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.

I don’t know about heavier vehicles like vans or trucks, but in my parent’s Renault Zoé the Regen braking is strong enough to slow the car down from like 50km/h to 30km/h when going downhill. It might be enough to bring the car to a standstill, I’ve never actually tried letting it be - usually there’s a car behind me or I need to get somewhere in time so I can’t afford to experiment.

Brakes are still important for emergency/manual speed adjustments, of course. Just wanted to share my experience with “how well does regen braking work downhill?”

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.

Vic Lagina, who was a lead producer and director for the porn production company Brazzers for 16 years and is the author of Filthy!: The Rise and (Pending) Death of Vic Lagina, welcomes it. “As a former business owner in porn, the prospect of completely eliminating humans from the equation in porn production would be extremely enticing,” he wrote in an email to Playboy, celebrating an end to “self-serving attitudes of performers, … questions about revoked consent despite whatever rigid protocols are in place, … bad hygiene, … and waiting for wood from a shaky male performer” before concluding: “It sounds like a dream.”

huh.

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.

Can someone explain how/confirm/deny that the proposed fix for this issue actually solves the problem? I think I understand the problem statement but I *fail to see how constructing a Some(&...) is in any way different than using iter::slice in terms of falsely guaranteeing immutability of user-space-backed memory.

Yeah, compared to the USA it’s an improvement but compared to many places here in Europe it’s almost appalling.

Ah, so it’s more like Imgur for the fediverse. I imagine it would be possible for multiple servers to share a picts-rs instance, even if in practice it never happens.

It reads like they’re basically making an alternative to picts-rs, or am I missing some key difference?

I didn’t read any mention of the Public Key Directory server approach/proposal (c.f. https://soatok.blog/2025/12/15/announcing-key-transparency-fediverse/) in the post nor the two pages it links to. I think overall E2EE is important for messages, full stop, but I do hope that it won’t be as user - opaque as Signal and WhatsApp nor as rough of a user experience as how matrix was when I used it back in 2019.

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”.

I want to disagree with you, but then I see the responses you got here and how many upvotes they got and I can’t help but think that you might be right. Still, until we get transcripts and/or recordings of conversations had at this gathering I don’t think there’s much to be gained from speculation.

IMPOSTER

amogus

I’d agree with you in general, but this streamer spends 8+ hours a day talking about political news - not exactly “play video games for a few hours”).