expect MAGA to overturn the ADA.

This feels likely.

“In politics, obtaining power and maintaining power justifies anything”

I mean if that doesn’t sum up most big name politicians I don’t know what does.

Face is too big, barely recognised him.

Shocking, right? I was similarly surprised when I heard about the extracurriculars of Ted Kaczynski, the mathematician.

Some people need better hobbies.

I only found out because a colleague spent an entire day maintaining the server we host it on. The notion of having to pay to do all the BS operative work around using that shitty platform is so silly to me. If anything it feels like Microsoft should pay us.

Go get yourself a juice box!

When I first started the series I almost quit at the first book, it felt very American Military masturbatory, and I wasn’t a fan. Eventually though, the worldbuilding and the cast captured me. At this point however it feels like the author signed a contract to squeeze out a quota of books and quality has suffered. It’s gotten so intensely formulaic to the point of not being interesting. I’ve fallen victim to the gamblers fallacy though so I’m still reading it; I just want it to end.

At this point you can tell that he struggles to make compelling storylines because he’s started writing self-contained short stories he’s throwing in at random parts of the book just to pad it out. It’s a good move though, I think they’re my favourite parts of the recent books.

Overall I like the series, I just wish it hadn’t been dragged out so much.

I found out that Azure DevOps can be hosted in this same manner. You pay a license fee to host and maintain it yourself.

I was shocked. Lmao.

They have. Artists noticed it months ago when their art got fucked. Lines got oddly smeared, combined, etc. Lines they’d spent hours meticulously placing.

There was an outcry but not much more than that sadly.

Exactly. After that, the bank should accept that I wish to pay with my own device without Google, Apple, or Samsung having a say.

They don’t need GAS approval for me to pay my bills on my computer. Nor to make online purchases on it. Why is it suddenly required on my phone? It’s idiotic.

If I say that my device is okay, that’s all that should be required.

While people may be opposed even in theory to more tame things like a little code completion, there’s plenty of room to very obviously notice GenAI slop.

I mean there’s the regular “can you really sell code you don’t own” kind of thing going for it. The companies have stolen all sorts of data; voices, music, raster, vector, video, books, film. It’d be shocking if they also haven’t scraped all the code that’s out there on the web.

Some of that is perfectly fine to alter, and sell. A lot of it isn’t. There are plenty of FOSS licenses that are restrictive in the sense that you’re free to use it and change it, but you can’t alter the license of it, and in many cases not sell it.

So when an LLM produces code based on that, what applies?

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Then there’s obviously broader problems with ex-developers turned vibe coders coming out of the woodworks talking about how they can’t code anymore. I’ve people at my company joking about this, and the notion scares me. The idea that they’ve outsourced their thinking and problem solving skills to the point that they’re incapable of doing now it is terrifying.

I don’t know why anyone would willingly do that.