Supposedly Microsoft skipped 9 because of a lot of hardcoded checks for windows 95 and 98 that checked the first digit

It's not that kind of implant.

I used to roll my own (respectful) scrapers. AI and vibecoders have ruined it for me. Everyone has super sensitive rate limiting and not checking now.

On my GrapheneOS phone, the only things that I came across that require (and thus fail) maximum level attestation are Google Pay and the app for McDonald's for some reason.

Hamburglar is running infosec now and he's taking it reaaaaal serious

I was about to comment the same thing. You spend the whole article talking about S3 and explaining recursive CTEs but gloss over triggers?

Pro tip the whole point is that it was made by an illustrator, and that's also the reason it's on the frontpage.

Maybe the reason is simply that it's a cool idea?

This is typically the kind of hacking project that is preposterously non-economically-viable for 99% of homelabbers, let alone regular folks. Now, for the first time ever, AI is making it actually palatable for everyone who wants it done to have it done... and certainly much cheaper too at an equivalent quality level.

Commissioning art like this is at most a few hundred dollars. As was posted elsewhere, there are lots of young artists that need to pad out their portfolios, as well as artists in places where the cost of living is significantly cheaper. This isn't a multi-thousand-dollar thing that only the 1% could afford.

I'm sorry, I have a hard time understanding you. Correct me if I'm wrong, are you saying that

1. paying an illustrator is non-economically-viable for 99% of homelabbers? and

2. AI would have done it at an equivalent quality level?

Yes to both.

For (1) the vast majority of people don't want to spend what's probably on the roundabout of a thousand dollars for their homelab's homepage. You can easily see this in almost every homelabbing discussion on reddit or even here, where everyone focuses on cheap/hackish solutions to avoid overspending... except in hardware of course =) It's kind of become a meme at this point.

For (2), certainly, especially so considering that the author gave the illlustrator blueprints, photos, instructions, etc. for the commissioned illustrator to convert into dynamically-compatible svgs.

There's a lot of top-down implementing there with very low bottom-up artistry. This doesn't at all take from the final quality -which is pretty good- but it makes it easily replicable using current-gen AI.

It's _better_ that the illustrations were made by an illustrator, but it still would have been cool and front-page-worthy if that hadn't been the case.

Not really. AI slop is an instant turn-off for me. It's like hearing someone talk about a dream they had; it is egregiously boring for everyone except the person relating it.

If you can't see the beauty and interest in a description of solving a problem with a visually pleasant and unique UI, regardless of the tools used to solve it, that sounds like a you-problem.

The same happened in FOSS. I have little interest to contribute nowadays, when GitHub is full of vibe coders naming themselves engineers.

I think "AI free" is becoming a valuable thing when talking about codebases

It absolutely is. If someone is using an LLM to write software for them, the odds are fairly low that it's actually good software. You have to have a very active hand in steering the clanker, and most people who have the skills to successfully do that would rather just write the software themselves.

I thought the same! Thank dang for putting this in the second-chance pool (without my intervention).

That video was indeed where I found out about this!

And (at at least in European Portuguese), a speed bump is a "lomba".

Also we don't say caroço or solavanco for that, at least where I live. I would probably say "alto" in both cases.