Post #1439815

2026-03-16 19:42 UTC

If you were hoping for an end of thread insight, some kind of solution or proposal, I’ve got bad news for you. I’ve got nothing. All I know is that my threat model is a whole lot broader recently. Trying to think ahead just a little bit, it seems safer to assume that every program which can update without my input, will in short order become a liability. And that I better start planning how I can best navigate the world without my phone or my laptop, even when those things are mandatory.

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@crowbriarhexe@tech.lgbt 2026-03-16 20:48

@Haste For mobile OSs the only response I’ve mustered so far is to stay with my most-recent devices that no longer get updates, but that still leaves the apps vulnerable to slop if you update them, an to security issues if you don’t. It also means being locked out of things like banking apps that demand the most recent versions of everything. “Use the website instead” works only until the website becomes a giant pile of slop understood by nobody and collapses under its own weight.

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@cpgsaw@mastodon.social 2026-03-16 20:49

@Haste I’ve been slowly moving towards either open source stuff or European-based alternatives. The latter seem much less obsessed with injecting ai into everything so it’s been a safe haven so far

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@ricko@tech.lgbt 2026-03-17 03:00

@Haste My hope, and I know you already know this, is that regulated industries like medical device software will be some of the first to hit the termination shock of the reality of vibe coding. And I know that won't stop everyone else from doing it ... but it'll (I hope) at least show that someone knows it's not viable. I absolutely hate the idea that it's going to take adverse patient effects to get people to start to back off. I wish we could learn the lesson without having to experience the harm.

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