I was going to say, you can remove “its” and “shoddy” and the title is still accurate.

This is interesting but has been happening for an entire decade now. I wish they’d stop acting like it’s new.

The 2016 U.S. election was affected by foreign facebook activity. Specifically, a lot from from Macedonia.

RIP Kevin Mitnick! Ghost in the Wires was a fun audiobook, and I really enjoyed the 2600 documentary Freedom Downtime when it was released.

“The fact that people are unimpressed that we can have a fluent conversation with a super smart AI that can generate any image/video is mindblowing to me."

That’s your killer feature? “But you can converse and it can make any image!”

Absolutely, “useful” is a broad term in this case.

It is always interesting to see how people implement things!

Does this guy know that a lot of people open-source code so that it might be useful for other people?

Not numbers of downloads or hoping to gain popularity, but to literally help the community.

I read other people’s open source code all the time to try and understand things. I can’t be the only one.

What a strange article. Can I not “pin” his repo at a specific version in my project, thus making it a stable dependency? If it’s small and readable, that’s just as good as writing it yourself. What is dying?

This is such a weird take I’m not even sure you’re a real person.

As I fume, I wonder why I’m so angry. I suppose I feel offended that anyone would think this is what humans want from companionship: a voice with no interiority giving the verbal equivalent of a thumbs up emoji.

Strangely, a lot of fully-grown people think this is what humans want from companionship!

MYTH: ICE agents are required to identify themselves.

FACT: Most ICE agents are preverbal.

If they knew what “preverbal” was they’d be furious.

Also about:profiles if it’s already running

I agree with what NuXCOM said, but to add a little more detail in this situation…

For me, it’s a little different because of perceived influence.

DHH has always been the software equivalent of an Instagram influencer. He’s been selling himself as the mythical 10x programmer and wrote a corny business book with his co-founder.

Meanwhile, he was mainly working on Basecamp and racing million-dollar cars. A lot of his personal cars have been sold to YouTube influencers.

He has had a cult of personality built around him for years, and stupid people in some small software circles love him (clearly, by the rubygems takeover).

The Lemmy devs have no influence at all over software development. Just Lemmy.

As a former long-time Ruby developer who also used Rails (Ruby since 2006, Rails came along for me later), I’ve always known DHH was a total douchebag.

It’s nice to know he’s being super obvious about it now. He’s always been awful. He’s just been slightly quieter about it, other than buying million-dollar cars and pretending he’s still relevant.

Edit to add that here’s a presentation talking about “The DHH problem” in 2014. The updates are darkly humorous.

I’m not reading all that. Sorry for your issue, or I’m happy for you. Whichever you prefer.

It has been remarkably useful! I keep trying to tell people about it but apparently I am just their main use case or something.

I would have loved it when I was using Samba to share files on my local network decades ago. It’s like a Swiss Army knife!

rsync can sometimes look similarly scary! I very clearly remember triple-checking what it’s doing.

rclone works amazingly well if you have hundreds of folders or thousands of files and you can’t be bothered to babysit a portal.

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Tangentially, I don’t see people talk about rclone a lot, which is like rsync for cloud storage.

It’s awesome for moving things from one provider to another, for example.

The best you can do in any job is to care as little about them as they care about you.

They will barely read it, and they won’t care nearly as much as you do.

I resign my position as a [position], effective [DATE].

I’d never get my clothes out

I have been really curious about Sonic Racing Crossworlds, thanks for the blurb about it!

I have played Mario Kart prior to this gen (I don’t have a Switch 2) and really like Sonic’s characters. I might wait to see if it goes on sale because full price seems a little steep.