gardnr's comments

On: Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use

[gardnr]

Cory Doctorow has a word for this..

[esafak → gardnr]

They think their position is strong enough to lock users in. I'm not so sure.

[whatsupdog → gardnr]

It's enshittification - for those who didn't know.

On: Meta to retire messenger desktop app and messenger.com in April 2026

[gardnr]

What is that in reference to?

[alex1138 → gardnr]

Obviously FB's market cap, and how it doesn't deserve it

The entire company has always been built on fraud

[gardnr → alex1138]

Ahh, it was just a simple mistake. FB's market cap is $1.627 trillion (not billion) today.

https://nz.finance.yahoo.com/quote/META/

On: Meta to retire messenger desktop app and messenger.com in April 2026

[gardnr]

There was a plugin called "Off The Record" (OTR) which would do a pk exhange and then send cipher text over the channel. It was rad. You could have e2ee over Facebook Messenger. When you opened the chat in the Facebook web ui, all you could see was the cipher-text.

Then Facebook started blocking 3rd party clients and Pidgin et-al slowly faded away.

https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/

[zetalyrae → gardnr]

I remember! I also used Pidgin OTR over the Facebook XMPP gateway. At some point Facebook started recognizing it, but not banning it: you could go to the web interface and you'd see "encrypted message" instead of noise.

[alex1138 → gardnr]

Yeah but Facebook's 6 digit pin that they FORCED everyone on and severely disrupted messages and message history is totally a better system

Zuck deserves to be in prison along with other black hat hackers, this is just one of so many other things he's guilty of

[LollipopYakuza → alex1138]

I don't understand your point. Do you mean he should go to prison for doing whatever he wants with his own product?

[alex1138 → LollipopYakuza]

Mark Zuckerberg hacked Crimson reporters (a Harvard newspaper) who were investigating him for Facemash. Mark Zuckerberg's company took people's API-facing emails that were in their profiles and replaced them with a facebook.com address. Mark Zuckerberg's company deleted years of his own correspondence. This in addition to things like Onavo

Yeah, I'm suggesting he go to prison for "doing whatever he wants"

[CursedSilicon → alex1138]

Do you have citations for these claims?

To be clear. They're a weird goal post move from "FORCED a 6 digit pin"

On: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

[gardnr]

Not everyone has the brain chemistry to watch them in a healthy way. Google seems to be preying on that population by preventing people from disabling the feature; to make some quarterly charts look better.

On: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

[gardnr]

That's weird. They keep showing me rage-bait videos with like 100 views. I'd much prefer pianos and Japanese metal bands.

On: MinIO repository is no longer maintained

[gardnr]

  garaged:
    image: dxflrs/garage:v2.2.0
    ports:
      - "3900:3900"
      - "3901:3901"
      - "3902:3902"
      - "3903:3903"
    volumes:
      - /opt/garage/garage.toml:/etc/garage.toml:ro
      - /opt/garage/meta:/var/lib/garage/meta
      - /opt/garage/data:/var/lib/garage/data

On: Claude Code is being dumbed down?

[gardnr]

Have you considered keeping the old behavior available as "legacy mode"? I don't want verbose mode. I don't want to spend time configuring a mutli-state verbose mode that introduces new logging in future versions so I have to go and suppress things to get just file names. I just want to see the file names. I don't consider that verbose.

On: Speed up responses with fast mode

[gardnr]

The discount MAX plans are already on slow-mode.

On: Claude Code for Infrastructure

[gardnr]

The reason:

> Safety. I didn't want CC to SSH into a prod machine

The call to action:

> curl -fsSL https://fluid.sh/install.sh | bash

The reason this is ironic: https://x.com/sheeki03/status/2018382483465867444

[ahoka → gardnr]

One just needs to put enough poison on the internet to get the malicious URL suggested by LLMs. What a time to be alive!

[datsci_est_2015 → ahoka]

Honestly, I may be an accelerationist in terms of poisoning the LLM well if it gets us sooner to an industry-wide consensus that LLM output is a significant security risk.

On: SF Telephone Directory (1905)

[gardnr]

The full text version is harder to read but easier to grep https://archive.org/stream/sanfranciscotele1905paci_0/sanfra...