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flykespice··on Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3
It's just matter of ethics for me. You should be honest to the reviewer that you didn't write it entirely by yourself(100% your authorship) but a chunk of it was done by AI agents.

It reinforces trust.

flykespice··on Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why
> Electron is Good Enough for the purpose: getting working software to users.

Define "working".

As in, at least it boots on your computer, despite the fact it takes a whole business day to finish loading?

Is that really good enough for you?

flykespice··on What I run on my $10 USD OpenStick homelab
He created his own small skynet. Give it full control on home appliances then one day it goes .
flykespice··on Need for Speed Underground 2 online in the browser
It was, it's so stupid and morally illegal to ask donation for stuff you don't own
flykespice··on Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3
Ai friendly patch:

* Author posts patch with a manageable number of lines so maintainer doesn't gets burned out reviewing it.

* Tries to outline on the body what the patch is about and his rationale for the design decisions on the code.

* Promptly answers any maintaners questions about the line changes.

* Discloses which AI model he used to assist on the patch and how was it used.

AI slop patch:

* Submits patch with huge lines of code without explanation.

* The body is written in a self-patronizing tone with superfluous formatting that helps nothing but annoys who is looking for the actual substance of patch

* When questioned by maintainer about some line changes either goes radio silent or reply with the usual AI tone of marketin salesman.

* rarely if ever discloses AI usage.

flykespice··on The Flash C Compiler
Having a LLM also generate your unit tests defeats the purpose of checking whether a LLM generated piece of code is sound.

There will always need a human on the end to check if the LLM didn't hallucinate anything on it, including manually writing the unit tests.

flykespice··on The Flash C Compiler
Yep, and the code is an eyesore to look at. Almost no logical separation of code blocks (everything mashed-up together) I was really expecting LLM to annotate every line of code with (useless) comments, considering many vibecoded js projects are like that.

Either my C skills are getting rusty and that is how a C codebase normally looks like, or LLM was trained on some suspicious codebases.

flykespice··on Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3
It doesn't change the matter of fact that it's insulting language, and I downvoted it either way.

Developers have their own good reasons to stick with permissive licenses. Either because they are completely selfless, or they want to help users who want to kick-start their own business selling software. Just virtuous reasons.

flykespice··on GitHub's new Git storage architecture
Possibly this dude's repos? https://github.com/xesf

Every day, he sends hundreds of commits to his (most likely vibecoded) repositories of retro games recompilation.

flykespice··on Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM
That is horrible, is it really that common that electron apps eventually consume all your storage with each update?
flykespice··on No AI, 52 min. Build all Linux Files utils in C by Hand [video]
Using AI more efficiently on your coding tasks? The software engineering aspect of human review is still an indispensable skill on the age of AI.

Will just relying on AI to code everything for you, while you just review and make decisions, keep your coding skills sharp? (At worst, atrophy your manual coding skills)

flykespice··on No AI, 52 min. Build all Linux Files utils in C by Hand [video]
I really hate how the term "slop" has been misused so much that it lost its original meaning (just like a particular group of ppl calling anything they dislike woke)
flykespice··on Lula wins election after final votes tallied
> It's not going to end until Lula literally drops dead. This country proved that today.

It's not going to end until the opposition comes up with a competent alternative. Flavio was the worst choice they did.

flykespice··on Lula wins election after final votes tallied
For socially recluse persons that is another tuesday
flykespice··on Lula wins election after final votes tallied
Yes it sounds worrisome, the general populace is getting fed up with him running the country for 20 years and want a fresh change of leaders.

But it doesn't help that the alternative far-right candidate is an extremist nutjob whose appointment for the presidential race was done for noone other than nepotism (bearing his jailed father name). That alienated alot of his voting base who wanted a more competent candidate.

flykespice··on The Missed Opportunities of Sonic 06 (2025)
Naka tried to justify in a tweet reply that, because most of the 3d engine was written in pure assembly, the american team wouldn't understand it eitherway. That was straight up bs.

It's obvious he had a personal bias with the american team working on a sonic title.

flykespice··on EA is shutting down BioWare
Crowbcat brought alot of people to hatewagon the game due to its video knit-picking on details.
flykespice··on I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware
The xz backdoor should've been a wake up call for everyone subscribing to the classic cargo cult that "malware can't exist in open-source software". All the payload was submitted through auditable code that was cleverly concealed from review.
flykespice··on FPS.cob: A first person shooter in COBOL
> If a growing number of people have the sentiment that an engineer vibecoding an idea has less value than a human doing it then that is all that will matter in the end.

Because if you put them on balance that will be the truth.

flykespice··on FPS.cob: A first person shooter in COBOL
I am facing that very dilemma. I lean more to the anti-AI side, I don't want to get my skills atrophied by relying on it, but I recognize its potential productivity boosts as tempting to use.
flykespice··on Zero Lines Maze: What the 8-Bit Guy's One-Liner Can Still Teach Us
This isn't much impressive because can always import some package to do everything to you.
flykespice··on Zero Lines Maze: What the 8-Bit Guy's One-Liner Can Still Teach Us
For reference, here is the video with the timestamp when he shorts the power supply with the paperclip: https://youtu.be/Wh2OCBZpzZ8?t=273

Instead of deleting the video and owning up to his mistake, he just deactivated the comments...

flykespice··on Zero Lines Maze: What the 8-Bit Guy's One-Liner Can Still Teach Us
Most of his restoration work on videos limited to just being cosmetic at best with his expertise just being retrobriting.

When there was an issue on the motherboard, he almost always outsourced to his more tech-savy friends to fix it for him.

flykespice··on GitHub bans researcher for exploits; expert calls it vindictive
They just got banned from Gitlab too... https://xcancel.com/Pirat_Nation/status/2059393892470972783
flykespice··on Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs
Since memory is becoming an expensive commodity, I guess the old ways of being precious on the efficient memory usage of your program (like it running on the constrained 1mb memory back then) are making a comeback.

I only feel sorrow for the electron devs, they will have a hard time.

flykespice··on Android Is Compose-First
Jetpack compose is very refreshing to use, it integrates well with Kotlin DSL capabilities.

My only problem is its Web target is still very dull to use, with its long cold startup time and since it's all rendered into one big canvas elements, it doens't integrates well with browser native acessibility features.

flykespice··on Apple is enforcing an old App Store rule against a new kind of software
I see no reason those emulators wouldn't fall under the Blunded App rule, they "execute code" (interpret instructions).

It's just Apple enforcing their rules when they see fit...

flykespice··on Apple is enforcing an old App Store rule against a new kind of software
Apple enforces their rules rather arbitrarily. Wouldn't emulators also fit the definition of self blunded apps?

Anyway, I am glad I have never owned any Apple products in my life.

They can screw themselves with their tight grip on user freedom.

flykespice··on Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust
multi-language codebase are a nightmare to work with
flykespice··on VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
That isn't the same thing.

It's you're using AI tool to code, obviously the tool should be given due credits on the commits, for ethics.

but in this case Microslop is branding any commits as "co-authored by Copilot", even if the user never used any AI tool.

This is blatant attempt violation of commits authorship ethics and user rights.

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