@VinceAggrippino @Raccoon imagine calling jobs "opportunities" man come on, that's the scam right there and you're the victim.

For most people programming is like fixing pipes or sweeping floors, it's not that they like it, it's that they dislike it the least out of all the things they could to make money, and they have to pick one.

I'm not defending grifters on YT selling courses, I'm just sympathetic to those who fall for them because they often do so out of desperation and lack of adult cynicism and wisdom knowing every course is a scam.

Hell I was pretty pissed at them when I was at uni, assigned to group work with students who clearly stole their code or didn't know what Ethernet was. But as an adult, I get them.

I love CompSci. Sometimes my dayjob in cybersec is just the beginning of my day, warmup for grinding away at HackTheBox, ends up such that in the grand scheme of things I'll be staring into the output of the same few tools all day, tweaking things here and there and still come back for more tomorrow, messing with my homelab in my dreams meanwhile.

Other days though? I could care less, I want to make music instead, or write, read politsci or even fic, consoom a classic film or two, or whatever, I just want to get my paycheck without tiring out my brain so I can do what I want later - something that actually matters to me, not the bottom line of some filthy rich asshole scooping up the value created for him by labour.

CompSci isn't my life, I'm not Torvalds or Carmack or Bill Joy. Its just one of my many interests and pursuits, and it just so happens that being a filthy corpo defender doing soul-sucking admin of use to no one to accelerate the biosphere collapse pays well, and I gotta have money to not die, so there ain't much choice there, but I'll never "like" it and I'll never go out of my way for it.

@janisf @Ashedryden idk, I only responded because it's your reply that made no sense to me, I think people deserve basic necessities when we have a society of such riches that can easily provide it but chooses not to, because the rich exploit labour, they earn with ownership of private, including so-called "intellectual property."

The internet is the commons and always has been, ctrl+C, ctrl+V, no one owns anything, that's why it's so liberating. To assert copyright and property culture over something as mundane as some images is beyond absurd. Twitter, mastodon, the whole e-celeb blog culture centered around figures rather than content produced by the people as a whole, anonymously for no purpose other than cultural contributions to their community is the real cancer of it all and I'm quite glad that AI is exposing this charade for what it is.