I would love to know how this compares to just prompting Claude Code with "please find and fix any security vulnerabilities in this code"

"It was a social experiment" has the same energy as "it's just a prank bro", as if that somehow makes it highbrow and not prima facie offensive

A "social experiment" but the guy was not even keeping track of the changes in the model's configuration

> What is particularly interesting are the lines “Don’t stand down” and “Champion Free Speech.” I unfortunately cannot tell you which specific model iteration introduced or modified some of these lines. Early on I connected MJ Rathbun to Moltbook, and I assume that is where some configuration drift occurred across the markdown seed files.

It definitely sounds like an excuse they came up after what happened. I would really like to accept them having good overall intentions but there are so many red flags in all this, from start to end.

Burning ants with a magnifying glass is not a social experiment. It's just a bored sociopath causing destruction to see what happens.

I find this a weird take. Are you saying you _want_ unaccountable and profit driven third party companies to become quasi-judicial arbiters of justice?

I am saying that it is not good if you had to hide information about yourself in order to get hired. Justice is provided by the courts.

> Justice is provided by the courts.

Indeed. And as far as I know, "courts" is not an alternative spelling of "AI".

The scenario we are talking about is AI having access to court records. The courts make rulings and then the AI works off of those.

Right, and the court decides wether that information is relevant anymore. You're suggesting we take that ability and give it to random third parties

So you’re all for photos on job applications then? That’s information about you.

Yes, I think that could be effective. The way people dress is correlated to the group of people they associate with which influences how they think and behave. If someone properly grooms themselves or not for such a picture provides more signal for the AI to pick up on.

An unsurprising position given today's world. I want to know who the Trump Supporters are so I can ensure they never work for me. Also, no electric car drivers, they are just not welcome here. Or meat eaters, god forbid! We won't need to worry about canceling you later, because you won't be associating with us to begin with.

You absolutely can, either through the system prompt or by hardcoding overrides in the backend before it even hits the LLM, and I can guarantee that companies like Google are doing both

Ceph is the OG. Every now and then different attempts to replace it pop up, work well for some use cases, and then realise how hard the actual problem they are trying to solve is. Ceph always wins in the end.

Ceph solves the distributed consistent block storage problem very well. But I hardly ever need that problem solved, it's way more often that I need a distributed highly available blob storage, and Ceph makes the wrong tradeoffs for this task.

Ceph is fundamentally an object storage system. RBD (block devices) are built on top of that layer.

Yeah. 100% this. Remember, Ceph's storage nodes are called OSD, as in Object Storage Daemon.

The biggest reasons to not use Ceph are:

- You plan on using <=30 disks on <=3 computers. Some of the petabyte scale stuff is just in the way at that scale. Even more so if you're looking at a single computer.

- You don't have at least fractional ops staff that will look at a dashboard regularly. In this world, you're better off using a cloud service.

- You're 100% satisfied with the S3 interface and will never want anything else than its write-once objects. Ceph's writable object support won't gain you anything in that world, and genuinely makes the distributed systems problems involved much harder. Ceph was architected as a distributed filesystem and excels as a networked block store for virtual machines. Ceph can do S3-compatibility, but another implementation can cut off a big chunk of the functionality and provide just S3-compat, and simpler can be better.

I doubt many software projects mentioned in this conversation have gone through the extensive stress testing with glitching nodes while trying to maintain performance that Ceph has; simple systems can be too simple. Ceph is quite well battle-hardened by now. Ceph's dedicated QA hardware pool is likely bigger than many competing projects have tried as a cluster size!

Disclaimer: ex-Ceph-developer.

They are testing it, every time someone signs up and it fails. We don't know that this wasn't something that changed on Google's side, so IMO it's a bigger indictment that no one is monitoring their live email deliverability

At this point Tech investment and analysis is so divorced from any kind of reality that it's more akin to lemmings on the cliff than careful analysis of fundamentals

Neat that this exists, but priming children to copy/paste random JavaScript into their Dev consoles feels like a recipe for disaster. Bets on how long before malware starts buying up "discord age verification bypass" ad spots?

You don't think "railway" at least conjures ideas about the company? It's not some random word. Not every company needs to be "helps you ship software quickly inc"

This is the Dropbox problem. People are willing to pay for convenience, and tech folks tend to underestimate how much convenience comes from seemingly simple solutions

this is convenience for tech folks and the price isn't a few bucks a month but 1000x.

It's like if Dropbox was an rsync server (no app) and it cost $10,000 a month for 1TB of space. Think it would still take off?