> The alternative being building and deploying a new image, which would likely take significantly longer

You said the image was Python, though? Using that is way easier and faster. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48558763

If all you need to know is that it can connect:

python3 -c 'import socket as s;s.create_connection(("8.8.8.8",53))'

or http:

python3 -c 'from urllib.request import*;print(urlopen("http://example.com").status)'

You are right, I am not sure why I did not realize Python is the whole point of the image. This is indeed much faster and easier.

I've wanted to do exactly this for many many years.

The profile links to his website, so it's probably to promote that.

> loading bar

Yeah... I don't get the point of that. By checking devtools, I see that everything has already loaded.

Another thing: I question the claim that he wrote assembly himself because the GitHub repo screams AI.

Especially this MD file. No human documents stuff in that way. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ujjwalvivek/baremetal/refs...

From that link:

> ## WHY AUDIO WAS DROPPED

> The game is silent by design. Here is the analysis:

Is the most Claude "couldn't get audio to work for _reasons_ and pivoted away" note I have seen outside of my own bin of half-baked useless code.

It's comical too, jumpy and takes way to long.

Sure it's kinda cool as a gimmick, but it should be like 600-800ms at most if you do want one

The article itself, and the flagged comment they made on this thread, are also LLM-generated. I feel like we've been on an upwards trend of LLM-generated posts explicitly claiming "I wrote X".

I didn't get the sense that the prose was AI generated at all. How did you come to that conclusion?

Could he have written the assembly, but used AI for the MD file? Is there harm if that is case? Because AI is good at spitting out documentation, so why not.

That domain doesn't exist.

Ohh a typo :) it is https://shellbox.dev

> Mainly https://www.vaava.app/ is a baby tracking/logging app I originally built for myself, now available on both app stores.

You should take a second look at the translations because some of the Swedish ones are incorrect or strangely worded.

https://www.vaava.app/sv/plus/

> Si

This should be "Ja"

> Exportación CSV

Another case where it's just the wrong language

Yeh, mostly AI generated translations, I admit that. I have been improving those as I get feedback.

I don't really agree. I tried using it, but I just can't because the keyboard shortcuts don't work with my non-US keyboard layout, and I couldn't change them...

I have seen other people complain about the same thing.

Oh, I didn’t have this problem, it seemed pretty polished to me, although i stopped using it recently

He didn't say that.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/an%20awful%20lot

What startup? a better source than some Twitter account?

> Groups like Bright Data have pretty good KYC.

They don't. I use their residential proxies without ever having KYC'd.

Sorry I don't know your use case, but wonder - looking at the Op post don't you feel like you are supporting a rather malicious company preying on tech illiterate users? I can understand the desire for a VPN that gives residential identities but plainly this is against the will or interests of the "provider".

Did you have to have a call with them to become a customer?

Nope.

Same - have accounts with 3 different services and have never been KYC'd even with heavy usage.