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That reputation has entirely been created by the media frenzy over busting the worst kinds of criminals.

Oh they're all using the same technology? Yeah of course they are, because that's the technology that works the best. It has so many fucking use cases.

Funny that the media frenzy is hitting a fever pitch just as we most desperately need powerful tools for opposing fascism. Almost like that's not really a coincidence.

What we're seeing in US states with these kinds of stupid laws, is massive increases in traffic to porn sites based overseas that have no obligation to follow the age verification law, and the state has no mechanism to compel them to do so. So all they're doing is hurting American companies AND increasing the probability that residents of their state (including teens) will visit sketchy ass sites with sketchy ass content, sketchy ass viruses and the ability to chat with sketchy ass creepballs.

We've also seen massive increases in VPN and Tor usage, as well as a massive increase in searches for information about VPN technology. I actually consider that a huge positive. Knock yourselves out Republicans.

Of course, these laws aren't about effectively accomplishing anything other than virtue signaling to Christofacists. At least in the US. IDK what's going on in the UK.

I'm working with a team where my business partner and I are external consultants, but they also have internal developers (who are mostly very junior and need hand holding with things like using git).

Anyway, the CEO (without talking to us first) hired a pure vibe coder with no software engineering experience to build the user interface. Super nice guy, super easy to work worth, super eager to learn but OH MY GOD THIS CODE.

A lot of my work is / has been in cybersecurity (mostly for the space industry / NASA adjacent projects, but also less recently for start ups and fortune 500 companies). This app is the worst I've ever seen. The AI writes things SO weirdly. 30k lines of typescript to do something we could have done in 6k. Reams of dead code. Procedural code to do repeatable tasks instead of functions / classes (10 different ways of doing the same thing). API keys / data base credentials committed to git. API Keys stored in .env but then ALSO just hardcoded into the actual API calls.

AND no. At the end of the day, it wasn't cheaper or faster than it would have been to hire us to do it right. And the tech debt now accumulated to secure / maintain this thing? Security is a long term requirement, we're bringing a buddy of mine in to pentest this thing next week, I expect him to find like 10-12 critical vulns. Wow.

tl;dr: If a project requires security, stability, auditability, or the need to quickly understand how something works / why something happens, DON'T vibe code it. You won't save money OR time in the long run. If you're project DOESN'T need any of those things (and never will), then by all means I guess, knock yourself out.

Driving wider adoption of alternative social media and privacy tools.

Although I expect them to try to come for us and our tools at some point.

TBH, 98% of security problems in the Python ecosystem boil down to mission critical projects using old versions of libraries or straight up unmaintained libraries, where the library in question is 100+ megabytes of who knows what, but the project only imports one function, the utility of which the devs could have recreated themselves in 15 minutes without needing to use the library, especially lately when everyone just imports what the AI tells them to import.

Left to right

Montgomery Scott, Geordi La Forge, T'pol, Jean Luc Picard, Jadzia Dax, Julian Bashier, Beverly Crusher, Trip Tucker.

This is me.

Meh, I can make a Swara bastet / Tremere abomination with ranks in Celerity and mage powers and cybernetic arms from that one Pentex supplement who can attack 30 times in Crinos (but that's not a problem cuz I'm Metis with some pointless "story factor" drawback that has no effect on my combat capabilities) with enchanted plasma cannons, doing 300d aggravated before Cain gets his first action.

Saved me a click.

I feel like there's probably a way I could do the same thing without Comcrap as a middleman. Anyone written libraries for doing this kind of thing with an openwrt box and a bunch of Linux machines?

And yes, reading through Xfinity’s privacy policy indicates they do monitor the WiFi motion data, and will share it with law enforcement or other third parties without notifying you.

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