Please don’t promote Red Cap politics disguised as software.

Even if they did, you can run VPNs over https, or make Tor disguise itself as other kinds of web traffic.

I’m working with some Rust right now that is 100% a big mess…

It’s consistently either the Rust or the Docker components that fail to build. In fairness, it’s a VERY big and complex application.

At a guess, the Venn diagram of people who would happily regularly pay for apps and people who have heard of flathub is teeny tiny.

Qubes or gtfo (troll answer, don’t listen to me)

Why would it be a bad idea?

I’m working with a team where my business partner and I are external consultants, but they also have internal developers (who are mostly very junior and need hand holding with things like using git).

Anyway, the CEO (without talking to us first) hired a pure vibe coder with no software engineering experience to build the user interface. Super nice guy, super easy to work worth, super eager to learn but OH MY GOD THIS CODE.

A lot of my work is / has been in cybersecurity (mostly for the space industry / NASA adjacent projects, but also less recently for start ups and fortune 500 companies). This app is the worst I’ve ever seen. The AI writes things SO weirdly. 30k lines of typescript to do something we could have done in 6k. Reams of dead code. Procedural code to do repeatable tasks instead of functions / classes (10 different ways of doing the same thing). API keys / data base credentials committed to git. API Keys stored in .env but then ALSO just hardcoded into the actual API calls.

AND no. At the end of the day, it wasn’t cheaper or faster than it would have been to hire us to do it right. And the tech debt now accumulated to secure / maintain this thing? Security is a long term requirement, we’re bringing a buddy of mine in to pentest this thing next week, I expect him to find like 10-12 critical vulns. Wow.

tl;dr: If a project requires security, stability, auditability, or the need to quickly understand how something works / why something happens, DON’T vibe code it. You won’t save money OR time in the long run. If you’re project DOESN’T need any of those things (and never will), then by all means I guess, knock yourself out.

Driving wider adoption of alternative social media and privacy tools.

Although I expect them to try to come for us and our tools at some point.

Saved me a click.

I feel like there’s probably a way I could do the same thing without Comcrap as a middleman. Anyone written libraries for doing this kind of thing with an openwrt box and a bunch of Linux machines?

And yes, reading through Xfinity’s privacy policy indicates they do monitor the WiFi motion data, and will share it with law enforcement or other third parties without notifying you.

🙁

Use Duckduckgo over tor.

Use tor browser, Brave or Librewolf.

We tried to build systems that perform a kind of basic, rudimentary, extremely power intensive and inefficient mimicry of how (we think maybe) brain cells work.

Then that system lies to us, makes epic bumbling mistakes, expresses itself with extreme, overconfidence, and constantly creatively misinterprets simple instructions. It recognizes patterns that aren’t there, and regurgitates garbage information that it picks up on the internet.

Hmmm… Actually, maybe we’re doing a pretty good job of making systems that work similarly to the way brain cells work…

All hail Friend Computer. Death to Commie traitors and glory to Alpha Complex!

This makes me want to implement a programming language as an alternate tabletop magic system. Maybe give my players runes to experiment with and let them figure out it’s a programming language.

tail -f of vim

Capitalism has entered the chat.

Something very similar happens to me in some Windows games on Mint with Cinnamon, especially older games running using Proton. I’ve had it happen recently with Age of Mythology and Fallout New Vegas.

Unfortunately, I don’t have the answer for you, but I can tell you you’re not alone.

Are you me?

Pretty sure it’s possible to play LoL on linux…