Cursed

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Cursed knowledge I wish I didn’t know (or better: I wish it’d be different). Inspired by Immich’s Cursed Knowledge.

2026-04-16

Big AI providers reinvent everyday tools, but in worse and more limited ways. Now Anthropic re-discovers cron, but limits it to how often one may use it. They also want to force users to use their shitty version of cron by disallowing scripting of claude -p.

You may not access or use, or help another person to access or use, our Services in the following ways:

Except when you are accessing our Services via an Anthropic API Key or where we otherwise explicitly permit it, to access the Services through automated or non-human means, whether through a bot, script, or otherwise.

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2025-10-23

Google flags domains of open source projects as malicious, no one knows exactly why or how to permanently remove a domain from the list, because there are no people at Google anymore, only robots. Meanwhile, all major web browsers integrate these lists.

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2025-10-17

Librus and Vulcan, major Polish electronic school logs providers, have actively threatened web scrapers that provide better pro-user applications.

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