See, when the shoe bomber or the guys doing chemistry 101 in the toilets of the plane were discovered, they put a ban on liquids and almost shoes.
I was hoping nobody comes out with an explosive you can build with cotton (and a nuclear reactor, but that would be a detail for the "security compliance" people who will come up with new restrictions). We would need to fly naked and this would be annoying.
I sure like to fly a safe plane. The problem is that I am sure the people who actually want to do something bad will use, like you mentioned, alternative solutions - and I will not even have the nail file they took from me when trying to to defend the plane during the hijacking.
The only drawback are routes - they won't work on the same CIDR (I mean the fact that you can say in Tailscale "if you want to reach the 192.168.16.13 device that does not support Tailscale, go through this Tailscale gateway"). For this I had to shift my parents' network to be able to access stuff like the printer, in a network that clashed with another one of mine.
The way we did it, roting is not a problem. Any Netrinos client (Windows, Mac, or Linux, including the free version) can act as a gateway. It assigns a unique overlay IP to devices on the local network that can't run software themselves, like cameras, NAS units, or printers, and handles the NAT translation.
Think of it like a router's DMZ feature, but inverted. Instead of exposing one device to the internet, each device gets a private address that's only reachable inside your mesh network.
In my case it is because I would never have the right amount with me, in the right denominations. Google Pay always has this covered.
Also you need to remember to take one more thing with you, and refill it occasionally. As opposed to fuel, you do not know how much you will need when.
It can get lost or destroyed, and is not (usually) replaceable.
I am French, currently in the US. I need to change 100 USD in small denominations, I will need to go to the bank, and they will hopefully do that for me. Or not. Or not without some official paper from someone.
Ah yes, and I am in the US and the Euro is not an accepted currency here. So I need to take my 100 € to a bank and hope I can get 119.39 USD. In the right denominations.
What will I do with the 34.78 USD left when I am back home? I have a chest of money from all over the world. I showed it once to my kids when they were young, told a bit about the world and then forgot about it.
Money also weights quite a lot. And when it does not weights it gets lost or thrown away with some other papers. Except if they are neatly folded in a wallet, which I will forget.
I do not care about being traced when going to the supermarket. If I need to do untraceable stuff I will get money from teh ATM. Ah crap, they will trace me there.
So the only solution is to get my salary in cash, whihc is forbidden in France. Or take some small amounts from time to time. Which I will forget, and I have better things to do.
Cash sucks.
Sure, if we go cashless and terrible things happen (cyberwar, solar flare, software issues) then we are screwed. But either the situation unscrews itself, or we will have much, much, much bigger issues than money -- we will need to go full survival mode, apocalypse movies-style.
There were hundreds of thousands of deaths of women who attempted abortion in Europe after the war. This was done via various artisanal mechanical methods.
If men were giving birth, abortion would be "obviously a choice". (I am a man and a father)
These prices are 5-6 hours old.
While working on this site, I noticed that Amazon pricing can be very dynamic.
Moreover, it could be that Amazon is returning the retail price, but because of current availability, once you land on the product page, you are shown prices from a different seller
In the less doomsday version, everyone who is responsible for a family (the guy or gal who knows how everything works in the context of money, administration, etc.) should have a "what to do when I die" booklet.
I wrote one years ago and update it with the most relevant information (how to get to my passwords (the ones that are not shared), list of bank accounts, list of investment brokers, what they will get when I die from the state and my company. I am in the process of adding "how to un-smart (or re-dumb) my house, this si a serious source of anxiety for my wife)
This is the right thing to do. Do not delay. Start small with the key information. Share with trusted people outside of your family if possible (they will be less impacted).
I shared that with my best friend I can trust my life with and one day he said "I cannot get to your bank account". To what I said, well, why are you trying to. He was running a DRP (Disaster Recovery Plan) exercise and found stuff that was not updated. I love him.
Mine is very pragmatic, I let the emotional part to the ones remaining. I just want to pake sure that financially and administratively they are fine - this I can do.
> I guess you get the most value out of it when you know exactly what you want.
Oh yes. I am amateur-developping for 35 years and when I vibe code I let the basic, generic stuff happen and then tell the AI to refactor the way I want. It usually works.
I had the same "too boring to code" approach and AI was a revelation. It takes off the typing but allows, when used correctly, for the creative part. I love this.
The OP question was about agentic utility specifically. I've also gotten great side-project utility from AI codegen without having to marry my project to CC or give up on looking at code by simply prompting when I need something from whatever LLM.
Nothing wrong with CC, but I keep hearing the same kind of app being built -- home automation, side-project CRUD.
What I'm deeply skeptical of is the ability for agentic to integrate with a team maintaining+shipping a critical offering. If you're using LLMs for one-off PRs, great but then agentic seems like a band aid for memory etc.
Meamwhile if you're full CC/agentic it seems like a team would get out of sync.
I found that banks are one of the worst organizations when it comes to authentication. They are regulated but the requirements are completely outdated and irrelevant in a risk context.
And then you have banks such as Boursobank (a French online bank) that has weak traditional authentication (and a faulty app, but they do not care) and out of the blue also provides passkeys. Making it at the same time horribly bad and wonderfully good.
The worst part is that they hide behind regulations when in fact there are only few of them.
Other instiytutions such as SWIFT are as bad and equally arrogant.
I was hoping nobody comes out with an explosive you can build with cotton (and a nuclear reactor, but that would be a detail for the "security compliance" people who will come up with new restrictions). We would need to fly naked and this would be annoying.
I sure like to fly a safe plane. The problem is that I am sure the people who actually want to do something bad will use, like you mentioned, alternative solutions - and I will not even have the nail file they took from me when trying to to defend the plane during the hijacking.
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