

Why bother when the government can ask when ever it wants?


Why bother when the government can ask when ever it wants?
We pour coke on the christmas ham, but this is where a draw the line.




I’m starting to see peaceful protest rhetoric fade in general spaces. Like, average people are starting to just say things that would normally have gotten you on a watch list. I’m all for it. What’s the point in letting them destroy everything unopposed? Even hyper delusional supporters are very quiet right now.


I see his fully fleshed explanation, but I don’t see a counter? Not that I have any strong opinion, just curious what DEI actually means.


Me laughing in superiority before realizing going to bed at 2:30 and waking up at 6:30 is the same thing (i’m tired)
Used to work 9 hours a day stacking pallets. It was great until my body couldn’t handle it. Even so, losing that exercise has clearly impacted my health. I’m not dying or anything, but it felt easier to smile. I wouldn’t even say I’m unhappy. I don’t know how else to describe it.
I can hate MS teams shitty app, or how they are using AI to blow up kids in Gaza. I still get value out of a platform like Windows, GitHub, or co-pilot. I would rather be coding on a framework laptop with an offline AI on fedora linux with a vpn and locked down firefox and codium, but that’s just not what I’m running with at my job.
You seem interested in coding, why not try coding something simple yourself?
Actually, the first script for the app I did myself. It was a calculation taken out of excel. I made it with better decision-making and compliance to standards. It was simple, but I used AI to review and realized the gap between my speed and skill and the AI, which is where the dependence began. The codebase is well beyond 10,000 at this point, but it’s pretty close to done.
This was done in python, but I mostly dabble in engineering hobbies using C, my favorite being my QMK split keyboard. Again, lot of dependence, but in both cases, I’m learning way more than I ever did spending $40k at college. I should look up software engineering because it seems interesting.
Hey all, vibe coder here. Let me preface with a fuck microsoft.
Anyway, I’m not in a programming job, just a tedious one with decent pay. Since I am tech savvy and they have no trainers to bring up my proficiencies, I spend down time vibe coding my job.
It was a real piece of shit at first, but then co-pilot transformed me into some sort of code architect wizard. I am certainly not a programmer, but I know how to map out where functions and classses should live, and how the folder hierarchy should look. Yelling OOP, “best practices”, DRY and what the “tree /f” should look like helps a lot. Also being really snarky when it’s wrong or it’ll just plow along.
I want to discuss because I think we all agree to some extent that AI is the next surveillance tool and we’re probably the biggest targets for big corpro. Like, is using it maybe awful? Or maybe my success with AI is more correlated witb my effort than the tool? Is anyone else seeing incredible return from their ventures with AI? Do you see your bosses peddle AI but don’t understand any meaningful ways to apply it?

If we’re both celebrating, it makes no difference to me.

I don’t like the tone of that. If some dude peddling bullshit gets what he deserves, I don’t see the reason not to relish in it even a little. This guy has been an oppressive POS who’s rhetoric is celebrated by Neo Nazis. That’s like saying, “just cuz hitler died doesn’t mean you get to say mean things.”
Look, I know we all struggle to maintain morality against our emotions, but, sometimes, the reaction is perfectly valid.


Mine for the last 3 years


Considering 50% of gen Z use vpns, I think they might need to reconsider


I use a VPN so yeah that’s not going to work.
So what’s the hivemind consensus fellow lemmings, framework or thinkpad? My brain says lenovo but my heart says

One button press. Independent outcome. You could have both but hit the 25% chance nothing happens.
My grandparents gave away all my wii motion plus and to rub salt in the wound my wii u just kicked the bucket. It was the greatest retro nintendo emulator 🫡