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It's also easy on Windows:

The kebab button next to the search results takes you to Settings -> Privacy & security -> Search

Switch off Bing.


I also suspect AI is going to make software more secure rather than less.

Even today it can probably find a lot of issues automatically. With basic knowledge of what to look for, it certainly helps in understanding data flow too.


I don't think everyone hates Microsoft's AI offerings, but rather a vocal group of online people.

Copilot is useful, particularly if it is the only thing enabled in your company.

Don't get me started on Azure though. Their VMs are insanely slow, yet still cost like hundreds per month.

I don't know who in their right mind thinks it is a good deal and that they should move all their services into Azure. Apparently a lot of senior management.


I only hope this brilliant proposal is met with a new advanced fine from regulators.

Regulators will be super happy to know they can control what you can install on your phone just by telling Google to take apps down.

I know I'm writing a complaint to my country's regulator after this. This is just blatant anti-competitive behaviour.

It's really ridiculous.

You'd think regulators should make Google ship a 'Choose my store(s)' screen at setup, but Google thinks the opposite is the case and Google should also be able to control app distribution outside of the Playstore.


It's 2026 and regulators are finally getting around to do something about the mobile app distribution chokehold.

And Google thinks they can pull this? I hope regulators make it very clear that this is the wrong direction, and with record fines.


Atlassian? Bitbucket as a platform for agentic development.. shudder

Personal attacks directed at people who build OSS are not cool, even if you take issue with their supposed use of AI or vendoring of dependencies.

Vibe coders are NOT programmers, they are leeches, feeding from the blood of the open source.

I doubt that you know the OP's background and knowledge.

If someone on here would direct at me the insinuation that a flaw in my software was the result of me having "no idea" about what I am doing, we would not be having a civil discussion.

In my view personal attacks should be flagged, but I don't have that ability because my account does not have enough Karma.


Look at the commit history. Vibe coded in 10 days, with obvious AI generated commit messages. Look at the diffs.

If you can't tell AI slop from handwritten code, that's your problem. I won't censor myself because of your opinions.


There is no need for me to look at "obvious AI generated commit messages" or check whether the code is handwritten.

Personal attacks are still against the rules of this site, and that's why you, or in this case the commenter before you, should have censored themselves. This is not a matter of opinions.


Calling a duck a duck is not a personal insult, no matter how much the duck dislikes being called a duck.

It reminds me of the billionaires that like to constantly tell people they could have "studied physics" when it's so obvious they would fail out of any intro calculus class (let's also ignore that they could easily pay for the top tutors to "study physics") but just want to code as smart and not come across as a moron, you're going to see the same thing with vibe sloppers too.

Yeah yeah. This app is open source too.

That's even worse, they're polluting the open source space with AI slop. Anyone learning from open source will not learn anything useful from it.

Man, nobody is learning anything any more, those days are gone. Programming with actual code is a niche hobby or a hyperspecialized profession now, like demoscene coders.

Besides, even before LLMs, it's not like anyone ever said "you shouldn't have open sourced this, we can't learn from your code". We just didn't bother reading that code.

Telling off people who contribute is not OK.


AI slop is not a contribution.

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Nice detective work in an attempt to... ridicule my programming skills, I suppose?

It's a useful tool and I built it myself, with my own ten fingers, using my brain. That's more than vibe coders will ever do.

Meanwhile, your blog says in big text "I don't care for the joy of programming", so I don't consider your opinions on software development anywhere near relevant.


Excellent, on that we can agree.

Good.

Thank you for being a human that defends their craft against the wanton destruction wrought by VC + SV. They are destroying the planet to solve problems that don't exist.

This is a really embarrassing post. You stalked the author's online presence, turned up a TCP bridge utility, not really relevant to anything, and tried to shame the author for writing it, all so you can pretend you won an argument on the Internet?

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Most people who contribute on FOSS seriously will not use github for anything important.

I was particularly impressed by the Starfield footage, I like the more realistic look. I'm curious to see more.

Last time I read about a Codex update, I think it mentioned that a million developers tried the tool.

Don't most companies use AI in software development today?

And yes, I know that some companies are not doing that because of privacy and reliability concerns or whatever. With many of them it's a bit of a funny argument considering even large banks managed to adopt agentic AI tools. Short of government and military kind of stuff, everybody can use it today.


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