I mean, do you really think they were banned for national security reasons? Or to protect Tesla and US ICE manufacturers?

There can be several motivations that are all equally valid. We should ask Europeans if they think national security has become a major concern in the face of their overwhelming reliance on USA technology and services.

Is this American overwhelming or European overwhelming? You know, the way everything is bigger in America? The claim is inflated. Yes, the US dominates parts of the digital tech economy. To imagine that as unilateral dependence is foolish. The US depends on European companies like ASML, hundreds of billions in European investment annually. Europeans used to trust the US and were happy to buy US products and services. That's over now. The US, and particular, the current administration, has shat the bed. The decoupling is underway and will not be reversed. I recommend the YouTube channel HouseOfEL if you'd like read the writing on the wall.

Yeah, with some minor exceptions (the interior door handles what the hell lol), my SL7 has similar interior quality to my Audi S4.

The subtitle is literally from I think you should leave, so yeah.

Out of pure curiosity, is it Claude Code only? Or other harness user agents? Just curious if there's something specific about CC that's encouraging the block.

It's just C-C, and solely because I noticed that it appears (a) to do its networking from the user's local network instead of a cloud server, and (b) it typically identifies itself as claude-code. It also showed up enough in my logs to be noticed; I don't go proactively searching or testing these things.

Other tools either run off of a central cloud provider, in which case they get the standard anti-AI page, or mask as a "legitimate" user agent, in which case I leave it up to the captcha/challenge.

It's now rolled out in Perth too, I think.

Turns out Adelaide too, and Canberra.

Meanwhile Hobart and Darwin are free PT right now.

Ah that’s great news, I’m from Perth but currently living abroad.

Can't imagine anyone I'd want reshaping society less than OpenAI.

As a West Australian this is so interesting to me, because gambling culture is extremely niche here - but WA law is that pokies are only allowed at the casino, nowhere else. And thank fuck for that.

"staff engineer"

We saw this coming (like most people) a while ago when Heroku started flaking without status updates, and moved part of our workload to Fly. We ended up moving off Fly as well (significant unreliability and just some very strange network load balancer issues that would cause us downtime) and went to Railway, and that's been fantastic so far. We've moved our whole workload onto it.

Nearly every transaction account in Australia now uses a debit card as the access card, usually Visa debit. Some people will have a credit card in addition to that.