But you would also never ask such an obviously nonsensical question to a human. If someone asked me such a question my question back would be "is this a trick question?". And I think LLMs have a problem understanding trick questions.
I think that was somewhat the point of this, to simplify the future complex scenarios that can happen. Because problems that we need to use AI to solve will most of the times be ambiguous and the more complex the problem is the harder is it to pin-point why the LLM is failing to solve it.
Shameless plug - this is exactly the same problem that our team had when we had to maintain a bunch of our customer's servers. All of the subnets were same, and we had to jump through hoops just to access those servers - vpns, port forwarding, dynamic dns with vnc - we've tried it all. That is why we developed https://sshreach.me/ - now it's a click of a button.
The initial idea started as a bunch of ssh tunnels. Been doing that for years. But WireGuard seemed a better solution at scale, and more efficient. When I first saw WiteGuard, it blew my mind how elegantly simple it was. I always hated VPNs. Now I seem to have made them my life...
Your website landing page is great. No stock photo hipsters drinking coffee, no corporate fluff amid whitespace wasteland. Just straight to the point. Rare sight today.
And that is not counting in the fact that there far more pedestrians on the street in EU than in the USA. If there were the same amount of pedestrians in the USA as in the EU the statistics would be even worse.
When there are more obstacles and hazards on the road drivers tend to slow down and pay attention. Pedestrian deaths in my city peaked in 2025, but they didn't happen in the walkable central areas of the city where pedestrians are common, they happened out in the 'burbs where the roads are wide and pedestrians are few.
My father is 75 and he still works, has his own software development company with his own back-office program written in cobol. He started a company back in 1991 with two other cobol programmers, they are retired now, and while almost all of the code they wrote has been replaced with c# code by younger programmers there are still some parts of the code written in cobol that he still maintains.
Random OT question: I was raised by, erm, relatively uneducated folks. Is there anything especially great about having a software programmer for a father? (As my kids have one)
They may eventually learn the valuable skill of politely smiling and nodding as someone talks with great passion about things with zero relevance to their day-to-day life, assuming they don't shut up about it at home.
Actually, tbf, my daughter's pretty interested in my coding and electronics projects. She picks things up alarmingly fast. I taught her a practically-one-way encoding scheme for passwords I've had incredible trouble teaching anyone else (LLMs also can't figure it out), and she completely understood it after the second example I gave and even added her own extra twist to it. Her passwords now are both memorable and extremely secure against dictionary attacks even with any mutation scheme someone could reasonably imagine.
-So I think that should probably go in the plus column.
Having your kids also be technical and bail you out of the shit you've built for yourself. Or at least nudge you away from bad ideas, do listen to them.
I'm being a little unkind to my Dad. He moved to management fairly early on and didn't really keep up with things.
He taught me a hell of a lot though, and did really know his shit at one point. It worries me how much his skills and understanding have declined over the years.
What to do when you want to ssh to your linux server or IoT device but they are behind the firewall and without a static IP? You can use a tunneling service like https://sshreach.me.
I have been involved with computers since my earliest age - my first experience in programming was using BASIC on Commodore 64 some 30 years ago. Since then I've had experience with a lot of different computer languages and technologies. I am a forward-thinking professional offering more than 20 years of experience and versed in multiple programming languages, frameworks and development tools. Background in product development, project coordination and client communications.
Nobody is mentioning it but it is such a great tiling manager, I use it all the time. Just select the window with alt-tab and then tile the windows with Ctrl+alt+numeric keyboards. It's quick and it doesn't need a mouse to tile windows. And it can integrate into any x11 windows manager.
Cool, thanks a lot. Was looking for something like that without the need of gnome. Works great with XFCE and there is even a maintained package in AUR for the archers.
That's the first thing that came to my mind. I remember connecting two laptops using LPT or COM cable and transferring files using norton commander (if I remember correctly) 30 years ago.
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