Copilot Injecting Ads into Code

First off, get this: Remember Copilot, that AI coding assistant? Someone posted how Copilot actually edited an ad into their pull request! Like, a promotional message for some third-party tool. Can you believe it? And apparently, it's not a one-off – another post said it's happened in like 1.5 million GitHub PRs. People in the comments were calling it straight-up "enshitification" and some even thought it was a hallucination. One person was like, "Using Copilot just to fix a typo? That's jumping the shark!" Total mess.

Turning Anything into a Router

Then there was this cool article about how to turn basically anything into a router. The author showed how to get all sorts of old or weird hardware to route traffic. Comments were full of nostalgia, with people talking about setting up old Squid caching servers back in 2006 or even using 386 computers to bridge network segments. Super old-school cool.

"Fedware": Government Apps That Spy

On a more serious note, there was a big discussion about "Fedware" – government apps that apparently spy harder than the apps they ban. The article specifically mentioned the White House app having "Huawei spyware" and an ICE tip line. Yikes. People were saying it's not just malice or incompetence, but "both," and that governments are building databases of everything you do. Makes you think twice about what's on your phone.

CodingFont: A Game to Pick Your Font

Something a bit lighter, but still techy: a fun little game called CodingFont popped up. It helps you pick a coding font by making you choose between different pairs. People were sharing their results – some found their current favorite font, others discovered new ones like Hack or Victor Mono. Pretty neat way to personalize your dev environment.

Philly Courts Ban Smart Eyeglasses

And speaking of real-world tech impact, Philly courts are banning all smart eyeglasses next week! So no Meta Ray-Bans or anything like that in the courtroom. Comments were buzzing about privacy, with some saying it's about time, especially with "glassholes" filming people. Someone even mentioned their own offline CCTV system that detects humans and vehicles, showing how much surveillance tech is out there.

How the AI Bubble Bursts

Then there was a big piece titled "How the AI Bubble Bursts." It was a pretty deep dive into the economics of the AI boom. One comment from a solo SaaS founder was wild – he said his company went from zero to $325k ARR in eight months using AI, running billions of tokens a month. So while some are predicting a burst, others are clearly making bank.

Webminal: 15 Years, One Server, 500K Users

Oh, and finally, this really inspiring story about Webminal. It's a free online Linux terminal service that's been running for 15 years on just one server with 8GB of RAM, serving 500,000 users! Seriously efficient. People in the comments were reminiscing about tiny memory computers like the ZX-81 and how User Mode Linux used to be a really cool piece of tech. Just shows you don't always need a massive cloud setup.

Anyway, that's the gist of it! Crazy stuff, right? Gotta go, catch you later!