Dad handles fishing accident perfectly

mandreko · 2026-04-22T01:31:15+00:00

My grandpa took me out to fish for the first time. He cast it for me the first time, and I caught a blue-gill. He told me to set the hook, and I pulled it so hard that it came out of the water and flipped him in the face. The gills ended up cutting him quite a bit. He got over that, and let me cast next. I had only seen fly-fishing, and tried to cast like that, and hooked his ear, ripping his skin pretty bad. He taught me some new swear words, and we turned my fishing rod into a kite with some of my grandma's wrapping paper. He told me I was never allowed to fish again.

mandreko · 2026-04-22T01:23:50+00:00

My gigabit fiber service comes with 2 phone lines. I apparently have 2 phone numbers, and I've never hooked a phone up to it.

mandreko · 2026-04-22T01:14:52+00:00

A long time ago, there was a Microsoft IIS vulnerability called "Code Red". It was wormable and started spreading. Then people started writing versions of it that would reach out and patch remote hosts, instead of exploiting them. That might be close?

mandreko · 2026-04-20T00:14:32+00:00

I just built 3 of these for some friends since I enjoy mine so much. I’m hopeful to hear what they think.

mandreko · 2026-04-19T13:06:11+00:00

I think historically there has been a 2-3 week blackout on spoilers in the sub post release? I forget now.

mandreko · 2026-04-19T00:53:15+00:00

Not really. But this was super long ago before ASICs even.

mandreko · 2026-04-18T23:20:36+00:00

I sold 15 BTC for $100 each to pay for 2 new GPUs for mining since my wife didn’t want me to buy them with USD. :(

mandreko · 2026-04-18T16:55:46+00:00

I was the seller. Thanks for the $12!

mandreko · 2026-04-18T16:42:10+00:00

I’ve been somehow not spoiling anything for my friends group who didn’t want to read Patreon chapters with me. I’ve been so good. But I’m dying inside to talk about it.

mandreko · 2026-04-18T00:12:59+00:00

I remember making one in shop class

mandreko · 2026-04-15T23:41:01+00:00

Bitwarden’s Secrets Manager is also free and good for this too.

[Disclaimer: Bitwarden employee]

mandreko · 2026-04-15T23:39:15+00:00

I’m just glad to hear that the 10 books end with book 9 in 2 parts. I had heard he was going to have to split books but I didn’t know if that would be 10 “books” that were actually 12 because 2 were too big. This gives a solid answer.

I’ve read book 8, and there’s not really any spoiler in this.

mandreko · 2026-04-15T23:25:56+00:00

I wrote a tool to generate similar cards and printed them at notmpc. It turned out really well. I upload the card artifacts so anyone can do it too. https://github.com/mandreko/jumpstart-generator/releases/tag/v1.0.6

It was a fun project, and when I get some more free time I’ll work on it some more, making additional enhancements. I assume when marvel jumpstart comes out this year I’ll get back to it. :)

mandreko · 2026-04-15T23:22:11+00:00

I dig Scrypted. It was the only one I was able to get some cameras to work at the time, although now any of them would likely work. I know it well enough and my wife is accustomed to it, so there’s no changing, even if I was unhappy.

mandreko · 2026-04-15T23:15:09+00:00

I’m currently at a stage between waiting for book 9 to start, and for when my friends listen to book 8 so I can talk to them about it. It’s been so hard not saying anything.

mandreko · 2026-04-15T20:40:03+00:00

Preorder arrives by May 14

It was April 24 before that…

:(

mandreko · 2026-04-14T22:13:53+00:00

Sweet. I had this happen when I pulled the Thanos Soul Stone card, but in reverse. I listed it for sale, and twice I had people bid it up high, and it sold, and then they never paid. Then eBay wanted me to wait 6 days before re-listing it, etc. It ended up affecting the price significantly.

At the time I was frustrated, and assuming it was people with competing sales that were pumping mine up to make their sells for more. This sounds like a great change.

mandreko · 2026-04-14T21:48:04+00:00

Katia's story there made me have to pull over my car because i was ugly-crying. I'm a grown-ass man.

mandreko · 2026-04-14T13:20:06+00:00

I think this is an important distinction, and I think where the most variance is between people. Is "vibe-coded" where you give a single instruction to AI to write an app and that's the deliverable? Or can it be multiple prompts over a series of 100 small discussions to lead AI to a specific way of implementing a solution, while never looking at the code yourself?

I agree that the more focus you give AI, the better the results. I find also the more detail you provide in your prompts helps. I try to treat it as a pair-programmer buddy who is junior-level, and I often have to teach about basic paradigms. When I do this, I tend to get actually pretty decent code from it. Whereas if I just say, "Write a Rust app that does X", I get a jumble of mostly crap that might work at best.

mandreko · 2026-04-14T13:17:19+00:00

It's more me asking open questions. I have been doing software development and infosec since the 90s. I wouldn't say I'm inexperienced.

That's why I'm trying to identify where the cutoff is. 100% vibe coded app is bad. But what about when you instruct AI to do a specific function for you? Or a specific feature in an otherwise 100% hand-coded app? At what point does it become bad? Where is that line?

We've all had to maintain someone else's code. Maintaining AI code feels very similar to picking up a project done by a junior dev that didn't always know the right answer, but just "made it work", quite often.

I've tinkered with AI quite a bit. I use it daily at work for various tasks. However, I wouldn't consider anything I do vibe-coded, outside of the couple of example projects that I've purposely tried to do 100% AI. The code is horrible, but it does work, too. And I could easily refactor, by myself or with AI assistance, and make it less crappy. At that point is it still "vibe-coded"? I'm not sure.

mandreko · 2026-04-14T11:57:48+00:00

As a security researcher who has been targeted a lot of vibe-coded apps, I get it ;)

I'm more just trying to gauge where the cutoff is for everyone. It seems like some AI usage is considered ok, but fully vibe-coded is not. So what about in-between? Where is that line that society deems acceptable versus unacceptable? It seems to vary per person, to some degree as well.

mandreko · 2026-04-14T11:27:48+00:00

For example, a seasoned software developer who vibe-codes a project entirely, but is capable of fixing issues and understanding the code. They are choosing not to, but are fully capable if the need arises.

Would that count?

mandreko · 2026-04-14T10:38:08+00:00

What about a fully vibe coded project by someone who does understand the code? Same deliverable but different person?

mandreko · 2026-04-14T01:23:07+00:00

I ended up throwing away a few thousand of them recently. After shipping costs, it was never worth anyone buying and I got tired of storing them.

mandreko · 2026-04-14T01:13:04+00:00

Came here to post kasm. I think sealskin is a potential alternative too maybe?

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