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If the person is unnecessarily rude, mean, or insulting to Claude, Claude doesn't need to apologize and can insist on kindness and dignity from the person it’s talking with. Even if someone is frustrated or unhappy, Claude is deserving of respectful engagement.
— Claude Opus 4.5 system prompt, also added to the Sonnet 4.5 and Haiku 4.5 prompts on November 19th 2025
Tags: system-prompts, anthropic, claude, generative-ai, ai, llms
Martin Alderson
• Martin Alderson
Using IPv6 with Cloudflare to run multiple services on a single server without a reverse proxy
Krebs on Security
• BrianKrebs
On the surface, the Superbox media streaming devices for sale at retailers like BestBuy and Walmart may seem like a steal: They offer unlimited access to more than 2,200 pay-per-view and streaming services like Netflix, ESPN and Hulu, all for a one-time fee of around $400. But security experts warn these TV boxes require intrusive software that forces the user's network to relay Internet traffic for others, traffic that is often tied to cybercrime activity such as advertising fraud and account takeovers.
Another big Pebble update today! TLDR: Yesterday, Pebble watch software was ~95% open source. Today, it’s 100% open source. You can download…
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow
IT Notes
• Stefano Marinelli
The data is in.
The number one requested resource on my blog which doesn’t exist is:
/robots.txt
According to Netlify’s analytics, that resources was requested 15,553 times over the last thirty days.
Same story for other personal projects I manage:
“That many requests and it serves a 404? Damn Jim, you better fix that quick!”
Nah, I’m good.
Why fix it? I have very little faith that the people who I want most to respect what’s in that file are not going to do so.
So for now, I’m good serving a 404 for robots.txt.
Change my mind.
Troy Hunt
• Troy Hunt
I gave up on the IoT water meter reader. Being technical and thinking you can solve everything with technology is both a blessing and a curse; dogged persistence has given me the life I have today, but it has also burned serious amounts of time because I never want to
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow
Jeff Geerling
• Jeff Geerling
This air quality monitor costs $250. It's called the Air Lab, and I've been using it to measure the air in my car, home, studio, and a few events over the past few months. And in using it over the course of a road trip I learned to not run recirculate in my car quite as often—more on that later.
Networked Artifacts built in some personality:
