Most Chinese exits through port snooping. And you really need to be on a Chinese corp network to know - if you take your western mobile there they do very little blocking.

I’ve been fairly successful with most China corp networks letting me out and in to self-hosted WG server on port 123.

Affinity: I’ve tried and tried and tried with GIMP and it just doesn’t do it for me.

Microsoft Flight Simulator: X-plane yes. But MSFS is just stellar good, with BeyondATC.

Excel: Gsuite sheets - yuck, contributing my info to Google. Libre Calc. Please, they are 10 years behind. No proper table support, no MAP, no spill (yes, array formulas sort of work), etc etc. but chiefly: So slow compared to Excel and Gsuite.

That’s it.

“Yes, while connected to my wireguard server through port 123 here from my Chinese office, I should probably try to upgrade the wireguard server. That’s a great idea!”

Ask me how I know.

Of course. And when I hear “vibe coded”, I hear someone starting with “make me a cool app” and going from there, with zero understanding of the technical architecture.

If you have a thorough, deeply thought through technical spec, then AI can write a great amount of tests up against that spec, say, and you’ve got a fantastic base for TDD.

I honestly feel like a lot of the downvotes are people thinking AI means “clueless programmer having an AI do its work for you”. Many highly productive, deeply technical developers use it every day.

What is your concern? If it’s a generic “AI”, then I can assure you tha pretty much every software has AI code in it already. Heck, Linus is accepting PRs where AI has been used.

AI is useful. It produces useful code.

Like creative writing, it won’t produce something novel. But man, 75% of code is just boiler plate. AI can do a lot for boilerplate.

That does not absolve anyone of committing crap code. Put your name to it. Own it. Take the consequence of delivering shit code or great code, no matter how it was written. Don’t let AI be a crutch. But you’d be god damn fool not to use it, where it’s right (boilerplate, test writing, tedious changes etc.)

Darwin I hope Canva keeps it clean.

And I speak as someone that did just start subscribing to Canva AI from inside Affinity this month.

100% DaVinci Resolve. It’s a full-bleed, professional solution on top of a large hardware ecosystem.

The tanks are rumbling nicely this morning.

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Lingonberries don’t grow in Denmark, only in Sweden and Norway. I personally think you might be a Sweden sympathiser and we all know how Danes treat those.

And “lysthus” is a house you might build in a park just for gatherings, like a band stand, but most often covered with windows rather than being open.

And the desaturated second picture. I’m not saying the point isn’t valid, but it’s certainly been artificially made here.

Freedom comes with accountability. As an adult you’re free to make your own choices. But not all choices are good choices.

The idea of freedom without accountability is something reserved for childhood.

I’ve used duckDNS for years. A couple of years ago it started flaking out every couple of months so I migrated off it.

You understood “remember the human” wrong.

I would have said exactly the same, but about PhotoPrism. Funny how perspectives differ.

They deliver a working piece of software to you. They employ people to maintain it and add new features. They ask a price for this work.

How is this rent seeking?

I second XFS for large files.

Tape is still a thing: Ultrion tapes store up to 40 TB. But the devices to read and write them are not priced for mortals.

The EU has instigated the Payment Service Directive 2 (the previous one being PSD1). This requires that all EU banks over a certain size provide APIs to access transactions and other data.

However banks are required to set strict requirements to use their APIs, including requiring lots of knowledge and a documented approval chain that pertains to each user. In practice this means only other big companies have access and most have solved it by buying the “access account and transaction data” service from a third party company.

GoCardless is one such company. They previously had a developer tier that you could sign up to, which would provide you an access token that you then provided to Actual Budget so they could access your accounts on your behalf.

GoCardless have however limited what their free developer accounts can do, which means Actua Budget can no longer get real time access to your acccohnt data.