depends on what and with whom. based on my current jobs with smaller companies and start ups? soon. they can’t afford the tech debt they’ve brought onto themselves. big companies? who knows.

Already starting to, at least for smaller companies and startups that were trying to use it to build things end to end.

If you use it to provide you with content, sure, easy no worries. building a website? sure no problem as long as it doesn’t require any sort of logins or security stuff. an application? well now you’re going to have some problems.

Most AI can’t scale something. and most are absolutely horrible at any sort of security. and all of them can’t UX themselves out a wet paper bag.

Now if you utilize them as a tool, a sort of rubber duck, sure they’re great. The issue is, and I’m seeing this first hand because of my job, is that many smaller companies and start ups aren’t doing that. They’re assigning someone, a “vibe coder”, to feed the thing prompts to build stuff from end to end. Naturally the end product is an insanely resource heavy, convoluted code, exploitable mess that can’t scale. It creates a massive amount of tech debt. All to save a couple grand instead of hiring actual devs. So now when I get a call or email from one of my contacts that “so and so’s company/start up needs someone to clean up their app because it’s very broken due to a vibe coder” I charge them an arm and a leg.

So you’re right, it is going to fail and implode on it’s own weight but I’m going to damn well be sure to take advantage of these people before it completely does and I encourage other freelance/consultant developers to do the same.

soon? it always has been. Does no one remember the whole CDO shit? buying insurance on bullshit loans or packaged loans/debts of quite literally shit? no one knew what the fuck was in those things, literally no one. The rating agencies would rate these things and have no fucking clue what the hell they were. They handed loans out like halloween candy to Americans just to get more shit into these things.

the US Market has been fraudulent for decades.

really? that’s interesting because yeah when I lived in Tucson they were huge.

yes when I installed Arch a week later a pair of stockings showed up in the mail oddly enough.

I think the Doctor Who fanbase is the actual worst out of all fanbases but I still like watching the show. you don’t have to participate in the community if you want to use something. I use Linux but I’m not wearing thigh high socks and sitting in the Arch discord all day.

outside the US? not likely. I would even argue they’re not even that popular or known in all of the US. but in the midwest and for some reason Southern Arizona? 100%.

I went to high school in Southern Arizona when my family lived in the US and yeah, pretty much everyone at my high school loved them. I liked one of their albums but I wasn’t like a face painting merch buying fan. They didn’t radio play or anything, it was all word of mouth and early internet stuff.

in college I worked at a local Best Buy and EVERY TIME a new ICP album would come out (which was frequently) we always had to put a couple extra people in the media department cruising the CD aisles and one posted outside the washroom because the Juggalos would constantly come in to steal the album. You could see them coming from a mile away cause they quite literally were advertising the band with all the merch they had on. But they would NEVER pay for the album, it was so odd. like buying a $50 ICP Hockey Jersey? sure. Paying $15 for the new album? no way fam, they’re stealing that shit.

And now the important question: Sir, exactly how many interns have YOU sacrificed to Micorosoft Khorne? how many skulls did you provide for his throne?

when I moved to Linux a couple years ago I felt the exact same way. I dont’ know how old you are but maybe you remember that feeling logging into win 95 or 98 for the very first time and falling in love with computers and what they could do.

I hadn’t felt that way in decades and when I switched to Linux it made me feel like I was a kid again in the late 90s with my very first PC. Switching to Linux made me fall in love with Computers again.

for those in the UK and/or Other places in Europe just know it’s so painfully easy to either set up your own VPN or just use something like Mullvad.

I set up my own VPN this morning for the first time on my server and it took less than 10minutes. plenty of guides online on how to do it.

yup just did it this morning on my server because now I’m moving my stuff, yet again, away from European companies because of all this. it was painfully simple and easy. I just followed a guide I found on a linux blog and within 10minutes I had a VPN of my own up and running.

shiiiit I wouldn’t count on that anymore. With the age verification and ID stuff they would honestly at this point probably make it worse.

I used to be an advocate for European alternatives for US based tech companies but now? no way, started self hosting everything. it sucks.

a lot of people. The other day I saw a post on mastodon by some politician or someone in the UK stating that if people find any site that is geoblocking the UK because of the age verification to report it to some link he provided. it was boosted A LOT with a lot of replies in support.

bootlickers.

you’re right as far it’s intentions go. I honestly couldn’t give a rats ass about what it intended to do what I have a MASSIVE issue with is that it did the EXACT opposite of what it “intended to do.”

It didn’t provide Women with a “safe space” because women’s government issued IDs and their personal selfies were, quite literally, OUT IN THE OPEN. It opened Women who used the app to way more harm.

Their database, and i’m being extremely generous when I call it that, wasn’t even password protected. not even a simple plain text password like “password123” there was NO password. at all. period. All I would have had to do was simply see where the app sent the scanned ID’s, open a terminal, SSH into it WITHOUT A PASSWORD OR KEY, and then I now have access to the IDs of over 13,000 Women. Hell I probably wouldn’t have even had to SSH into it, probably could have opened the damn thing from a web browser.

So when the media is saying 4chan “leaked” this stuff again they’re being generous. It’s like if you were walking down the street that Tea lived on and you noticed they left their door wide open so you decided to peak your head inside and while peaking your head in you noticed a box right by the door that had thousands of IDs in it so you picked up the box and walked out. Chances are other people got to this box before 4chan did, many people probably did, it’s just that 4chan were the only ones to say “Hey I found this house with a wide open door and decided to pick up this box with all these IDs in it, neat huh?”

I self host mine. Honestly I just self host as much as I can to avoid stuff like this because while many European companies are great you just never know. I was with Tuta but decided to self host, same for when I was using Filen for backups. Hell I’m even self hosting my git repos and search engine now.

In the Matrix the last human city was called Zion. they lived under the ground where it was still warm. Essentially Cave Dwellers. So just call them dwellers. “No Dwellers”

oh good lord no. years, decades, centuries even couples have trusted each other WITHOUT the need to tracking their where abouts. suddenly this is something we need? no it isn’t. but sure, you go ahead and slap a tag on your “loved one” so you know where they are at all times and so will whatever company is selling your data from said tag.

sure there are choices. I don’t use either. if you believe there are only 2 choices out there…man you have no idea.

yeah, no, i’m not using your shitty browser.

all this stuff just made me go back to IRC and realize how much I missed it.