And because the thinking, which does makes it better at achieving outcomes, contains naughty words and information (e.g. private information). https://stolen-thoughts.com/
Yes. I've not used Opus 5 much directly, but when it was Fable and Opus 4.8, I found Fable did this all the time and it was maddening. It'd say stuff like "Oh, I mentioned that between tool calls" or something.
I’m pretty sure this is a Claude code bug - if you do ctrl+o you can see those hidden responses from Fable. Fable doesn’t know the harness is bugged, so I added instruction to my Claude.md to save all commentary for final message.
If we're viewing this as a _bad_ thing, I don't really see that it is any different than how Claude encrypts it's thinking. Take a peek at your ~/.claude jsonl files. You're sending thinking ciphertext back and forth to Anthropic. Presumably the thinking is either considered proprietary, or, more likely, leaks embarrassing or confidential information.
> I don't really see that it is any different than how Claude encrypts it's thinking. Take a peek at your ~/.claude jsonl files. You're sending thinking ciphertext back and forth to Anthropic.
I was already only using Claude Code to double-check if it's getting better than Codex, but with things like this, it really isn't even an alternative. What's the point of using a reasoning model if you as an end-user can't seen the reasoning? I don't think I'd be able to work like that at all, I need to have introspection into what the model is doing, and can't believe I have to say this, but also need to be able to see the plaintext of the input prompt...
Similar experience. I liken it to merging onto a freeway: you want to get up to speed first, then change lanes. If you don't, it feels like you're always fighing the pressure. If you equalize the pressure correctly breathing is as easy (easier) than without the mask.
As a Canadian I don't really think Americans have really understood how upset we are. Most US-facing talk is about tariffs, but the repeated threats of annexation and taunting (Governor, 51st state, Noem's despicable actions at Haskell Library) are both enraging and terrifying. I have no intention of returning to the US for any type of tourism or business travel indefinitely. People are ensuring their flight paths to other countries do not even cross US airspace.
This audience will likely call me paranoid, or try to downplay/deflect, but we can see clearly what's going on and the gaslighting does not help.
I think it's a very sane behavior. I used to travel regularly to the US for both work and leisure, but I'll think twice before doing it again. On the one hand, I do know lots of Americans didn't vote from Trump. A lot of those who did probably aren't necessarily bad people. But still, this country has become hostile, it's pretty hard to pretend that everything's normal.
> A lot of those who did probably aren't necessarily bad people.
A lot who did are now surprised (for the second time) that Trump is bein' a total ass-hat. Learned nothing from the first time around except that he's an infallible "stable genius" what can never be wrong about anything. They're literal cult-members.
Anecdote: I'm helping a family member set up a personal brand website. He has a brand/marketing person for the content/design, but wanted me to manage the tech side of email, domains, providers, etc. I've used Wordpress a handful of times in my life, but it's an easy recommendation to make. We've spent maybe 30 mins a week for the past few weeks chipping away at it. We chose https://getflywheel.com/ as the managed WP provider[1]. They are owned by WP Engine.
Today, we got to installing the WP Mail SMTP plugin[2]. Oops, can't search for plugins. Maybe this has something to do with what I read on Hacker News yesterday, I think out loud. The Flywheel status page tells us to download the plugin zip and upload it, and we do. Crisis averted. But now... the plugin itself depends on talking back to the wordpress.org plugin registry. And it's blocked. The setup wizard fails with an unrecoverable javascript error. And we give up for another week.
I showed him the TechCrunch article. We agree that this is petty. Does he care about who is at fault, or the intricacies of trademark infringement, or the stewardship of public APIs? Nope. He just knows his first impression of Wordpress is that it's unreliable, both technically and organizationally.
[1] Could I have hosted it for him on DigitalOcean for cheaper? Yes. But I want him owning everything and pay someone to support it who isn't me.
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> Your Google domain has been migrated to your Squarespace Domains account.
You can now log in at Squarespace Domains with your Google account to manage your domain, example.org. This is part of Squarespace's acquisition of all domain registrations and customer accounts from Google Domains.
Just about all of Apple's alternates to Google services are fine in my experience. I recently switched from Proton Mail to Apple Mail and have been satisfied saving a few bucks a month there. I don't know how to evaluate Apple's claims to privacy though.
I guess that's fine for diversifying the big corporate overlords you rely on, which I'll agree is an improvement over relying on Google for everything. But still, I wish there were open alternatives.
When US (NTSC) shows are aired in Europe (PAL), the framerate difference necessitates a small speed-up. It's barely noticeable, except when music is playing, at which point it is very, very noticeable. Yes, it's a little higher pitched, but it just feels wrong and is immediately noticeable. I think it's about 3% speed up, which is exactly what's being described here.
They may have been referring to film (24 FPS) or its broadcast equivalent (23.976 FPS) being shifted to PAL, which is quite a bit smaller of a jump.
NTSC —> PAL can either be annoying, or difficult to manage without artifacts. If the NTSC source is telecined from a 23.976 source, you can invert that process to get the original back, and then deal with the minor time shift to PAL. If it’s pure NTSC, there’s a lot of filtering to be done to get an acceptable result. At least, last I played with it.
