tech workers: i'm underpaid and everyone else should be too!

fucking unionize already. tired of this crabs-in-a-bucket mentality

If buying isnt owning then piracy isnt stealing

I'm not a dog breed expert, but...

The other day an agressive dog that looked like a pitbull, suddenly lunged at me barking loudly... It was about 10ft away from me but still scared the shit out of me

The owner yanked the dog back on its leash and i thought, "FML, the only thing that saved me from a deadly mauling was a 3/4 inch wide piece of nylon with a metal clip the guy bought off amazon for $5"

Wtf. I paid for the apps to avoid exactly this....

Too many people think the "free" in free software means "without monetary cost". Development costs money. If nobody pays, it gets sold

Thats ok... Idiotic hiring practices will filter out the worst companies

I'm not a developer, but I use AI tools at work (mostly LLMs).

You need to treat AI like a junior intern.... You give it a task, but you still need to check the output and use critical thinking. You cant just take some work from an intern, blindly incorporate it into your presentation, and then blame the intern if the work is shoddy....

AI should be a time saver for certain tasks. It cannot (currently) replace a good worker.

Also, Linus is a "woke communist"

https://social.kernel.org/notice/AWSXomDbvdxKgOxVAm

Debian sid user here, and long time keepassxc user

Debian maintainer didnt communicate this well, but i agree that i dont want my password manager having any access to networking or interacting with anything other than the clipboard.

I'm not a developer or a security expert. This is just my gut feeling talking

Podman didnt silently rewrite my firewall rules upon install

10/10 would recommend

This is why we need to all back firefox...

I dont care if the CEO sucks, or if they have some opt-out anti-features....

Chrome monopoly is a far greater threat

Long live debian! Long live the king!

It's 2024... Please fix the AI...

Biggest weakness in every civ game is the shitty AI that requires massive cheating, and terrible diplomacy (constantly making ridiculous demands, then getting mad and denouncing you if you dont hand over the goods)

I would buy one in a heartbeat if it was smaller.... My S22 barely fits in my pants pocket, and barely usable with one hand.

Still waiting for compact phones to return...RIP sony xperia

I love KDE. Been using it for 10 years

One question i've always had though... Does anyone actually use the default KDE software like konqueror, kmail, kontacts, etc? Why not just focus on the desktop environment?

Service guarantees citizenship!

Would you like to know more?

I made some tiddy pics with stable diffusion... Am i a generative AI talent?

So.... Men act like dicks when there is a woman around or when they are back in "the rest of the world"? At which point their sense of brotherly love and cameraderie disappear? How is that a woman's fault?

How is that the fault of, "fucking propaganda painting men as inherently predators"?

Sounds like a problem with that group of men....

I have tons of male friends who dont "flex" or act like dicks when they are outside of an all-male setting

I'm not against men's clubs, btw.... But the idea that men cant be toxic outside of a men's club is a terrible premise for a men's club

You'll always end up on debian. You just dont know it yet

I gave my mom a macbook with debian KDE and a mac OS theme.. I dont think she's noticed yet....

I mean... I hate capitalism as much as the next guy, but this isnt "money from nothing".... People bought or worked for shares....

The dividend money comes from worker exploitation, sure. But in order to get the dividend from those shares, you had to believe in the company and invest...

Disclaimer: i own no shares of meta and i dont have a facebook account

I hope you're upgrading from debian buster to bullseye!

If embryos are children, then make it illegal to freeze them and lock them away in an ice box.... That's a cruel form of torture

You have to be asleep to believe it --George carlin... I probably dodnt get it right

They should use protonmail

Debian for servers and debian for desktop. Debian everywhere!

Almost all journalism outlets have similar policies.

Which leads conspiracy theory types to latch on and post things like "the CBC/BBC wont condemn hamas as terrorists! The mainstream media sucks!", when in fact these policies have been in place fpr decades

They used .af because in modern english, "af" stands for "as fuck"

As in "queer. As fuck", meaning VERY queer

Henry Wu : Actually they can't breed in the wild. Population control is one of our security precautions. There's no unauthorized breeding in Jurassic Park.

Dr. Ian Malcolm : How do you know they can't breed?

Henry Wu : Well, because all the animals in Jurassic Park are female. We've engineered them that way.

I hate the AI hype right now, but to say the entire thing should fail is short sighted.

Imagine people saying the following: "The internet is just hype. I get too much spam emails. I hope the entire thing is a catastrophic failure."

Imagine we just shut down the entire internet because the dotcom bubble was full of scams and overhyped....

I dunno... I could actually see guinan spouting off some bullshit about hard work

"You know, that lt barclay spends all his time on the holodeck.. If he worked a little harder in engineering, he could afford a.... Oh wait, we live in a post-scarcity society. He already has all has basic needs met."

To be fair, it looks like the debian maintainer started the unfriendly discourse by calling the work of other FOSS devs "crap"

Everyone needs to chill out, otherwise we have another potential XZ social engineering attack

It would be catastrophic for something like keepass to have a malicious maintainer take over

filling in background, NPC voices, and things like that, which is unfortunate because those voices were all human beings at one point

Do i want AI to replace human voice actors? Of course not.

But there's no universe where NPCs were ever going to have more than 3 voiced lines repeating over and over about an arrow to the knee or something.

AI would give developers almost infinite variety of inane NPC chatter to make the world more realistic. Thats probably where i would draw the line at using AI. Filling in little world details that nobody would otherwise have time/money to fill in

Or in other words, AI should add something to a game, not give the same amount of content using fewer human minds and hands

I dont mind it when it makes sense... Like ad boards in fifa games make sense...

But if it breaka immersion, then it's stupid

Having children, at this juncture, with what we know, is profoundly selfish

Not just having children, but raising them to continue the same "driving huge SUV everywhere" costco lifestyle that got us into this mess

AI is fine if you know what you're doing and can correct the mistakes it makes (i.e. use it as fancy code completion)

I'm not a developer and i havent touched code for over 10 yrs, but when i heard about my company pushing AI tools on the devs, i thought exactly what you said. It should be a tool for experienced devs who already know what they're doing....

Lo and behold they did the opposite... They fired all the senior people and pushed AI on the interns and new grads.... and then expected AI to suddenly make the jr devs work like the expensive Sr devs they just fired...

Wtf

This isnt freeware.

"Free" in free software is free like free speech, not free as in beer.

This is one of the places where english fails. Libre vs gratis

Can it outrun a kenyan in a marathon?

Or the real question is if a battery can be made small enough to fit in a human sizef robot that can keep it running over 42km

Q: "What's the best debian-based _____?"

A: "debian"

Not anymore...kiptum beat kipchoge's record in chicago last fall

The thing is, these numbers are unfathomable to most people.

If you say, "government gave $30B in subsidies to car companies", most people will stare at you blankly and shrug...

But people will get really angry if they see a headline like, "man commits $5000 of welfare fraud", or "goverment spent $100 000 housing 5 refugee families" because those are real numbers to them.