Funny they will blow up the world, just so they don't face the reality of Epstein files and kompromats in the archives of Moscow.

Essentially cowards.

and the reckoning will come anyway.

Look, it is calming to think that Trump is somehow a Russian agent, and not a sign of collapsing political class, but let’s be realistic here.

If it is indeed true, then Russia managed to put its puppet as The President of the United States of America. Twice. Without triggering any red flags from a dozen or so of US TLAs. That would be the best intelligence operation in the history of everything. At that point, USA should just put the chairs away and turn down the lights.

Epstein files yes, I grant you that.

yeah, so there were a lot of red flags from the IC. We just chose to ignore them and elect him anyway.

This is a bit nuts. USA has hated iran since the revolution. Trump himself has talked about blowing up iran since long before he was in power. The geopolitical situation favoured it (while still being highly risky) like no other time previously in history.

Not everything is about epstein.

I hope they don't force people to walk to school, hunt for food and write in runes.

Interesting that people immediately think of workarounds instead of rejecting the governments and corporations behind the thing. Year by year Overton Window moves, workarounds become more and more involved and eventually people will give up and become just living datapoints on corporate/government dashboard.

Rejecting the government is insurrection, it's the same as becoming a terrorist.

You are called terrorist only until you win then you are a freedom fighter.

You even may be called freedom fighter from the start if you are trying to displace government in the right country. There are plenty of examples.

A terrorist works with terror (fear).

Also at least in democracies you can reject the government without physical violence.

> A terrorist works with terror (fear).

Extreme, yet I can't deny its effectiveness. How do you radicalize a decadent, apathetic population? People who literally do not give a shit about important issues because they have too much to lose, because they'd have to give up their comfortable lifestyles? Terrorists attack them directly, breaking the illusion that their almighty governments can protect them. They gave up all those freedoms, paid all those taxes, sacrificed their principles, all in the name of security... Only to discover they aren't safe at all. Quite ironic, really. No wonder governments worldwide are willing to pull out all the stops against terrorists.

> Also at least in democracies you can reject the government without physical violence.

Doubt. To me it seems democracies exist just to give people the illusion of choice, not to give them any real power. The reality is people are manipulated by the mass media, their very wants and desires are shaped by it. Censorship is growing world wide, even in "democratic" governments, because they want to reserve the right to shape the population's collective mind. And when even that fails, it turns out every politician answers to the corporations anyway. They literally buy laws via lobbyists. If by some miracle some law gets passed to benefit people at the expense of corporations, the lobbyists swoop in and neuter it with hidden loopholes and fine print.

> in democracies you can reject the government

No, you cannot. You can reject the current party, but the government is much more than that. In the US, for example, the government is a set of institutions that were put in power in the American revolution. If you try to reject this your own life is at risk.

Learn about the origin of word terrorism (hint: it was term for rogue government acting against its peoples)

Imagine if all Russians put their energy into making world a better place, instead of killing their neighbours, raping, stealing and corrupting. Sad.

s/Russians/humans/. Absolutely nothing special about Russians here.

I can play this game too.

Imagine if all Americans put their energy into making world a better place, instead of killing their neighbours, raping, stealing and corrupting. Sad.

The west is secretly in love with this malevolence, that's why.

Yup, they call it 'mysterious russian soul', while it just a blatant disregard to human life

hm, not much would change. - we'd still see palestine destroyed - iran bombed - iraq bombed - lybia bombed - afganistan bombed - lebanon bombed

Imagine if all countries would put their energy into building peace and prosperity. That would make a difference.

Actually, a lot would change. Each one of the Ukrainian lives destroyed is a whole life destroyed. A damaged car is a setback for a family. There are whole cities and villages razed in Ukraine, fields polluted or rigged with explosives. Countless lives lost; each person's story and potential ended by some Russian's "command-following" drone or missile strike.

No, Russia isn't the only one, but _is_ a cause of a lot of suffering and resources wasted.

