If the truth would ruin their life, then their decision already did. Your silence only harms their next victim.

Could you or someone else have bumped the screen without looking and accidentally hit the auto rotate button? It’s happened to me before when I dropped my phone and caught it by the screen.

One side is:

• raping children
• murdering US citizens
• dismantling the healthcare system without the required approval
• bragging about tampering with voting machines
• starting trade wars and
• starting actual wars.

The other side, for all their faults, are not doing all that.

Increasing automation lowered the cost to produce goods. The people who owned the machines (capital) could have lowered prices, but they didn’t. They used the lower wage cost to increase their own profits, then used those profits to buy more machines (increasing their capital).

Now we have a small number of people who own a large amount of capital, raising prices on everything to keep increasing their profits, and refusing to help the people who used to do the now automated work, or raise wages for the existing workers. The shareholders don’t care about working conditions or product quality, they only care about getting a bigger return on investment (by a bigger margin) than the previous year.

“Sustainable growth” (actually exponential growth) is literally impossible to sustain, yet almost every major company’s shareholders demand it. What happens when your economy is reliant on the impossible?

The difference is knowledge and intent. When you copy from StackOverflow, you know what bit you copied. You even joke about copying from the question instead of the answer because you know that the question has a flawed premise, but you’ve done it anyway and it worked at least once.

By copying bits and pieces, you’ve learnt what you’re doing, and often still end up with a unique project.

Vibe coding is equivalent to ordering from the menu at a restaurant, asking for 1 or 2 items to be slightly modified, then claiming you are good at cooking because you made the dish that arrived. You have gained no skill, the food is same as everyone else who ordered that dish from that restaurant, and claiming you made it is false attribution at best and IP theft at worst.

There are a huge number of vibe coded games all jumping on the bandwagon when a novel yet simple game is successful. Something that’s not obvious when vibe coding a single project — yet becomes obvious when many people try — is that all of these projects are effectively the same. They all contain the same stolen code, and they “authors” don’t even know it.

I personally made over 80% of the existing mods for a game. When someone tried to vibe-code a new mod for the game, the only thing the AI could do was copy parts of existing mods. The parts that worked well were the functions I had used in multiple mods, and the parts that completely failed were the functions I had needed only once.
My favourite finding was that the AI had filled the “author name” field with the data it most commonly found there - my name.

AI doesn’t think, it only copies.

You would love perfectmotherfuckingwebsite then. It’s just so clean. Source

The problem with vibe coding is that AI doesn’t create, it copies. Anything “you” coded was created by someone else, AI stole their work and put it’s name on it, and now you’ve stolen their work.

Every machine is a smoke machine if you use it wrong enough.

I’m not certain

This is why I ask humans instead of AI. I didn’t consider router level options.

I’ve already got dynamic DNS set up, and I’ve been meaning to set up a way to access my NAS from out of the house. This might be the final push I need.

My router is running OpenWRT (and stopped having intermittent issues after replacing the stock OS).

I’m leaning toward Tailscale for the “quick and easy” recommendation. If I need to do this again, I might try something a little more advanced.

I’d be worried if you realized only after watching twice.

Don’t just run random commands though. Take a few seconds to understand what it does. If you still don’t understand, ask the AI to explain it.

That way you both learn how to do things yourself, and lower your risk of running harmful commands.

When you start looking at women as just objects that produce babies, then the laws being suggested in the US make a lot more sense.

The current politicians don’t have enough empathy to consider women as people.

If you have 10 people in line, 8 are quick and 2 are slow, it will look to you like there were only 2 people in line and that everyone is slow.
If anyone is quick, they won’t be in line long enough for you to notice / care about them.

Kids only matter when they’re not born yet

Minecraft: Make creepers explode more

Derail Valley: Use all the train horns

Void Crew: Automatically open all the doors (optionally includes both sets of airlock doors)

PULSAR: Lost Colony: Reduce weapon accuracy to 0

That’s why so many people think that text written by autistic people is AI generated. People with autism built the internet.