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New comment by rubzah in "An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story"

rubzah — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:00:19 +0000

  https://www.myvibesite.com/?id=10; DROP TABLE customer;--

New comment by rubzah in "An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story"

rubzah — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:35:33 +0000

I assure you that these kinds of things are happening right now.

New comment by rubzah in "An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story"

rubzah — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:33:33 +0000

As the sibling pointed out, there are already plenty of laws about, for example, handling of personally identifiable data. Somehow there is a lack of awareness, perhaps what is needed is a couple of high-profile convictions (which can't be too far off).

New comment by rubzah in "An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story"

rubzah — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:29:25 +0000

I know, through personal acquaintance, of at least one boutique accounting firm that is currently vibe-building their own CRM with Lovable. They have no technical staff. I can't begin to comprehend the disasters that are in store.

New comment by rubzah in "The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records'"

rubzah — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:58:10 +0000

You're right, thanks for the correction. It's a very Jack Blackesque character, in my defense.

New comment by rubzah in "The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records'"

rubzah — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:33:28 +0000

It's a commercial act, the 'punk' costumes carefully chosen for the right signalling, by a couple of middle class kids. What's with this idea that your taste in music must spring from the purest and rawest authenticity, preferably (in no particular order) poor, rebellious, substance abusing, ethnic, and so on. Leading to all these musical acts styling themselves like that.

The Ramones were sellouts and posers, just like most bands. Wearing them on a t-shirt to signal 'punk', the joke's on you. It's an "industry of cool", like Jack Black's character says in Almost Famous.

New comment by rubzah in "Goodbye to Sora"

rubzah — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:09:34 +0000

Back in business school they used to tell the story of how makers of razor blades would put a good blade as the first and the last blade in the pack. I suspect the LLM services of doing something like that.

New comment by rubzah in "Goodbye to Sora"

rubzah — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:44:32 +0000

Maybe not untrained, but you work on some easy, boring shit. That may be true for a lot of developers, I don't know.

New comment by rubzah in "Java 26 is here"

rubzah — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:17:56 +0000

Nobody ever wanted to wire up RPC endpoints, in the form of Enterprise JavaBeans(tm), using XML files. That is one for the history books of ridiculous technology.

New comment by rubzah in "Java 26 is here"

rubzah — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:15:18 +0000

Did everyone just agree to forget about Gradle? It was everywhere not too long ago. I think I even prefer it to Maven, in a choice between a rock and a hard place type of way.

New comment by rubzah in "Home Assistant waters my plants"

rubzah — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:13:57 +0000

That's what I am doing too, though I did have to drill out some wall to fit it, in some cases.

There is another option that I don't think many people are aware of: You can put a battery powered relay downstream of the (dumb) switch, and have it broadcast events when power comes on and off, to control other smart devices, which just have to listen for the events (via a broker like HA).

New comment by rubzah in "Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web"

rubzah — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:34:11 +0000

Yeah, I don't think it bears out that DOM operation invocations constitute a major bottleneck for a lot of web applications. Certainly the execution of those operations (like layout invalidation and calculation) can be expensive, but those would not benefit. I can't think of applications with a massive amount of DOM calls that would benefit from lower latency.

New comment by rubzah in "Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world"

rubzah — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:09:34 +0000

All your base are belong to Yann LeCun.

New comment by rubzah in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

rubzah — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:31:17 +0000

Same one for five years (Samsung Flip 3). It does have a crack down the middle. It's not enough to bother me, but you're right, early gens do have that problem (believe it is fixed by now).

New comment by rubzah in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

rubzah — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:06:57 +0000

The difference is if you are actively filming, or the camera is set up to film by itself. Security cameras are in the latter category and therefore can only be used on your own property (you can allow someone else to do it on your own property, such as a security firm).

New comment by rubzah in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

rubzah — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:58:48 +0000

An important distinction is that you are allowed to film/photograph when you are actively doing it (so the glasses do belong in that category). You're not allowed to set up a camera to autonomously film/photograph outside of your own private property.

Besides that there is the issue of publishing said footage, as others point out.

New comment by rubzah in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

rubzah — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:07:45 +0000

Flip phone user for five years, will never get a slab again. It's weird to me more people don't use them, I guess they're expensive still.

New comment by rubzah in "Martial arts robots at 2026 Spring Festival Gala [video]"

rubzah — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 11:55:33 +0000

I hate you. This will be real in <5 years.

Also, current tech could be useful as a shopping assistant, to carry the groceries for people who can't, for one reason or another. Though the other post about tipping safety does have a point.

New comment by rubzah in "Maine’s ‘Lobster Lady’ who fished for nearly a century dies aged 105"

rubzah — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:04:20 +0000

> Fishing's not catching

Sounds like something from an MLM seminar. "Telling's not selling!"

New comment by rubzah in "A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks"

rubzah — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:14:44 +0000

The Slopocalypse - an unexpected variant of Gray Goo:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo