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My current position has implemented a toolchain that essentially makes debugging either impossible or extremely unwieldy for any backend projects and nobody seems to think it's a p…

It's hard to see the benefit in letting every hardware manufacturer attempt to carve out their own little artificial interconnect monopoly and flood the market with redundant, wast…

I think Microsoft will let Windows slowly die over the years. I am certain that at the strategy level, they have already accepted that their time as a device platform vendor will n…

I am frankly wondering if this man believed in any of the things he was saying, or if he was being purely cynical. The proposition in this article is extremely simple. Adobe Flash …

Fascinating to me how Windows and Linux have cross-pollinated each other through things like WSL and Proton. Platform convergence might become a thing within our lifetimes.

The inexorable process of using security as a pretext to enshittify your platform carries on. I don't believe there is a meaningful difference between Google and Apple anymore.

I used to work for a .NET shop that randomly wrote some automation scripts in bash. The expertise to maintain them long term (and frankly, write them half-decently to begin with) s…

I don't believe we will live to see the day where these models can replace a competent production team. At best they'll be what LLMs are to creative writing, which has so far only …

It's already difficult enough to make a successful book adaptation, even WITH authorial intent. Can't imagine that hours of patchwork AI-generated video, with all its artifacting a…

By all means. Just not on one of the most popular software development frameworks in the world. Maybe that can wait until after the concept is proven.

From a quick search, Ubuntu LTS releases are supported for 5 years as a baseline, and Ubuntu Pro goes up to 12 years. RHEL releases are supported for 10 years. I'm guessing it's si…

And that's only because of deposit insurance and heavy regulations on fractional banking. There is no reason to trust any bank implicitly. As a matter fact that have proven not to …

Baffles me how this industry is basically speedrunning through the troubled history of regular finance, and every piece of legislation and every institution has to be rebuilt from …

Fair, and owning certainly puts you in charge of your own quality of life. My dishwasher has been broken for three months and I'm still having to fight to get it fixed. When I own …

Everybody does. Some however only object when the violence is extralegal.

In other words, the rest of of us should just wait until some foreign powers dissolve our oppressors for us?

The core proposition of syndicalism is that the workplace should be democratized. Democracy is far from perfect, and if often fails, but we believe in it nonetheless because everyt…

The real homogeneity is class, thus the need for developing class consciousness in all workers.

It's crazy how we've abstracted financial serfdom out of the status of being a property owner. Contrasted with renting it surely seems like independence, but whether the bank squee…

Social media cracking down on leftist ideology is something that needs to be studied. They are very slick about it, and will usually find some way to make it appear legit (eg: deli…

Can you employ a doctor even if you don't make more than a doctor? I would hope so.

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Self-advocacy for tech industry professionals largely manifests itself in the form of job hopping.