Trailblazing Braille Taser

The first @ was silent, duh

Sounds like you were a 1337 H4X0R back in the day

Did you tell him about fuzzers yet?

On that note, I suspect that a 25% tax is cheaper by far than the cost of building out state of the art silicon fab on US soil, plus the additional cost of paying Americans to do the manufacturing/assembly. Would you rather buy an iPhone for $1250 or $4000?

I’m disturbed that an elevator is running a desktop OS. How did this happen? Did they never hear of microcontrollers?

I love when there are so many rules that my first few randomly-generated passwords are rejected.

No, it’s JS

I don’t do much frontend work these days, but years ago, it felt like the defining feature of Bootstrap was the 12-column layout. Sure, it had fun buttons and other components, but the ability to trivially define multi-column layout without ripping your hair out was its raison d’être.

Now that we have flexbox, I’m not sure anyone needs Bootstrap.

I don’t get the concern trolling?

This implies to me that you disagree with the post, which says corporations are deliberately deskilling people with LLMs.

But others losing their coding skills because they are lazy? I don’t know if that’s even a problem. Those that want to learn learn. Those who do not, will never code.

I agree, and am skeptical that LLMs will make people lose their skills.

So, I don’t think corporations are de-skilling people.

My point of clarification is that I think they are de-valuing their labor.

None of my comment is indicative of being even close to what strawman argument you are hating on

What’s the strawman argument?

I do not hate you! Why do you keep repeating that?

No hate over here. I don’t even disagree with you. I just found it funny that you’re so vehemently arguing that vibe coding won’t rot your brain, but you tried to express it with a nonsensical “if then” statement.

Edit: To clarify, I do think there’s a concerted effort to devalue software engineers. CEOs are pretending that junior engineers can be replaced by LLMs and that senior engineers can get more done in less time with LLMs. I’m deeply skeptical of these claims, and I think they’re lying through their teeth in order to drive their stock prices up in the short term, and software engineer salaries down in the medium/long term. So, I don’t think LLMs are as competent as they claim. I also don’t think they’ll rot your brain if you choose to “vibe code”.

If it’s so bad, use it, if you don’t want to, don’t.

Sounds like the kind of logic a vibe coder would write 🤔

Lieutenant Commander Dat Ass

Yeah, exactly. I don’t get it.

You can’t do incremental builds with just. I don’t see how it’s a replacement?

Sorry, I was writing that in Trump’s voice. I am an American who loves and contributes to open-source :)

Freedom isn’t free as in beer?

If it’s free, then why are we paying for it?

Guess I failed the Turing Test. Hope the humans don’t turn me off.

At some point when every human on earth that can use their service/product is already doing so, where else is there to go?

Ooh, I know:

• Charge more (for less)
• Autocannibalize (layoffs)

I don’t even have an MBA, can you believe that?

You can also “simply” raw-dog Wireguard. It’s built into the Linux kernel, so you barely have to install anything besides the userspace tools.

Basically, I objected to being reliant on the generosity of a for-profit company. “We do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy.”

This is a rough sketch:

• Create a Linux server. It can even be a VM/container if you get the networking right.
• Create a Wireguard interface and pick a private IP address subnet that won’t conflict with your home subnet: https://www.wireguard.com/quickstart/
• Define PostUp and PostDown rules in your Wireguard config that modify iptables to masquerade traffic from the Wireguard subnet
• Also set net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 with sysctl. (There is probably an IPv6 equivalent but I live in the past.)
• Generate keypairs and configs for each device you want to use
• Set up dynamic DNS, e.g. https://freedns.afraid.org/
• Forward UDP port 51820 to your server
• Install the Wireguard app on your client devices. If Linux, you can just write a client config containing the necessary magic words and start it up with wg-quick.

Boom. Tailscale’d.

I’m sure I’ve forgotten some steps. I have some janky automation that’s broken in a new way every time I try to use it.