TheDarkQuark

What are the advantages of self hosting your VPN? Is it to just hide your sessions from your ISP? Also, does it not link the domain (and identity, which I'm assuming you have provided during registration) to your online activity? I thought the whole point of these commercial VPN sellers was that you could "blend in" the traffic, and add enough noise to make any sort of aggregations meaningless.

If you, however, did register and pay for it anonymously, what service is it? The last time I searched for anonymous VPSs, all of them were outside my budget.

Freedom of Speech. 🥲 Also socialize and make friends.

So, I searched for the mural specifically instead of the entire image in Google Images, and I found this from this reddit post from last year:

I looked the image up in tineye, and found the oldest use to be this picture from pikabu.ru from 2016:

So, while the image itself might be AI, the mural/meme definitely predates AI.

Hated every moment of it!

More of a realization than a quote: Death offers nothing that life cannot offer.

I am an existentialist, and I do not think anything (that is not terminal, I guess; haven't though about extreme conditions) is worse than death. So, every bad thing will pass. Every depressive bout and anxiety attack shall pass. Hopefully, your rock bottom shall pass too. And may be, at the other side, things will be better for you.

I usually go with CoMaps. If it doesn't work, then I go to GMaps WV (I have my VPN on, so Google doesn't know my IP), get the coordinates of the destination, and open it in CoMaps.

Links:

CoMaps: https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps

GMaps WV: https://github.com/woheller69/maps

It has to be this way.

Fck vwls!

Ha ha, may be that came out a bit wrong. What I meant is I don't have a complete understanding of the architecture and the structure before I start coding. It is only when I write the first test and the first function that I start noticing the structure and the limitations. I can't think of all the branches where the code might fail unless I start writing and realizing the elses.

Say you buy a $1000 phone, and the screen cracks in like 2 months. What do you do? Will you happily pay around a third of the phone price just to get the screen repaired from their official service center? A part of the reason the repair price is so extremely high is because the repair is not easy (even if the display does not cost as much). The disassembly of the phone requires specialized tools (and knowledge) which are not as easily accessible to the average person.

Replacing the battery is even harder. Phones these days have software support for up to 7 years, but the battery degrades a lot in 3. So, you are now left with a capable device that drains extremely fast.

Also, a lot of us want phones with long (preferably upstream) software support and are privacy enthusiasts. And I have seen no phone which matches the desired criteria for under $200. You need to dish out around $500 (e.g. Pixel 10a) to get such a device new (obviously cheaper if you buy it second hand).

I never understood vibe coding (or ✨Agentic Coding✨) tbh.

May be I am too stupid, but I think as I code and code as I think. I do not usually formulate a plan before I start coding. I am categorizing architecture as code btw because, for me, architecture involves pseudo-code to some degree .

Even in college, I could never just understand lectures. I needed to write down the formulas and work out the derivations myself to grasp them. I know there are people who understand things right away, but I am not one of them.

So, now, when I see senior developers (which I am not) vibe code green field projects, I am just astounded as to how they manage the architecture + understanding + optimization + maintenance context.

Loads fine without JavaScript.

If you look closely, it also knows your gender.

Btw, I am not able to create an account.

Regards,

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