I've often said there is a difference between vibe programming and just not knowing the language. Vibe programmers don't know how software works outside of "run thing to make stuff happen". So they have to rely on AI to make decisions...and sometimes it makes bad decisions. It can generate good code...but it's not a fantastic software engineer.

But if you have some idea of how software works and how systems operate....then chances are you'll make something that's AI-assisted but not totally vibe coded. There's a difference between being a manager and telling your jr dev "make this app" and being some level of engineer and writing out specifications. "It should do this....it should do it this way...it should take this, this, and this into account. Please stop and ask me questions involving engineering and implementation. No that is a stupid idea; instead you should query the API for it." Sometimes it helps correct me. "We shouldn't be keeping track of a shadow state. That's complex and not within your goals".

My entire Tuesday was sitting around...working with my agentic tools on a project that kind of formed out of a pile of example source code and a long specification list...and a whole lot of back and forth about engineering decisions and feeding it full API responses to reverse-engineer the bodies. Code has been running solid for 3 days...sucking down MQTT traffic, making some API calls, pushing it out over websocket to a browser dashboard. Actually making a Pi0 useful again....

Sometimes devs document things poorly...or not at all. Now I can just "ask the code" how in the hell it does something.

Depends on the application. I can point to quite a few places where memory speed actually shows it's face. For example....I can run 8b LLMs on my AMD laptop....but the minute the context window gets anything in it....boy does the speed tank. The internal graphics cores render everything just fine...but the fact the memory is 85GB/s vs 250GB/s makes a HUGE difference.

I'm pretty sure at this point everyone exploited Covid to do this. Destroy the supply chains....weaken supply....raise prices....squeeze the public dry.

This time next year you won't be talking about the computer you'll buy...but the $1200 terminal you have to buy to use the $200/month cloud PC service. They won't be selling to anyone but datacenters.

I don't think you get it.

It will NEVER be illegal. They will NEVER outlaw data collection. Law enforcement wants it. Big business wants it. They both want it for different reasons...but they want it.

The Fourth basically only applies within the walls of your own home...and not even then in some cases. If it can be seen from public...then it's not protected. This includes your yard, your street, inside any open windows....anything.

The minute you leave your house...your cell phone is reporting where it is just for basic network functionality....which can be handed over to police with a warrant...or they can just buy the data like they usually do. No warrant required...it's below budget thresholds.

If you think privacy protections are coming; you're wrong. The only thing we've gotten is less privacy. NEw cars have to spy on you. They're probably going to spy on everything. Who needs a flock network when you have a federally mandated network of sensors in cars you can use.

They will never restrict this data by law and you're foolish if you think anyone is.

The politicans don't care about us. Both sides support this...therefore it CANNOT be good.

No.

The problem is they decided the fourth does not apply to you in public.

Then they decided data collected by third parties about you is entirely theirs and has no right to privacy.

This was all done for this purpose.

Is it right? No. It's a technical slap in the face to the constitution. Blame every single elected offical on both sides that have only pushed this. Every republican that acts like it's bad, probably voted for it. Every democract that speaks out against it probably voted for it.

When both sides want something, it's sure to fuck over the population.

They should just start the process of shutting down.

They're going to get hit again...they're a mark.
They're contributing to the problem...proving they've found an area they can get results.
The trust is gone.

The fact they believe anything the criminals say is pretty stupid. That right there is enough proof that they didn't handle it properly.

There's no honor among thieves. They didn't delete it. They will use it later.

This will only continue to get worse as morons cave.

"Oh no...we can't regulate anything when it helps consumers. Do you want the FCC to approve everything you plug in? That would be a total over-reach of the government and that's not what we can allow. We not only need to prevent that; but keep the FCC out of it entirely"

Where are those fuckers now? Doing the same fucking thing now that it has a chance to fuck people over.

It's not about safety...it's about fucking control. About fucking over as many people as possible while gaslighting them about safety.

Pretty soon you won't be able to run your own devices period. Your router will be whatever piece of shit the government allows that probably spies on everything you do while heavily filtering content. They will claim it's not violating freedom of speech....while they simultaneously wanted to shut down websites for moderating content they agreed with.

The FCC is being run by a bunch of anti-consumer pro-corporate lawyers. This will not end well for the people.

That...

and to ensure all routers in the hands of consumers have government mandated monitoring.

This new form of capitalism is great isn't it? The government makes a cash grab...it's deemed illegal...the companies that charged us get the refunds...and they get to keep it.

Seems like I just paid a bunch of money for nothing. Money was taken from me...that was deemed to have been illegally taken...and someone else is getting it back.

This was by design. This was to funnel our money to the corporations. They have figured out how to separate us from our money...in a way that we have to.

I mean it's inverse socialism. The corporations are redistributing our wealth among themselves while doing nothing for it.

Age verification for use period.

These kids don't need to be playing games online. Get the fuck off the console and hit the books.

You worked for a piece of shit company....therefore I cannot assume you will do any good.

Stay the fuck out of politics.

Nope. It's a failure. They promised this years ago and it doesn't work.

Time for the FAA to shut down the drone delivery nationwide and end this stupidity.

we couldn't have net neutrality because "that would lead to the FCC having to regulate everything you plug in to the internet"

and now...republicans are in fact...regulating what we plug in to the internet.

This is not about security, it's about control. It's about finding ways of breaking the free and open internet by one of locked down devices.

The only national security this is protecting is the free spread of speech by starting to lock it behind walls.

This FCC....does not work for us. It does not represent the people.

Yes.

Free and open source is dead. When major components that have no requirement to comply with the laws decide to implement a thing; it forces the hand of developers and users.

Where's the freedom. Did they ask anyone how this should be implemented...maybe take some responsibility given their usage levels and see how this would go over? No. They just did it. Fuck your opinion, get the fuck out if you don't like it.

The bullshit we sought to avoid with FOSS has in fact, infected FOSS.

Why do this? To enshittify linux just as much as everything else. The illusion of choice.

What makes it worse is every distribution who said they plan to do nothing....don't have to. They get to check off compliance without making a decision. Just more ducks in the row that's tossing FOSS down the toilet; even better are the ones that just "can't" get away from systemd.

It was not a decision that the fucking conductor of the orchestra should make. That should be the creators of the distribution.

Zuc and co are also funding those fights pushing for it.

It's to help verify the user is a human so they...you know...mark it to have all it's data sold.