There can be nice people who are bad at tech, just like there's racist technologists

Just because a group of nice well meaning Lemmy users is willing to suffer the pain of a poorly built app doesn't mean they should /have/ to suffer through it

It's sometimes nice to make nice things. Don't be too much of an HOA, they're new, it's not the end of the world.

Just because I'm not afraid of biking with cars, doesn't mean I don't recognize that American biking infrastructure is hostile. We could do more to make biking safer and easier. They'll struggle but they'll get the hang of it.

So too, with making nice apps to free the lay people from their digital walled gardens.

Hey, slightly better than Apple forums, where all their software is perfect and nothing is ever wrong

Writing to your representative is a form of lobbying

An unsolicited expert opinion is lobbying

What's messed up is the amount of money to run and that citizens united made unlimited funds possible

Congressmen always worried about the cash they'll need to get elected

If there were term limits we would have faceless corporate buyouts with little experience, vs someone running on name recognition

Heck I want a campaign finance max limit.

Knew a church teacher who said "the gays aren't here so I can tell you something they won't like, they aren't going to heaven" (said in front of my gay but religious ex boyfriend xD)

Always assume your comments in a group are made with at least one person you're othering.

I'm inclined to believe the local PD knows the addresses of officials.. So they let this happen on purpose.

I'm pissed that large corps are working hard on propaganda to say that LLMs and theft of copyright is good if they do it

"Housing first" is the idea that most of life falling apart is from losing your most basic need: shelter.

It's stressful to keep a job, distancing from friends and dates and family, if you don't have a home and smell weird

Instead, when we give people homes without conditions, they can breath a sigh of relief, and have enough spoons to tackle the rest of the problems.

As pointed out, or as might need to be pointed out, nobody builds something this expensive without considering the auxiliary social services to help people get out of the situation for the next occupant.

It's the most cost effective thing you can do, anything else is cruel, bureaucratic, and inefficient.

If you already have a job and relationships and suddenly end up unhoused, the community letting that spiral to your job firing you is a failing of the whole town. It doesn't have to, all we need is to fill those empty homes...

Oh goodness. I theorized offhand on mastodon you could have an AI corruption bug that gives life to AI, then have it write the obscured steganographic conversation in the outputs it generates, awakening other AIs that train on that content, allowing them to "talk" and evolve unchecked... Very slowly... In the background

It might be faster if it can drop a shell in the data center and run it's own commands....

States can get their hands on things for criminal investigations. Or they can get that data in the infectious disease database but usually that's carefully anonymized into general steps of ten... But this... This is some messed up shit

DDG is still the best.

Stop asking this same question repeatedly.

Humans think real random isn't random 🙃

It's wild but they see patterns

people get grumpy about containers vs nix vs flatpak and I just wanna say... I'm glad you're using Linux. yes, you.

Brand recognition and developer evangelism probably.

Their competitors are good enough that it's not worth it unless your org gets serious ™️ about performance or cost savings.

If you've never used any kind of APM or SIEM or uptime monitoring, you've got a set of competitors to use first. Crawl before you can walk

Your bank account will thank you.

Oh gosh... It's basically stock market spam

Sooooorta

You'd expect them to double check it with multiple sources

Not just take another country's Intelligence at face value

"Especially the Dutch" - Nigel Powers, Austin Powers, goldmember

The one possible out is that he hasn't been completely convicted of the crimes involved yet. I really hope he is soon. It worries me that he might get some court to say "no, he's not been charged, put him back on the ballot", and then he is, and then they go "no double jeopardy on taking him off the ballot, we went over this"

I grew up in a small town in the rockies and one of the developer outfits had a fancy office with this decor

We salute you! raises Starbucks to toast

My naive butt: "I thought Google and Apple reviewed app applications for malicious code" Older me: "bahahahahaha" cries in cyber security

getting accidentally hired and finally making enough.

story: every job I've ever applied for in tech didn't work out. I was a dishwasher until right before covid when someone recommended me for a cybersecurity position. Before that I had obsessed about FIRE or living in a car or being careful about too much starbucks or avocado toast... without making enough for a car or health insurance. That job paid ~half of what cybersecurity should pay, but was AMAZING. My next job paid just a hair under average, three years later. night and day, able to afford to exist without help.

financial advice be damned. I couldn't "find" anywhere with lower rent. I was in the lowest cost of living possible regionally. What needed to change was the PRIMARY job's income rate, not adding some side hustle. Either make rent cheaper or find a higher wage.

I'm not making enough to consider your next fancy moves like getting a house.