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Dain Little retweeted
I think I speak for everyone when I say "@AnthropicAI , fuck you and the horse you rode in on."
I don't personally care about doing video game rewrites myself. But the whole concept that some busybody can tell me what I may not do with the tool I am paying for is deeply offensive.
You will be replaced by open-weight and open-source models. Every asshole move like this makes you more enemies and brings that day closer.
ANTHROPIC IS CRACKING DOWN ON VIDEO GAME REWRITES 🚨
Claude Code picked up a new rule around Oct 27, sent from Anthropic’s servers under a flag called "tengu_heron_brook". There’s no setting to turn it off.
The full rule: “Do build original games, games in a genre, and games from the user’s own designs and assets. Don’t build a recreation of a specific existing game, even if it is renamed or called original.”
Is this the end of game rewrites, modding and everything in between?
Dain Little retweeted
#BREAKING: ICE is conducting one of the biggest spy operations on left-wing activists in history.
Dain Little retweeted
If you want to make Malfoid canon, read the following:
The Department of Education's Malfoid has reminded me of the circumstances that made Maid Marian canon to the Robin Hood legend. It may surprise you to know she is apocryphal, i.e. not part of the original story.
She's a "fanon" [lit. a Fan Canon] character, who later gained traction and legitimacy. Robin hood was originally a story about a dudebro (the original Good Guy Steve meme) out with his bros robbing evil clergymen and trying to bring justice back to the Church, in the name of the Virgin Mary.
Now? Marian and Chivalric Love are as inseparable to Robin Hood as the Sheriff of Nottingham.
Here's how that happened.
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Dain Little retweeted
Oh, I don't know, maybe he did it because you're running on a platform of "let's take all of Elon Musk's stuff and throw him in the gulag"?
Dain Little retweeted
we absolutely should in fact genetically engineer bioluminescent plants & trees and then completely eradicate the affront to God that is LED street lights from the face of the Earth
Dain Little retweeted
"Terence Tao, you dumbshit" is not a judgment I would have ever thought possible before a few months ago.
Tao complains "AI is generating terrible proofs: great results, but no care for elegance, for who understands them, or for what comes next".
You've just described what you are supposed to do as a human being, fool. It's not the chisel's job to make a sculpture look beautiful; those choices belong to the mind and hand of the sculptor.
I've been writing software for 50 years. If I, a crusty old fart from the days of punched cards, can accept that I will never write a significant amount of code by hand again - that my job is steering and quality-checking an AI now - then what is *your* excuse for mental inflexibility, golden genius boy?
I'm pretty sure that if AIs actually had enough mathematical taste to be consistently elegant, and then were good enough at explanations to make their proof accessible, which is what you say you want...
...you'd be bitching harder, because you'd be entirely obsolete.
Quit your whining, you spoiled primadonna. Go do your job.
Dain Little retweeted
This is the best explanation between left and right I have heard in a long time! #RepublicanValues #democraticvalues
Dain Little retweeted
"Even Heaven had to go to war to protect its peace. Never apologize for drawing a line that kindness couldn't hold."
Dain Little retweeted
That's why I gave it to a lawyer to test
Yeah, pilotlight is a whole different beast than Clio or Smokeball. Basically it functions as an evidence preserver and legal strategist, that generates a complaint draft, an organized evidence archive, and a strategy document that you take to a real lawyer. Cuts out 95% of the work and builds you a better case than you'd be able to accomplish by, like... describing the situation to a lawyer.
For what its worth, every lawyer I've shown it to has come in with enormous skepticism and then loved it
Dain Little retweeted
So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
Dain Little retweeted
I believe that Japan was under the influence of a bloodthirsty ideology, and the tendency of Japanese to be loyal and trustworthy to each other made your ancestors all go along with it.
So it was necessary to fight them.
But Japanese people are also very smart and perceptive, and can learn things. And after the war, they learned very quickly that we don't have to be enemies.
The cooperativeness, trustworthiness, and loyalty that made Japanese people such dangerous enemies also makes them the best of friends to have.
I believe the use of atomic weapons was justified, perhaps even necessary.
But referencing that history to mock the Japanese people, especially the current generation of them, would be a disgusting thing to do.
Dain Little retweeted
More private keys by the Indian certificate authority have been discovered. These are all small numbers.
People are suspecting that they interpreted 384 bit keys to mean that they should pick numbers from 1-384 to use as their private keys.
Dain Little retweeted
Boosting this because it deserves wider exposure. The central point that a drop in subscriptions is a *lagging* indicator of business failure is really astute - the kind of thing that should have occurred to me but didn't.
The additional point I want to make is that at the velocity of change today, that lag is much more dangerous than it used to be. By the time you can notice that your customers bailed out of using the project a while ago, it may well be too late to course-correct.
