Well... I have a watchface on the old store. It is non functional because external APIs changed. I just recently decided to update it, and there is now a much improved version in my github account.
I asked Rebble weeks (!!) ago to give me back access to my own account and binaries on their store and to this day, I heard nothing from them. Nada.
If Core start a new store, I will immediately put the new, much improved version of my old watch face on their store. Rebble can keep the old, non-functional one in their archive if they want.
Well... this is similar to COVID. As long as your computer is disconnected from any network, yes you should be able to do whatever you want and decide. But as soon as your computer can be a danger for others, then your risk taking decisions can harm others, and then what?
Masks during covid were a matter of public health.
Masks were necessary to save lives at a stage where risks were unknown and pressure on health systems was high.
Missing Windows updates does not kill anyone.
Plus, installing Windows updates may cause high frustration because "feature" updates are mixed with them and may alter the OS behavior in unexpected and undesired ways. If Microsoft cares so much about security, they should allow people to stay on fixed Windows stable versions that only get security updates without pestering them. Basically, sell LTSC to normal people.
From my non US-ian vantage point, it really looks like the current US administration is really trying hard to help Putin as much as it can to destroy the USA we used to know and like.
And the rest of the world as well, as collateral damage.
A bunch of easily psyopped morons aren't a large enough majority of the general consumer populace to be worth considering. For every 1 of someone like you, there's 50 people who blindly grab the cheapest product off the shelf that gets the job done.
The presence of a few nationalistic morons doesn't wholly negate the goals mentioned by GP, and in fact, may be more important than ever.
I suppose this kind of notarization across all digital platforms will have even more importance once the EU CRA (Cybersecurity Resiliency Act) takes full effect end of 2027.
I was AI skeptic too a year ago , but recently i wanted a windows exe program to do the same as a complicated bash script on linux.
i gave the bash script to claude code, which immediately started implementing something in the zig language. after a few iterations, i had zig source code that compiled in linux , produced a windows exe and perfectly mimicked the bash script.
because it allows you to intercept the requests and forward them to other models. (e.g. GLM doesn't seem to support search or images, so I use Gemini's free tier for that.)
(CCR just launches Claude with the base url set to a local proxy. The more adventurous reader can also set up his own proxy... :)
Does this allow me to use Claude Code as the orchestration harness with GLM 4.6 as the LLM along with other LLMs? Seems so based on your description, thanks for the link.
I asked ChatGPT to explain the code from the OP (without the header file), and it seems to have given a really good breakdown. Although I know nothing about interpreters, C, or this fucked style, so who really knows if it makes any sense at all…
"... Sodium cyanide can dissolve gold in water, but it is also a deadly poison. “Atomic” chemistry sets of the 1950s included radioactive uranium ore. Glassblowing kits, which taught a skill still important in today’s chemistry labs, came with a blowtorch."
We can buy that hardware from Core, today.
That gives them quite a few rights.