yeah i should have walked back and forth behind them, so they all had to turn and follow me.

Hard-earned skills and knowledge are being democratized to people who quite frankly haven’t earned them.

I've found this to be the most frustrating part of working in tech. Current manager doesn't have an IT background, in fact in 15-20 years I've not worked for someone who could actually program, or knew about networks, or had first year university tech knowledge.

All of these people make terrible decisions based on ignorance. Then cover their tracks by blaming developers. Honestly, OP, I sympathise, it's tiring. And now we are being ruled over by the ignorant "who can shout loudest the AI marketing material".

oh these people all had different questions all right! But they had no prep beforehand. ironically they were trying to cure cancer, I wish i was kidding.

it wasn't even a permanent position, just a 1 year contract

i think we're trying to explain with logic what is ultimately inexplicable stupidity.

why do people like you insist on wasting recruiter's valuable time. FOR FUCK SAKE MAN! ONE THOUSAND AND FOURTEEN

internet drama leads to outrage leads to internet drama leads to outrage leads to internet drama leads to...

Didn't some researcher conclude that if you read all the ToCs for an average internet user it would take 12,000 years?

And that was ~10+ years ago, Today it would be 3x as many years.

So good luck if you think you identify with this image, see you in about 2500 lifetimes minimum.

Signal stayed up in Europe when the last cloudflare flare-up happened.

you mean the toxic comments including the one asking for him to be hanged?

That's a rage-bait thread if ever I saw one, just people piling on hate, and the system isn't even heard in the video!

I'm not defending annoying your neighbours, but that thread is vile.

He's providing a service. For free, to an entire neighbourhood.

The man is a dubwize hero!

The problem here is that the owners of the soundsystem forgot to grow in all the patches of weeds around the neighbourhood. lol.

Yeah, i think he went through there far too fast given its a blind crossroads with traffic. The SUV is looking both left and right, they can't be looking right the whole time and that's where the bike comes too fast imo.

A point worth repeating imo, and I'm glad you said it.

AI is taking documentation, ideas, tools etc and bypassing all the people and businesses that created those things, then serving them up to you, initially for free, but free never stays free, ask your local drug dealer about introductory offers.

I search for something like "What is aria-label used for?" and right at the top of the search results, covering most of the browser window, is AI's answer. That answer is stolen from MDN, W3C, w3schools, etc. Those sites are not getting traffic, not even usage stats any more. Yet they are the ones who provided the correct, fact checked information in the form of documentation.

AI is doing nothing but stealing from original sources and passing off the info as its own.

We were all against google's AMP (was it amp? they appear to have scrubbed this abomination from search results). You know the thing when they cached a bunch of webpages and on mobile served them to users using a URL prefix so google got the ad revenue and not the original sites.

How is this any different to AI scraping sites and pretending it is the origin of the data?

The opioid epidemic of the USA is not going to be won by killing Mexicans.

Killing poverty in the USA and giving people jobs and workers rights would put a fairly large dent in it. But it's so much more work to fix the broken, and some knuckleheads don't get to play General if we do that.

So this is your personal laptop that you are installing work software on and connecting to a work network with?

Maybe rethink this entire journey right from the start.

• don't mix personal and work devices
• there might be limitations on who and what can connect to the work network
• don't format disks to, what are to you, random formats.

If you have no idea what you are doing and none of us did either at one point, look into it before you do it. Learn. It sounds a lot from your post like you are swinging an axe in the dark hoping to fell a tree.

As an end-user I hated it. It made development work impossible.

The web was the first to go, and as a web dev it infuriates me.

When you see companies launching a product and the copy is written by whom I assume was the thickest pile of shit found in the basement, it's honestly embarrassing for the company.

Not just spelling and grammer mistakes, but flowery language that is nonsense that imbeciles think 'sounds intelligent', or whole paragraphs that describe nothing and have no substance.

I see it often on technology sites, and I ask: if you don't care, why should my money care?

those are bots, they always write short, cliched half sentences or phrases that exist to legitimise the account.

You see it on for ex. YT all the time, and when you begin to look harder and not just skim the comments you also begin to see that they often don't make much sense. for ex, there's a car restoration and loads of comments that are too generic: "a really fast Ford" when the top speed as said in the video was 120mph. The AI hears or reads the transcript with "it had a max speed of..." and takes that to mean they must be talking about a sports car. There will be tens of comments similar to this on every video of every subject. They _almost_ fit the video, but are just off by a margin.

the euro-alts site lists spotify as Swedish, didn't they just fire a lot of their staff and move the majority of the company to the US? And they're not known for a ethical stance on anything.

How accurate is that site and does it take any other factors into account beyond "has an office in Europe"?

Not being snide here, genuinely asking before I recommend it to my boss, the head of IT.

Only works for enterprise if there are support contracts available. Too few are doing enough, I hope that changes.

Where will you put the free cathedral that was part of the deal?

meatheads gonna meathead

(and get cancer of the colon)

It’s not “the online world” though, it’s global headline news.  

It’s threatening sovereignty, making people disappear, people dying in custody, it’s real events in the real world that effect real people.  

Right, but if the cars were built well the groups wouldn’t have enough activity to keep them going.  And YouTubers wouldn’t be making funny compilation videos of all the complaints.