topbanana

You're right to call that out

It's easy to imagine this only happening for subscription accounts rather than paid API usage. Any data on this?

I would, or C#

When you work at a Java shop. Kotlin is much nicer if you have to run on the JVM but aren't restricted to Java.

GPT 5.6 Luna is very good

That's the reason at my shop. Real shame, as there's really no limit on token spend

So are they stealing from their employers or is something else going on?

In case of engine fire they need to cut fuel

I use Meridian standalone active speakers which just take a PCM stream. An HDFury Vertex2 can strip the audio from HDMI

The point is running locally, not efficiently

Interesting. If you need to support occasional writes, you could have a large static search tree and a small writable tree that you check afterwards. The when you have enough changes, you could occasionally ship those changes into a new version of the static tree

I would go this way for cross platform native UI

RocksDB is written in C++ and runs in-process. That's just like having a load of unsafe Rust code.

Makes me wonder how many backdoors like this are in the wild, undetected