jitbit

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Hi. I'm Alex, I live in the UK and I run a small self-funded startup - https://www.jitbit.com. My blog is at https://www.jitbit.com/alexblog
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Comment · 1 day ago
Ironically, that page has a paragraph "How Cursor reduces supply-chain risk:"

Which is exactly the opposite of what happened today.

Comment · 1 day ago
Ok, so... Summing this up

- Cursor (obviously) is not using MSFT vscode extensions library - Cursor (apparently) is not using Open-VSX either! - Cursor uses it's own "Cursor's marketplace" which is not public, no one knows what it is exactly, and looks like it is proxying open-vsx marketplace (?) - THAT "Cursor's markeplace" is what was compromised today.

So. I would really really love someone from Cusro's team to step in and explain WTF just happened! (pardong the language)

Comment · 1 day ago
Oh god... this needs more attention

An official announcement from Anthropic would be nice!

Comment · 2 days ago
69k rep here. I treated stackoverflow as my “facebook”. I even have moderator permissions.

I still left eventually and LLM has nothing to do with it. It’s the “closing as duplicate”, it’s the “provide text explanation not just code”, it’s the “deleted as off topic”.

I can’t tell you how many times I was finding useful info in DELETED answers (I see them as moderator). And the existing “vote for undelete/reopen” procedure does not work.

SO did not die because of LLLMs. It died because it was driven to the ground then sold private equity and about to be sold again (mark my words)

Comment · 4 days ago
Dog barking is, like, 1% of the findings. They also claim the TV is:

1. taking screenshots of your screen 2. fingerpriting devices on your local network 3. connects to bluetooth mics in the room and recording audio without asking etc.

Comment · 21 days ago
They do mention it in the article

“To build Microsoft-Decision-1, we post trained Qwen3.5-9B”

Comment · 24 days ago
Time to do what? Watch more Netflix, doomscroll, procrastinate?

Don’t fool yourself, we’re not exactly curing cancer.

I’d rather solve a tech puzzle by hand.

Comment · 1 month ago
Thanks you for this comment.

I’m bad at throwing parties and I’m a bad cook.

So instead I invite friends/family to stay over. Even with kids.

Thats also very gratofying, play some board games, sit next to the fire and then have breakfast together.

Best way to copē with the world at it’s current state.

(Also a European here, mildly affectrd ny war)

Comment · 1 month ago
I maintain a popular Saml library for NET (aspnetsaml). And yep, I made that rookie mistake too
Comment · 1 month ago
same. "macOS Tahoe 26+" requirement is a bummer.
Comment · 1 month ago
> "I believe it could dramatically raise the quality of human life"

Reading this from Dario (or SamA) makes me sick every time. Such hypocrisy.

DeepMind built AlphaFold2, an transformer/attention-based system that predicts protein folding structure, then published the method, open-sourced the code and model, and together with EMBL/EBI made hundreds of millions of predicted protein structures freely available to scientists worldwide.

!THAT! is what "raising the quality of human life" looks like to me. An enormous contribution to structural biology and biomedical research.

Meanwhile, Dario spends a great deal of effort arguing for tighter controls for open-weight models, while OpenAI increasingly seems to treat mathematical discoveries as competitive PR/product announcements.

Jeez.

P.S. Not saying Google are the good guys here. It's just an example of what actually putting a major AI breakthrough into the hands of scientists can look like.

Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 2 months ago
Not when the convention is that theres supposed to be a real person on the other side.

Example: a real musician decides to use AI to generate music (in full or partially) - their audience may still feel cheated.

Comment · 2 months ago
This comment is (mostly) AI generated.

Which is funny because it complains about the lack of originality

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