I’d argue it’s a bad career path overall. You will get laid off working as a dev, it’s just how it works, and if you haven’t managed a 10+ headcount by your mid 30’s you will find yourself facing ever escalating ageism 35 on as an old man dev. It’s not a field that generally professionally rewards experience beyond 5-ish years.

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I have seen enough footage of the war crimes to be confident of Blinken’s guilt.

War criminals deserve the noose. Especially genocidal ones.

Use FOSS on non-intel hardware and use tor. Your physical life is just gonna be kind of tracked because if you live in a walkable city, you’re on camera the whole time you’re out and modern cars phone home EVERYTHING if you don’t live in a walkable city. I guess you can buy a 1997 Honda Accord to get around that but on an infinite timeframe the cost of maintaining a pre-panopticon vehicle will only go up…

Yeah, the party that ran against W’s war crimes kept him twice. And they wonder why their voters are dispirited.

Liz Cheney won’t be secretary of defense and Anthony Blinken will be out of work and ideally sent to Gitmo.

A party that offers nothing except the other party’s policies but 5% less racist/misogynist/homophobic deserves to hemorrhage voters and lose. When the DNC’s sole goal is defeating their pre-Biden base, they shouldn’t be surprised when nobody is a dem anymore.

Yeah, he might 100% support genocide via his cutout McGurk… Oh wait, Biden kept McGurk on staff from Trump’s first term and has been letting him guide policy this whole time…

God, that guy is the biggest asshole on the planet. The fact that he is a mod is such an indictment of Lemmy.world… I actually suspect they’re not even human, but a K-Hive bot from the 2020 primary they plugged ChatGPT into and it went mad.

No sweeter sound than “Hello, this is Linus Torvalds and I pronounce ‘Linux’, Linux” although in 90’s Linux’s defense, sound on 90’s Windows was also a zoo. At least once it was working on RedHat, it worked. Same box with windows 95, every boot you’d fear the sound driver was magically broken again necessitating a full wipe and reinstall…

It’s possible that it’s inferred off the digital footprint of you pirating the content, also. People freak out a lot about being listened to, but I’d argue that’s an inefficient spying mechanism they probably don’t lean heavily on if they can avoid it. We’re all living on platforms that are knowably spying on everything you click on or read or do online and feeding that into giant AI models with everything about you. Like just by watching a pirated video on a Google TV device, Google’s hashing that and phoning that data home, possibly even matching that to the specific file, and adding that to an ad profile.

Anything I need to actually write code on, Gnome, because I’m addicted to mac-style gesture controls, but hate the holier than thou design philosophy Jony Ive bullshit; anything casual, KDE; but I am planning to try out Cosmic on something soon

Don’t forget those lucky duckies deemed unworthy of even having the opportunity to compete in our meritocratic job market!

If you move to the I-95 corridor NY or north you don’t need to deal with this. All the classic rock stations play Dirty Deeds and 3 other AC/DC songs and Teenage Wasteland on a loop, and have for 20+ years.

I hear ya

Get up in the dark, go to work, get out in the dark… 💀😭💀

Uh… Okay… How is saying it’s fair for Hezbollah to do the same to Israelis with the evacuation BS “Zionist?”

I mean, if you can just command citizens of other countries to evacuate their homes so you can blow them up… What’s good for the goose is good for the gander…

There really are only two because the states, except a few like Vermont, legally recognize and run elections for the duopoly parties. That confers legitimacy you don’t have when you’re running your own internal primary like a UK party, and makes it logistically impossible for third parties to actually challenge the duopoly. That’s why the elites shit a brick when we protest about Palestine but dgaf if we bother to vote or not, because it’s a CCP picking the options for Hong Kong situation.