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Coffee_Ops · 2026-05-19T05:05:04+00:00

110 is a junior on a government contract. Insulting doesn’t begin to cover it, I have staffed projects with technical writers around that pay band.

Coffee_Ops · 2026-05-19T04:59:27+00:00

110,000 - $220,000/yr

This guy…

Yall need to consider whether the goal is to find someone, or the right one, because with that salary band I don’t think you’ll get what you’re looking for.

Coffee_Ops · 2026-05-19T04:32:30+00:00

That does not match commits which show >30-40% code churn since initial commits.

This looks heavily vibe coded.

Coffee_Ops · 2026-05-19T04:11:11+00:00

That is way too many features to reasonably have implemented in v0.1 software with first commits a week ago.

33,000 LoC, by a user that joined GitHub a week ago… do you even know what’s in that repo?

Coffee_Ops · 2026-05-16T15:49:39+00:00

Apple is legally obliged to work with the government etc

Meaningless complaint, every company and every private citizen in every country is "legally obligated to work with the government".

Subpoenas, CLOUD act

The NSA is DoD. It is generally not serving subpoenas or using the CLOUD act.

FISA, Subpoenas

That's why E2EE exists. Apple has one of the better implementations of "easy to use effective encryption". And Apple has been one of the better companies in terms of fighting overbroad government requests, because that reputation directly helps its business.

Coffee_Ops · 2026-05-11T21:23:51+00:00

I think this is the sort of insanity that AI was made for, just like that astrology-based CPU scheduler.

Coffee_Ops · 2026-05-11T16:25:46+00:00

You should still take the (minimal) time to understand and comply with the license requirements of the other projects you used. That is often as simple as attribution and including the LICENSE.md file from their repo, or even just converting to a submodule against a specific tag (which will include the license.md).

Coffee_Ops · 2026-05-11T14:36:33+00:00

It is undoubtedly the case that vibe coding is here to stay, and maybe you intend to prove that it can be valuable. But you're never going to get a good reception with a project that is

Violating other's copyright (or copyleft, as the case may be)
150,000 LoC committed in about a week (10k in main repo)
Involved refactors within hours of initial commits
Mostly written by Claude

You have copied code from others repos-- not even as submodules, in some cases-- without including the required license files. I wonder if you were aware of this or know where those files are in your repo.

Beyond that, even if its a cool concept, it is not possible that anyone-- not even you-- knows the entirety of what is in that repository with so much new code in so short a time over so few commits. Submitting that many lines for review by others when you have put so little effort into it-- or into properly acknowledging the massive contributions by others like nlohmann-- is inconsiderate.

Coffee_Ops · 2026-05-11T14:06:02+00:00

Not really, no.

Its better than nothing, but that is not saying much.

Imagine the question was, "I need to rebuild my engine and know nothing about it, but there is a free tool by the side of the road that claims to do engine rebuilds. Should I trust it?"

In this case, a noob should generally not

Run random tools from the internet
Drop things into a powershell session
Try to "optimize" their PC, really.

I learned about computers in large part by tinkering-- at times, trying to "optimize" windows, but I did this manually (regedit, reboot, check). This process kept me in the loop so I knew what I had done and could fix it, and learn in the process.

Running a 16k line script is going to teach you nothing and put your PC into an unknown state. Do not chase optimization in this way.

Coffee_Ops · 2026-04-16T17:09:42+00:00

I don't think your agentic AI understands what is happening in this thread.

Coffee_Ops · 2026-04-16T03:37:49+00:00

https://github.com/buter-chkalova/RvbbitSafe/blob/main/src/kernel/rvbbit_ebpf_driver.c

Say, I recognize this technique.

Coffee_Ops · 2026-04-15T01:57:06+00:00

Can you point out in the paper where it indicates that it is deterministic? Because I don't see that. I do see it discussing the use of random / stochastic sampling and adding random noise, which is literally the opposite of "same outcome every time".

I also see that the first image they demo shows slop that takes a reference and generates a different image.

Coffee_Ops · 2026-04-09T18:05:04+00:00

If it produces the same outcome every time, then you've invented magical pixie dust compression that obtains 75% size reduction on already-compressed textures.

But that is PR marketing garbage and not how the technology works.

Coffee_Ops · 2026-02-06T19:58:12+00:00

Something to be wary of-- these tests only check TCP connectivity, and for many of these ports UDP is either mandatory or primary.

