I agree with most of what you’re saying, but:

• forgejo is working on federation. They’ve been working on it for a certain amount of time by now, but I do think we can expect some concrete version of what you describe in terms of community to materialize in the next decade as long a people want it and are motivated enough

• when talking about code that is stored in a version control software that supports decentralized state (git, mercurial are the 2 I have working knowledge of) the “easy” fix for low bus factors is to just fork/mirror the software you want to see continue to exist. Source code is not that voluminous, I would be surprised if [the collective we] can’t manage to store multiple copies of the sources for software we deem useful. It’s a question of changing habits, not finding some miracle tech

Of course, habits aren’t necessarily easy to change.

It definitely comes off as LLM-generated, though “Half-understood Kubernetes is more dangerous than no Kubernetes” feels human-wrought.

There might be a network effect happening, where formerly someone out shopping for physical goods would more easily run into friends or acquaintances and together they could decide to stop at a bakery, café, or bar for a drink and/or a bite to eat. Nowadays you need to explicitly plan to go out and socialize instead of meeting up online or just plugging in to an online community.

Relevant link, shared not too long ago on the threadiverse: https://emirb.github.io/blog/microvm-2026/ (“Your container is not a sandbox”)

You have all my sympathies. Someone in another post/thread brought up the idea of a support group for burned out devs/tech workers in general. I definitely think there’s something between that and unionization that is both needed and starting to be possible. Heck, even in the hackernews comments for this article there was at least one person telling another “welcome to luddism!” as both resonated with the spirit of the article itself.

That’s wild. Your managers’ reaction to “the project made by AI has created 2-4 years of work by experienced engineers, perhaps up to 6 of them, before it’s ready” was “why don’t you use more AI??”?

I’m starting to think Mao had a point when he sent the business owners to do farm work. Barring a revolution, I can only hope the effective cost of inference rises du much as to make these dipshits back off from wanting it to do all the labor ever.

Bon débarras!

Remind me of the spice harvesters from the recent Dune movies.

I would agree with blocking mobile internet, but could they not have left basic calling and maybe sms operable? I feel bad for the locals. At least it seems to only have been for half of a day.

Have you seen the size of the average butt plug? If the seed stays smooth and slimy in transit (debatable), I don’t think it would be too difficult to pass. I’d be most worried about getting it through some of the kinks in the intestine.

Forget charging “actual costs” for electricity, I think we should do like tax brackets and charge progressively more per kiloWatt-hour consumed. Let industry and corpo-sized services duke it out for who can consume the least, while protecting individual/personal use as well as small business, local-economy uses from the bigger actors throwing their weight around.

Who knows, we might even be able to ensure free electricity to keep the lights on for everyone with the right kind of bracketing.

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I want to fuck / my computer / coz no one in the world knows me better
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https://ninajirachi.bandcamp.com/track/fuck-my-computer-2

As much as Factorio’s map gen algorithm is great for ensuring balanced access to resources and (functionally) infinite sprawl, I would love some handcrafted maps that involve feature scale and fractality (fractalness?) approaching real life. The default map gen is too samey after a certain point and size reached.

That’s one long heel /s

Side-comment: what a surprise that the account posting the surface-level (quite possibly disingenuous) comment has what appears (to me) to be an AI-generated profile pic of a (conventionally) attractive slim blonde woman! It’s almost like it’s not an actual woman making the comment, and they’re making the comment primarily for/towards other non-women…

More seriously, it reeks of the same tone as Musk’s “concerning.” tweets.

I think what you’re favorably describing stops being “vibe-coding” and starts simply being “coding with LLM assistance”. And I suspect most people in this thread railing against vibe-coding are much less hostile to LLM assistance. In any case, I don’t think saying that people “should start accepting this fact” will convince anyone that wasn’t already, especially if you call it all “vibe coding”.

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I wonder if it would be ok to attend a furry convention wearing a sign that says “I’d love to pet you but I’m not brave enough to ask”.

not who you asked, but see this post