I think that’s just IT jobs in general. I noped out after 15 years, no fucking clue what I’ll do but I can tell you it’ll be anything but IT

Right, I must be “very young” if I don’t think that hurling abuse at others is OK.

Yeah, pretty much figured you were one of the people who thought his behavior wasn’t only acceptable but preferable. In other words, an asshole.

Are we pretending that his various and ubiquitous abusive rants didn’t happen, or that they weren’t him acting like an asshole?

He was never likeable. He acted like a huge asshole, which naturally made other assholes look at him and go “see if he can do that so can I”

Neither of them is exactly what I’d call easily likeable

✨ freshwater fish 💫

Well, the true scale of the internal migration is hard to gauge because Russia is Russia, but in classic fashion there’s likely been quite a bit of forced migration but could be as many as 800,000 to 1,000,000 people who have been “brought” into Crimea one way or another and a number of native Ukrainians and Tatars have been forcibly relocated.

Edit: and I found one estimate putting the number of internally displaced Crimeans in Ukraine at 20,000 – 100,000 (pg. 2), but another estimate had an upper limit of 200,000

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Iran, too.

Calling Republicans Talebangelicals isn’t all that inaccurate

Loquunturne Latine in ‘Quid’?

Yesss, making the world worse for everyone, nice.

No wait, that’s the opposite of nice. That’s terrible.

Yeeeaaah you’re supposed to regularly test that you can actually restore your backups, because boy do a lot of companies find out they can’t only after shit goes sideways and to their horror they then realize that they can’t restore some system’s backups because reasons.

Not sure I’ve worked in a company that did that, and frankly even when I was CTO in a startup we didn’t have automated backup tests – mostly because it was still early days and I just manually tested restoring our in-house service when a change was made that would warrant it. N + 1 other things to do besides automating backup tests so I deemed that Good Enough™.

That’s a good tip. I keep hearing lots of positive things about the story and the world, so it’d be fun to check it out for myself

Oh trust me, I know myself. I really haven’t had the energy to play challenging games in a while now, so games like Cloudpunk, Sable, Lightyear Frontier, The Invincible, etc etc have been right up my alley. Anything I don’t have to grind, I have enough of that in my life as it is

Could AI personas attend your work meetings for you? One tech CEO says yes

One tech CEO has drain bamage, I take it. To paraphrase Charles Babbage, I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a statement.

Like, what the fuck is the point of this? If you think meetings are a problem and AI is the solution, there are a countably infinite amount of ideas you could come up with that aren’t this idiotic

Wait, has somebody actually suggested automating meetings? Like, has somebody said that out loud without a hint of irony or sarcasm?

Souls-likes are pretty much the antithesis of what I personally enjoy in games. They seem stressful as fuck and my capacity for handling more stress is currently somewhere near zero

I can’t help but love obscure punctuation

That said, it’s wonderfully cathartic.

Right‽ This was seriously the best rant I’ve read in ages; not only was it spot on, it was fucking hilarious.

This has to be the best way I’ve seen anyone describe what the problem with the current AI woo-woo is:

And then some absolute son of a removed created ChatGPT, and now look at us. Look at us, resplendent in our pauper’s robes, stitched from corpulent greed and breathless credulity, spending half of the planet’s engineering efforts to add chatbot support to every application under the sun when half of the industry hasn’t worked out how to test database backups regularly. This is why I have to visit untold violence upon the next moron to propose that AI is the future of the business - not because this is impossible in principle, but because they are now indistinguishable from a hundred million willful fucking idiots.

It’s astonishing how Trump and many other conservatives are so prone to claiming that anything that goes wrong in any way is some sort of conspiracy against them. Shit never goes sideways due to anything they did, there’s always someone else at fault.

Not that I necessarily believe that Fox poll is accurate, exactly for the reason @Hayduke@lemmy.world points out in their comment – just as likely to be bullshit meant to scare conservatives into voting for him.