The show is essentially about toxic work culture. It explores all the tropes with the twist that a person’s work consciousness is completely severed from their rest-of-life consciousness; one has no recall of what the other has done.

This is only for the workers and doesn’t extend to managers.

Funny; that’s where my mind went too.

TV equivalent of OpenWRT?

Reminder that you don’t need to use iCloud backup; local backups still work fine and are encrypted.

He’s already investigated himself and found that Xitter is a bastion of freedom. Same goes for Truth Social.

Came here to say this. Hopefully the systems in place are resilient enough to handle a leap minute (especially since they already exist), but it would definitely cause some instant issues.

The average person probably wouldn’t notice, but anyone working with time sensitive equipment would.

In reality, coding is something you can learn on your own… or not. Colleges are good for teaching computing science and architectural design, but the good ones will assume you already know how to code. The problem of course, is that when you graduate you are unlikely to find a job as a computer scientist or software architect, and will most likely need to spend 5+ years as a junior programmer first.

Namanyay, I’m sorry to say, sounds like a relative newbie when it comes to software development. The refrain “junior software developers can’t actually code” has been around as long as software development.

I remember when Stack Exchange first popped up, senior developers complained “junior developers don’t actually LEARN anything anymore; they just copy code off of Stack Exchange without understanding what it does!”

And before SE? We were doing the exact same thing in the comp.* newsgroups. And before that? When you started developing something, a senior dev dropped a bunch of books on your desk and said “when you’ve finished reading those, let’s talk.”

The truth is, ever since libraries have been a thing, the majority of developers have just used the libraries without really understanding what goes on inside them. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing — the entire point of abstraction is so that developers can focus on the stuff they need to get done while ignoring the already solved problems.

The issues arise when you place code monkeys in software architecture or senior development positions, and they’ve never had the curiosity to read through the header files for those libraries they use, but instead just let Claude code complete their way to functionality. Because then most style guides with teeth go out the window, as there’s no intention behind the choices made.

And this results in something that really irks (and always has) senior software developers: instead of writing really clean, performant and novel code, those senior devs have to spend all their time doing code reviews and editing and refactoring codebases that nobody else understands.

Same as it ever was.

Essentially, JS is the new Flash….

JavaScript has its place as a lightweight runtime interpreter.

Rust has its place as a secure and modern way to engineer and produce dependable software.

Two wolves and a sheep deciding what’s for dinner.

Expensive large screen displays are better.

Smart TVs are privacy invasive billboards that let you watch some TV on their terms.

This article seems to be implying that all is normal in the world with a few minor changes in policy observed lately.

It’s not Washington’s departure from a years long policy of isolation; it’s the US government’s leadership’s departure from policy, period.

I expect plenty more visits to strong man states in the near future.

She should go see a professional counsellor, not self-diagnose and use it as an excuse. Seems like she’s mostly lonely and attention-seeking from this side of the Internet.

They’re trying to solve that by preventing EVERYONE from getting vaccinated.

xz almost worked because it was in something nobody was looking at. Signal code is audited regularly.

Powerful people tend to have few people in their lives who are interested in them instead of their power.

I convinced my family to switch by giving them my Signal contact info and letting them know that that’s where they could contact me. I ditched my WhatsApp account when Facebook bought them, and never had any of the other accounts because I knew too much about the people behind the companies.

This is an important extra point: being open source, a government can’t secretly mandate a back door, because everyone would be able to see it. For the other options listed, there are no guarantees.

Could be… it makes sense to reinvent the wheel if the previous inventors won’t share.

The big question though is: why?

CAPTCHA was implemented because machine learning was worse than people at solving the problems, so they could filter out the bots AND train their algorithms.

Today, the bots are often better than the humans, so both reasons for having CAPTCHAS no longer make sense. Even user verification can be easily faked by AI now.