A lot would change for a few, not for the 8b people on this planet.

ah, here comes whataboutism. And you are correct. It would be great if russia didn't destroy Afghanistan and Syria.

Also, equating conflicts is a very shallow and inadequate manipulation tool. For example, russians razed dozens of cities in Ukraine, establish torture and rape chambers, use rape, torture, execution of POW as policy today.

"all wars are bad" doesn't mean that whatever russia does is way worse.

Just pointing out that nothing would change. And you are obviously fixated on Russia. May be broaden your perspective.

only things you point out are russian propaganda points.

that you need to broaden your perspective? Russian propaganda said that about you?

How listening to same disingenuous false propaganda points would broaden anyone perspective? False equivalency between conflicts remain false

I mean... I invite you to use your head, not start listening to a different propaganda. Can you do that? Use your head?

Or maybe Westerners stop lying that much.

That is a quintessential part of russia through the history of that country. Conquer, oppress, loot. Medieval imperialism brought to modern age.

One of the most expensive learnings was: If you want to do it fast, do it slow.

Time and time again proven true.

They keep adding bloat instead of focusing on usability. Still can't get Illustrator to remember my print settings.

Care to back that up? We know they don't encrypt metadata - that's not a secret. Message content however is E2EE - thankfully these things get audited: https://blog.cloudflare.com/key-transparency/

The onus is not on us to prove that it's not E2E encrypted, but on Meta/WhatsApp to prove that it is. The only way they can do that is by open-sourcing the client application, and providing a method for anyone to verify that the binary on their device was built from those sources, without modification.

Anything else is just theater. Anyone who is worried that their communications could get them arrested or attacked cannot safely use something like WhatsApp. There is no way to trust that a third party's keys haven't been added to a conversation, or that the client isn't leaking message content through some other means.

> The onus is not on us to prove that it's not E2E encrypted

It is when someone posts as if they've got hard evidence it's not.

This doesn't prove WhatsApp is encrypted at all. It proves that a directory of public keys is being logged and audited. That's it.

The protocol existing or being referenced doesn't prove it's what the production client is doing. That requires verifying the client code and behaviour end-to-end, not just the key directory.

Got it, so you can't back it up at all. You just made something up with zero actual evidence and rolled with it.

Before Opus 4.7, the 4.6 became very much unusable as it has been flagging normal data analysis scripts it wrote itself as cyber security risk. Got several sessions blocked and was unable to finish research with it and had to switch to GPT-5.4 which has its own problems, but at least is not eager to interfere in legitimate work.

edit: to be fair Anthropic should be giving money back for sessions terminated this way.

> edit: to be fair Anthropic should be giving money back for sessions terminated this way.

I asked it for one and it told me to file a Github issue.

Which I interpreted as "fuck off".

How do you get anything sensible out of Kimi?

I spent one day with Opus 4.7 to fix a bug. It just ran in circles despite having the problem "in front of its eyes" with all supporting data, thorough description of the system, test harness that reproduces the bug etc. While I still believe 4.7 is much "smarter" than GPT-5.4 I decided to give it ago. It was giving me dumb answers and going off the rails. After accusing it many times of being a fraud and doing it on purpose so that I spend more money, it fixed the bug in one shot.

Having a taste of unnerfed Opus 4.6 I think that they have a conflict of interest - if they let models give the right answer first time, person will spend less time with it, spend less money, but if they make model artificially dumber (progressive reasoning if you will), people get frustrated but will spend more money.

It is likely happening because economics doesn't work. Running comparable model at comparable speed for an individual is prohibitively expensive. Now scale that to millions of users - something gotta give.

I enjoy using Claude but I find the vibing stuff starts to cause source-code amnesia. Even if I design something and put forth a thoughtful plan, the more I increase my output the less I feel the “vibes”.

It’s funny everyone says “the cost will just go down” with AI but I don’t know.

We need to keep the open source models alive and thriving. Oh, but wait the AI companies are buying all the hardware.