The more I think about the more it makes sense. If you're running a tracing jit compiler for a language with TCO does that means tail recursive functions are like asking to get traced?

you have 6 problems

you introduce rust, now you have 30 problems

you worked on it for about a month and maybe this is the 6th rewrite, and you now have 300 problems and also you have less functionality than every one of the previous versions

why and how

this pattern seems to be consistent no less

apparently there's a sect of monks/philosophers that believe if you drink yourself silly on epiphanies you gain enlightenment

so cool

Enter BIOS menu
See the option called something like “ionic capacitor discombobulation”
Click “help” near the option to learn what the hell that is
“Enables or disables ionic capacitor discombobulation”
ffs

I got deadlines to meet at work so I cancelled all unnecessary meetings to focus on my development work. Some high manager pushes for last minute work because reasons.

I log onto my laptop this morning and see IT did an emergency patch. I expect some minor inconvenience because every time they patch something they fuck something up too.

Well they managed to lock me out of most software installed on my laptop and PC, I cannot even connect any device to it. Even debuggers get denied. They even managed to wipe all my networking configs in my lab.

I guess I will be doing jackshit today until the IT networking department wakes up from their offshore slumber, because it usually takes them forever to do anything whatsoever.

Fucking worthless fucks. I am so tired of all this.

Today I finally felt the need for one of those mini fridges next to my computer. I told myself I will never be one of those guys.

I see more and more tech books with AI generated cover, and every time I feel like the whole book is probably generated and is worthless 🤔

Now that I gave up on any hope for promotion, I am relieved of presenting stuff, which to a certain extent, relieve me from a certain amount of cringe. There’s just enough left to remind me why I don’t want to speak publicly.

So tired of “minimal” distros. Give me a 40gb fat bitch that can open any file type, has every codec and every app, and that has everything set up for me. I’ll delete apps I don’t need, deleting is easier than installing anyway

My company: "you don't have a choice what you work on"
My company on legal paperwork: "we've given them choice of what they work on to support and develop them as best as possible"

Both of those are verbatim quotes. I laughed. I mean, I now want to punch someone, but I laughed before the violence.

IS THERE ANY GODDAMN LOGIC IN RUSSIAN ALPHABETS OMFG I HATE EM.
a pain in the ass to learn :v

It's impressive how slow the archive compression/decompression in Windows 11 is slow...

Your health is the ultimate flex

Holy fucking shit, I can't stand this corporate framework they use for this banking app on which I've been working on for 2 months.

I’ve spent the last damn month just building three basic screens, and now my very first PR is buried under 50 fucking comments. Half of them exist purely because their shitty framework has multiple versions stacked and stitched together with so many workarounds that you need so much domain knowledge that intuition or actual dev experience goes out the window.

They’ve abstracted real app development into oblivion. It’s a CRUD app, but they've over-engineered it so much they’re now creating their own problems — just so they can specialize in solving them. It's become this self-sustaining nightmare where they make themselves irreplaceable... and simultaneously unemployable anywhere else.

I genuinely have no idea what I’m doing with my life anymore. The original plan was six months here, grab a mortgage, fuck off, and go back to contracting.

Now I’m stuck questioning my sanity every time I open this project or have to listen to another lecture from my 'buddy' about how everything that I'm doing is wrong.

waiting on the day that someone else makes a decision on your future is not a fun thing to do, especially if you don't have the capability to outswim the sharks

Do you prefer to pin dependencies to an exact version or a specified major, latest minor version?

Intel Management Engine is half-hoax. Yes, it exists, but rumors about its true capabilities are fabricated and artificially amplified to make "what about intel ME" a very effective though-terminating cliche in the privacy community.

Let me remind you that to this day there was not a single takedown or leak that resulted from some power exploiting ME. All kingpin takedowns, all whistleblower deanons, all deanons period, all doxxes — all due to software shortcomings and other exploits.

Yet, "what about intel ME" reigns supreme and instills doom into the minds of the questioning. I can totally see someone who is new to this whole privacy thing doing their research, finding this ME craziness and thinking that real, actionable privacy is impossible, and going back to using amazon alexa and giving tiktok full camera and microphone access.

Just forget about Intel ME. It might as well not exist at all, because it was never used successfully. Instead, do this:
- Keep your threat models updated
- Learn to distinguish state-level actors from surveillance capitalists

Tits or butt?

What we were promised:
- The world as seen in Frutiger Aero
- Solving chess by running minimax on quantum computers
- Fully automated luxury communism powered by blockchain
What we were delivered:
- The phone selling machine in Walmart values your $700 phone at "$59 Today", but when you hit "Cancel", it bumps the price to "$79 Today" while stealing your data via USB. You can sell the phone for $400 on Ebay.
- Microsoft will try to bruteforce your zip archive's password if you upload it to OneDrive
- Butthole logos

turns out Battlestar Galactica was a meta documentary

Days since @retoor has made fun of someones' manhood on devrant: 69

So fucking exhausting when you have to change many things in a codebase in a repetitive manner with search and replace and it's not worth the time to write a rool to automate it. One of those special cases where you wish search and replace would support some kind of templating or be variable depending on the search result

I think I have a problem.
I remember when this platform used to have living people on it I didn't mind.
So i keep logging in curious what the dead fucking people said in response to me, knowing it will be the same anyway.
One day at a time... *deep breath*
Also fuck you, I wrote this before.

Sun theSun = Sun.newInstance();

String intro = {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10};
String chorus = {1,2};

boolean night;

for(int i=0; i<intro.Count; i++) {
Console.WriteLine(intro[i]);

while(!night) {
Thread.Wait(theSun);
}
}

night = true;

chorus.forEach(
Sun.come();
}

int brightestStarOfAll = theSun.MAX_BRIGHTNESS;

theSun.area[brightestStarOfAll].Praise();

Systems engineer, +5 years of experience, mainly webdev but also 80% of every branch of IT there is, have worked with many technologies professionally, many more academically, fluent in 3 languages, low salary expectations... how come I can't land a new job?
I've done a bunch of stuff: Specialized CVs, used many platforms, personal connections, showed at different places, updated my socials / projects...
Man I suck at job hunting.

Before you hate on me, this is more of a reflection than a vent. I'm not mad at all. I know I've been doing a poor job and I'm stepping up my game soon. I didn't underestimate the IT job market, I just had other priorities in mind.

dumb-init is a very popular package for Docker containers. Here's some fodder for feeding the DEI flame war:
- Those who are unable to speak have the right to remain silent
- What about speachless-init?

(my take: no action required at this stage)
https://github.com/Yelp/dumb-init/...

imagine "dumb" tech still having mics, recording everything and scanning wifi for unprotected networks to gain internet access and upload it

I can’t seem to comprehend why I can’t comprehend modern Frontend approaches. I think I’ll just stick with the backend side of things and go deeper instead. Nice try react 💙

Asians talk about discipline and value it greatly,
but what if they discipline you in the wrong direction?

does it matter or what?

power outage

I wonder if I post every time how many it will be

especially with green power political stuff going on these days this could be a funny bingo game