Just the other day I heard an Electronic Frontier Foundation representative talk about their recently released tool called Rayhunter for finding and identifying these surveillance devices.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/...
https://github.com/EFForg/rayh...

The way things are going these days if you attend any kind of protest in the United States right now, you can expect to be surveiled and tracked by police and federal officials. So turn your cell phone off. Sad that not having your constitutional rights protected is the norm these days. I think it's been that way for years but has gotten significantly worse lately.

I have to push back against your assumption that Rust is a language that limits developers. It absolutely does not. As for the AI bit... I use AI to write code all day. It's great, but it makes the same sort of mistakes humans do. I find Rust is a great language for AI to write (under appropriate supervision).

I have fun programming in Rust. I don't like programming in C. I do like programming in C++. I like building type systems that prevent errors and automate drudgery. Both C++ and Rust let me do that, C does not.

I think the point of your "you will have fun programming in C" is that in both languages (and C++) you spend a fair amount of time thinking about low-level details of what the compiler is generating. That's true, and I like thinking about memory layouts, cache lines, what the optimizer is going to do, etc. But I don't like all of the tedium C forces on me.

On balance, I prefer Rust over every other language I've used.

Apparently there is an open source app called "Policy Plus" that lets you set up policies on Windows 11 home. But I really don't think most users would ever install that, let alone know how to use it.

I'm not at all surprised. Most of Trump's inner circle is entangled in Epstein somehow. For years the GOP has been saying the Epstein files implicate many prominent democrats. It's a bit odd because if the files could bring down some democrats you'd think the GOP and the Trump administration would be champing at the bit to release even some small part of the files that would show this, or even hint at it! Or even some redacted pages that protect their own. But it's crickets. I can only surmise that they are nearly all so deeply implicated it's not even possible to release anything at this stage.

My overall strategy is very different. I don't think Claude's code is remotely good enough yet, so I don't trust it to go off and do "development" semi-unsupervised. I direct and review everything it writes, and I control the scope and content of every commit. To be a little more precise, Claude's code is generally fine (if a bit over-commented), but Claude rarely produces code structure that is clear, clean and correctly-mapped to the problem domain, to my (very picky) eyes. So I never just turn it loose on a large, multi-commit development task.

Entropy is the default state; order and good outcomes are unnatural and require significant energy and focus to impose.

No I think the word he originally chose was the right one!

Also, we should do more of the kind of thing they do in Sweden. Only 1% of household waste in Sweden ends up in landfills. What cannot be recycled is incinerated and used to heat homes and produce some electricity.

Yes household plastic waste should be incinerated and turned into electrical power. At least for now, fossil fuels are going to continue to provide a decent amount of baseline power. If so, we might as well burn the plastics to help with that, rather then let them pollute.

Crazy how the media organizations want to have their cake and eat it too. If they are going to assume every blank media will be used to pirate, and thus tax appropriately, then they have no right to go after pirates. After all they are already being paid by the would-be pirates in advance. Greed knows no bounds.

Are you sure you're not an LLM?

I think this is the result of their trainers trying to reduce hallucination. And hallucination *has* been reduced, so it's probably been largely successful, but it has produced this era of versions that are concerned about honesty, that claims of honesty or apologies for lack or honesty, are pervasive in their output.

My iron rule is that Claude is not allowed to modify git state, not even to stage or unstage, and definitely not to commit. As long as that rule is followed, any mistakes can be cleaned up easily.

And even people who don't drive stick regularly (but know how) quickly stop having to pay attention. I haven't owned a stick shift since the mid 90's, but I often get them when renting cars overseas. It takes a day or two of paying attention, and then it just becomes automatic and effortless.

BTDT when coming home from a trip where I'd been driving a manual for a couple of weeks.

About 3% of registered road vehicles are motorcycles. When you include dirt bikes the number of riders is higher, but it's still very low compared to the number of automobile drivers. I don't think motorcycle riders are likely to shift the overall numbers very much.