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1h ago
Yes. It’s the same thing, except when I joined the market knowing fuck all about computers, while coding with my cute little BASIC commands; there wasn’t some tech bro asshole telling all the C programmers that their skills would no longer be required. Or at least he wasn’t saying it quite so loudly.
Incidentally, I still work with that same C programmer, I’m still learning from them, but have since taught them a trick or two; and we both now charge sinful amounts of money for our time.
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13h ago
honestly there are build tools that could do that for me, I don’t need to buy tokens for that.
Yes. This is where every “have you tried Agentic AI?” conservation lands, for me.
I could daily, for worse results, to give up the bash script that has worked perfectly for five years. Oh, gee. Tell me more! Haha.
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3d ago
The mechanical turk, the robot maids of the 70s, etc.
Yes.
But I’m still salty that I still can’t buy a robot maid.
I figured they would exist by now, for about the price of a vacuum.
I’m not demanding that they actually be any good.
We could just program them to quote “The Jetsons” and do some simple vacuum pathing…
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3d ago
Why doesn’t it just edit files like it normally does?
Haha. Yes.
But it does everything the most probable way, according to all the stack overflow it has swallowed.
Sometimes that way makes sense. Sometimes not.
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5d ago
“Why is no one having a good time? I specifically requested it.”
So many great lines, and his delivery was perfect.
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5d ago
Yes! His early death was tragic.
We could have had several more Dirk Gently mysteries, and the Guide Trilogy could have been even more inaccurately counted, by now. RIP Adams.
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Mar 18, 2026
Yesm Every one in awhile someone marvels at a particularly good AI answer.
Even back in the days when the scam was the first chess robot, those moments were a sign that the “secret backdoor to let a real human take control” was in effect.
But nobody reads history, so they’reb just amazed.
That output is from this guy named Sandeep. His work situation is stupid now. But yes, he’s a great programmer.
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Mar 18, 2026
That’s true, but they can still charge double by taking longer to fix the problem.
There’s going to be a lot of “# decrement this wait counter every time the boss demands a performance improvement” code in the near future.
Open class warfare isn’t a sustainable way to build infrastructure.
We’re on track to reach a point where nothing produced by the FANG companies works at all.
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Mar 18, 2026
Yes. Epstein taught us it’s also about running a large scale kidnapping and rape organization.
I sound like a broken record, but today, we need to be wary that very few of the Epstein class are proven to be innocent of being complicit in child abduction and rape.
Maybe that’s always been the case? I know the history of the ultra rich has never been nice.
Anyway I find it an important perspective when deciding how much to trust the rest of the messages out of the Epstein class.
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Mar 18, 2026
I just want to highlight this,
“The fact that he thinks typing out new code took so much effort basically means that he was never a decent programmer.”
Grear point! This is a critical insight.
Like during the dotcom boom, new tools mean new people can program the computer who could not, before.
And just like during tht dotcom boom, they’ll soon find out that programming a computer - while very slightly easier than it was last year - still has challenges.
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Mar 18, 2026
That’s a risk I’m willing to take.
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Mar 16, 2026
That’s fair. I also wouldn’t wish serious Excel work on my worst enemy. But I understand someone has to do it, or the nightmare realm could escape the cell borders.
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Mar 16, 2026
but doing other things related to work, having a Mac is more productive and practical.
I used to do the same, but lately every office thing is browser based, and I find the Linux and Mac experiences are identical.
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Mar 11, 2026
The magic words I use are, “Oh! This isn’t Linux. I’m not sure how to use these, anymore.”
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Mar 11, 2026
Needs a “penis rocket” option.
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Mar 11, 2026
I think that's what they were called before they rebranded.
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Mar 07, 2026
If you lack Vault, occasionally dropping the .env file contents into a shared (appropriately secured) BitWarden or KeePass vault will get the job done.
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Mar 07, 2026
“Today it is worth $155.”
LMAO. No.
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Mar 05, 2026
I’m not a computer expert or planning to be.
I don’t use Arch, but my perception is that it is meant for people who want to be computer experts.
Do you have any reason not to use Linux Mint?
As others have mentioned, Mint has 95% of the benefits over Windows that Arch has, and Mint is designed for folks who just want to use their computer.
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Mar 04, 2026
how do you use cracks? or did you stop using them?
I make good money now and buy all my games, but I still apply mods.
Mod manager tools tend to just work on Linux now, thanks to the SteamDeck.
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Mar 04, 2026
Haha. I don’t believe in destiny, but the things you like about Windows are the things I liked about Windows before I switched to Linux.
You’ll find many other fans of cracking / Liberating software, here. It’s where the “Libre” we talk about comes from.
