That will protect the children, for sure.

If I lived in the US, I’d be far more concerned about sending my kids to school but whatever.

Whenever this gets posted, someone (rightly) remarks how short-sighted this is regarding the fact that if there are now juniors now, there won’t be any seniors in a few years.

And while that is true, I do envy the lack of cynicism of these people. To me it seems quite clear that the hope from the owning and ruling class is that the AI tools become “good enough” to do away with the entire ladder.

I truly believe this is one example where this is not necessarily (only) stupidity or incompetence, but also malice.

Teams is hot garbage. Just having it open in the background sucks the performance right out of your laptop. And I find the fact that MS tries to force it to be their portal to the rest of their atrocious apps to be infuriating.

But what do you expect from a company that codes their start menu with react native.

At work: without a hint of hesitation, Microsoft Teams and Visual Studio.

Do I really need to explain the issues with Teams? As for Visual Studio: extremely slow startup time, idiotic msvc compiler, yappy copilot who won’t shut up, needlessly opaque “solution” format, moronic intellisense false positives, anything useful being hidden between layers of sloppy menus, and more… I have my own build scripts, compile with clang, and edit with whatever. I only use that piece of shit to debug and when it’s time to commit, to make sure it’ll work on my colleagues’ environments, as I don’t want to be the annoying contrarian, but it really bums me out.

On my personal machines: gnome. I have a love hate relationship with Gnome, because on the one hand, I agree with most design decisions and appreciate not having to spend any time configuring a lot of stuff, so it suits me very well, and on the other hand I get angry on the odd occurrence where I disagree with the philosophy and I have to install an extension which I know will break at every update.

“Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”

That’s from Edward Snowden. Evidently no one is going to force you to jump through hoops to use encryption if you don’t think you stand to benefit from it. That being said, the “nothing to hide” argument can be a bit of a slippery slope.

Also reminds me of someone I knew, who was doing pure maths research (so, read about as much as your fanfic) and was storing their papers on Dropbox. When informed that that was a private US entity, would enable other entities to access that data, they said “but I want people to read my paper”. They are now furious about LLMs. Go figure.

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I am not sure I follow. Had you never noticed? If so I can’t take credit for that discovery (I’m very sad about that).

Or is it that you don’t want it censored? You enjoy seeing that, you sicko? You love that saggy orange nussy.

You disgust me.

The “optimist” in me wants to believe that the idiots who have all the power and money will never be satisfied and thus will keep crushing us to the point where the conditions for forcibly removing them from power will be met: enough of us will feel there is nothing else to do and nothing to lose.

As for what comes after that… Lots of instability and misery for a while, with the hope that whatever emerges is better and fairer than what we have now.

You need other people to feel validated or elated? Well you can’t call yourself a real lemming then.

I look and act like a tool irl as well, trust me. You’re welcome.

Please censor that neck or mark NSFW

I have nothing against y pointing up, but I loathe the fact that left-handed coordinate systems are somehow considered an ok choice. This is probably the strongest I feel about something so inconsequential but I’ll die on that hill.

How old does it need to be in order to be considered niche by virtue of its age rather than by its original success or lack thereof?

I was going to comment pretty much that exactly giving the ladder-kicking behaviour of quite a few older folks. If anything, I’d expect it would create an even bigger cycle of abuse: we went through it therefore it’s now our well deserved right to put you through it too.

Fucking apatheid emerald mine inheritor ruining perfectly good words from the nerd culture…

Best? Depending on what you do, probably not. That being said I have a friend with whom I code from time to time, and he uses the desktop mode for that. He uses nix packages to setup his development environments and seems happy with it.

This is more work than I’d personally like (I am lazy) but it does not sound so bad.

They appear on their own during compilation. Unsure whether setting it on fire yourself would speed up the warming phase though.

Compile Gentoo on an old machine and you won’t even need to mod.