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Re:Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner's phone on Friday October 23, 2026 @07:36AM (#50207368)
Guilty until proven otherwise?
Re:Agent-Skills.market on Monday October 19, 2026 @02:30AM (#50149043)
LLM harnesses haven’t retired the feature
You’re missing out on people getting better at working with ai to improve better long term goals, like testing suites and guardrails, velocity is inconsistent in my experience.

And vibe coding apps in the gym, is like playing a game by typing a cheat code, honestly it’s not satisfying

Try and export a few thousand Notes entries with images.

Change how you like your day to day workflows in terms of window management

Share a home made app with some friends without helping them install it

Fix a bug in the vendors software by writing a patch

Lock-in: ownership over user choice and data
Re:US military reveals it has weapons in space on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @11:53AM (#49714459)
I thought our climate survival would have been that.
Re:AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @02:35AM (#49518685)
If you don’t understand how the sausage was made you have made legacy sausage.
Re:Run macOS Software on Linux on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @02:21AM (#49518604)
You wouldn’t want to run it without instruments and effects I’d imagine.
Re:The Legends of the Canary and the Sleeping Keeper on Friday August 21, 2026 @07:47PM (#49395137)
I've been building diagnostic tools for identifying and correcting errors with the syncing and backup process of the JottaCloud backup solution. This is its operational lore described as it might be told by firelight three hundred years on, when nobody remembers what a daemon was.
Re:I think I have LLM burnout on Thursday July 09, 2026 @07:43AM (#48844293)
Key points only.

Anything written for humans should be written by humans.

Re:Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report on Sunday July 05, 2026 @02:05AM (#48791641)
Mainly I’m concerned about shortcut conflicts such as command q
Re:Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software – Rsync on Sunday May 31, 2026 @08:36AM (#48345219)
You rather open the server up to security issues than have software where the developer has been assisted by ai which you feel decreases the quality of the code or is it for moral reasons?

Rsync is not being vibe coded, and it’s not become slop so would love to understand the position.

Re:Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software – Rsync on Sunday May 31, 2026 @08:29AM (#48345181)
That’s not how LLMs are used by experienced engineers.
Re:Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software – Rsync on Sunday May 31, 2026 @08:25AM (#48345162)
Reminds of the days when windows and macs folks were debating each other, made it impossible to announce Mac software on a software forum with windows users.

The significant thing that will result from this is private issue lists and disabling open PRs. and then you’re worse off as an ai sceptic.

Re:Google Declaring War on the Web on Thursday May 21, 2026 @05:55AM (#48220150)
Adding a subscription form at the end of the article when the user is ready for the next task always made more sense to ne
Re:Google Declaring War on the Web on Thursday May 21, 2026 @05:51AM (#48220119)
Funny edge case when you can’t read the password because you need it for access
Flagged for this particular description. Could have said stupid.
Re:Our Commitment to Windows Quality on Friday March 20, 2026 @07:03PM (#47461967)
People just have disliked computing in general as a result of their Windows experience.

I’m not seeing any brick and mortar stores selling Linux laptops or any mindshare for any Linux brand. Maybe if Ubuntu started selling hardware in supermarkets Linux would have a chance of capturing people’s consciousness outside of the power user / professional circles. But they’re years too late now.

Re:Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years? on Friday March 20, 2026 @04:37AM (#47451999)
> I can't remember the last time I had an issue

Depending on your workflows the comment just described three issues

Re:The 49MB Web Page on Friday March 20, 2026 @03:18AM (#47451500)
That’s confusing a webpage that’s rendered by the user with a pdf
Re:Have a Fucking Website on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @03:16AM (#47422538)
A bad apple spoils the bunch
Re:Have a Fucking Website on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @03:13AM (#47422513)
And where does Google map get it’s information?
Re:System76 on Age Verification Laws on Friday March 06, 2026 @08:30AM (#47274672)
Select your location, if NY etc.
This is very cool and replaces a whole class of applications on iOS in terms of networking tools and web development.

Saw the docs are still minimal so understanding high level usecases is still a challenge for me.

The docs should at least evidence that I can use this securely. Can I verify the customisations to the base alpine Linux somewhere? Tech is great just wonder about the trust issue.

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