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by dgxyz 8mo ago
My perspective as an eng lead is it’s all shit. Words, code, the lot. It’s literally an enabler for the worst characteristics of humanity: laziness and disinterested incompetence. People are happy to shovel shit if they can get away with it
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
Because I can spot a turd a mile away.
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
That's feasible but I think the whole thing will collapse in a heap when the obviously iffy funding structures fall apart due to a mix of lack of declinging investor interest and drunk assery by the US gov resulting in distrust and hig
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
No. I'd probably get the Red Dwarf one and start trying to sell me toast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
Yep. I have posted "fuck off clanker" on a copilot infested issue at work. And surprisingly it did fuck off.
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
This not about leadership. It's about product specification. There's no way it fits into their ecosystem without compromising it. Everyone else has compromised theirs and their customers. Apple do not want to do this. I suspect th
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
I do this by hand and always will. The moment this is automated and overseen by an AI implementation it'll turn into a marketing game like SEO did. You'll end up staying at the hotel which spends the most money on getting itself i
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
I worked out it's easier to make a living doing something well paid and do the art on the side. Sometimes people pay me for the art if I'm lucky, mostly photographic prints. I wouldn't want to do it the other way around.
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
I agree. I'm sure i'll piss off a lot of people with this one but I don't care any more. I'm calling it what it is. LLMs empower those without the domain knowledge or experience to identify if the output actually solves
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
No, it didn't. I've only just come back to review it after I posted it and there wasn't a reply.
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
wonder if it was dumping off windows 10 machines or lay offs that did it.
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
Backups FTW.
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
I had that problem about 20 years ago. I changed the job. I know that's an extreme position but to be tied to a steaming pile of crap is a career risk. I've seen people go down with ships in that way before and it scared me.
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
The first point is fairly obvious and the latter point is not true (AppArmor etc)
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
True, as systemd and wayland point out elegantly. But at least there is a modicum of choice there.
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
Yeah it sucks. Got an MBP here which was my refuge from Windows. That's gone to hell too. I am moving off onto an old desktop running Debian stable slowly as I don't really need a laptop. This also isolates me from a number of geo
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
Well technically Unixes like Linux are a mountain of legacy and they are fine. Windows is just a mountain of shit.
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
Might as well just use Windows 7 if the security surface is this bad on later windows.
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
He never had it. I haven't worked out if he's just a highly skilled troll to be fair.
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
Thanks - will look into these. IRC is a bit jarring after using something a little more convenient!
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
Seems whatever they do they step in shit. They should stop doing stuff. They spent the last few years entirely compromising their products rather than improving them.
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
My social group are moving to a private IRC server already. This is probably the best outcome really. I don't think any of us are under 50. But we have relatives who remember when this would have resulted in some of us being killed. I
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
I at least tend to need those! Other people, maybe not so much!
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by dgxyz 9mo ago
You can print recovery codes. Just chuck them in your safe. Cryptography is only safe against someone who doesn't come and beat the password out of you if they want it. In my case, only my laptop is encrypted so if I lose it when I&#
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by dgxyz 9mo ago
Oh that's not even the worst of the stupid shit. When you have Apple managing your keychain, your passwords stored in that, your passkeys stored in that, them filling in your MFA info by reading your email and SMS on every device, supp
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by dgxyz 9mo ago
Most of them don’t do anything at all until needed.
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by dgxyz 9mo ago
Apologies for the bad language but this can fuck off. They need to fix everything before pasting more shit on top. I’m getting to the point of throwing Jenkins back in it’s that bad. GitHub gives git a bad name and reputation.
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by dgxyz 9mo ago
My one remaining windows machine is on 2021 LTSC and has no route to the internet. I am slowly working my way off it. This was onto macOS but that has gone down the shitter too. So it’s Debian. Hopefully be end of Q1 this year. I honestly c
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by dgxyz 9mo ago
Is it a software and infrastructure company or an investment scam?
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by dgxyz 9mo ago
I've watched it happen at two orgs now. Lay off 500 people because you fucked the company for 2 years then congratulate each other for making the decision to write off all the accumulated debt by getting rid of all operating costs. The

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