Th4tGuyII

Enjoy the peace of impotency? Surely he doesn’t think his penis actually has a brain right? Its your brain that makes you horny, and it will still make you horny even if the equipment don’t work anymore.

If you’re that horny-brained that its causing you stress, your best option (aside from therapy, cause that’s expensive) is to get offline and find a hobby to distract your mind with.

For me it was an album, “Nothing is True & Everything is Possible” by Enter Shikari.

There are multiple songs I absolutely love from this album, but when I went to look at more of their songs, they had a completely different vibe.

Poor book. Nothing short of the crappiest, soulless literature out there deserves to be desicrated with wing sauce like that

Because it is much less mentally taxing to believe that the world is meritocratic and fair, than to realise that your outcome in life is oftentimes just as dependent on where you’re from, who you know, and pure dumb luck.

“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek.

For myself, it’s gaming consoles that I already own. Why go for the brand new when the things I already own not only still work - but have more functionality than they ever did before thanks to their respective modding scenes?

Hell, just in 2025 the Xbox 360 got it’s first software exploit that works on all models - which was thought to be basically impossible outside of very limited scenarios like the King Kong Exploit…

Forget soldering, forget RGH and JTAG - you can now have an almost cold-boot modded 360 with just a USB and 30-60 minutes of your time (and that’s not even counting the full cold-boot exploit teased by Grim Doomer on twitter).

If you’ve got the right console, you could be sitting on a goldmine of fun right now and never know it until you try.

The problem with pointing out contradictory points of view to the right wing is that they largely don’t care. These arguments are ultimately just dog whistles and plausible deniability towards their real ends.

They’ll argue parent’s right when the parents agree with them, then trample those same rights when they don’t - and won’t even blink because parent’s rights wasn’t the goal, it was the elimination of Trans kids, which both points are consistent with.

All of this is fairly obvious to someone not wearing a MAGA hat.

Productivity per person has increased since the 80’s, but wages have not followed - rather they have remained largely stagnant.

As such, the increased profits are instead going into an increasingly small amount of very rich people’s pockets

In its current state, no… Saying its terrible for the environment and wider economy is an understatement, and the tech industry is so desperate to recoup their money on AI that they’ve allowed it to work its way into everything - often enshittifying things in the process.

When this bubble eventually reaches its limit and bursts, I imagine these AI tools will be forced to recede into their actually useful and profitable niches - and that’s when they’ll start being justifiable to me at least.

How did we manage to move almost completely away from Pseudo-random password generation, only to come straight back to it via LLMs again.

People will really just shove these things into anything like they’re a bloody panacea, when really they’re just extremely well-trained parrots.

I hate to tell you, but there are plenty of brain-rotted kids out there too. It’ll get anyone that spends long enough online.

Social media addiction is plenty real, pretty sure I’ve got at least a mild case of it - which is why I try to limit how long I spend here and other sites.

Isn’t this just called having a lazy morning?

Like you wake up but don’t feel like getting up yet, so you play about with your phone for a bit?

As long as you’re not doing that for ages every single day, I’d say it’s fairly normal behaviour. Sometimes you just need a bit to slouch you know.

What a terribly bad faith argument. Not a single bit of that actually matters to the substance of this discussion.

My direct input on this keyboard is what ends up on the screen. My interpretation, my words, my creative decisions (or lack thereof), and my mistakes.

You AI is instructed by you. It takes your words and interprets them according to its own training data. It uses its own words, its creative decisions, and makes its own mistakes.

If you can’t see the difference between those two things, and why someone might think a person having done the latter but claiming the former might be seen as insulting, then there’s no point in having this discussion.

As I said in my reply directly to you, I don’t have an issue with vibe-coding itself.

And I do understand that our interactions of the world are mediated by tools, but those tools are things we use to assist in our direct input.

… And even independent tools like autocompletion requires me to actually type the words I intend to use. I have a direct input on what the autocompletion does, because its completing my words, not typing them for me.

Prompting an AI to do something isn’t actually doing the thing, it’s managing another entity that does the thing for you. It’s a tool, but it’s a tool that thinks entirely for itself.

So when vibe-coders say the “coded” something the AI produced, or vibe-artists say they “drew” something an AI generated, it grinds my gears - because its not the same, and will never be.

If you code enough, if you draw enough, you get better at it. If you prompt an AI enough, you don’t get better at either of those things - you just get better at prompting the AI.

Yes, because I directly typed on that keyboard. My fingers pressed each and every key to make each and every letter of this text you’re reading.

The keyboard is a tool to interface with a computer, in the same way you need a hammer to push a nail, a screwdriver to drive a screw, or a knife cuts through things.

I didn’t ask somebody else to go hammer the nail, screw the screw, or cut the thing then take credit for doing the thing I didn’t do.

Managing a process isn’t the same as doing the process, and in the same way, prompting an AI to make code for you isn’t the same as actually making that code, and never will be.

Edit:

I should say I don’t actually have anything against Vibe-coding itself, apart from the environmental implications of AI, and for personal projects I imagine it’s probably quite useful.

What grinds my gears is when people say “they” coded something, knowing full well they didn’t write a single line of code. It’s like Vibe-artists saying they “drew” something DALI made.

Its fine to do it, but just admit that’s what you did, rather than trying to take credit for a thing you didn’t do.

tinkerer built an app to control their own device with a PlayStation controller.

who used Claude Code to reverse engineer the protocol

Did they build it though? Sounds like vibe-coding to me

the problem does not lie in the encryption used by the robot vacuum when communicating with its server, but that all the data is stored in plain text and can easily be read by anyone who gains access to the server.

Having said that, this is atrocious!

What’s the point in encrypting user data in transit if you’re just gonna leave it unencrypted at rest??

If you’re going to store user data, at least have the decency to make sure its protected against malicious actors.

It’s very lucky that the person who discovered it was a vibe-coding good Samaritan, rather than somebody willing to exploit it for money

Because then they’d have to eat into their own profits, and they’d rather die than do that.

Easier to pressure the people they’re already profitting off of to give them more money then claim “we” donated to so-and-so charity for good PR and a tax deduction.

Man, not a good look for a company who boasts about the repairability of their phones to hide key software repair tools behind an arbitrary paywall - especially when required because of their own faulty update via their official channels.

This is why I never recommend updating devices straight away. Give time for the dust to settle and major faults/vulnerabilities to be ironed out first.

Yeah…

To the people “wanting to teach the DNC a lesson”, in the nicest way possible, you’re fucking idiots.

They threw literally ever other minority group under the bus, and got absolutely nothing for it - if anything they actually got less than nothing, because Trump wasn’t just going soft on Israel, he was actively cheering them on!

I will never understand the mentality of choosing that hill to die on… Like couldn’t you guys have waited until Trump was at least off the board first.

Man was literally on his way to a lifetime in jail and bankruptcy, that he got out of scot-free because you guys decided 2024 was the time for a protest vote.