There are things an LLM can show you that are undeniably correct, like: this line of code here calls a “free” on a pointer which might be NULL, and in-fact will be NULL if you follow this path through the code: …

Think of it like “NP hard problems” - there are problems where the solution is hard to find, but easy to verify once you are given it.

When an LLM is giving you those hard to find, easy to veryify observations, that’s value. It doesn’t have to be perfect, it doesn’t have to be 100% complete.

Or, you can hire a team of engineers to burn their brains for months on end to maybe find the same things, maybe not.

There’s a problem with both human attention spans, and LLMs’ context window capacity - neither are up to the task of reviewing a full code base for something like a browser and “finding all the flaws” - but, if the LLM can give you flaws that humans haven’t been able to find… you should be taking those wins - before somebody else does and puts them to different uses.

It’s a different approach, you don’t abandon best practices, but this new tool does give information that was previously more difficult / costly to access - so use it too.

Nobody, and no LLM, knows everything. The LLMs know some things: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/05/mozilla-says-271-vulnerabilities-found-by-mythos-have-almost-no-false-positives/

Best to take the best information available from all sources. The attackers are also doing this.

You know what helps? After you’ve coded something that works - whether “vibe coding” or the old fashioned way, review it for security issues. “Vibe code reviews” performed by the same LLM tools that do “vibe coding” can be even more effective at finding issues than traditional methods.

But, just like real people, if you don’t bother to care about security, you’ll have holes.

Yeah, that phone in my shirt pocket set to record really gets noticed… by exactly nobody.

Maybe he’s “using AI” to refer the IP address of people using AI to plan school shootings to the FBI?

Still hasn’t materialized in lack of shootings this year, when are they supposed to stop now?

And… is that the present implementation of Codeberg? Are they running ActivityPub protocol? Is the infrastructure federated?

I was wondering why Brembo of all companies would give up the disc and rotor tech…

Shops can fuck up all kinds of things, how often do hydraulic brakes fail closed?

So ELI5, my projects are hosted on Codeberg - they can be accessed through the NL’s new instance? Are they mirrored there, or is it just a redirect to the Codeberg host? or???

So, yeah, pulling the e-brake hard on the highway can be… exciting, which is generally not what you want in an emergency situation.

This was more of a case of: welp, I’m 10 miles from home and I have a choice: pull over and arrange for a tow truck, or proceed with all due caution on the safest possible routes and get it home without wasting many hours of my time and hundreds of my dollars on the tow.

Now, when the fuel line got chewed by squirrels and a gasoline spray-fountain was emerging from the wheel well… yeah, towtruck time. But bad brakes? Depends on the situation, many situations can be safely handled with the “performance level” you get from cable brakes on the rear wheels.

Oh, one tip should you ever try using the parking brake to stop while rolling: make sure you know how to release it and keep the ability to release it engaged whenever applying the brakes while moving. If you let it latch up, you’re gonna be a passenger not a driver.

Examples and Explanation of Diagonally Split Dual Hydraulic Braking Systems

Diagonally arranged (or “diagonal-split”) dual hydraulic braking systems are the standard for most front-wheel-drive (FWD) vehicles. In this setup, one hydraulic circuit controls the front-right and rear-left wheels, while the second circuit handles the front-left and rear-right wheels.

This design is a safety feature: since front brakes provide about 70-80% of a car’s stopping power, a diagonal split ensures that if one circuit fails, you still have one functional front brake and the opposite rear brake to keep the car stable and stopping straight.

Examples of Cars Using Diagonal-Split Systems

• Modern FWD Lineups: Most modern FWD cars use this by default. Specific examples include the SEAT Ibiza, Arona, Leon, and Ateca, as well as the majority of Ford’s FWD fleet.
• Classic American Cars:
  • American Motors (AMC): One of the first U.S. adopters, starting in 1967.
  • General Motors (GM): Widely used in 1980s “X-body” cars like the Chevrolet Citation, Pontiac Phoenix, Oldsmobile Omega, and Buick Skylark, as well as the J-car and A-car platforms.
• European Classics:
  • Saab: Notable in the Saab 96 (specifically the 1971 V4).
  • Classic Mini: Found on various versions produced between 1976 and 1980.
• Other Notable Models:
  • Toyota Celica: Specifically the 1976 RA23 model.
  • Audi: Used in several historical models, including the Audi 5000.

In contrast, many Rear-Wheel-Drive (RWD) vehicles use a “front/rear” (black-and-white) split, where one circuit controls the entire front axle and the other controls the rear.

The parking brake is an independent / redundant system. After the hydraulics have fully failed (which, no matter how well designed and built you think the system is, can still happen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232 ), the cable actuated brakes can still serve to get the vehicle stopped more quickly and safely than opening the door and dragging your feet on the ground.

even if the system is incredibly degraded

This is a problem I am encountering more and more frequently with “new tech.”

With old tech, the system would degrade - a little bit at a time, you could tell that something wasn’t right but it was still functional. You’d have warnings, often 1000 miles or more of clear warning that you need to get it serviced before you get stranded somewhere. Sure, not always, but often.

More often these days, my vehicles go from “everything is awesome” straight to: refuse to start or move mode. Sure, there are some “limp home” modes, but I have gone from zero warnings on the dash, zero unusual behavior, straight to no longer running / will not start, 3 times in the last 5 years (on 3 different vehicles) - each time it was “something new” that had that binary mode: working / not working and you’re gonna have to get a tow. I have been towed in the past with “old tech” that failed on the highway (blown radiator hose, rusted ground point on the fuel pump wire), but not for such picayune little electrical/software details like these recent failures.

What happens if it fails closed (due to no power - the only failure mode I’ve considered below) and the vehicle needs to keep moving, like on a busy highway?

Suddenly engaging all 4 wheels at maximum stopping power isn’t always a safe thing to do.

700hp of stopping power per wheel isn’t regen braking, that’s dumping battery power into a stopping force.

hydraulic hard lines and high pressure brake lines are thousands of times more rugged than electrical wires

Depends 200% on how they (both) are designed, manufactured and installed.

Sensify sounds like a personal pleasure aide cream to me…

Hydraulics can and do fail over time, and in my experience - the more that people fool around with them (change fluid unnecessarily, etc.) the faster they develop real problems. Brake fluid dripped on the outside of steel lines and not cleaned off can cause the lines to rust through and fail in under a year. Nevermind that stainless steel lines that wouldn’t have this problem only cost $10 more per set to manufacture and install, of course the manufacturers use plain steel instead to save the $10.

I have driven home more than once using the cable brake backup after a hydraulic failure.

I also have owned vehicles where the heat-based pads and rotors system overheated and severely lost braking ability after a single stop from 70mph.