If you’re interested in playing corporation-based, slightly occult, TTRPG, there is Corp Borg that fits the bill.

https://heltung-storytelling.itch.io/corp-borg

Corp Borg is an award-nominated (NDU, The Indie Groundbreakers), rules-light, office-crawl OSR tabletop RPG. While inspired heavily by MÖRK BORG aesthetics and gameplay, it’s a standalone game - all you need to play is this book.

The world of Corp Borg is bleak, bloody, and brutal, exactly like corporations are. They rule the world of Corp Borg, as they do in real life, but are a bit more obvious about summoning demons, making blood sacrifices, and performing occult rituals.

Worrying about unpaid rent after suicide is peak capitalism.

You can do a task pretty well if you nudge the AI, have it write an exact explanation about every part of the architecture, code and data flow it’s working with and throw relevant files into context, and correct anything that’s wrong before you send it to do the task. You still have to review, but I didn’t have to correct much in my experience.

But that burns like 20$ of tokens per task, at current prices that are way below the costs AI companies are paying.

While it does help me, especially with parts of the codebase I’m not familliar with, it’s not sustainable, and it’s actively and very quickly robbing me of my skills and knowledge. It’s really a bad idea to use it, in two years time you’ll be royally fucked once they raise prices to recover the trillions they are loosing right now.

So, however tempting, I simply don’t use it. I won’t throw away years of college and experience just to do a task a little bit faster today.

What does time control of 120 minutes mean? That they have 120 minutes per turn?

Battlefield has parts that run on Godot.

I don’t see EA on the donors page.

I don’t think that"s the reason for the absird lobbying, which is why it’s getting through.

Governments aren’t that competent to get this through at scale, but corporations can and have a very good reasob to do so.

I believe that it’s a lot more probable that the reason is profit - social networks have a problem with bots. Advertisers don’t want to pay if 90% of impressions are bots, and you can’t really solve that problem easily.

Age verification by ID solves this, and if they even can lobby hard enough to outsource the costs to mandatory OS level veryfication, so they just call one OS api, it’s even better.

I mean, it does spread awareness about it harmful effects and how to recognize them.

I’d say thats a good to tshirt to have.

You should probably add /s to that, hah.

It’s a for profit ad company making a “privacy first browser”.

Thinking for literaly a second about that sentence should tell you all you need to know.

I mostly work in gamedev where they aren’t that much feasible so I don’t have much real experience working with them and I might be wrong but from when I looked into it a while back, it’s basically just a docker container that you specify in a .devcontainer file (at least for VSCode, but other IDEs probably have something similar) and when you need to develop, compile or run your code, it runs it in the container. It also doesn’t have to run locally on your machine, if you can run docker somewhere else (i.e on a more powerful shared server).

I can see several advantages (but I never really tested it in practice, so I’m mostly guessing) - containers are usually quick to start, you have the same and stable and replicable dev/build environment for all devs (since you just commit .devcontainers), so there aren’t some hidden dependencies and “works on my machine” shouldn’t happen too often. It also helps you keep your OS clean, so you don’t end up with 5 versions of python, 3 JDKs and 20gb of random NPM packages installed in your OS after 5 years of development - which is the most important advantage for me.

Devcontainers are awesome once you set them up properly, no need to run a VM.

Managing centralized security and device management correctly on multiple OSes must be a nightmare. From EDRs to app and device provisioning.

You should do dev work in devcontainers anyway.

Not that it’s an excuse or that I’m happy with that, but I can totally understand why companies do that, and tbh I’d rather see a properly secured than have the option to run Linux.

But I’m biased, because I used to do Red Teamings, and the things I’ve seen…

I’ve been using Faugus and so far never had an issue.

You are right, I’ll fix it. Always confuse those two :D

The only joy I’ve ever gotten from LLMs was telling my work-heavily-recommended Claude that I want him to act, talk and treat me like SHODAN in every conversation.

Hmm, I wonder how well would formal verification work with LLMs. I’m not really a fan of vibe coding, but the little I know about formal verification, it could very well work as a way how to prove your vibe-coded slop isn’t shit.

I’ve looked into formal verification once few years ago, but it’s too much math and thinking for me to grasp. If I remember it right, I guess the problem would be that you’d (or, LLM would, in this case) have to correctly describe the code in the formal verification language, and it would have to match 1:1 with the code, which is a point of failure? So we’d be back to square one, but instead of having to verify every single line of code, you’d have to check the proof. But maybe I’m wrong.

The scary part is the mental state he was able to get into with only a randomly generated text. If you haven’t already seen it, I highly recommend the Down the Rabbit Hole video about it, although it’s pretty heartbreaking. So much wasted talent.

There’s people like him who are similarly psychotic, but couldn’t usually get to the point where they could access a tool that would trigger them. Personalized chatbots were mostly a niche non-tech savy person doesn’t really get to that easily.

Now, it’s everywhere. A lot of people will loose their sanity over this.

I wouldn’t be surprised if something like that popped up very soon. Probably is in the works on someone’s drive already.

I remember hearing an arugment against AI coding that if it’s so good, why aren’t there apps popping up left and right? Which was true at the time.

Now? In the past month, I’ve seen a pretty in-depth Murloc-tamagotchi addon in WoW (that kills your FPS), a whole open-source custom World of Warcraft client, an E2E Tor-based messenger (that signs messages with 128b CBC key), a game engine based on a lost Standart Model of physics that was mentioned by Tesla, but lost to time, that someone reverse engineered (which had very TempleOS vibes, as far as the authors mental state goes), a Matrix protocol on Cloudfare microservices (that skipped message signature verification), and I could go on.

Open-source is going to become a hell to navigate. I was already anxious about using FOSS tools due to malicious typosquatting clones, supply chain attacks and general security of using someone’s FOSS code on my PC. Now, add vibe coded shit to the mix, and finding a good FOSS projects and tools will be hell :(

Tbh from my experiences, AI is also turning current senior devs into juniors. The skill erosion is real, and I could see it on myself just after a week of trying out Claude (since we’ve gotten access at my job).

The skills I’ve spent a great part of my life acquiring are really not worth whatever advantages AI use may have, even if I just did my job to earn a paycheck and didn’t care about the quality of my output, as long as it’s acceptable. It may feel easier now, but eventually you will have to pass another interview, and good luck when the last time you actually coded without AI was a year ago.

Any recommendations? My only experience with defcon is through recordings of the talks from there, and they’ve always been phenomenal, and some videos from the events like various CTFs. Never really looked into it more. I think I also saw a documentary a few years ago that was pretty sick.