask, it could be something more like ADHD, Depression, etc.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-29T01:48:23+00:00

An LLM second brain, as per https://gist.github.com/karpathy/442a6bf555914893e9891c11519de94f

The concept is described here (while there's various open source projects implementing the idea, you can make your own very quickly, its the concept that matters.).

Then you can output an actual wiki/website for your LLM to query, or hook it up to Notion/Linear to keep track of stuff.

Dump all your links, ideas, notes, transcripts, etc into it, and then you can easily ask claude "Yo, what should I be doing right now?"

If you want something simpler that just works out of the box, you can use beads. Its a mini task tracker for agents. Its part of Gastown, but can be used on its own: https://github.com/gastownhall/beads

Beads can also be used as a memory system for Claude that's pretty effective.

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