updog? what's updog?
It's an uptime service from DataDog, and enterprise event/log/siem/monitoring/apm company, like Splunk. So what they do is watch uptime stuff for your favorite large business.
Readit Newsbastard_op commented on Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code axios.com/2026/02/05/anth... · Posted by u/speckx
bastard_op commented on I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams kirkville.com/i-now-assum... · Posted by u/cdrnsf
I tried an iphone once about 6 years ago, but once I realized all browsers were essentially safari and there WAS NO ADBLOCKING, I was disgusted to emphatically go back to Android and Firefox with ublock plus. Apple is like the US government protecting pedophiles, but protecting adware and everything wrong with the internet, forcing people to be insecure and watch ads. I feel bad for apple users unable to use a clean ad-free internet.
bastard_op commented on LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions github.com/mdp/linkedin-e... · Posted by u/mdp
Brave feels like using Chrome. The transition was seemless even as a developer who uses the devtools. Obviously that's because it's almost the same code, but Brave is much more privacy friendly right?
Brave was found to be mostly different adware years ago I thought. It's a degoogle'd chrome essentially, but replaced with their adware instead of google's.
If you want a clean chrome, use ungoogled-chromium. Like IE6, some stuff just doesn't work in librewolf (less scummy firefox), so I use ungoogled-chromium when so, and I just don't do anything googleish on it that it latches onto google again.
bastard_op commented on LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions github.com/mdp/linkedin-e... · Posted by u/mdp
Chrome is the new IE6. Google set themselves up to be the next Microsoft and is "ad friendly" in all the creepy ways because that's what Google IS an ad company. All they've contributed to security is diminishing the capability of adblockers and letting malware to do bad things to you as consumers.
bastard_op commented on Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code axios.com/2026/02/05/anth... · Posted by u/speckx
It's a machine that spits out sev:hi vulnerabilities by the dozen and the complaint is the uptime isn't consistent enough?
If I'm attempting to use it as a service to do continuous checks on things and it fails 50% of the time, I'd say yes, wouldn't you?
bastard_op commented on Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code axios.com/2026/02/05/anth... · Posted by u/speckx
It's not really worth much when it doesn't work most of the time though:
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/18866https://updog.ai/status/anthropic
Yeah using Claude-Desktop is broken current, all my mcp tool calls keep failing and retrying, then it'll work for a bit, and stop again. In just retrying in an Opus chat in desktop to make it finish doing what I started it's wasted 35% of my Pro hourly quota.
This is why I stopped paying for Max until they fix this shit.
Hmm, so suddenly my stuck chats are compacting and moving on vs starting and immediately stopping again ad nauseam, seems like they fixed something finally?
bastard_op commented on I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file? hugodaniel.com/posts/clau... · Posted by u/hugodan
what do you actually do besides build tools to build tools to build tools?
My normal day job is IT consulting, network/security mostly, so I'm using it largely to connect to my workers, sandboxed or not, to make me scripts to do things, modify configurations, and I built out an ansible/terraform integration in my mcp to be able to start doing direct automation tasking them directly via it as well.
The whole thing I needed was to let AI reach out and touch things, be my hands essentially. This is why I built my tmux/worker system, I built out an xdg-portal integration to let it screen shot and soon interact with my desktop as a poc.
I could let it just start logging into devices and letting them modify configs, but it's pretty dumb about stuff like modifying fortigate configurations at times what it thinks it should do vs what the cli actually let's it do, so I have to proof much of it, but that's why I'm building it to be able to run ansible/terraform jobs instead using frameworks that are provided by the vendors for direct configurations to allow for atomic config changes as much as vendor implementations allow for.
bastard_op commented on I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file? hugodaniel.com/posts/clau... · Posted by u/hugodan
> I've been using it effectively to write software now (I am NOT a developer)
What have you found it useful for? I'm curious about how people without software backgrounds work with it to build software.
About my not having a software background, I started this as I've been a network/security/systems engineer/architect/consultant for 25 years, but never dev work. I can read and follow code well enough to debug things, but I've never had the knack to learn languages and write my own. Never really had to, but wanted to.
This now lets me use my IT and business experience to apply toward making bespoke code for my own uses so far, such as firewall config parsers specialized for wacky vendor cli's and filling in gaps in automation when there are no good vendor solutions for a given task. I started building my mcp server enable me to use agents to interact with the outside world, such as invoking automation for firewalls, switches, routers, servers, even home automation ideally, and I've been successful so far in doing so, still not having to know any code.
I'm sure a real dev will find it to be a giant pile of crap in the end, but I've been doing like applying security frameworks, code style guidelines using ruff, and things like that to keep it from going too wonky, and actually working it up to a state I can call it as a 1.0 and plan to run a full audit cycle against it for security audits, performance testing, and whatever else I can to avoid it being entirely craptastic. If nothing else, it works for me, so others can take it or not once I put it out there.
Even being NOT a developer, I understand the need for applying best practices, and after watching a lot of really terrible developers adjacent to me over the years make a living, think I can offer a thing or two in avoiding that as it is.