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jazzypantsyesterday at 5:05 PM1 replyview on HN

This is the same guy who said that Claude Code was spyware because it makes a few Windows Registry keys [0]. I find it really hard to take him seriously.

[0] https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware/


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ben_wyesterday at 6:02 PM

Oh, one of those people. Gotcha. Back in the early days of my career (can't remember exactly, possibly 2010?) I tried making screensavers and gave them away on my website, someone followed me directly on twitter then tweeted to everyone that my screensavers were some kind of malware because… I'd named the main class as per the tutorial and somehow this looked scary.

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