They're stupid enough to have an AI agent delete their entire production database from the also vibe coded storage service that keeps the "backups" in the backed up volume (so no restore possible), AND has no concept of limiting auth tokens (all tokens are god mode) AND then deciding to continue vibe coding with the very same storage service.

It really is as bad as Bart Simpson repeatedly shocking himself on the electrified cupcake Lisa left out.

They thought instructing the AI to "make no mistakes" would prevent the problem.

But that *IS* a vibe coding problem.

The problem is bypassing the developer or trying to get the developer to not "waste time and effort" dealing with trivialities that "the AI can take care of".

That's right up there with the genius mode instruction "make no mistakes".

IIRC, that was done by one of the companies that had an AI agent delete the database.

I'm sure they're vibe coding as fast as they can!

An interesting aside to that though. Even your description was better than shortly before that when computer was a job title and the whole company depended on rooms full of people clacking away on mechanical adding machines. All of that got replaced at a tiny fraction of the cost.

Yet businesses that ran profitably for decades like that have now cut customer service to the bone, never reduced prices, and employee pay hasn't kept up with inflation for decades but still they cry poor.

Depending on uncertain imported oil and gas is already not profitable and has a higher probability of becoming fantastically expensive every time some kooky world leader sneezes.

I prefer AppImage. Flatpak feels like it went way past the point of diminishing returns for efficiency and functionality vs. complexity.

Perhaps you need to run the 'testing' release, currently forky. That gets you much more current software versions.

Something other than a single continuous infrasound might. That wasn't tested, just one particular not well described sound.

They showed that the particular infrasound they used did nothing with a handful of people.

It's more nuanced than that. There may be some particular characteristic of infrasound that cause the issue.You would need to look at the infrasound in places that have reports of the phenomenon and try to replicate that first, then try to find commonalities in the sound characteristics and come up with a wholly artificial sound that replicates the phenomenon.

The Mythbusters showed that whatever particular Infrasound they used in the test did nothing statistically significant is their small sample.

Consider, I propose that sound can make people afraid. So I get a group of 10 people and one at a time I put them in a room for 5 minutes. 2.5 minutes in, I play the sound of a kitten mewing at normal volume. Nobody shows signs of fear or panic. Myth busted? Might the results have been different with a bicycle horn? Bear growling? Gunshot?

And that's why so many are skeptical of our court system.

The crazy thing about that exemption is that critical infrastructure has the highest need to be independantly repairable. You need it back up and running yesterday, there's no time to play salesman games where they try to get you to buy a forklift upgrade instead of repair.

The lobbying is IBM and Cisco declaring openly that they intend to profit from holding critical infrastructure hostage.

Only badly written right to repair. A good right to repair law should block you from contracting a special variant only sold to you, or require you to stockpile spares, but shouldn't require you to stockpile a commodity part. Of course, small businesses are unlikely to be ordering custom chips with pins swapped around compared to the commodity part like Apple does. More likely a small business' design will not feature anything not available from DigiKey or Mouser.

If you decide you no longer wish to support a device at all, publish schematics, gerbers, and CAD and you've discharged your obligation.

I still remember many many years ago, I had to use a hacking tool called burglar to get in to a netware server that had expired every password including the admin password. Novell support wasn't at all helpful.