@lostprototype

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Outspoken, old-school socialist, xennial and aspiring treinfietser, keeping the heart of the 80s and 90s alive.

My orders are to sit here and watch the world go by.

Follow for software architecture & development, travel and anti-conservative global & regional politics.

LocationEarth, Sol, Orion Spiral Arm
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@alvinashcraft - tldr; Stop using Windows and install #linux.

The spam, the ewaste treadmill, the price, the invasion of privacy are all the cherry on top.. But I mean, there are only so many ways Microsoft can telegraph "we are trying to bring unix/posix-isms to Windows" before the message is obvious.

Cut out the middleman. Newcomers should check out @fedora - or by all means, try out whatever distro appeals to you most!

The last boomer is a Millennial.

I see another #AI #LLM trend on the horizon, and it's not a good one...

As the management class struggles for relevance, their laziness and lower technical & emotional savvy may drive them to trust AI too implicitly.

The net result is going to be leadership that allow AI to project - potentially fallible - objectives through them, down to subordinates.

This is going to generate a lot of heat in the workplace.

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@jasongorman - Probably looking at a transaction script (which is fine) with anaemic domain.
Canada can't succeed because it can't do growth without it getting soaked up by foreign actors and provincial corruption networks.