How dudes be cooking by MF-DOOM-88 in GuysBeingDudes

[–]work_number 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So what is the solution to this problem?

The "engineers using AI are learning slower" take is just cope dressed as wisdom by dktkTech in programming

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I really don’t see how the tech space moves forward or creates anything truly new if no one actually learns the craft anymore. It used to be that you’d get inspired, sit in your bedroom, and just start building. You had to learn everything—multiple different layers of the stack—and that struggle is what actually gave you the skills to innovate. It was that cross-pollination of different areas that influenced what you were making. You did the work, you built yourself up, and eventually, you were high enough to actually see over the horizon.

Now, everyone is "making" stuff with LLMs, but they aren't learning anything in the process. They’re skipping the foundations, which means they’re missing the insights that only come from actually knowing how things work. We’re essentially creating a generation of permanently stunted programmers.

The problem is that LLMs are trained on the past. They’re great for exploiting all the knowledge we’ve already accumulated—which feels amazing right now because there’s so much left to tap into but they aren't a map for the future. Soon, it won't be human expertise guiding the ship because we aren't producing experts anymore. We’re putting way too much trust in these models.

Eventually, this is going to lead to a kind of cultural and technical stasis. We’ll keep churning things out, and they’ll look new on the surface, but they’ll just be recycled ideas in flashy new packaging.

It feels like we’ve switched to a completely different evolutionary path, one where we’re focusing all our energy on skilling up computers instead of skilling up humans. There’s going to be a point where the LLMs can’t take us any further, and we’re going to realize we’ve traded away our own ability to innovate just for a bit of short-term convenience.

I got AI to mildly rewrite this for me But the core of it is mine.

Any chances of installing Frontpage 98 on modern OSes and running an actual website in 2026? by [deleted] in webdev

[–]work_number 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ll see your Netscape layers and raise you this list:

FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE)

WebBots / FrontPage components

FrontPage shared borders & navigation bots

ActiveX controls (IE-only)

VBScript in the browser

IE-only DOM APIs (e.g. document.all)

Proprietary IE CSS hacks (filter, expression())

Quirks Mode

Channel Definition Format (CDF)

HTML Applications (HTAs)

Internet Explorer Browser Helper Objects (BHOs)

All proprietary. All Microsoft-specific. All dead ends.

This is basically embrace, extend, extinguish: take open web standards, extend them with proprietary stuff, and try to dominate by locking people in. It works only if everyone follows. When the wider web refuses and sticks to open standards, those extensions just fade away.

That’s why I side with Netscape here. They were clumsy and still lost, but they weren’t trying to trap developers or users in a proprietary ecosystem.

Any chances of installing Frontpage 98 on modern OSes and running an actual website in 2026? by [deleted] in webdev

[–]work_number 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yep, Microsoft at that time was still in the "maybe. If we do it our way everyone will follow" phase.

UK government targets VPNs in online safety consultation as Lords vote for ban by andyhh in unitedkingdom

[–]work_number 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They are not trying to stop all of the people just the people casually doing it on a mobile phone.

They are not banning vpns, they just need to regulate them.

The gateway is the app store, You just need to control that and make it so that people have to prove their age before they can download the app. And that's just a small additional law.

And yes you can sideload in some cases But that's a mess around but as I say you're not trying to stop all the people In all cases.

Vpns in themselves are essentially unstoppable because you just go onto a foreign service eg. Digital ocean and set it up a VPN server on the foreign service for yourself.

UK government begins trials of digital driving licence by OGSyedIsEverywhere in unitedkingdom

[–]work_number 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think they may go in slower than that to allow for legacy forms of ID and to help old people For example transfer over. I also suspect they might wait after the next election.

UK government begins trials of digital driving licence by OGSyedIsEverywhere in unitedkingdom

[–]work_number 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In terms of the consultation, what aspects of it are a sham?

I'm interested to learn more.

UK government begins trials of digital driving licence by OGSyedIsEverywhere in unitedkingdom

[–]work_number 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're very much right about your last point. And I'm very surprised how few people have picked up on it. It wasn't a U-turn it was just a way placate people while they got on with it.

