MalReynolds

I’m starting to say vibe code is write only.

Like they used to say about Perl, indistinguishable from line noise.

Basically unmaintainable without super strict coding conventions, submitters taking personal responsibility, a strong, well thought out overarching architecture, and most importantly, someone with a great knowledge of the project to approve merges. Vibe coded forks to add one or two features have none of that.

This is why GitHub is littered with slop projects that haven’t been touched since they were made. This is why an ungodly amount of technical debt is accruing as managers with a hard on for lines of code or ‘features’ force devs to unwisely use AI coding tools all the time. There will be a reckoning, and it’s not far off.

Smartwatch: Garmin (Fenix 6 gen and above if you want sleep monitoring) with gadgetbridge on android (preferably GrapheneOS) and selfhosted Endurain. Seeing as this is c/Selfhosted you can also roll your own dashboards with Grafana.

You’re thinking Garmin, really? Privacy? Actually Garmin’s T&Cs are IMO the best of the big names privacy wise, especially if you’re in the EU, but they’re publicly traded and subject to the ‘I have altered the deal, pray I don’t alter it any further’ changing terms at their whim, or just getting bought out and drained dry.

You know what’s better than OK T&Cs? Not giving them any data at all. On gOS I can pull the network permissions for Garmin Connect and still use it to set up the watch, do custom activities and so forth. When finished disable it and enable GadgetBridge. If you want watch faces do that with Connect IQ and then uninstall.

There are other gadgetbridge compatible devices but none with the build quality, feature set and quality health data. It’s been running for GB for more than a year and they haven’t sicced their lawyers on it.

You can also just connect it via USB and use any software that handles GPX etc. files.

For privacy, probably better than Brax, worse than GrapheneOS at the moment. Should be possible to harden Jolla, but at the moment there’s no turnkey Linux phone that’s secure and privacy respecting of which I am aware. Fairphone 5/6 with PostmarketOS is coming along nicely as I understand, battery life notwithstanding.

I like the analogy of Arch is bleeding edge, fedora cutting edge. Did the Arch thing (and recommend it to learn, still use archwiki) now happy with ublue after a year or two of fedora. Guess I like stuff that just works.

Still sitting pretty with a pistol in hand.

Wow! Nailed it.(heh)

Yah, surprising how often “it’s fun” gets overlooked as a solution academically. Odds on it being a juvenile behaviour.

Don’t understand the downvotes here, even just burying a HDD in a waterproof container in the backyard is way better than 99.9% of users with unencrypted files in OneDrive or iWhateverTheyCallIt. Offline backups are critical against accidental deletion among other things.

Yup, once you encrypt at home just chose the cheapest / most reliable (or use multiple) depending on taste off site storage. Trust is no longer an issue.

I’d like to see some sort of MergerFS for offsite with varying redundancy levels, instead of my shell script.

Completely correct.

Cryptomator has an adroid app, haven’t used it in anger, but it’s there.

If you encrypt at home it doesn’t matter where you do offsite. See Cryptomator for an easy platform agnostic approach. Why trust the bastards?

but do you see any realistic way to tackle this apart from raising base service fees?

Hard agree on re-nationalizing a natural monopoly (bloody neoliberal bullshit), which is itself a realistic way. Beyond that investigate microgrids, redundancy (especially EV batteries), making large users pay for their own infrastructure and preferably renewable generation (Aluminium smelters, AI Datacentres, or say no to AI). Battery uptake should be taking pressure off the grid and making it cheaper, but here we are.

Of course, the power companies have been jacking up service fees for the last decade to keep their bottom line. That would not be too bad if they were actually increasing grid capacity or even properly maintaining the current infrastructure, but noo. Those free power plans come with a further jacked up service fee that makes it uneconomic unless you’re charging an EV at those times. Same shit, different day.

Seems a lot of words to say the third place has been monetized out of existence, or at least out of the reach of the poor, which given the death of the middle class means everyone not rich.

I mean it seems adequately researched, makes a valid point on genderization, but is otherwise all over the place.

It already is, this beats the NSA and OpenAI et. al.

Fuck Micron, we will remember. It’s in their interest to pump up the bubble (with 16 SCAs announced by them with no disclosure as to who, which they would if it were anyone important, can we stop reporting press releases as fact, please). When it pops, or China eats their lunch, it will likely be worthwhile to just go insolvent and reincorporate rather than keep to this SCA for anything at scale. More grist for the IPO / stock pump hype mill.

Just get a domain and point it at a provider. Now you’re not locked in and can switch at will upon enshittification. Get one of the offline mail archive services like OpenArchiver. Job done.