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As a datapoint: I have routinely been using Claude Code through a VPN for 9 months and am in the UK. I think it has to be more than this. I sometimes shift endpoint mid session and worry I might get flagged. It hasn’t happened yet at least.

I can almost hear the “famous last words”…

The AI labs have somewhat the same problem that publishers have. Essentially their asset is a static piece of IP: a huge file full of numbers. They’re like a publisher only letting you read their book through some scuzzy Flash reader UI because they have to protect that file at all costs. At some point the weights get out/get reproduced and then what they have a is bunch of sunk costs.

I've never really used spaces, I remember them being introduced but they didn't really take for me.

Anyway to see what all the fuss is about I've installed Gridlion but… how can I move an app to another space?

I was expecting to be able use to a keystroke to "flick" an app up/down/left/right onto another space.

What would be required for you to see it as a policy?

When you use the word “allowed” it becomes a policy.

I bow to you 7 times

In fact now I think about it my claim to fame used to be that Github used one of my Rails plugins. I had written a really simple versioning system (Rails 2 I think) that I used for my blog and they used it, IIRC, for versioning wiki pages.

Surprised to find I am #79.

I think that was down to being in a particular IRC channel when CW & co. were building it.

No VORP calculations in US tech I see.

It’s a problem that the models are moving faster than they can be usefully tested. GPT-4.1/4o/o-1 are not SOTA for some time and they don’t even seem to have the Anthropic models as part of their study.

Even if their conclusions were valid at the time they did the work, it says frustratingly little about it today.

We’re testing implementations, not principles.

But we’ve been here before. The agile movement originated as a response to the multifarious problems of big design up front.

Pretty much. Xcode was quirky but it still is. But the frameworks were well documented and 1 Cocoa book could get you a long way. I loved building Obj-C/Cocoa apps back then.

My understanding that attempts to defeat fingerprinting are often useless because they can tend to make you more, rather than less, unique.

So instead I wonder if we could build an open database of “identities” that our browsers could clone.

That is your browser deliberately reports the whatever is currently the most popular of a set of general identities.

After implementing a behaviour tree library and realising the power of select & sequence I found myself wondering why they aren’t used more widely.

I’ve never done anything in crypto but watched in horror as people created immutable contracts with essentially Javascript programs. Surely it would be much easier to reason about/verify scripts written as a behaviour tree with a library of queries and actions. Even being able to limit the scope of modifications would be a win.