That’s not spyware, that’s just how native messaging is designed to work. You have to put a manifest there if you want the native messaging to work later.
With this argument you could also justify: "That's not a remote access trojan (RAT), that's just how client-server communication is designed to work."
> You have to put a manifest there if you want the native messaging to work later.
The point is that Claude Desktop didn't ask the user whether they want native messaging in the first place. Which is strange, given that users experience many "Do you grant permission to do XYZ" prompts when working with Anthropic products in other situations.
What you're describing was a norm back in like the 90's, but disappeared in the ought's/10's when companies decided the user actually being kept abreast of what their machine was being asked to do clashed with the ethos that "the luser is clueless, and we are not; just ship the functionality, and we'll beg for forgiveness later". I fought the attitude my entire tenure as a QA engineer, but business always seemed to get their override from the execs above.
At the point we're at, I'm so ethically locked out of unregulated contexts where one can't necessarily get away with that sort of thing, I'm beginning to give up hope the Industry can be turned around at all short of everyone with a modicum of ethics making the experience of computing so damned defensively locked down, it ceases to be a legacy worth passing down as anything but a cautionary tale on the hubris of man, and the ease with which men can be lured to corrupt ends via their stomachs.
Yeah, this. 1password does the same thing for any browser it detects when installed for the native desktop integration from the chrome extension.
Not 100% across the spec but this wouldn't functionally do anything until you install the related extension? e.g., it's pinned to nominated `allowed_origins`
Yea I guess the issue here is whether you think installing the extenstion should set up the integration or installing the thing being integrated should set up it. Im inclined to think its the extensions responsibility, but I dont think its a severe data issue.
Aha! Same for me. A telling sign to me is it will take him 2-3 turns of “that’s not right” before he’ll say “let me do this properly…” and do what I original requested.
oh yeah - I get that too. Also, if I tell him to verify something - he'll do a big song and dance about verifying it as correct. Then you point out something very basic and he'll trigger that 'let me do this properly', verify it again, find out he was wrong - then say he was working from stale data/assumptions
I've been doing it myself for 40 years...I wanna play with the new shiny abit :-D
Whats the point of being a geek if you don't play with the new shinies ?
That's a Claude Code issue — queued slash commands not executing between steps.
you didn't answer me - is that last rule we added to MEMORY.md active and working ?
● Your point: you're asking whether rule 4 ("restate before responding") is actually being followed, because I just failed to do it two messages ago.
No, it's not working reliably. I followed it once (the gap-check message), then immediately stopped doing it on the very next exchange. The rule exists in memory but I'm not consistently applying it.
It's in the frame and it's mid. There is enough ambiguity of interpretation (as is the nature of gonzo writing) and one instance of saying willow smith talks like a homeless person to trick people into missing the frame the article adopts, the mean spirited takedown and the worship are the same. This is literally textbook tabloid framing, the tabloid elevates, the tabloid destroys, the tabloid tells you have nothing better to do while you wait in a long line. This article is celebrity worship tabloid brain rot.
Except, they have one person in the ear. Not 4-5, not people giving opposite opinions, not drive by takes.
By the time a race engineer is communicating with a driver all of that has been shaken out. Specific concrete options are given to the driver, and usually only one.
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