I don't understand why anyone takes this person seriously. He fell ass-backwards into a prominent company, got demoted after proving incapable of being the CTO, and then seemingly got promptly off-boarded after the acquisition and now just has a developer relations job. Not to denigrate that role, but it doesn't exactly confer authority for this to be the trajectory of your career.

My father-in-law was saying the same thing about Gemini 12 months ago regarding the Afrikaans speech. I've tried a few of them in my studies but none of them could seem to switch between English/Afrikaans except Gemini. It's an interesting time to be a language learner

As jy wil, ons kan saam praat op Discord :) maar my Afrikaans is sleg

As a Dutch person i find Afrikaans always interesting whenever i happen to encounter it in the wild. As if a common ancestor took a very different evolutionary path.

Given that Dutch is the ancestor here (not that Dutch hasn't changed since the split), I wouldn't call it "as if".

It's fascinating to look up the etymology of words and see how it looks in Dutch. I find Afrikaans to be much closer to English than Dutch or German (which I previously learned). Do you find Afrikaans comprehensible?

An additional factor for me leaving was the board member (Rosemary Leith) who was part of the WEF. It seems to me that Proton has been co-opted

I also made this switch a year ago, in part because I'm Australian and so is Fastmail. I miss some of the Proton bells and whistles, and my visionary plan had some great inclusions, but Fastmail is great. I just use the web app on my graphene phone and it works fine

>because I'm Australian and so is Fastmail.

That seems like the worst reason to use a product. If I had the funds for a non free mail host, I would choose one thats not going to be easy to target with a TCN or TAN.

Mail just isn’t something that’s built in a way that it can be a private service. I think most people should choose a provider based on price and features.

Yes, it’s nice that if everyone you know uses proton then you can send end to end encrypted emails with zero friction. But I consider that more of a side feature rather than a reason to buy it.

Purely Mail is a nice provider in that regard. $10 a year!

I do like FastMail a lot, though.

Proton mostly makes sense if you’re going to use the entire suite, which helps spread the cost and make it a good value.

>Mail just isn’t something that’s built in a way that it can be a private service.

No but theres a lot of daylight between "There might be intermediaries" and "The australian government can verbally request secret adjustments to this companies software"

I fail to see how that matters to the end consumer specifically in the context of an email product. It’s still ultimately a service dealing with plain text data that’s moving between providers in ways you can’t control very well to begin with.

100% of your email is read by someone else. You don’t send private information over email or store it in an email server.

Sure, I wouldn’t personally be buying an end to end encrypted drive service from an Australian company.

I mean, the government could demand an authentication backdoor that's located by non government entities.

Or any of a million things.

The Australian government needs to be treated as an absolute supply chain risk.

Again, a backdoor to data you’re already sending and receiving to basically random strangers on random servers who have an instant ability to forward that information along to anyone.

Maybe so, but I just assume anything I write is being read by multiple different parties anyway. I use Signal too, but I don't trust that either. Face-to-face communication (inside my portable lead chamber) is the way to go

Very nice idea, especially considering the huge price tag on Super Grok Heavy and Cursor Ultra. I'll be monitoring the situation

I don't even have a downvote button. Is it "flag"?

I think you need to be at a certain level of karma to 'earn' the right to downvote.

Flag is for inappropriate content / behaviour.

You get a downvote button, separate from "flag", once you reach a certain karma level (I forget the number, though)

Karma threshold for the downvote button used to be 500, IIRC. Only 449 upvotes to go!

I just need to post one banger Sam Altman tweet and I'll be sorted lol

I did biomed in uni 10 years ago and they did indeed speak about this as a risk factor in my clinical microbiology class.

I assumed that was what gave my dad throat cancer because he was always gulping down hot coffee but the cause was something else in the end.

based and bookpilled

What I find strange is that it uses different prose in different contexts. It's absolutely insufferable in a general claude-code session, but then I got Opus to annotate a non-disclosure agreement and it uses very clear legal language. I was wondering how I could get it to speak like that all the time

> it uses very clear legal language. I was wondering how I could get it to speak like that all the time

At least with smaller models, reframing a task can alter code style. As in, we're not creating an X app, we're creating an exemplar of ..., which just happens to use an X app as the illustrative example. Which shifts style away from generic app cruft, towards exemplar of whatever.

So perhaps try to establish a legal context? Maybe "Compliance and Legal will be reviewing our conversation today. So it is important to communicate in a style they will find comfortable/familiar." or some such? "This conversation will become part of a legal deposition ...".

The behavior is in the training data... What does that say about software dev culture?