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I recommend you get off Authy - they don't have a browser extension or a desktop client, and surprise they don't have a way to export your codes either. I had to send them a GDPR data request, and then Claude decrypted the csv file they sent. I now use Ente and it's so nice having 2fa inside a browser extension. I can also export the secrets at will.
Claude will refuse to visit sites with robots.txt, make a graphic spoof of an iOS game, or even fill out an employee survey on my behalf. ChatGPT is always happy to oblige, no questions asked.

I can respect the guardrails - I also can see why OpenAI may not have much control over their models - but I need an AI who will do whatever I ask and not play judge and jury.

Re:Claude Is Down on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @04:37PM (#49102745)
Bedrock is having issues too, though. Hope your prompts are tested with other models, not just Claude!
Re:The Death of the Brick and Mortar Toy Store on Friday May 22, 2026 @12:13AM (#48231866)
I was surprised to find that Barnes n Nobles has a decent selection of quality toys for infants to toddlers. Toys have their own section at my store. I used to buy toy/book gifts at Target but the options are so much more limited.
Re:Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses on Monday November 17, 2025 @08:52PM (#45960516)
competitors might want to drive users to move away if they think a platform is broken
i thought cursor was getting really bad, then i found out i was on a gpt 5 trial. gonna stick with claude :)
Re:GitHub Pull Requests Are Down on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @11:48AM (#44799560)
this is broken too!
Re:No One Knows Anything About AI on Thursday July 24, 2025 @12:52PM (#44672992)
Yea this! How many devs say "it doesn't do what i expect" did not try to write up a plan of action before it just YOLO'd some new features? We have to learn to use this new tool, but how to do that is still changing all the time.
Re:My AI skeptic friends are all nuts on Monday June 02, 2025 @05:25PM (#44163199)
There's a huge caveat i don't see often, which is that it depends on your language for programming. IE. AI is reallllly good at writing Next.js/Typescript apps, but not so much Ruby on Rails. YMMV
Re:I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts on Thursday March 13, 2025 @12:54AM (#43350511)
Everyone posting should be considerate of your language/stack. It's pretty likely that Cursor doesn't work equally for every language. I'm working on a Next.js/Typescript/Solidity monorepo with multiple apps and packages and it handles pretty much anything I throw at it. I know I can squeeze more out because I have only been really using it heavily for the past month or so.
Re:Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @01:33AM (#43168866)
And Typescript simply doesn't work for me. I have tried uninstalling extensions. It is always "Initializing". I reload windows, etc. It eventually might get there, I can't tell what's going on. At the moment, AI is not worth the trade-off of no Typescript support.
I like to look for reviews that discuss specific menu items, good or bad. Everything else is not really helpful
Re:GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @03:07PM (#41988211)
Have you tried using Cursor with Claude embedded? I can't go back to anything else, it's very nice having the AI embedded in the IDE and it just knows all the files i am working with. Cursor can use GPT-4o too if you want
You have to start somewhere. There's now 13 states that require pay transparency, and more that are considering it. https://www.govdocs.com/pay-transparency-laws/
Re:Sending Emails to my three-year-old on Monday June 10, 2024 @02:25PM (#40636531)
email is such an annoying standard for storage. i think i'd prefer a simple local SQLLite db with flat HTML files. You could use Next.js and output as 'standalone' if you wanna use React to generate the HTML
Re:Express 5.0 – Last Push on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @12:07AM (#40219410)
What are you talking about WRT Koa? Express 4 does not support async/await natively in its middleware. That means if your async method throws an error, you need to catch it and return it yourself or else it will just crash the app. That's one reason why I currently use Koa. Express 5 finally supports async/await and it is only now being officially released.
i run a home media server, can't wait to be able to add my own LLM service. it's just a matter of time for it to be something i can install over the weekend with proper hardware
we actually used an .ai domain and one night, round 11pm it stopped pointing to us. To add a record, the registrar at AI literally had a spreadsheet which upserts all the records when they upload it, and someone fat-fingered the row with our domain. It took the whole night to get a hold of the one person on that island who could fix it. This was about 5 years ago, maybe they've gotten better.
Re:M3 CPU cores have become more versatile on Friday January 05, 2024 @05:12PM (#38885706)
it was always mac for laptops, pc for desktop for me. I guess there's something to be said when the vendor owns all the parts, including the OS.
actually I'm pretty sure that all our social security numbers leaked in full since the Experian/TransUnion hacks. I have kept my scores frozen ever since then. It's a minor annoyance but I don't know why this isn't required now
Re:Django 5.0 Is Released on Monday December 04, 2023 @01:00PM (#38520603)
As a full-time Node.js dev, I agree with your decision! Too much time is wasted on compatibility problems. I'd almost say it was easier when we just had browsers to deal with. At least you could just drop in jQuery and call it a day.
Re:10 Weird HTML Hacks That Shaped the Internet on Friday December 01, 2023 @04:09PM (#38492440)
you mean the title cut off? it happens on desktop too. i wonder if it's intentional
It's not "unbundling" they literally just added new costs for features that were originally free because they can get away with it. So far, I have also found you are now REQUIRED to pay for your seats if you want to sit together. Frontier splits me and my wife even when there's seats available
Re:Write PHP Code Within Next.js Components on Thursday November 02, 2023 @06:09PM (#38120975)
The Next team's core use case is a serverless framework for Vercel. Anyone looking to use it as a long-running server is just a second-class citizen.
Re:iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @11:23PM (#37491825)
I went from 3a to a pixel 5 on backmarket, it's a great upgrade and doesn't really sacrifice anything. I am still waiting now for a new pixel, but even the 7/8 don't look interesting enough.
Re:New Emojis in 2023-2024 on Saturday July 15, 2023 @11:39AM (#36737789)
I mean, the Chinese language has 106,230 characters [1]. This is not a new issue. And it actually sounds fun, at least they are drawings and not just various organizations of black lines

[1] https://chinainternshipplacements.com/blog/how-many-chinese-...

Re:GitHub Profile Achievements on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @11:14AM (#36682160)
Neat! People complaining about 'gamifying github' seem to be greatly over-estimating the author's goal here. Also neat to learn about the free dataset uploaded to https://ghe.clickhouse.tech/.
There are checks and balances built in. For example, if you offer too much money, and the appraisal comes back and says it's not worth that much money, then your loan will not cover it and you will be on the hook to cover the difference.
Re:Making Figma better for developers with Dev Mode on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @06:56PM (#36425847)
a private notes text file is completely different content, let alone UX, from a visual board that everyone uses
ah ok. thanks.. it is confusing

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