Anyway, keep asking questions of you’re curious.
I’ll just add that I haven’t used the command line against for anything basic on Linux in several years. It’s really not necessary anymore, unless I’m doing something advanced like modding my games.
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Mar 03, 2026
Ooh, as a web developer, I can answer this.
We (web developers) are, on average, incompetent. Many of our websites only work in Chromium based browsers, due to aforementioned incompetence.
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Mar 02, 2026
I suppose it makes sense for Ubuntu to slowly go down as the bad news about Snaps and the great news about Linux Mint spreads.
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Mar 02, 2026
Yes.
When I leave a cool shadow, the middle finger will be raised to salute the dead ashes of the assholes who thought plugging AI into weapons was a good line to cross.
And someday my ashes will be absorbed into some other living thing. And whatever it is, that living thing will find their ashes and take a steaming dump on them in honor of the lost memory of their stupidity.
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Mar 02, 2026
disadvantage to installing librewolf (or something similar) as my primary browser instead of default firefox?
LibreWolf comes with more anti-features disabled. You’ll discover which websites are built by assholes. Many answers will not surprise you, but a few might.
LibreWolf can be configured either site-by-site or globally, to allow whatever anti-features you are comfortable with, but the disadvantage is needing to change the settings.
The advantage I like in LibreWolf is itships without stupid crap like Google search or Pocket. Since I always remove both, LibreWolf saves me some time, overall.
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Mar 01, 2026
Also if they want malware infections through notepad.exe - I can probably accomplish that on Linux with Wine, but it would take more effort.
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Mar 01, 2026
Yes. Great point. I do try to give each game a test run before I schedule a group of friends to play it together. I guess I did that on Windows, as well.
When I was a big windows gamer the result tended to just be it works or it doesn’t, on my current hardware. But maybe that’s just gaming today. I think we have better optimization options, in general, now.
I’m not sure when things changed, as my journey was Windows PC Gamer to console gamer to SteamDeck to Linux PC gamer.
I think PC gaming, in general, got much nicer while I was only playing consoles.
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Feb 25, 2026
And has fewer worthless emails in her inbox.
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Jan 05, 2026
You can try to be subtle about it. Changes in haircuts and styles can make it less obvious.
I tried not to give it away, but of course, I knew it was me, both times. (I'm both very perceptive and surpringly self-absorbed, so I couldn't fool me.)
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Dec 18, 2025
LibreWolf is nice.
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Dec 18, 2025
That's legitimately a good reason. They can pry my C from my cold dead hands...but someday someone will have to. May as well think about what that should look like.
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Dec 17, 2025
They need to identify threats to Texas democracy: specifically anyone who turns off their TV during an episode of Walker: Texas Ranger.
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Dec 17, 2025
Yes. It is very little, very late.
But it was a huge quality of life relief to me, when I still had a Windows install to deal with.
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Dec 17, 2025
winget ships with Windows by default.
I understand that it is based on chocolatey to some degree.
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Dec 16, 2025
Additional analyses show global stocks of fake accounts are highest for platforms such as X, Uber, Discord, Amazon, Tinder and gaming platform Steam, while vendors keep millions of verifications available for the UK and US, along with Brazil and Canada.**
Interesting stuff. I would guess this accounts for why products with only 4 stars on Amazon are so often shit. Real consumers only seem to affect the last star out of five.
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Dec 14, 2025
does it always run in the background like signal does to handle notifs?
Yes.
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Dec 09, 2025
Anecdotally, I have found Conversations (XMPP federated chat) is better for battery life on GrapheneOS than Signal.
The onramp is more complicated. I learned the hard way that uptime history is the only aspect I really care about when choosing a server.
All XMPP accounts on all XMPP servers can talk to each-other, as long as both user’s home servers are up and running.
Oh, and you need to turn on encryption - it is optional. OMEMO encryption is widely supported and good enough for casual chat security.
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Dec 09, 2025
You can just look up the information on the web, but how do you know whether to trust that information?
With open source, it’s easy to get caught lying, or even just pushing on the boundaries of good ethics (* cough* Ubuntu cough).
If it’s controversial, it is possible to verify the claims.
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Dec 08, 2025
If I told JP that I did not find their work authentic, I’m sure they would say “You’re absolutely right!”
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Dec 08, 2025
If you have no junior developers, who will turn into senior developers later on?
At least it isn’t my problem. As long as I have CrowdStrike, Cloudflare, Windows11, AWS us-east-1 and log4j… I can just keep enjoying today’s version of the Internet, unchanged.
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Dec 05, 2025
Though I’m not sure why they want a bunch of videos of 16 year olds…
Epstein couldn’t live with knowing why…
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