Impressive how they look like this black mirror episode, 2017 but was a documentary of the future

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDP9jA6k_UE

I’m pretty sure he does not know what the C is in DC or he would have renamed it already to A(merica)

explain xkcd is down for maintenance (October 20, 2026) What happened?

Today, a remote code execution vulnerability was found in PHP, called php2shell. The exploit was quickly independently reproduced and publicized, and the php patch will not drop until tomorrow. Since explain xkcd is affected by this exploit, I have decided to take the wiki down until tomorrow. When will the site be back up?

explain xkcd will come back up tomorrow, October 21, once I wake up and have a chance to install the new patch.

Québec PM said he will do a referendum after the orange turd is out/dead

? developer can write 50 lines per day, LLM help us for some auto-complete or some easy 5 lines routine/functions, but we are not blind and do not accept them blindly without understanding them. And we have pull request and reviews etc and prior to this we have architecture and class diagram and SDD and acceptance criteria and all kinds of things.

You do think that in big companies a developer will use LLM to generate thousands of line per day by himself?

I’m not a kid doing some vibe coding, of course I know what I want and basically know how to implement it, the AI is just helping me writing it, auto-complete and all.

I’m a software developer since the 90s, basically before the internet, we had some C books for reference and that’s it. I can tell you that I started last year to use copilot in vscode and some chatgpt on a web page, and it basically changed my world, and all my 50+ years old coworkers are amazed by what it can do really.

You are right it will not fade at all in software development.

Meta makes billions with it, so why would they block them?

In Linux I use code for coding, and nano for everything else

I started using un*x on mainframe (aix, irix, hpux, etc). On a regular PC you could have SVR4, BSD, Minix, things like this, then linux came, in the 90s we had no CD, we downloaded the floppies images from ftp on the university server, then rushed to home to install linux on a 486, we did a lot of compile ourselves, no choice back in time. I used some distro after, like Mandrake (I’m French) but always liked the DIY thing, but it was more and more complicated and long… this is why I started using Debian in the days…

Old coot here

I started with like, nothing, linux 0.99 on 8 floppies and X11 on like 12 floppies… then some kind of LFS, then Debian, then Ubuntu, then Mint, then MX with Xfce (since almost 10 years)

Yup, same, years ago I used all the google apps, chrome, gmail, pay, keep, contact, clock, etc then bought a Samsung phone so every apps were kind of duplicated with samsung pay, samsung internet, samsung agenda, samsung gallery, samsung clock etc. And if you use google clock for your morning alarms, samsung app killer will kill it during the night and BAM! no alarm the morning. I ditched it and bought a Pixel.

In software coding I must say copilot in vscode is pretty impressive and very useful

Best distro ever, stable, Xfce4

Of course, this is why I’m using MX Linux, it’s Debian based. systemd optional, no snap, no flatpak, stable.

Absolutely 😁

Wow ok yeah this looks like AI generated, damn, years ago, maybe AI assisted back in the days? Anyway, it is a cool desktop

No it’s made by a human artist

nope

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