I recently had a conversation with a friend over something and I was shocked how my conclussion sounds like a chatgpt conclussion with very similar sentence structure. It is literally shaping our linguistics lol

@whimsical The same in Belgium, we only complain about the weather. It's usually the first thing we talk about after the greeting and the greeting is often optional lol

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My old job (telecom) had also a lot of server outages and their clients were a few important services like firefighter station, schools, independent healthcare workers, ... We never heard any complaints about them missing a call (would they even know?). But 95% of their clients were not that sensitive to this outages.

I would hope that those leadership positions would get in legal trouble if a human live is lost and face prison time (not a death sentence).

(fun fact, emergency lines have a second number that telecom companies can test against)

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I do think C-level or management should be held responsible for company fuckups. An ex-colleague from my old job does consulting for a bunch of telecom companies. One of the companies did not check if their new routing actually works with emergency numbers. Calling 112 would be rotated to +32112 and that call would always fail.

An elderly person fell at a retirement home and suffered internal bleeding. The caregiver/nurse tried to call the hospital/ER but the calls kept failing. An other colleague also tried to call and it failed with their company mobile phones. One of them had to go their lockers a few floors down to make the call with their private mobile phone. By then, the ambulance arrived too late and she passed away soon after.

@Lensflare It can also be a godsent. At my previous job, it took the average dev more than week to setup the full backend environment on their preferred OS. They introduced dockers and it got cut down to only 15min after multiple iterations.

In their defence, it was more complex than the usual CRUD application.

(But shortly after that, they decided to migrate big parts of the backend to AWS lambdas so the docker became useless imo)

I really hate that a lot of online discussion is clearly AI written (or AI assisted). I'm not sure if I'm reading something that is written by a bot or written by someone that is afraid to make typos and need to waste a lot of water to partake in an online discussion.

It is not really maintained anymore. It's a wonder this site is still up and running and the community is too stubborn to migrate.

Gimp (kinda dull cuz i do basic stuff in it)

autohotkey (sometimes used for games)

autoclicker (some tools (or games) have shitty UX and an autoclicker can be nice lol)

flameshot (I love this screenshot tool on linux. Sadly not available on windows i think),

espanso (I've just mapped some key combination to be replaced into a special character like :o/: replaces into ø instead of doing alt+0248. Kinda neat when learning a new (human) language without buying a new keyboard)

Windows PowerToys

yolomouse (mainly for videogames, early beta client is free. Paid on steam)

@whimsical It was in fact about a leasecar, he has been at the current company for multiple years and his original lease is expiring "soon". So he is looking around for a new car.

yea, will do soon. My work day is nearly over. I'm overhearing him currently discussing cars instead and we don't do anything related to cars.

Reminds me of this youtube vid thumbnail

reddit.com/r/Wellthatsucks/comments/1l7h7zh/apples_new_design_has_an_unfortunate_name_on/

@D-4got10-01 The app never released with gamification cuz we lacked development time and the dev team was very much against it. The company owner/CEO required it. After the release, he wanted also that the app supported 3D worlds like a metaverse but good luck building that with 2 juniors frontend devs and 2 senior backend devs and a bunch of other prios.

At least one of our devs (who loves to draw) made a bunch of assets for the gamification with our company mascot and those assets at least found use in marketing material.

@whimsical Sad times :(

But a new song can be fun in a few weeks (hopefully before the platform is fully dead)

@D-4got10-01 Remembers me of my previous company that wanted to add gamification to the whole product... Before it was even functional or even released. The app was a B2B VoIP app.

Tailwind has a pretty neat system for their built-in colors (blue-50 being white-ish blue, blue-950 being blue-ish black). a similar system for font weight also exists but not a lot of devs use it afaik. https://w3schools.com/cssref/...

Amazing, a bot can create a spam post when my posts keeps failing (:

@whimsical No worries if you can't find it.

@whimsical Sure, no rush.

I must have msised the suno sonsg, do you still have a link?

Apparently Trump added Belgium to the board instead of Belarus, I bet they missclicked the select dropdown of all available countries.

@Lensflare At least this AI bullshit is at least dev-related. I guess that is a minor improvement?

@sonssituation What support team? hahaha

(i hate those chatgpt bots)

@whimsical What is the skyrant?

@JS-Guy The developers responsible for this project are not really active from what I can tell. It's a miracle DR is still up.

We have a few other solutions, 2 discords, 1 my.devplace.net, matrix chat(?), snek.molodetz, maybe more that i'm not aware of. But not really possible to get everyone to migrate

Wait, you guys have enough tasks to keep yourself busy for the whole week?

I never really understood why those UI libraries are so popular. I rather write the UI myself with the help of some css framework.

But then again, I've never worked in a big frontend team.

@djsumdog Oh no, I do think writing documentation to other developers is fine (less boring tho). Just the documentation that the end user might use is just such a pain in the ass. I guess the support department usually does that but we don't have that :')

@whimsical From the pro side, at least my devrant score keeps going up. That is the only thing that really matters in life.

We have https://devplace.net/ and a 2 discords and snek and others that I'm probably forgetting

@retoor I guess. My hope is that these educations at least can result in a pay increase or more leverage for my next jobs :)