If Github just kills repos without explanation, then using Github for anything is a mistake.

Elon Musk is a certified piece of shit.

Yeah, it's what Jesus would want, didn't you know?

One thing I learned after using computers for 34 years: As soon as you throw away a cable, you will have sudden and very unexpected need for it. I cannot see how that could be true for VGA and old centronics printer cables, but I shall not risk to find out.

What are you talking about? Pedro is the exception, the one good guy. They won't deport him, I need him! They can't do that to me, can they?

“I just got tired of being pushed around,” she replied. “I have something inside of me that’s stronger than what’s out there.

Is it.... a giant bag of shit?

Maybe not every single one of them will shoot an unarmed civilian, but all of them just stood by and did nothing.

Verdict: ACAB.

Personally, I think this picture of Steve Balmer is so much more iconic and should be used for every single article about Microsoft or Windows:

I would so use that in their next marketing campaign. The slogan writes itself!

"Outlawed in [Denmark|in some countries] for being too spicy!"

What the hell took them so fucking long. Anyone still using Xitter is a fascist enabler.

"but... it shouldn't have affected ME, you know?"

For *, you despise HR, those fucking corpo muppets that will attempt to stab you in the back at every opportunity.

Remember rule of acquisition #48:

The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife.

Never forget, HR is your enemy.

Good idea, giving Microsoft control over every single open source project. I mean, what could go wrong, right?

Oh my. If Canada were to join the European Union, as well, we would have to rename the currency to "Euro Dollars", or "Eddies" for short.

European here.

Lately at my work, we are actually being asked to submit a vacation plan for the next year at the end of the previous year. I basically had to sit down with my significant other and plan out exactly when we would take time off. My work demands this (and to a lesser degree, hers too) because people apparently have issues with using up their vacation days in the year they are valid for, and that is a real problem for the company, even a legal one. Theoretically, if there is a lot of work, and vacation time is not possible, the company could agree to not let the vacation days expire, but that means they have to put money on the side in case they have to pay out the vacation days, which is a lot of money uselessly bound that cannot be spent.

So yeah, 30 days every year, and when we're sick, we're sick. Some people take a vacation day to see a doctor, but most people just try to do that in the early morning or in the evening and maybe take some overtime hours for that.

I am not telling you this to gloat. I am telling you this to let you know your bosses are taking you for a ride. Demand more, demand better. If that doesn't work, there's always

Genau, die Bürgergeldempfänger sind das Problem in diesem Land, nicht die reichen Arschgeigen, die Milliarden auf dem Konto haben, Millionen ausbeuten, alles kontrollieren und keinen Cent Steuern bezahlen. Ist klar.

[...] that few people have even noticed that their government appears to already be initiating a system of off-shore, industrialized slavery.

... as opposed to the system of on-shore, industrialized slavery already in place for decades? AKA the prison-industrial complex? That legally and officially still is slavery, after all.

It's an ice planet!

Carter, after exiting the second gate on Earth

IT WAS A FUCKING NAZI SALUTE YOU FUCKING DONKEYS

I have experienced something similar. I run a small forum for a computer games series, a series I myself have not been interested in a long time. I am just running it because the community has no other place to go, and they seem to really enjoy it.

A few months ago, I received word from them that the forum barely responded anymore. I checked it out and noticed there were several hundred active connections at any time, something we have never seen before. After checking the whois info on the IPs, I realized they were all connected to meta, google, apple, microsoft and other AI companies.

It felt like a coordinated DDoS attack and certainly had almost the same effect. Now, I have a hosting contract where I pay a flat monthly fee for a complete server and any traffic going through it, so it was not a problem financially speaking, but those AI bots made the server almost unusable. Naturally, I went ahead and blocked all the crawler IPs that I could find, and that relieved the pressure a lot, but I still keep finding new ones.

Fuck all of those companies, fuck the lot of them. All they do is rob and steal and plunder, and leave charred ruins. And for what? Fan fiction. Unbelievable.