My empathy for this view dies on shit that impacts you every single day of your life. At that point it’s not a bit of information you just haven’t needed yet - it’s willful ignorance that I’m not giving you a pass on.

How long do I need to watch people crap themselves before I’m allowed to demand they learn to use a toilet?

Bold to assume there’ll still be jobs and not just fighting over gig work in the unemployment prisons.

I have bad news:

If your government has “private sector” organized crime under control, they have simply taken over the organized crime. Society abhors a vacuum.

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/16/1219839096/cardinal-vatican-embezzlement-trial-guilty

Just because it’s white-collar doesn’t mean it’s not organized.

I don’t consider a test writer being an insufferable pedantic asshole to be any kind of reflection of my own abilities.

“Oh, you didn’t consciously turn off 3.5 billion years of evolved pattern recognition that functions correctly 99.9% of the time for the purpose of getting my disingenuous gotcha question right, on a rigidly timed test designed to put you under intense time pressure? lol”

I’ll tell you where you can stick your test.

Yes. And many users have many times done exactly that.

But I’ve BEEN there for the bitter, insulting interviews where Shuttleworth STILL moans and complains that Unity was the future and users were too thick to accept his vision. After they realized too many people were switching back to Gnome, they decided to put a stop to that by making Unity the only default installed DE and providing no further support. This is a company run by a man who by all accounts is a petty dictator who still doesn’t get it.

I already left Ubuntu. That doesn’t mean I don’t get to call them out for being heavy handed and pigheaded. Just because something is open source and free does not make it immune to criticism. Just like I am free to go to another distro, Ubuntu’s developers are free to ignore my comments.

Banning all of everything is usually a crazy thing to do.

But it happens when absolute shitnozzles who don’t understand how to do or possess X responsibly expect to be able to have and use X however they want while socializing their personal screw-ups onto other people who never asked for their BS.

When the hype dies and functional and proven AI tools are in the hands of people who can use them responsibly instead of trend-chasers with no discipline, maybe they can start to crack the gate open.

Canonical patronizingly forcing a tool/workflow onto users against their explicit and unequivocal rejection of it?

The compromise is we let you take your cameras down instead of drawing and quartering you.

Sarah Jessica Parker

No, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen a bunch of girls beat you to this.

This is the same level of shocking scandal when they revealed that rich people were paying to have their children admitted to universities.

Poster is right - it is a little funny

You don’t have to imagine.

It already happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unearthed:_Trail_of_Ibn_Battuta

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On paper. In practice most low-hanging fruit in almost all mature software has been thoroughly picked through, and most hackers are not coming with targeted resources and the backing of a well-funded state actor to break into your Jellyfin library. The sheer amount of paranoia people have about tech these days…

Despite assurances from management, some workers believe the company will be subject to censorship by its new owners.

Assurances from anyone with an MBA are worth less than nothing. They are professional liars. They pretend they aren’t with the bullshit “optimism isn’t lies”, except it absolutely is when you KNOW your optimistic interpretation is bullshit. It’s like that Dr. Nick bit.

Dr. Nick: “With my diet, you can eat anything you want, any time you want!”

Marge: “And you’ll lose weight?”

Dr. Nick: “You might! It’s a free country!”

Young adults have to become experts at something to realize that - a prospect that AI makes harder every day.

Look them right in the face and use the broken shit.

My phone is not physically on fire? I’m still using it.

My pants are ripped? Don’t look.

You can’t MAKE shit obsolete enough that I won’t suffer through using it out of sheer spite.