She is so based honestly. I’m very grateful to her taking these unfortunately controversial positions and standing up for our battered community. Greens are our only hope at this point.

Okay, I see the light. Thank you for explaining it to me!

Idk seeing the amount of intellectual dishonesty and lack of integrity people have nowadays I strongly doubt that former hypothesis, I feel like an idiot because I do things the hard way because I believe it to be beneficial for my personal growth while hordes of people claim to be geniuses with less than no information on a subject.

I think the latter is it.

Far be it from me to argue with Steinberg, fair enough. I must be wrong.

I guess I just don’t see how there was ever a barrier in the first place. The amount of juniors who couldn’t code their way out of fizzbuzz who think they are geniuses has exploded in recent years, I largely count myself amongst them too, with job interviews being as competitive as they are, and a big old green commit history being seen as a plus and people buying stars and such, I just don’t see how this was anything but an eventuality with or without AI, not unlike the endless barely valid CVE slop too.

Idk, but I don’t see why commits of shit code from AI are any different from commits to shit code from fleshbags.

Shit code is shit code.

If the maintainers of the project have their review game on point then shit code will not be in the repo, if they don’t, then AI or not, shit code will be in the repo.

So, I see no reason to panic and raise alarm about AI commits.

If anything hopefully some LLM assistance can take the weight off the absolute saints among us that are unpaid maintainers of crucial FOSS repos, like for instance with the whole XZ situation.

Vibecoding or outsourcing your brain to proprietary tech is a choice like how using an assembly line plant to stab yourself in the balls is a choice. You can choose to use tools in non-idiotic ways as well.

I’d be far more concerned over stuff like Immich getting bought out by a company with all sorts of links to the shadiest blokes going amongst the ultra-rich.

Edit:

Please also see the excellent rebuttal to my take below. I’ve changed my mind.

Voyager sounds pretty rough, try Jerboa instead, that’s the good one.

Huh? I watched it in the app (Jerboa) and it was no problem, I downloaded it too, and sync’d to my immich server, of course 🤓

Human moment

That’s really cool. Lots of innovation in defense tech these days. Seems like it can output 230 V AC / 50 Hz? Kind of cool alone that it can output AC from a battery, I heard that’s kind of difficult to do well?

I wonder how you charge it.

Incredible article, the insight into how this all shaked out it provides is so interesting

We can only hope for riots at this point.

If you think this is cursed… Try playing steam games over X forwarding xD

It’s cool though!

Just use sponsorblock, uBlock, privacyBadger, Dearrow, consentomatic and that one that blocks the JS LAN scans (port authority?)

What’s that file browser? It’s pretty neat.

Idk how I feel about the bold condensed font in the settings menu on the bottom right but still really well done rice.

So this ambxst a window manager or like a full DE or something? No idea what a “shell” is in this context, like an MS-DOS shell lol?

Don’t they mean “boomer” as in “30 year old boomer” meme? Or even just as an insult?

I’d like that honestly if it wasn’t so unpredictable. Sometimes I actually do something and do it well and I get shit for it, sometimes I literally do absolutely nothing the entire week and it’s all smiles and praise, it’s weird and for a long time it put me into a really anxious uncertain place. Now I just try not to care, I’ve accepted I can be fired anytime for any reason anywhere. But that also kinda sucks.

Am I stupid and missed the joke, or do you mean to imply that “most skilled blackhats” communicate over Microsoft Teams?

Colour me jelly. Old school Unix guys are the kind of boomers I’d probably enjoy being around and ask stuff from.

The enterprise windows type IT guys just are something else, I’m sure there’s real ones out there but in my experience they’re basically an illiterate chatgpt integration for assorted “software vendors” that are usually only there because of internal cuts and are rinsing the company in broad daylight. They know very little about computers that their software vendors didn’t teach them. Their entire job is to make themselves easy to fire and replace by standardising IT, which usually just costs the company down the line in endless SaaS fees and does less than a broken cron job.

IMO automation is good when done well, but if anything I’d say half the problems at companies I’ve seen - including my own workplace - come from automating things that shouldn’t be in some ugly way that inevitably breaks at the slightest change and that would work much better if there was just a person doing it manually instead. When automation becomes a demand from the bosses it becomes a metric and metrics become quotas and quotas are fulfilled as an end unto themselves in whatever (dumb) ways possible.

Yeah they don’t mean it in the way engineers do, they mean it literally :(

The only reason I stay is because I’m fairly free to fuck around while I WFH and I always WFH, I’m assuming that’s what he means.