You know, when I was playing Cyberpunk, I thought it was a bit silly that literally every single enemy could be hacked remotely. Even bosses (although they get some resistances to the actual hack effects). And like, it seems like it would be pretty easy to protect yourself against such attacks: Just don't connect to the net.

And even if you absolutely need to connect, for getting like, tactical data or some other bullshit: Just sandbox it. At worst, you'll lose your tactical data, instead of getting your gonk brain fried by a sneaky asshole a block away who proxied through 7 cameras (I'm the sneaky asshole!).

But seeing the news of fucking rsync of all software becoming unreliable, to the point that it risks wiping your data, because it's getting vibe-coded updates... That made me realize that this is how Cyberpunk happens in real life. Critical infrastructure becomes vibe-coded to the point that everything becomes insecure.

Even the stack of software that hosts, distributes and keeps tracks of versioning for other software could potentially become, or depend on vibe-coded slop. Leading to a corruption of the record of the last known good software versions. At the very least, it could make it difficult to find out which versions are the good ones. Github is already falling apart for fucks sake! And yeah, there's alternative hosting solutions. But as far as fiction goes, for CP2077, it more and more looks like the only part where you need to suspend your disbelief, is that every single piece of usable software got infected by vibe-coding in one way or another, to the point that Software Engineering as a profession ceased to exist. Replaced entirely by techbros with a Claude subscription.

As a result, humanity mostly forget what sandboxing even is. And even those who know, can't really do anything about it, because all remaining traces of sandboxing has vibe-code all over the place, and building a secure sandbox from scratch is impossible because it needs to be built on a vibe-coded OS, which itself connects to the world on a vibe-coded protocol...

So yeah, that's my headcannon. And I don't think the real world will come that close to the fiction (I hope!), but at least it makes it plausible that you can just hack into anything and everything in this game.

In Denmark, the new government has agreed that the VAT on food items will be halved from the current 25 percent to 12.5 percent and reduced to 0 percent on fruit and vegetables.

At the same time regular dental care will now be fully paid by the universal healthcare system for pensioners and "vulnerable groups".

These plans were presented by leader of the government supporting party The Red-Green Alliance, @pelle, prior to the new government presenting their entire political agenda at 16:00.