davydm

If you think there's a lot here... I subscribe to the changelog daily email, which surfaces new and trending GitHub repos. Sometimes the entire mail is ai stuff. Sometimes, if I'm lucky, there's an genuinely interesting bit of software hidden in the lost too. Every day is a search for those gems.

Surely that's a lie that simply can't make it past two paychecks? Unless you really aren't necessary at all, in which case, go find something you give a shit about and do that instead.

The very first feature I'd ask for is oauth login, at least via google - I don't want to maintain another password and the security around that, and I want 2fa for login too (which comes for free when set up on the oauth provider - no need for you to do it). Please post back when you've implemented oauth login - I would like to give it a go, but not with yet another set of credentials.

and yet, i remember reading not too long ago about all the people who wanted to abolish dst because it's a really crap experience and there wasn't data to show it would be a bad idea - so i'm wondering: is this new data, or just the old "data" that wasn't enough to convince all the people who wanted to kill dst?

link?

I think this article misses the main point that AI is where it is not because people fought back against it, but because the grifters making it needed to provide incentives such that they could foot their $1 trillion bills.

As I've learned today: confidence is more influential than actual facts. So Altman has confidently grifted his way into a place where he might find a way to foot the bills, even if that way is just government bailout - clever, but hardly the fault of people saying "putting AI in charge is a bad idea".

And yes, we're nowhere near AGI, and, personally, I don't think our current trajectory leads there. Something fundamental has to change to reach that point. LLMs might be tools that an AGI uses, but in the same way that I am not a car (it's a tool I use, and it cannot work alone - it requires some intelligent direction), an AGI would not be a token-predictor. There's more to it than that, as easily evidenced by the hit/miss rate.

I'm not saying "don't use the tools". I'm saying "don't _trust_ the tools" - because they are probablistic, not deterministic. They have no actual understanding. They can string tokens together well enough to fool humans into feeling like there's a person at the other end (and some people are fooled enough to believe AGI is in the making).

I gave up modding windows in any meaningful way after the several times I was left with a machine which was unstable, or had some other issue, or simply became 100% broken after a windows update was pushed to my machine.

It's a corporate operating system, not a user operating system. If you want to customise your desktop experience and have a stable time of it - this is not your platform, sorry. There is really only one platform for customisation: linux. Because distros and software there have been _designed_ around user choice.

Hacks are cool, but inevitably open up vulnerability pathways, not to mention issues with stability and being able to receive security patches, rolled into windows update. It's fine if it's just a personal pc you can reload at any point, but it's pointless for a machine that you require to keep functioning (eg a work machine, or, my personal machine, which does stuff like organise media on a regular basis).

seems interesting, but I'm not going to log in to read the rest

i don't think people realise the harm they do to their blogs by requiring subscriptions and logins - if you have something you genuinely want to share - share it. If you want to make money off of people reading your content, that's cool, but you immediately exclude a lot of people, so your motivations become exceedingly transparent.

one could argue the same about any SaaS-heavy operation - eg, I've heard at my place of work before "why make it when we can just pay for it" - which inevitable wraps back onto a monthly sub and rising costs. I've been blocked from completing the feature-flag implementation in our own software because they'd rather outsource that, with latency and uncertainty, to posthog.

I have to concluded that a lot of people are nowhere near as smart as they think they are.

Another step in the war, and, honestly, not one I can champion.

Overly optimistic this relies entirely on the assumptions that you are able to architect and debug (two rather brain-powered things) better than writing plain code that at least a compiler would error on if it was completely bonkers wrong.

I think there's soon going to be an analogy to the dunning-kruger effect, but for vibe coders, that would reveal just what a self-deception this is.

Or, if you don't want to blow $500, set up your Gmail to do a similar thing. I've been set up like that for well over a decade. This service is likely more flexible, but also more risky - who do you think will stop working first? Google? Or one intrepid dev?

