It’s easy to remember. GitHub is the shitty AI website. Gitlab is the shitty fascist AI website.

I can think of a couple of good things!

We proved the efficacy of mrna vaccines and deployed them at an unprecedented scale against a novel virus that had us all locked in our house. If it hadn’t worked, our governments were pinches this close to sacrificing us all for the greater good economy anyway so realistically these vaccines probably saved billions of lives.

We’ve also deployed a huge amount of solar energy and started replacing combustion engines with electric ones on a huge scale in some countries.

There has also been a lot of bad stuff though…

Let’s put it in my terms: you’re in a hostile takeover, you snatch us up for some green mail, but you’re not expecting some poison pill to be running around the building, am I right?

The thing OOP is sick of is people censoring mild swears like bitch in their screenshots. The content of the pic is unrelated

They have ruled out banning vpns for now but that’s not to say that they won’t just U-turn or that whoever gets in next won’t ban them.

The UK’s Trump whose party is currently the most popular in the UK and may win the next election (I hate this) has pledged to repeal this law but he’s well known for making promises he has no intention of keeping and this law is very convenient as a means of censorship.

Regular reminder that Ben and Jerry’s are wholly owned by Unilever who definitely do some shady shit.

They know. The “think of the children” angle is just cover to enrage the tabloid readers and to be used as a straw man against anyone criticisng the law (“you’re a pedophile”). The real purpose is “let’s enumerate the IDs of everyone who uses the internet for anything we don’t like” and “let’s censor anything we don’t like starting with LGBTQ content”

My entire experience as a software engineer for the last 15 years has been being ignored by the non-exprerts in charge. It goes like this:

MBA: I want to solve this problem using this solution

Me: that won’t solve the problem well, how about-

MBA: I don’t care for the laws of reality. Do it my way [or find another job]!

They say they want our expertise but really they want validation of their own terrible ideas and they think coercing experts with threats of unemployment is as valuable as actually listening to those experts.

This applies as much to the public sector and the absolute clowns we vote in to govern us as it does to the private sector where the clowns hold the purse strings. Frankly it makes me want to give up the subject I have a PhD in and grow potatoes on a remote island somewhere.

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They’re gonna replace 50% of lawyers with cocaine in the next 6 months!

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From banksy’s limited run “Cut it out” book apparently. Yours for only £310

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Agree although, presumably joining the Schengen and the euro would make it harder for the oligarchy to keep using London City as a money laundering and tax haven funnelling device. I suspect there would be strong pushback on that!

They do get it but they don’t care. They want you to be uncomfortable and miserable because it keeps up the value of their commercial real estate portfolio .

There will be no bread but we will still be surrounded by clowns

They will just instruct everyone to throw their obsolete AI pc onto the landfill like they already have been doing with machines that won’t run windows 11

100% ageed. We seriously need to normalise compassion for colleagues and pushing back on overwork and entitled clients. I’ve been a senior manager in IT for a decade and whether one of my reports’ kids is sick or someone just needs half a day out due to a migraine, I’ll let them do what they need to do. Turns or if you treat your colleagues like actual fucking human beings they actually appreciate you and often return the favour by working late or going above and beyond somewhere else when the crisis has been dealt with.

Some of the horror stories in this thread of people phoning into zoom calls from the doctor’s office are insane. The world is not going to end just because Jerry couldn’t join this morning’s scrum or you had to move a call with a client.

“Oh but if underling #148 takes the afternoon off sick we won’t hit our weekly sales goal”. You know what Karen, firstly we sell receipt processing software, we are not saving any lives here get a fucking grip. Secondly, if you deny them that time off they will be doing the bare minimum for the next quarter while they job hunt and inevitably leave.

I truly resent being forced to partake in this ridiculous system but for as long as I have to, I’m going to have the decency to try to protect my team the best I can.

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Don’t forget the death trap treadmill that got recalled because it sucked pets and small children underneath https://news.sky.com/story/stop-using-peloton-treadmills-if-you-have-children-or-pets-us-officials-warn-12278860