Today I found out in web browsers typing a decimal number after the protocol into the address bar causes the number to be interpreted as an IPv4 addres...
Thus entering http://16777217 in the address bar lands you at the cloudflare DNS page.
It even works for text-based browsers like lynx and w3m!
Dystrophoria: that bad feeling I get when I am reminded that it takes more than two hours to update chromium on the distro I'm running ...
Somehow I started REALLY missing the days when I DIDN'T have access to a computer 24/7 ...
This is a goldmine
Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software · Issue #929 · RsyncProject/rsync
I’m canceling my daily subscription to testosterone. It's probably the biggest scam that I've ever experienced. Goodbye and see you never.
Roughly one year ago I predicted wide-spread degradation in software quality in the near future, mostly thanks to over-zealous application of generative AI in the development process.
Looks like we are in the middle of it right now.
I'm seeing strange bugs manifest in ways that I've never seen before: wireguard module causing access violation randomly in linux 7.0 when compiled with clang 22, chromium refusing to show context menu when it doesn't feel like doing it, etc. Obviously this is nothing but anecdotal evidence, and I don't even know whether these problems are indeed caused by AI-generated code. But I can vividly feel the reliability of certain tools I deal with on a daily basis slipping away.
You may say this is nothing but my subjective feelings, or even, "my vibes". You are correct, and that's exactly my point. I'm wondering if there's a significant portion of the population feeling the same vibes of software quality degradation, and when that happens, whether we would finally reconsider some of the choices we made as a community.
Some folks are forking open source projects that adopted permissive AI policies. I don't know if these forks will last, or would they mirror the ffmpeg / libav situation. But one thing is clear: some people are not entertained by the idea of AI-generated code powering our entire infrastructure, and rightfully so.
Are you feeling the degradation?
It just came to my mind that a substantial part of my terrible sense of humor might have come from the book series Horrible Science and Murderous Maths (or should I call it "Murderous Math" now that I'm in North America?), I read both when I was in elementary school ...
Does that mean my sense of humor is partially Bri*ish? Shit.
(not that it's an actual bad thing)
VOICE TRAINING IS PURE EFFING MAGIC!!!!!!
Seriously, why am I addicted to this? Like I was genuinely terrified of doing this when I started two months ago, but now I can't stop doing it until I lose my voice!
Wait this is supposed to go into that document ...
腹背受敵
I, Chris, do solemnly swear that from this day onward, I shall cease to be the worst enemy of myself.
Oh also, happy new year!