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You know those data brokers and skip tracers like Acxiom and Epsilon that merge all the government databases like property records or USPS change of address notifications with private databases like all the contact lists every random app wants you to upload?

They probably did a fuzzy merge and your number (or a number typo'd to yours) got associated with some random old lady.

That's how I got on the lists of all the scummy PACs targeting elderly voters that Adam Bonica called out recently. I only figured it out because the cash for homes cold contacts trying to lowball his house will actually respond.

STOP to a 10DLC number should block further texts from that specific number at a carrier level, regardless of whether the campaign honors its 10DLC requirements. At least, until it’s recycled to a new campaign.

There's a certain online segment that's proud of not having a "real" job and has made that core to their identity. For reasons (4chan), Touhou blew up in part of that community during the great recession. They twist their arguments about Touhou specifically (reading OP's rant, wow the goalposts sure have shifted in the last decade), but ultimately I'm convinced it just boils down to wanting to feel superior for having opted out of the entire economic system.

When I first tried using IDE AI coding assistants a bit over a year ago, they would frequently fail to read files and completely hallucinate the code I asked it to analyze or edit. And even when it did successfully read my code, it would often hallucinate the API of other frameworks.

I don’t think hallucinations are a major issue with agentic coding a year later? At least, not for me.

Legal writing does have the problem that there is no such thing as a correct argument that a goal-driven loop can target. But basic things like “does this case even exist” seem solvable with research agents, and even harder problems like “does this case support the argument being made” seem conceptually very similar to questions I now ask Claude daily.

HEVC intra is definitely not 10-20x slower than decoding VP8 intra, so something is way off with your numbers. That's on the order of comparing HM at -O0 against an actual VP8 decoder.

If you're arguing that SIP isn't a useful defense against malware, I agree there.

Sandboxing full disk reads is orthogonal to what SIP actually provides. It's entirely possible for an unsandboxed binary to slurp your private data even with SIP enabled.

Protection from the sort of malware OP was hit with is the most commonly cited dire warning against disabling SIP. I just assumed that was also the reason you were against disabling SIP in order to grant permissions to software you intentionally installed.

Sort of; SIP originally was simply meant to protect /System from root. But nowadays, it's more used for system attestation. Which in turn is used by the OS to decide how to ask for and enforce certain user permissions and sandbox profiles.

Which system integrity protection are you worried about missing? Muse being able to exfiltrate the contents of your messages db doesn’t compromise system integrity to begin with. It being able to write arguably does, but this whole conversation was about how to grant it full disk access in the future anyway.

And OP had SIP enabled, but his system still got compromised with a remote exploit.

Or the scary warnings today against disabling SIP, repeated by forum users anywhere it’s discussed.

Which happens to be the only way to disable the TCC permission dialogs OP complains about. Guess the warnings worked well enough that no one knows that anymore.

App store apps are required to run in a sandbox that denies file accesses without user permission.

Muse is not available in the macOS app store. Almost certainly because of the sandboxing requirements.