Translated:

High-schoolers are even cheaper and easier to exploit than new grads, and if I don’t care if they know nothing as long as they can prop up our crappy app just long enough for me to sell the company, pocket a bunch of cash, get them all fired, and move on to my next scam entrepreneurial venture while preaching to people about being an innovator and a job creator. Maintenance is for whichever sucker ends up holding the shit bag, but who cares? I’ve got mine.

AI coding is just the latest spin on this age-old practice.

I can recommend Qobuz. I’ve tried a bunch of them and it’s the one I stuck with. Actual high quality audio without ridiculous extra fees, lots of information including CD booklets and complete credits on each track, and they pay the artists a bit more than most streaming services do. I haven’t hit any notable gaps in their catalogue compared to others (though some artists just don’t stream), and they have things Spotify doesn’t have. Qobuz is also better for classical music than others, because they understand how to properly group and credit the tracks.

He was already expelled from Labour. But yes, the organized attacks on him from the media and his own party were disgusting. I hope his new party is a success.

In the case of the USA, UK, etc. they’re not turning a blind eye: they’re facilitating and supporting it.

All Ploopy’s stuff looks rough. I think they’re 3D-printing them. Maybe one day they’ll progress to something that gives a nicer result.

I was looking at their trackballs but the ambidextrous ones look awkwardly tiny and have rattly bearings, in addition to the rough finish. I support what they’re doing but I wish the products were a bit less prototypey.

I remember learning about operator precedence in SQL the hard way at 4pm on a Friday. I wasn’t popular that day, and I never made that mistake again.

Huh, Netflix found a way to make its shows even worse. Business as usual, even if the tech is different.

Why do so many computer manufacturers organize their websites around obscure names of model ranges that only they understand, or make you decide upfront whether you want a “home” or “business” or “creator” laptop? Why do they all make it as difficult as possible for you to browse what’s on offer? Is it just because they all suck at website design, or is there some other reason?

Israel has killed 70 healthcare workers in 50 days. And they’ve been doing this for years, every time claiming it’s not a deliberate policy. The world can see what Israel is, and its words are worthless.

Very brave of them. I too used to stand up to school bullies privately, at home, in my mind.

I don’t see where he admits what the headline claims.

I don’t see where in the article he “admits” what the headline claims.

And happier people are less downtrodden, which is why corporations don’t want us working from home.

You don’t get the same feeling of suspicion about what the machine is up to. Windows 11 feels like the computer spends just enough time doing what you want that you don’t walk away forever in frustration, but most of the resources are spent doing unspecified things in the background for people you don’t know, who are very interested in what you’re doing. My Windows XP machine’s CPU scores 75 on Passmark, while my Windows 11 machine scores about 46,000. But the speed at which they do many ordinary things isn’t so different, because Windows 11 does so much heavy stuff in the background. My Linux machines (scoring between 8,000 and 28,000) all feel tangibly faster than Win 11.

I ran mine like this for years. Then a few weeks ago I installed Immich so we can browse photos directly from the NAS on our phone. That’s how it will stay. I don’t want it to turn into an application server.

What a horrible thing to do to Linux.

I use a Windows XP computer (for distraction-free writing using old DOS word processors) and a bunch of Linux and Windows 11 PCs. Being in contact with XP regularly, I don’t experience any desire to go back to doing things like that. It’s really rough compared to modern Linux.

Well, what an asshole. The candidate dodged a bullet.

If you read the whole thread, it turns out to be an undesirable behaviour of a tool called b4, which was rewriting not just author information but committer information. The consensus seems to be that this tool needs to be updated not to do that.

Make sure you haven’t accidentally left Mullvad’s “kill switch” turned on.