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Meta is extremely net evil though

So the people lagging in the commercial model game are issuing this warning? Got it.

I think a lot of people in this thread are missing the point that CEOs or other execs can’t be replaced simply because AI can do their jobs. C-suite job security comes from power s…

> With AI we do have the chance to return to meritocracy I think I am more inclined to believe the opposite of this

"Ads plus AI is sort of uniquely unsettling to me. I kind of think of ads as a last resort for us for a business model." - Sam Altman

I feel like the DRY concern with RSS feeds is overstated. I can’t remember the last time I had trouble with automagically generating an RSS feed using whatever open source framewor…

Have it work down my jira tickets while I’m sitting on the porcelain throne

Think this needs calibration, it's way too hard!

IMO this is the social internet at its best. Pretty obscure question answered relatively quickly with answer and source.

Easy, then you just delay your project’s dependency updates just a little more than everyone else

Weird dark surveillance state stuff. I thought EU was trying to champion privacy?

Glad to hear this is a universal big tech experience. The promo process is entirely antithetical to shipping good products

One “trick” nowadays is to just do a thing for the sake of doing the thing. I draw. Not to post my drawings to social media, not to try to get income from paid commissions, but rat…

Truly have so much trouble keeping up with the frontend (or JavaScript?) ecosystem. I so miss working in laravel. Wish more jobs paid well to use it.

Seems like a good way to get targeted by attackers

Here's my translation of this announcement: https://layofftranslator.com/layoffs/2026-06-24-elastic/

I have worked some places where a significant amount of business logic lived in database functions and triggers and, hoo boy, that was really hard to reason about. If you're discip…

I’ve seen a framework strip body content off GET requests, so doing hacky things doesn’t even always work. The QUERY method is a welcome addition

No? CORS is about preventing an unauthorized third party from _accessing_ data. That’s the meaning of “resource sharing.” If you want to prevent action-taking, there are other mech…

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should

Some felt too easily guessable. Too many joke answers maybe?

Can’t trust anything online

In this market they can essentially all collude to treat employees like garbage