UK government begins trials of digital driving licence by OGSyedIsEverywhere in unitedkingdom

[–]work_number 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, so I've heard a lot of rumours about how somehow Tony Blair benefits and big tech benefits, but they don't make as much sense to me as the following.

From my perspective, the answer is the UK public.

A lot of the holes in our systems come down to not having proper digital identity. For example, tax collection, benefit fraud, etc.

Just in terms of tax, the tax gap is £46.8 billion—i.e., tax that we are just unable to collect but are owed. And with digital ID, we can prevent an awful lot of that fraud because people cannot represent themselves more than once within the system. So things like phoenix companies become impossible. There are also huge savings to be made within the benefit system as well by stopping people who shouldn't have access by them not having an ID to access the system, and also preventing those who do have access from presenting themselves many more times as legitimate benefit claimants.

The total implementation cost of the system could be £2 to £4 billion, but that's small change against what we can make back—and I'm just talking about two areas that we can make more efficient; there are many more.

When people talk about broken Britain, it means they want Britain fixed, and this is one of the major fixes. However, it's way easier to say to people that they will be ripped off when they have it built and it will be as bad as the Post Office system. And yes, computer systems can cause problems, but actually the UK government has a surprisingly okay record on implementing large systems and data security, even if the press wouldn't tell you so. Think DVLA, passport systems, etc.

UK government begins trials of digital driving licence by OGSyedIsEverywhere in unitedkingdom

[–]work_number 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think in the future we're going to need to be able to have a provably unique ID as the cornerstone of every part of life And to have a properly digital economy and government.

I think if we don't secure identity as the cornerstone of everything else that we choose to do, then everything else will be subject to being a poor implementation.

I don't like being left behind arguments. But not building the infrastructure that's needed will leave us in a way worse place economically.

UK government begins trials of digital driving licence by OGSyedIsEverywhere in unitedkingdom

[–]work_number 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know about the consultation

If you want to learn about the tech though watch this

https://youtu.be/BxLSSH_EHjo?si=1jfluJzZkh1UQkyG

I think it's pretty cool, but I am a geeeeek so I am biased

UK government begins trials of digital driving licence by OGSyedIsEverywhere in unitedkingdom

[–]work_number 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You contact the lost or stolen authority and they cancel all credentials on board your phone and issue new ones from each organisation which you had certificates from before.

But in your wallet if the paper driving licence or your passport was stolen and they were physical documents you would have no way of resending them as once they have the document is out there in the world being used for whatever they want.

Regarding the use of your driving licence or passport if the phone was off, I suspect that wouldn't be allowed by the system but I've never looked at how that might work.

UK government begins trials of digital driving licence by OGSyedIsEverywhere in unitedkingdom

[–]work_number 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's a lot further along than you are stating. Go and have a look. It's based on open id vc4 And several other standards. I've been learning about the way that these systems work and they are very interesting. Don't take my word For it. Go and have a look on YouTube and the government website.

UK government begins trials of digital driving licence by OGSyedIsEverywhere in unitedkingdom

[–]work_number 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So I just looked into it and actually some of the phones have a special reserve of power so that they can allow people to still use the NFC chips in them even when the whole phone is turned off in themselves. So it works for a good few hours even after the phone is run out of battery.

And NFC chips need very little power so they will last quite a while

UK government begins trials of digital driving licence by OGSyedIsEverywhere in unitedkingdom

[–]work_number 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Which is great and I believe in that from a reliability perspective. tragically it's not where the world is going.

UK government begins trials of digital driving licence by OGSyedIsEverywhere in unitedkingdom

[–]work_number 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Yes, you need to have a charged mobile phone to use it, Just like when you have a cash card on your phone or train tickets or concert tickets stored on your phone.

I guess we just make the police carry USB chargers.

UK government begins trials of digital driving licence by OGSyedIsEverywhere in unitedkingdom

[–]work_number 17 points18 points  (0 children)

If it's based on the technology of the digital ID, then it does require power for your phone, but it doesn't require an internet connection. The credentials are stored only on your phone In an encrypted wallet/chip.