Just had my first lossless listening session in my Tesla Model Y and my mind is officially blown. 🤯 I’ve been a YouTube Premium person for years. Then I finally caved and paid for Apple Music and holy moly. The difference is night and day. YouTube Music Premium tops out at 256 kbps AAC/OPUS. That’s lossy. Apple Music streams true lossless ALAC up to 24-bit/192 kHz, bit-for-bit identical to the master. And my Model Y has the premium audio system, so it actually reveals everything that was being compressed away. “Lossless” doesn’t mean you lose nothing, it means nothing is lost during compression. The loss happened when the audio was digitized. Apple just refuses to make it worse. If you’ve got a Tesla with premium audio and you’ve never heard lossless in it… do yourself a favor. Your ears will thank you. 🎵 #Tesla #AppleMusic #Lossless #Audio #ModelY

Unpopular gun opinion: There is absolutely no reason to completely unload your modern magazines. The springs in modern magazines dont lose their tension even if they stay loaded for years. Old school magazines would bend their springs over time, so its an outdated practice. Whats your opinion on this subject?

I feel like I'm falling behind other developers using AI. I've only used Cursor Pro ($20/mo) and Pro+ ($60/mo). I've never tried a $200/mo plan because of my current financial situation. For those using Claude, Cursor or Codex: What plan are you on and do you actually hit the limits? I'm curious what I'm missing out on.

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I've heard that 5.5 is cheaper, but not sure. How Claude is security risk?

Websites are closing their doors to AI agents | Emma Roth, The Verge Autonomous agents are the hottest thing in AI. OpenAI, Meta, Google, Instinct, and others promise their agents can scour the internet on your behalf, doing anything from booking a dinner reservation and cleaning out your inbox to buying new shoes. But what happens when the rest of the internet won’t play nice? In recent weeks, users of services like Meta’s Muse, xAI’s Grok, OpenAI’s Dots, and Instinct have reported blocks preventing their AI agents from performing tasks across top websites. Yelp told TechCrunch that it only allows AI agents that pay for its data licensing program, while Delta Air Lines is preventing them from booking tickets on behalf of users. JPMorgan Chase and Charles Schwab have also confirmed that they’re blocking AI agents from accessing accounts due to security concerns. Some users say sites that previously worked with their AI agent are no longer accessible, including Cars.com and Amtrak, suggesting other companies could be quietly blocking them. Amazon was already fighting off AI agents last year when it banned Perplexity’s agentic shopping feature and sued the AI startup, raising legal and practical questions about the future of agents on the web. At the time, Amazon claimed it “repeatedly requested” that Perplexity stop allowing its AI agents to shop on its website, adding that third-party companies that purchase items on behalf of customers “should operate openly and respect service provider decisions whether or not to participate.” Perplexity responded by pointing out that Amazon doesn’t want AI agents roaming its platform because it won’t get as many human eyeballs in front of its ads — which is an actual issue for the ecommerce giant. The AI startup likened its AI agent to an extension of the user, arguing that Amazon “does not believe in your right to hire labor, to have an assistant or an employee acting on your behalf.” While a judge later ordered Perplexity to stop its AI agents from shopping on its website, an appeals court overturned this ruling in August. Amazon has since filed an amended complaint. This ongoing legal battle didn’t stop OpenAI, Meta, and Google from rolling out agents of their own. But they’re dealing with the same problems as Perplexity. Muse, Meta’s deceptively cute AI assistant, most recently faced the wrath of Amazon, which said its “continued access” violates its site policies. There are reports of xAI’s Grok, Instinct’s AI agent, and OpenAI’s Dots being unable to use Amazon as well. xAI owner Elon Musk responded by saying that maybe he “should start a competitor to Amazon.” The more places bots struggle to access, the greater the questions about how useful they are. “Does this impact the perceived value of the Anthropics and the OpenAIs? I would say absolutely,” Chris Canal, the CEO of the AI safety evaluator EquiStamp, tells The Verge. “One of the claims is that they’re going to permeate every aspect of our lives and be able to do anything that we could do online. If there are companies that are actively working to make that not happen, there are just fewer useful things the agents can do.” Meta responded to instances of websites blocking Muse in a post earlier this month. “Turning away a personal agent means turning away the customer behind it,” the company says. “We’d rather work with businesses to address the underlying concerns than see them lose that customer.” Instead of trying to fight Amazon, the company has partnered with retailers like Walmart, Gap, Sephora, Best Buy, and others, allowing Muse to shop on their sites. At the same time, Shopify has also opened its network of storefronts to AI agents. The Verge reached out to OpenAI and Google with requests for comments on the roadblocks their AI agents are facing but didn’t immediately hear back. Instinct declined to comment. Even if websites aren’t banning AI agents outright, agents may still be clashing with anti-bot systems, which have become ubiquitous across the web. Reports on Reddit suggest that Google is blocking some accounts that use Muse due to “suspicious activity,” while others have reported issues checking out on Walmart despite its Meta partnership. “There are all kinds of things that are set up not even to block agents, but to block in general bots or programs that are trying to scam or hack,” Canal adds. “These AI agents trigger those same safeguards.” The web architecture provider Cloudflare has also played a role in helping sites clamp down on unwanted AI visitors. After introducing a one-click block for AI crawlers in 2025, Cloudflare began blocking crawlers that simultaneously scrape websites for both search indexing and AI training. The move is part of Cloudflare’s efforts to save the web from an influx of AI bots, which is putting a strain on internet infrastructure and wreaking havoc on email inboxes, and which could eventually make it even harder than it already is to compete against bots when purchasing concert tickets, booking reservations, or trying to get ahold of certain products. While these blocks may help keep some AI agents and bots out of a website, Canal says they will ultimately make the web more “annoying” to use as more sites roll out interfaces to confirm you’re not a robot. “We could see them on a simple grocery shopping website soon, where you’re having to jump through a bunch of hoops to prove that you’re a human using the computer or your phone.” theverge.com/ai-artificial-i…

