We really should stop letting companies buy each other. In fact we should split the big ones up.

He’s lying. Or bullshitting. Whatever you call it when people say shit without any regard for the truth. Typical conservative slop.

I don’t understand how so many people played final fantasy 7 and the only lesson they seemed to take from the story is “tifa got big titties”

Don’t blame the tool, blame the user 😁

I compare it to snapshot tests a lot. They’re similarly constrained by “good if used wisely” but most people don’t do that. It’s easier to use them extensively. That’s just how people are. They do the easy thing

Paying more money for better results doesn’t fit into the world view of many business decision makers.

How do you feel about people who refuse to use ride-share like Uber because it’s exploiting labor? I don’t want to give them any money because fuck them, but some of my friends say the drivers need money so refusing to use it is only hurting them.

Well, yeah, AI is mostly garbage. Fuck it. Fuck the people pushing it.

I use keepassxc. It does the job.

Microsoft should never have been allowed to buy LinkedIn. It should be split off.

Telling people “use more ai” was always a profoundly stupid direction. “Ship more stuff faster, use AI if it helps, get paid the same” would be anti-labor but at least sensible.

If selling widgets the customer probably doesn’t care if you used a screwdriver or a drill. They just want their widget. Mandating drill usage is stupid.

Literally everyone saw it coming.

Many people aren’t paying attention. Many people are like pathologically gullible.

The average person just… if you’re smart and capable, imagine being drunk. Being drunk all the time. That’s the baseline. Myopic, impatient, emotional.

Maybe if we had better education and less capitalist hellscape people could be a little better.

People mandating return to office are climate criminals, all. They should be sentenced to picking up litter and other community service for the rest of their lives.

The whole venture capitalism thing is bullshit. It’s just vibes and rich man hubris.

Is this happening on android, too?

Not in any way I can discern! She’s in the planning meetings but her entire role seems to be sharing her screen so people can tell her what to click on. (This is excruciating to witness. It is so slow.)

Sometimes she’ll say “remember to check your capacity!”, but two other people on the team say that too.

She seems to be entirely non-technical, too, so she doesn’t have much input on any of the discussion. The inter-team stuff is handled by two other people. (A lady of importance whose title I don’t know, and some sort of business analyst)

The place I work at I wouldn’t say is “over staffed” but it is maybe “wrong-staffed”.

They have a full time “scrum master” and from what I can tell all she does it share her screen so people can awkwardly tell her which tickets to click on, and she calls on people in order during the morning meeting. That’s a whole-ass job. Meanwhile, devops is like crying blood because there’s like 2 of them managing decades of systems, and no senior engineering roles have been backfilled after people left for years.

If fines scaled with wealth that might create an incentive for the police to harass rich people instead of poor people. It won’t, because the police serve the wealthy, but it’s a nice day fantasy.

I’m so tired of every job posting frothing at the mouth over AI. “We’re ai native” , “we want employees who are excited about ai tools”, “agenic workflows”

Just fuck off.

Even if all of this stuff was a real productivity increase, who is keeping that extra production? Not the workers!

I use nano for quick edits. I don’t know more than the basics of vim, and don’t do a lot of editing on the terminal so I haven’t needed to.

Fuck Spotify. I’ll buy albums (drm free, mostly from Bandcamp), pirate, or go without.

Today is bandcamp Friday, too. Bandcamp passes their cut on to the band.