Codeberg is technophobic too, AI is the greatest technological innovation since the Internet and they don’t allow for it to train on their repos, nor have any official endorsed agent.
I already said I would switch. You don’t have to keep selling CodeBerg to me.
Well, I’m not happy with that, either.
But I’ll save my rage for Zuckerberg, not at some FOSS developer.
There’s billionaires actively increasing my work hours, lowering my pay, stripping my government services, and some of them part of a kidnapping and rape operation targeting my kids.
Ill be happy to remind Dylan whose side they should be on, but my rage is for Zuck the fuck.
Edit: I’m done here. My option on jackbooted authoritarians carrying guns doesn’t belong in a public web profile, today, no matter how anonymous.
Maybe I’ll share my thoughts at their trials, someday. Or through some other method of helping them reveal their faces.
Zuckerberg paid for the law that Dylan is reacting to.
Zuckerberg is ultra rich with sociopathic tendencies and poor impulse control.
This other guy is probably just trying to get by.
There are two sides: the Epstein class, and the rest of us.
The Epstein class rely on distracting us from that truth, to keep their influence.
Come to think of it, Zuck, is that you?
If we’re going to blame one person, Zuckerberg comes to mind.
I never really fully stopped caring for them, but I don’t want to build my life with them.
An unexpected side effect is that I felt exultant when they found someone to build their life with. I sleep better knowing they are cared for.
Anytime I look back and think “what if”, I realize it would have been bad. We’re both better off separate from each-other.
And it hurt to be near each-other, so we don’t stay in close contact.
But none of that invaldiates all the wonderful things we know about each-other, better than most people do.
And it doesn’t stop us from celebrating each-other’s victories from a distance.
If you find yourself on a dev team doing anything other than 5, run, don’t walk, and find a new job if you can. If you can’t, focus on increasing your knowledge and skills, because no one else there is going to help you.
Is great advice, which I have followed, and it has served me well!
I’m astonished that nobody has ever told me about this before.
I mean, it is right there in the welcome screen - where I, myself, foolishly ignored it for six years.
So now I also try to tell people about it. Haha.
It really is great.
Wow. I did’t expect my team to be at the more relaxed end of the responses!
We have #5, but some (non-breaking) feedback can still be deferred to a future follow up issue.
That said, my team rarely exercises the option to defer feedback.
Yes. I also hate feeling confused about where my hatred for SystemD firsts into the bigger picture
Either, and I suppose in a few special cases both!
Both imply a higher chance of tech competency.
I’m baffled as to why you think that counts as a source.
I mean, just Google it. Microphone hacking is a thing. (Edit: You know what, Let me Google that for you.)
I only felt obligated to grab a link grabbed because folks keep repeating the misinformation that “no one is hacking your phone microphone, or it would be in the news”. It’s just not news anymore.
Android and iOS malware will try to grab stuff off of your microphone.
It’s not a conspiracy theory. It’s not news.
Malware actors do malware things, and sell whatever they can harvest.
No it’s not listening to you unless you explicitly gave an app permission to listen to you.
Is worth highlighting. Good point.
Here’s court cases lost by Google and Apple
Also, whenever monolithic megacorporations not recording you directly, virtually everyone is still buying any data about you they can get from actual malware distributing criminals.
Microphone hijacking is real and commonplace. (Edit: Fixed link thanks to some feedback.)
The malware vendors sell what they learn about us on black markets. And in net effect, everyone is buying from them.
They “Privacy Wash” the things they learn from the illegal recordings, by passing them from one disreputable broker to another. Each broker can keep poor quality records of exactly where they got their data. Pretty soon it’s just “part of your digital fingerprint” and “can’t be helped”.
Aside from devices that acknowledge theyre listening all the time there actually isnt any, for undisclosed data collection via microphone specifically. Research has, to my knowledge, never found that to be the case
Please stop quoting this misinformation.
Microphone hijacking is real, and it is common. The average user has been a victitm of it.
And in addition, Google and Apple effectively admitted to microphone abuse in court.
The first person to actually prove this whole mass spying via microphone to sell ads thing is actually happening, would be world-famous overnight.
The first person that proves that Google, Microsoft, Amazon or Meta are directly doing it, using their hardware vendors privilege - would be famous overnight.
But that won’t happen, because they don’t have to.
(Okay, it might still happen with Meta. I’m not sure those jackasses have any self respect.)
In general, the big vendors don’t need to listen to anyone’s microphone, because the average user installs a free flappy bird clone that runs the microphone continuously, and then sells that to absolutely every single limited liability corporation, coffee shop, or data broker - to correlate for advertising.
Saying “they’re not using the microphone” is splitting hairs to death.
Yes, a few of the biggest players can’t be arsed to directly use the microphone.
Instead they buy the result of malware microphone use indirectly from the malware pushers who do absolutely use the microphone.
Absolutely every tech company, employer and three letter agency is buying the content of your voice recordings through a form of Privacy Washing. They didn’t collect it themselves, and they didn’t look to closely at how it was collected, so it’s okay, right?
For the average user, whose kid installed some stupid little free games, yes, someone is almost certainly “listening” right now, and all the time.
But they’re not using it to decide who to arrest, who to deport, or who to hire or fire (for saying “union”), or whether you really need the salary you requested…unless they are.
And yes, finding out some of that would absolutely make the news, but those are harder to find out, and could go for decades undiscovered.
Haha. As the saying goes, “I still get paid.”
Exactly. Elegant code requires domain expertise, which no one has on during the first attempt.
Strident attempts at elegance during the first domain-expertise-free try tend to just result in different kinds of shitty code.
Of course, experienced programmers can obviously achieve lower shittiness, from day one.
But truly elegant code requires exploring the domain, and learning what works there.
Shitty or barely-good-enough code often walks so that elegant code can someday replace it.
Exactly. I’ve been sabotaging the AI with shitty code output since long before LLMs existed. That’s how I play 4D chess. (This is just meant to get a laugh. Some of my code is even quite nice, actually.)
Yes. But the important thing is that now disfunctional organizations have access to tools to write unmaintainable code really fast.
That’s why I no longer code in C#.