Shouldn’t be allowed. Companies shouldn’t be allowed to buy each other. We already know what happens with consolidation.

I would so much rather just have a full timestamp. I can do the delta fine myself.

Stop using Instagram. It’s a platform run by assholes and monsters.

I vaguely remember something from The Power Broker where an engineer said to Robert Moses with a slight change to the design, at no real cost, they would build the roads so trains could be put in easier at any time in the future. Moses said no. Cars only.

I’m still in the “Microsoft can fuck off and die” camp, so I don’t imagine I’ll be using this.

If they know the social media algorithms are harmful why don’t they deal with that? Like Facebook tried to see if they could just make people sad by tweaking their algorithm (they could) and no one faced consequences.

The answer is money and corruption, I expect.

The hardest part for me is checking ingredients lists for surprise animal products.

Interesting. I dislike writing bash scripts so this might appeal to me, but probably not before a stable 1.x release.

I’m a professional software engineer. You seem to have drawn at least one nonsense conclusion

Everyone I work with who uses LLMs more than a little bit hasn’t gotten better at coding. They’ve just made bad code faster, with even less understanding.

It’s something like a catch-22. The people smart enough to use them effectively don’t need to. The people who aren’t smart enough will misuse them.

I would recommend the invite tracking. Keep track of who invites bad actors, even higher order. If your friend’s friends suck, that should reflect a little on you. If no one has vouched for you, then you’re less trusted.

I would have assumed it was professional.

I probably wouldn’t pick it up because “stern guy with demon behind him” seems kind of well trod and not my taste at the moment.

Good. Fuck Microsoft. No regrets about running Linux for the past few years.

|| has a similar “oh that’s how it works in other places” behavior. I didn’t realize that for a while.

Cool. I imagine the right wing will be frothing and crying, but they’ll do that no matter what. No sense trying to appease the unappeasable.

Ah. I’m on Pop!_Os, which I think is downstream from Ubuntu. So it’ll make its way to me eventually, I guess. Not sure how to track that, heh.

Naive question: does this just come in with like apt update, or do I have to go out of my way?

I would be happier if he wasn’t.

Still happily using Linux.

I did switch the DE to kde plasma because the cosmic desktop was giving games a lot of trouble. Opening in weird window sizes, mostly. I did some light trouble shooting but decided I didn’t care that much about the desktop environment, so I installed the 2nd one.

Violence isn’t the answer. It’s the question. Right now the answer seems to be “poor people and minorities”. We should change that answer.