I eskew unit tests because they’re for nerds 😎

It’s public knowledge that most of the bots on the platform are intentional to maintain the image that the site is super popular still

I’m not saying you’re wrong and I know many people assume that, but is there a clear source for this?

At which point, we’re fucked either way.

If you have an hour, this video from Veritasium about it is pretty good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoag03mSuXQ

I am deeply concerned that this is getting worse, not better. I sincerely hope I’m totally wrong about this, but I see young “educated” Americans more and more being unable to think at all. The kids in university now are liberally using commercial LLMs to finish assignments. People are surrendering their ability to think to private corporations. Imagine in 10 years from now, a man who can’t pay his AI bill can no longer survive on his own. And even if he could, he could only ever do what the corporate model deems acceptable. Just fully giving up agency because agency is friction.

I can’t respond to this email without paying Sam Altman! I can’t wipe my ass without Grok!

I’m drunk. I’m sorry. I hate what is happening, and I am helpless to stop it.

Bazzite is really just Aurora Linux + built in gaming convenience. It’s perfect for me, and is in no way restricted from doing any computing task.

After losing my job to outsourcing early last year and watching the space since then, I have given up on working as a software engineer. I’m currently looking for work at a grocery store or something. I’m simply not interested. I love programming and software in general, but have fallen totally out of love with that career.

This has, so far, only happened to me on Reddit.

Yooka Replaylee (the enhanced remake) is a lot more like Odyssey is you ask me. More expensive, of course. I really liked it after trying, and quitting the original.

Its completely true that not all use is because of being forced to use it though. Lots of people do love using these tools whether for their own amusement or because they find it useful whether we like it or not. He’s right.

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I don’t like it either. Not for us, I suppose.

Linux itself is entirely “corporate-aligned.” It exists and is developed almost entirely by and for corporations.

I think not being a default browser means that, for now, it’s not for ordinary users anyway.

A headphone jack is just another attack vector! Use your head!!!

I don’t use Signal to talk to people I know only pseudonymously through the internet. I use it to talk to people with whom I would already share my phone number. That social graph can be ascertained a thousand ways already. I think it is worth pointing out as you do, however. If I wanted to attempt to hide the fact that I was contacting someone from the state, I’m not sure where I would start, but it wouldn’t be Signal.

Are we paying for fediverse services?

You may not be, but many of us are. None of it is free, from development to hosting to administrating. That works okay for now, but might be a limiting factor.

Edit: I also thing community stewardship could work better than it does.

Man, signal was easier to get people to use when it could also be their SMS app.

Wait, are you a pastafarian or a satanist?

I had been using Aurora-dx, but I also like to play games, so I re-based to Bazzite-dx when it became available.