The orange muppet is picking a fight with mexico now after his failed attempt to take Greenland, and bolstered by his recent win using microwave weapons (surely that's Geneva convention material?). This dingdong is gonna get us all in ww3.

because paid medical systems actively exclude those who don't have money, and systems allowed to spiral to the level of the us "healthcare system" will just highlight the problem better

very brave to eat dinner unsupervised!

interesting, but I wonder if it wouldn't me more emotionally healthy to not dwell on the past like that? Death is a normal part of life, but humans try to transcend death all the time via religious belief and now, an ai copy. I don't get it. Instead of "aiming for eternity", how about living in the now?

not saying that all the names in that file are innocent - just saying that having your name appear in the file doesn't make you a pedophile - otherwise we should watch out for Forrest Gump and Pikachu too. Their names also appear in the files.

because these files contain a lot of arbitrary garbage, including unsent emails

for instance, you will find Stephen Colbert's name in there - because an email sent between two of epstein's buddies included a line where the author thought that epstein would enjoy Colbert's show

so his name is in the files, and he really has nothing to do with it - and I bet there's a lot more, considering the sources of the files

For sure! Whilst most of the people around me seem to enjoy putting up with bad outcomes for the tradeoff of a few good ones (using ai codegen), I'll only use it to remind me of something ("please provide an example of doing X with Y") or for documentation lookups. With both, I have to double-check anyway.

I don't have any real desire to "have my productivity lifted" by ai codegen. I'd rather write my own code than debug someone else's. I like using the tdd cycle to let a design emerge. I care about the details in my code. I aim for maintainability over speed.

comes off less like a developer trend tracker than a blogger's ego-boost, tbh - that's the vibe I got, and honestly, if I hadn't read this post, that's what I'd think it is - yet another way for a tech blogger to get ranked and feel special

the very first example runs counter to the argument:

which do you think requires more craftsmanship: 1. the guy who flips a switch and watches the machine implement the design, or 2. the guy who implements the design by hand

it's an easy answer: which one would cost more? which one would be sought-after? which one would be at the local walmart?

and the machine can arguably do better than a human - but we still treasure the craftsmanship of the human who produces such things far over the outputs of a machine, most especially far over outputs that are based on dated techniques, resistant to improving, and clearly derivative.

you could make other arguments about ai codegen, but this one - sorry bub, you shot yourself down in the first section - at some point, you're not an artisan wielding a better tool - you're just a monkey pushing a lever, and honestly, a lot of software these days doesn't really need a craftsman, so go ahead and be an honest blue-collar worker.

I guess I'm looking forward to the future where everyone just gets stuck without an agent, and I can charge the big dollahs to pinch-hit :D

time to use the more venerable approaches of stackoverflow and google

good luck

link that works: https://github.com/LeonardHolter/Valentine-pip3-package

His hypocrisy is astoundingly special. I trust nothing he says because he steadily backtracks on each and every promise, promises he's making on phantom mountains of money, so it's not surprising they fall through, but it is surprising to me that people still keep looking up to him. He's a greedy grifter.

Most companies cannot be both authentic and constantly providing new monocles for their richest members.

In other words - companies actively choose not to be authentic in the name of profit, and I don't see that changing significantly now, or ever.

On top of which, most consumers are just interested in price. It's how Temu continues to survive with all the ridiculous rugpulls they do on customers.

The us constitution literally allows the people to vote out any government structure or process which they deem unfit. US citizens should launch a class-action lawsuit, since litigation is how they do everything, and demand changes as totally permitted in their constitution.

I don't know if most people there just don't know about it, or just don't care. But there literally is a solution baked into their constitution.

whether it's incorrect or not, keeping around a feature for a rarely-used requirement of sentinels within the path is not helpful in a world where url construction is happening in code, with user-configured values, etc.

I'd rather have the "incorrect" behavior from nginx than try to track down arbitrary 404s due to bodged url construction, any day.

specifically, when I talk about authorisation, I want to avoid this: https://johncodes.com/archive/2026/01-28-there-is-no-secure-...

because that's a valid concern I have with automating all the things - when one of those things does something I don't want because someone else managed to slip it a command to do so, or when that thing's data is breached.