Internet freedom is decapitated.
I miss the old internet so much, it was anarchy and today is a corporate globalist blob of control and censorship.
I feel it's lost and there's no alternative anymore, at least not yet.

Can someone explain to me why a static page with 11 links should have:
- database with 3 tables,
- 47 libraries
- full blown next.js setup
- docker container
- infrastructure monitoring
- pin code based admin access to add additional links

2 margaritas, 1 litre of beer and two rejection letters later. Tuesdays are great.

fucking code tests are retarded. if you just want a programmer, hire a fucking gpt instead. stop wasting my time. hr people send the most retarded emails ever.

I spent the past two days running headlong into obstacle after obstacle after obstacle. I found solutions and workarounds for all of them, including for some obscure odd behaviors in Rails, and got everything working — at least as much as is possible.

At the end of it all, the proposed architecture is fundamentally flawed. It amounts to “we want to have our cake and eat it, too.” So I’ll need to argue with management and try to convince them to let me redesign this broken sewage system. I doubt it’ll go well.

I’m tired, boss.

A post with many thumb up reactions with different skin tones, of course counted separately.

👍6 👍🏻3 👍🏼4 …

Because apparently it matters who is agreeing as a white person and how many agree as persons with a slightly darker skin tone. 🤦‍♂️
This is so fucking dumb.

Learning embedded C/C++ on some TI chips. Need an httpclient for some specific tasks. The docs for the library are almost non-existent. No examples. I search and find examples from 7 years ago (none official). Wild.

There was another library I was using, but apparently it has internal issues and is not being updated anymore. I am using the "supported" library apparently.

Writing network code for desktop: easy peasy. Writing it for embedded: wtf is this shit?

I hate 2FA, solving a problem I don't have. I expect it rather to lock me out some day than actually helping me.

Just subscribed to a service, pissed that I couldn't use a simple password and had to do one of those impossible ones making you store it in a Keychain or making you the forget-button dozens of times. Activated account, and then it wanted you to do the 2-FA as well.

Do realize, my freaking bank has just a four digit code weirdos!

Been at interview today for some mobile banking app. Female interviewer describes the process: tech scrrwning for their company, then tech interview for client company, then coding challengde than hiring manager offer. I said I am not doing that, I cannot pass those, my brain freezes at those challenges. I can offer pair programing up to two hours with their programmer. Interview ended quickly amd I am glad I stood up against that nonsense.

If AI doesn’t solve your problem, the answer is always just more AI. Thus, AI is the new XML.

Can we stop conflating Desktop Linux and Linux (as in the kernel, servers, the project itself, etc)?

Desktop Linux is a pretty tiny niche in Linux, while Linux itself is pretty huge part of pretty much anything related to computers and on top of which a LOT of things are reliant on.

And yet so many times when I see or hear a complaint about Linux or some Linux distro, I look inside and it's specifically a Desktop Linux issue that has nothing to do with Linux itself.

There’s lay offs in my company.

So far:
- slackers and incompetents are staying
- Part of the leadership team is in holidays
- No one said the word lay offs but use the sentence “changes to come”

I am going back on monday and part of me hope I will be kicked out as I will have nothing to loose then, and a full month to say whatever I want.

alright I agree.

removing/deleting code feels like killing cancer cells.

Damn these AI models...

Randomly, I have to make a selfie when transferring money using the bank, even for 70,-. But very random. I make a joke of it by looking mad in the camera while smoking a sigarette. But damn, what the fuck, like, when was voted for shit like this? Nobody would EVER agree to such shit right? All those tippy tappy things we worry about for privacy but I just literally made a selfie for my bank transaction (ironically it was for smth not legal). Guys, this will get abused the fuck out of one day. They're automated building a report against you. A log, with pictures and accounts and amounts. Hmm, why do you send z, y or z directly to a person? That person was once in jail, hmm, let's see all transactions..

We're so fucked.

Looking for a new laptop on your current laptop that has served you for years. How heartless can you be?

Why the fuck are there so many electrical standards to connect a mac to a phy?!

MII
RMII
GMII
RGMII
SGMII
SRGMII
XFI
SFI
QSGMII
10G-USXGMII
10GBASE-R
100BASE-FX
XGMII
XAUI
PSGMII

Sure, I'll just find the error in this very intelligible stack

(it's just HALF of the stack)

You can be jealous, it's fine.

Product idea:
Create an app to dox people. Then with poor coding skills dox the entire app community.

I was replaced by AI.

Because I couldn’t be replaced directly, e.g. by using AI to do my job, the job description itself was changed as the business pivoted.

We used to be a software development company. Now, we’re an online AI school. The thing about AI schools is that you can monetize unfinished prototypes — the only thing AI is good at — and the process of making them.

I wasn’t strictly “replaced” — they just found a small-scale way to not need engineers at all.

Well, it’s time to make my own startup!