This is, I think, what's going to happen to Adobe. They're like Wile E. Coyote running in mid-air right now - their customer base is furious with them and probably already trying out alternatives like DaVinci and even the new Photocraft. But the famous dark-pattern stickiness of their subscription flow is going to ask that market signal for a while.
And of course the people running the company are probably going to be looking for any excuse to believe that everything is juuuuust fine. There will be a period in the near future during which they'll be telling analysts "Bah! Revenue is in great shape, these would-be competitors are not meeting consumer demand." That is, until revenue falls off a cliff.
Savor the irony. The same dark pattern that made them so profitable is what will rob them of time to correct before an irreversible crash.
The dirty secret of SAAS is that subscription pricing allows you to keep charging customers who aren't really using the product.
The downside of this is that when your subscriptions finally churn, it's a *lagging indicator* of your business failing.
I strongly suspect that there are many, many "dead men walking" now in SAAS, both AI-native and traditional: businesses where the financials may still look fine -- just a quarter or two of stagnant growth, margins are still great, maybe there's an AI narrative going forward, etc. but the *product* is losing utilization and they will lose every single customer to {{AI-native competitor, possibly the big labs themselves}} as the customers encounter those solutions. Those customers become dormant users, but the subscriptions still run for the while.
The actual revenue churn only occurs months or quarters later when the question of "is anyone still using this? do we need to keep paying for this?" is finally answered with a "no" rather than an "i'm not sure".
Dain Little retweeted
Can I say something without pissing everyone off?
Look at this loser. Short, chubby, with his gelled back hair, fake Ray Bans and whatever the F is happening with that lower lip happy trail and white undershirt to hide his lack of chest hair.
Loser.
And it gets worse. He’s a single dude who snuggles with his cat before clocking in at a tire store. Couldn’t even get a like on a dating app.
Loser.
And it’s worse. He’s got some spinal thing making him a partial cripple and a pronounced learning disabilities.
Loser.
Does that piss you off? Does telling the truth anger you? Am I not allowed to say the blatantly obvious online?
Does saying the truth EVERYONE is thinking make me a judgmental, ableist prick?
Screw you for judging me.
Stop being aholes to people with the balls to tell you the unvarnished truth.
If this guy had called me, a experienced mariner with the highest USCG license imaginable, and told me his plan to buy a shit ass boat and sail it around the world I would have told this loser he was going to fail.
But he didn’t call me. He took the official motto of American mariners to heart.
Acta Non Verba
Actions not words.
He wrote a letter not to Garcia but to himself.
And if he had called me, how dare I “kill” his dream? How dare me for saying I would have told him he’d fail?
Because fail he did. He only made it to Hawaii.
With his cat.
A cat.
Loser?
Fuck no. He failed. At sea. An unforgiving sea that doesn’t give a shit about your dreams or aspirations or whatever the F is happening with that lower lip happy trail.
A sea that rewards experience and gives absolutely no bonus points because you couldn’t afford better gear because you work in a tire store.
And failure brings experience. And failure makes you figure out how to beg, borrow or steal that equipment you can’t afford.
Failure by a working class loser and his cat inspired millions to fund a second attempt.
Did he take that money and drop it on a perfect boat? Nope. Did he drop the boat he did purchase at a boatyard and say “fix it”? Nope.
He spent months on the hard building out the systems himself.
Now he’s making a solid go.
And if he called me today and asked for advice… what would I say? Well he wouldn’t call me, I have decades of experience but he’s in another league. Above me.
Screw Lionel Messi
Screw Keanu Reeves
Screw LeBron James
Screw whatever sports star or politician or activist or actor you admire most.
This guy is above them.
Now I’m not saying Lionel or Keanu or whoever isn’t worthy of admiration. I deeply respect their talent and work ethic.
But they aren’t tire guy loser sailing with his cat AROUND THE F WORLD nonstop alone:
Fewer people have done that than climbed Everest and he has zero sherpa’s to help.
And nearly every other dangerous sport in earth you’ll get to a hospital in a few days if injured. Not this guy. He is far beyond the max cruising range of any rescue helicopter.
Meet Oliver Widger
Loser turned THE coolest guy on planet earth IMHO
Patriot
Daredevil
Poet
Philosopher of the sea
Inspiration
From tire store rags to the riches of purpose filled life.
Bravo Zulu Oliver Widger. I am truly and passionately impressed 🫡
Dain Little retweeted
Oh, John Ringo, NO! @Jringo1508
I'm getting very definite @Jringo1508 NTKOGG vibes about all the @DataRepublican etc. revelations.
IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE FICTION DAMMIT!!!!!