AI uBlock Blacklist
A personal list for uBlock Origin blocking AI content farms. Pull requests welcome. You can click here to subscribe to this list automatically. This link works only if you have uBlock Origin installed. Alternatively, import the following URL as a 3rd party list in uBlock Origin. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alvi-se/ai-ublock-blacklist/master/list.txt While browsing it happens sometimes most of the […]
Acme Weather
Adam Grossman February 16, 2026 Fifteen years ago, we started work on the Dark Sky weather app. Over the years it went through numerous iterations — including more than one major redesign — as we worked our way through the process of learning what makes a great weather app. Eventually, in time, it was acquired […]
I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here’s What I Handed Over
Feb 16, 2026 10 min read privacy, linkedin, biometrics, gdpr, cloud-act, identity I wanted the blue checkmark on LinkedIn. The one that says “this person is real.” In a sea of fake recruiters, bot accounts, and AI-generated headshots, it seemed like a smart thing to do. So I tapped “verify.” I scanned my passport. I […]
How an inference provider can prove they’re not serving a quantized model
← Back to Posts Feb 3, 2026•12 min read Tinfoil Team Updated Feb 21, 2026 When you call an inference API, how do you know which model you’re actually served? Sure you can specify the name of the model you expect to process your request, but ultimately you have no guarantee that the provider is […]
Meta Deployed AI and It Is Killing Our Agency
We manage millions of dollars in annual Meta ad spend. Not thousands. Millions. Our retail clients grow their businesses through Meta Ads, and for a lot of them, it’s their single most important growth channel. We are, by any reasonable definition, a high-value customer. And yet, for the past several months, Meta has been treating […]
Excessive token usage in Claude Code
Bug DescriptionStarting from today’s morning with the updated to CC 2.1.1 – the usage is ridiculous. I am working on the same projects for months, same routines, same time. But today it hits 5h limits like 4+ times faster! Holidays season had 2x usage promot, but current usage is way more then 2x. I am […]
What Is OAuth?
@geoffreylitt.com recently asked a question about OAuth on dead-Twitter: I desperately need a Matt Levine style explanation of how OAuth works. What is the historical cascade of requirements that got us to this place? There are plenty of explanations of the inner mechanical workings of OAuth, and lots of explanations about how various flows etc […]
Cord: Coordinating Trees of AI Agents
AI agents are good at doing one thing at a time. Give Claude a focused task and it performs. But real work isn’t one task. It’s a tree of tasks with dependencies, parallelism, and context that needs to flow between them. The multi-agent frameworks are multiplying. They’re all solving the wrong problem. What’s out there […]
Be Wary of Bluesky
In 2023, Bluesky’s CTO Paul Frazee was asked what would happen if Bluesky ever turned against its users. His answer: ”it would look something like this: bluesky has gone evil. there’s a new alternative called freesky that people are rushing to. I’m switching to freesky” That’s the same argument people made about Twitter. ”If it […]
CERN rebuilt the original browser from 1989
Hello, World In December 1990, an application called WorldWideWeb was developed on a NeXT machine at The European Organization for Nuclear Research (known as CERN) just outside of Geneva. This program – WorldWideWeb — is the antecedent of most of what we consider or know of as ”the web” today. In February 2019, in celebration of […]