Oliver Mannion
@nzl.bsky.social
Software, machine learning, people.
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Anthropic uses questionable dark patterns to obtain users’ consent to the use of AI data in Claude: the-decoder.com/anthropic-us...
#Claude #DataProtection
#Claude #DataProtection
Anthropic uses a questionable dark pattern to obtain user consent for AI data use in Claude
Anthropic’s new data policy raises legal concerns with its use of questionable dark patterns.
the-decoder.com
September 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Anthropic uses questionable dark patterns to obtain users’ consent to the use of AI data in Claude: the-decoder.com/anthropic-us...
#Claude #DataProtection
#Claude #DataProtection
Writing generalised code is hard. I’ve been trending towards writing specialised code instead. LLMs make this easier to do for well-contained problems, when you can verify the code they produce is good. And they’re useful for writing tests (providing exisiting tests as examples helps). Great post.
Some rough notes on how I program with LLMs and on how tooling can make it better. crawshaw.io/blog/program...
crawshaw - 2025-01-06
crawshaw.io
January 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Writing generalised code is hard. I’ve been trending towards writing specialised code instead. LLMs make this easier to do for well-contained problems, when you can verify the code they produce is good. And they’re useful for writing tests (providing exisiting tests as examples helps). Great post.
TIL transaction isolation and durability in ACID are orthogonal.
eg: when synchronous_commit=off then COMMIT in Postgres doesn’t mean a transaction has persisted durably to disk, just that it’s in the WAL
see this fantastic thread and the linked PR comments.
eg: when synchronous_commit=off then COMMIT in Postgres doesn’t mean a transaction has persisted durably to disk, just that it’s in the WAL
see this fantastic thread and the linked PR comments.
What does #postgres do if you set:
synchronous_commit=off
default_transaction_isolation=read committed
And then do:
INSERT
SELECT
Will the SELECT see reads that have potentially not yet been written to the WAL?
synchronous_commit=off
default_transaction_isolation=read committed
And then do:
INSERT
SELECT
Will the SELECT see reads that have potentially not yet been written to the WAL?
January 9, 2025 at 6:59 AM
TIL transaction isolation and durability in ACID are orthogonal.
eg: when synchronous_commit=off then COMMIT in Postgres doesn’t mean a transaction has persisted durably to disk, just that it’s in the WAL
see this fantastic thread and the linked PR comments.
eg: when synchronous_commit=off then COMMIT in Postgres doesn’t mean a transaction has persisted durably to disk, just that it’s in the WAL
see this fantastic thread and the linked PR comments.
Would be nice if the Bluesky app could be still be used with stale content when there’s no or low data available (eg: in-flight wifi). Doesn’t seem to boot. Whereas Twitter works.
January 8, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Would be nice if the Bluesky app could be still be used with stale content when there’s no or low data available (eg: in-flight wifi). Doesn’t seem to boot. Whereas Twitter works.
My kind of thing - a feed for posts from followers who don't post much.
December 22, 2024 at 11:45 PM
My kind of thing - a feed for posts from followers who don't post much.
Reposted by Oliver Mannion
So excited to announce the preview launch of S2! s2.dev/blog/intro
Introducing S2
The Log – made serverless
s2.dev
December 20, 2024 at 9:02 PM
So excited to announce the preview launch of S2! s2.dev/blog/intro
Reposted by Oliver Mannion
I made an infra engineer starter pack. Folks posting about databases, stream processing, durable execution, orchestrators, service meshes, and more.
go.bsky.app/SCZe42X
go.bsky.app/SCZe42X
October 25, 2024 at 1:16 AM
I made an infra engineer starter pack. Folks posting about databases, stream processing, durable execution, orchestrators, service meshes, and more.
go.bsky.app/SCZe42X
go.bsky.app/SCZe42X