it’s not just cruelty it’s the subtle (hell at this point not so subtle) hints that “we need to surround ourselves with loyalists to OUR cause, not the country” Because when the squads start rolling out to not just detain people but to line them up on the street probably not the best idea to have transgender/gay/people of color on the other side of the trigger.

the shit is coming, and soon. ICE is now recruiting teens as an obvious scapegoat for one slipped trigger finger.

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Grok will walk you through how to bypass a FRP on a phone. i.e. you stole a phone and need to bypass the Factory Reset Protection. ask other LLM’s this and they’ll out right refuse.

I agree, let them generate massive tech debt cause right now the majority of my current clients have hired me to clean up their AI slop.

is it bad for their users? oh hell yes it is. Is it great for me an other consultants/freelancers? hell yes it is. Best thing that’s ever happened to my wallet recently are vibe coders. I love those dumb prompt monkeys.

Github Copilot is so god awful. you’d think having access to millions of repos the thing could actually learn something.

believe it or not job security. Restaurants come and go and more often they go. Waffle House only closes if a nuclear bomb has detonated within 5miles of it. If you drive past a closed Waffle House it’s probably a good idea to keep driving and quickly.

And the only way to get fired from a Waffle House is if you literally murder someone while working there. So yes the pay is shit but it’s consistent shit.

depends on what and with whom. based on my current jobs with smaller companies and start ups? soon. they can’t afford the tech debt they’ve brought onto themselves. big companies? who knows.

joined lemmy literally an hour ago, already making the rounds spewing fascist garbage.

How much (whatever government body/agenda you work for) they paying you? working on a sunday morning? that’s rough comrade. sooooo safe to assume somewhere in Russia eh?

Because conservatives would rather spend more money than spend less to ensure that the poors struggle as much as humanly possible in hopes that they “finally get the picture” and just die.

I mean how much is this registry going to cost to maintain and monitor? how much is it going to cost to simply set up? I guarantee you it’ll be more than whatever it currently costs the state of Ohio in unemployment benefits, wellfare, whatever. As long as it’s cruel, encourages poor people to either kill themselves or die or leave the state then mission accomplished I guess.

no you see they’re not part of “the poors”.

Already starting to, at least for smaller companies and startups that were trying to use it to build things end to end.

If you use it to provide you with content, sure, easy no worries. building a website? sure no problem as long as it doesn’t require any sort of logins or security stuff. an application? well now you’re going to have some problems.

Most AI can’t scale something. and most are absolutely horrible at any sort of security. and all of them can’t UX themselves out a wet paper bag.

Now if you utilize them as a tool, a sort of rubber duck, sure they’re great. The issue is, and I’m seeing this first hand because of my job, is that many smaller companies and start ups aren’t doing that. They’re assigning someone, a “vibe coder”, to feed the thing prompts to build stuff from end to end. Naturally the end product is an insanely resource heavy, convoluted code, exploitable mess that can’t scale. It creates a massive amount of tech debt. All to save a couple grand instead of hiring actual devs. So now when I get a call or email from one of my contacts that “so and so’s company/start up needs someone to clean up their app because it’s very broken due to a vibe coder” I charge them an arm and a leg.

So you’re right, it is going to fail and implode on it’s own weight but I’m going to damn well be sure to take advantage of these people before it completely does and I encourage other freelance/consultant developers to do the same.

soon? it always has been. Does no one remember the whole CDO shit? buying insurance on bullshit loans or packaged loans/debts of quite literally shit? no one knew what the fuck was in those things, literally no one. The rating agencies would rate these things and have no fucking clue what the hell they were. They handed loans out like halloween candy to Americans just to get more shit into these things.

the US Market has been fraudulent for decades.

really? that’s interesting because yeah when I lived in Tucson they were huge.

yes when I installed Arch a week later a pair of stockings showed up in the mail oddly enough.

I think the Doctor Who fanbase is the actual worst out of all fanbases but I still like watching the show. you don’t have to participate in the community if you want to use something. I use Linux but I’m not wearing thigh high socks and sitting in the Arch discord all day.

outside the US? not likely. I would even argue they’re not even that popular or known in all of the US. but in the midwest and for some reason Southern Arizona? 100%.

I went to high school in Southern Arizona when my family lived in the US and yeah, pretty much everyone at my high school loved them. I liked one of their albums but I wasn’t like a face painting merch buying fan. They didn’t radio play or anything, it was all word of mouth and early internet stuff.

in college I worked at a local Best Buy and EVERY TIME a new ICP album would come out (which was frequently) we always had to put a couple extra people in the media department cruising the CD aisles and one posted outside the washroom because the Juggalos would constantly come in to steal the album. You could see them coming from a mile away cause they quite literally were advertising the band with all the merch they had on. But they would NEVER pay for the album, it was so odd. like buying a $50 ICP Hockey Jersey? sure. Paying $15 for the new album? no way fam, they’re stealing that shit.

for those in the UK and/or Other places in Europe just know it’s so painfully easy to either set up your own VPN or just use something like Mullvad.

I set up my own VPN this morning for the first time on my server and it took less than 10minutes. plenty of guides online on how to do it.

yup just did it this morning on my server because now I’m moving my stuff, yet again, away from European companies because of all this. it was painfully simple and easy. I just followed a guide I found on a linux blog and within 10minutes I had a VPN of my own up and running.

shiiiit I wouldn’t count on that anymore. With the age verification and ID stuff they would honestly at this point probably make it worse.

I used to be an advocate for European alternatives for US based tech companies but now? no way, started self hosting everything. it sucks.

If I were an American I’d be insulted by the constant dog and pony show. Just let her out. you know that’s what’s happening, why go through the show for the peasants?