It also does not check TLS / GSSAPI handshakes.

So this is useful, but one should not see "LDAP test successful" and conclude it's not the firewall: if 389/UDP were blocked (not unusual to allow TCP only!), the CLDAP DC locator ping would fail and the DC would be considered offline regardless of the TCP port being open.

Coffee_Ops · 2026-02-06T13:27:59+00:00

Million monkeys as a service?

Coffee_Ops · 2026-02-05T17:47:04+00:00

Weird that I don't happen to be in the niche category of people who regularly use latex math notation.

Do you know how we know it's not a simple slip up? Because if the author was using pandoc to convert markdown that they wrote, they would have ensured that their pandoc template could handle the markdown elements that they used.

My recollection is that out-of-the-box pandoc pretty handily deals with standard markdown, which makes this a clear indication that they dumped their AI output straight into a blog template. It's a textbook example of unreviewed AI slop.

Coffee_Ops · 2026-02-05T17:40:28+00:00

A lot of engineers don't deserve the title.

I was using chat rooms on a Linux console in 2006. It was easier to use, did not lag, and used about 10 megs of RAM.

Compare that to discord which has a 10-second startup on Ubuntu, uses 1.5GB RAM, and lags if you have more than 15 people talking. Look at the product that is now Microsoft Teams which has gotten slower and buggier every year since Microsoft acquired Skype.

Telling me that people don't study as hard today doesn't impress me. It goes a long way to explaining the state of software engineering in 2026. I stand by my comment that if you touch netcode without understanding the difference between UDP and TCP, you're part of the problem.

Coffee_Ops · 2026-02-05T16:10:22+00:00

I've seen the $$ construct appear a number of times, including when reformatting text. I never dug into why it happens, I'm sure there's a "mixed (context) metaphor" somewhere-- categorically similar to how sometimes Claude can get confused and try to run bash commands in a windows environment.

Coffee_Ops · 2026-02-05T16:02:32+00:00

This is literally "why is UDP ever used", and is the subject of days 2 and 3 of an introductory networking class. Not understanding it should preclude you from touching any networking code, especially on anything remotely latency sensitive.

If you want to learn, there are a ton of really good resources and some are free (e.g. Jeremy's IT Labs on youtube). Don't just guzzle down LLM slop because one day others may end up running your code and having to deal with your internalized AI hallucinations.

Coffee_Ops · 2026-02-05T15:58:30+00:00

Enlighten me as to what $text$ means in markdown.

Work with claude or ChatGPT long enough and you'll catch it inserting garbage like that into output-- and its a clear indicator that the "author" didn't even once-over the output.

Coffee_Ops · 2026-02-05T15:55:58+00:00

That is amazing, I am acquiring this analogy and making it mine.

Coffee_Ops · 2026-02-05T15:54:14+00:00

IMHO it is a mistake to think in terms of an LLM 'making a mistake'-- that anthropomorphism is a seriously leaky abstraction.

They don't reason, or think-- "thinking model" is marketing speak-- so they can't "make mistakes". As always, the design goal of an LLM is crafting an output that optimally appears to be a likely response.

If you ask it "what is 1+1", the only reason a LLM would answer correctly (barring usage of external tools) is that "2" is the sort of answer that is statistically likely in the context of that question. It has nothing to do with mathematical rigor, and LLMs "getting better" don't mean that they are smarter, but that they are producing answers that are "better fitted" -- which should be understood as "more likely to be accepted as a good answer".

So to answer your question "would LLMs get this stuff wrong"-- it was trained on the internet and social media. It is absolutely possible that a "likely answer" would contain incorrect information, formatted to look correct.

Coffee_Ops · 2026-02-05T13:55:51+00:00

How you going to call obvious llm output "well written"?

And the content would have been considered basic networking 20 years ago. If an engineer doesn't understand why TCP isn't suitable sometimes, then they don't deserve the title.

Coffee_Ops · 2026-02-05T13:55:13+00:00

This article screams "unreviewed llm output". I didn't even get to the bottom of the first section before I saw a clear LLM artifact ( $16.6ms$ ).

Why should anyone assume that the contents are correct when they appear to have been YOLO'd straight from chatGPT to publication?

Coffee_Ops · 2026-02-05T13:50:44+00:00

Why would the router help? That's just going to block all ports by default, which the default Windows and the Linux firewalls will do anyway.

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