As unmagical said, we're all slop code verifiers, now, at least some of the time. This isn't actually new due to AI, but the automated junior coder makers certainly make it worse.

QA staff who know automation are incredibly valuable, and often under-appreciated.

There's going to be un-meetable demand for software verification skills, as soon as anytime manages to measure (and start trying to recover) how much money the AI slop code wave is flushing down the drain.

Self-hosting is something in my experience that helped that I don't see in your post.

(Dangerously) running open source software on the public Interet gave me a crash course in DNS and networking. It also made me very motivated to read up on Cybersecurity risks to my servers.

I find it very effective to read about a common misconfiguration and then go read through the relevant configuration files on my server and try to verify that I have it mitigated.

I've done the same. This sucks, but I didn't realize I was donating to an organization without a workers union agreement in place.

Nice. That is what I did, at first, as well.

One thing I discovered is that the vast majority of 2FA uses a shared open standard. I was able to cut way down on the count of 2FA apps I had to install, and just use Aegis for almost everything.

Aegis runs fine on GrapheneOS, too.

Great point about bank apps.

Thankfully I never got in the habit of tap to pay with my phone.

The amount of data that bank apps want to slurp up in the name of "security" makes me uncomfortable, anyway.

I just bank via web browser, today.

Nothing is perfect.

But every alternate Android ROM I have tried has given me a dramatic speed boost over what shipped with the phone.

I guess there are other definitions of "good", haha.

For me good==fast, and GrapheneOS is the most responsive phone OS I have used, and therefore the best.

As a fellow former CyanogenMod user, I run GrapheneOS. I like that it gives me the most control over my hardware, of any of the Android variants I have tried.

Edit: I buy phones specifically looking for GrapheneOS support, now. But for non-pixel phones, I have found LineageOS to be fine.

CyanogenMod was for iPods and iPhone, and released in 2009, so if we round a smidge, 20 years.

If we allow Discovery as evidence, Klingon technology has been in steep decline for centuries, only recently falling to as primitive as 24th century Federation technology.

It's possible that Kligons had better medical treatments available in the 21st century than in the 24th.

The point, to me, is using the government to tell hospitals what to do. I don't want my parents making big decisions for me - I want the family I chose, my spouse, to do that.

Marriage is how I tell the state, and everyone, who my chosen family is.

Sure!

But I don't expect it to change much.

I could already do that, by hand as well.

It's a bit like how there's so many different superheroes who are obviously just off-brand SuperMan or off-brand Captain America.

Minor changes to avoid intellectual property law and branding has always been an option.

And I suppose all of these are easier now with the remixing slop-o-trons.

But they weren't terribly difficult, or particularly uncommon, even before.

Why learn Lua?

Lua is quite popular for writing games and mods forn games.

Also, and I can't emphasize enough how much this means to me, personally: it's not Java.

Let's see...We've got the party that bombs foreigners for no reason, or... The other party that also bombs foreigners for no reason.

Separate the Sausage Section

Mr Worf, please take commnd of the Battle Sausage.

Great write up!

Of course, I never stopped editing my code in vi so I missed some of the editor frustrations.

I have shared that frustration, trying to find that balance.

I try to get some basic wisdom through to them to help prevent something horrible happening later, but I don't want to cause them pain now, either.

I have taken to asking them to take my hand in theirs, when I think they aren't listening.

The younger kid appreciates the connection. The older kid practices their active listening skills to make me leave them alone sooner.

"We can't all be robots, Truman. Because if we were all lying to you, I would be. I'm not a Robot, Truman."

Paraphrased from Noah Emmerich's fantastic delivery in "The Truman Show".

Yeah, if you were white, cis, and hetero and healthy and born to comfortably well off parents.

"Everything printed by Tabloid is automatically capitalized, and an exclamation point is added. Why would you want anything else?"

Finally an opinionated programming language with the right priorities.