If you enjoyed it, I’ve collected a couple of others:

https://untalkative.one/reading:2019:good-stories

Reminds me this great story from a different era:

https://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/recovery.html

Could someone explain how they’re going to drive 407 km/h in traffic jam? Or in a city, in general?

What’s the font used in the heading? Is it some flavour of Helvetica?

I keep telling myself that in the ideal world, phones would be programmed in Forth.

That comment… Oh my, I want to joke and talk someone like you! Now!

I tried searching for research on it, but only found results claiming this didn’t work… Not actual scientific research, but better than “we think this should work, so now we’ll try selling it”

What is he holding? An ancient dildo or a shit stick?

And “Y” stands for “Your Mom”. But it was a one night stand…

I suspect it’s related to USA current affairs and have no clue what it’s referring to. Any hints for us outsiders?

First you confirm they have to spend a lot of time to set everything up, then you claim it’s just pressing a button? 🤨

Taking a picture with your phone maybe looks like that, when you don’t care, but knowing one’s gear and using it properly is already many levels above just pressing a button. Then only a few questions and one presses the button. Questions like: what will be blurred? what will stand out? how the picture will be composed? will colours play? or textures? are there relations between objects in the picture?

What in trying to say is: I don’t agree with you, that it’s just pressing a button. Programming is also just pressing buttons, right? 😉

C Tesseract has this interstellar vibe and brings quotes like the following, but with a totally different meaning:

• “Years of [compilation error] messages”
• “People disn’t build this Tesseract”; “Not yet… But one day. Not you and me but people, people who’ve evolved beyond the four dimensions we know”
• “You’ve got to leave something behind”

Staying here and reporting issues would help Lemmy, you know? Much more than just complaining it isn’t as stable and mature as a commercial product developed by a company for years.

Wait, you didn’t mean Emotion Regulation Act? Emotion should be regulated and distributed evenly within society!

Eat the emotional! ✊

I’m trying to convince a senior developer from the team I’m a member of, to stop using copilot. They have committed code that they didn’t understand (only tested to verify it does what it’s expected to do). I doubt it’d succeed…

They’ve got Paid BSOD, I’ve got FreeBSD, we’re not the same.

You were so close! The right solution is of course training an AI model that detects credentials and rejects commits that contain them!

That wasn’t a regular poo, it was a sentient being that detached from its colony in your intestines to travel the world!

I’m not ignoring the other two things listed, I’m realistic.

You described it like it was something rare for FAANG to do bad things. Or like it was bad only when it required whistleblowing… Think how many things got crushed by EEE tactics, and it’s only one class of examples of why big tech is inherently bad.

You could say the same about eating meat or any other cause. What’s the difference, the animal is already dead anyway, right? Well, it’s not that simple.

Thanks to the growing number of people who eat less or no meat at all, meat production is decreasing. If all of them kept saying that one man boycott makes no difference, the change would not come.

If you can’t find a better job - fine, work for the evil FAANG or whatever. We live in capitalism and it’s clear we need to work somewhere. But at least be honest and don’t look away from inconvenient truth. There’s still something good you could do while keeping the job at $evil_company. For example, you can support financially those who haven’t got nice jobs in IT.