So $100 plan is enough for daily user if using Opus 5.5?

Which shirt do you actually wear? 1. Political 2. Faith 3. Funny

It's Saturday and I'm being chauffeured by my Cybertruck, what are you doing?

Wow. I woke up to an impressive number of upset people who apparently don’t understand how LLMs work and can’t cope well with me pointing it out. An LLM is a statistical next-token prediction model. That’s how it works. It’s an extraordinarily sophisticated calculator performing math you could theoretically do by hand (if you were sufficiently masochistic). Math doesn’t know what it’s calculating. Pi doesn’t spend its evenings contemplating the nature of circles, and c doesn’t ponder the relationship between matter and energy. That doesn’t make the results any less accurate, impressive, or useful. Between inference requests, an LLM isn’t sitting around thinking. It isn’t reconsidering its answers, wondering whether it made a mistake, contemplating its existence, or questioning whether it’s conscious. Its weights remain fixed (it doesn’t learn), and computation resumes when it receives input. We know this because we designed these systems. The architectures, mathematics, implementations, and research are extensively documented. You can study them yourself. Of course, some people immediately lean into comparisons of biological intelligence or philosophical debates over consciousness because that is what they know. But biological intelligence and artificial neural networks are fundamentally different systems. Similar outputs don’t establish equivalent internal experiences. I experience consciousness directly. I infer that other humans do too because we share biological structures and processes. We don’t have equivalent evidence for an LLM, and nothing about its known operation gives evidence of conscious experience. Which brings me back to my original point. To me, understanding is conscious comprehension. It means being aware of information, recognizing its meaning, and experiencing that comprehension. If I wasn’t conscious I could not understand. We can perform actions unconsciously. We can produce correct results without knowing why they’re correct. But I distinguish those capabilities from consciously understanding what we’re doing. An LLM can solve complex problems, explain difficult concepts, and produce remarkably accurate information. I give it full credit for those capabilities. But producing an answer that we rationalize as understanding isn’t the same as experiencing understanding. You don’t have to agree with my definitions. We can debate functional understanding versus conscious comprehension all day, but that won’t establish whether an LLM actually experiences anything. The right debate is this… Could machines exhibit something different from human consciousness, something measurable, meaningful, and worth studying? I think so, absolutely! I’m entirely open to discussing “machine consciousness” in terms of observable, testable computational properties. We built these systems, we can instrument them, examine their internal mechanisms, and investigate what they’re capable of. That seems far more productive than endlessly arguing over whether a machine experiences life the way humans do. So here’s my question: How would you define machine consciousness, and more importantly, how would you measure it?

Ya’ll notice the grassy areas are all nicely mowed? It’s because of my robot (with LIDAR) lawnmower. Not selling anything, just consider looking into a robot lawnmower. All I do is edge and mow outside my fence. I do a really nice job too, cause i didn’t have to mow. 😂

Why do you still use GitHub? PRs? Approvals? History? Sharing?

Tesla Roadster jumping the other Tesla vehicles!! 👀 Fun level: 11/10 I'm glad I got to see it 🥹

People who are running "agent swarms in the cloud" while they sleep, what's the use case? Even if I had a backlog of 100 issues I'm pretty sure a single Claude instance could rip through that in 30 mins let alone multiple, all night. Curious to know what people use this for.

Ford has had so many recalls this year that their vehicles now have heated trunk lids and tailgates. It so your hands stay warm when you are pushing it back home in the winter months. PS I am joking, so laugh, okay

It can fly 👀 The Speed Racer car Exists!!

This is a tough one for FSD, even for a human. With this tall truck blocking the view of the traffic lights, what do you do? Jam on the brakes last minute and risk getting rear-ended, or slowly roll through the red light like FSD did? 🚦

Anyone take offense to this Black Man exercising his second amendment rights? Can you ever own too many🤔 #2A