Depressing, but not surprising. Even before the AS hype, I had long noticed that many people I regularly talk to (including a member of my immediate family who has been a teacher for decades) make horrendous spelling and grammar mistakes that they wouldn’t make if they picked up at least one book, at least once every few months. So: people were already forgetting how to write, spell, and even read coherently way before chatbots.
Sounds familiar: didn’t the AWS outage last month also nuke 3,000+ USD ‘smart beds’?
‘They know everything anyway’
Toilet cameras. Every time I think to myself that humanity’s intellectual capacity has hit a new low, reality proves me wrong.
A (poorly written) Shell check if the process was able to write to the production database which in some, not all, cases threw the gem:
!!! SQL ERROR !!!
Speaking of unsubstantiated accusations, do we have actual, reliable information about what is really going on? Any link in either French or English appreciated.
Too lazy.
Totally not a bubble. At all.
I have ZERO sympathy for companies whose services are affected by this. Because seriously, fuck Amazon.
…and 99,99% of middle managers ‘’‘working’‘’ in tech be like yeaaaaaaaa daddy just cram that shit down my throat like I’m an abused goose!
Funny, just a couple of nights ago, I was wondering if this distro still exists. I tried it some 5 years ago and I found it sleek, but its reliance on systemd made me migrate.
NetBSD. This box seems to have a vanilla x86 processor and it has plenty of resources (for NetBSD, that is). You can’t use this as a daily driver, but it should be good enough to learn UNIX and/or self-host some stuff.
I’m very proud of you, for that simply means that you don’t want to become a modern slave, and therefore, that your brain still works.
I’d say ‘change banks’.
No they don’t. There are viable, open source alternatives for 99% of the software/services we use. The fact that people are not aware of it is already like half of the real problem.
I am only speaking for myself and I am most definitely not a pro, but I think preoccupation with efficiency and usefulness is the main obstacle to actually liking programming, which is itself a must if you want to get good at it. Some years ago I read an article with the title ‘why I spend my time writing useless software’. I can’t remember what it actually said since I only needed the title to really internalise the fact that programming is an art. Imagine telling Monet, Picasso, Michelangelo or John Lennon that their line of work is ‘imperfect’ or ‘inefficient’. If that sounds like a ridiculous thing to do, that’s because it would be. I’ve written at least 15,000 lines of code (I’m a sysadmin, not a programmer), most of it for production in banking systems. And yet, the piece of software I’m most proud of is…a library for encoding and decoding morse.
I wasn’t a big fan of GNU initiatives, and even less of ‘viral licenses’, until I encountered Public Money, Public Code. The more you think about it, the more fucked up it appears to you that governments pay for Windows/365/AWS licenses, using your tax money, because decision makers haven’t got the slightest clue about FLOSS, and if they do, they mostly don’t have the nutsack to implement the sweeping changes that would be necessary to migrate.
I used to have a mid-2012 MBP and its broadcom WiFi card was either not working at all (all BSDs and some Linuces) or working, but at ridiculous speeds and providing a very flaky connection (Red Hat derivatives). I settled for a USB wi-fi adapter. I found the Netgear ones to be more reliable. If you live in Europe, Technoethical (no relationship) has one adapter that uses the pretty generic Atheros driver.
I used nsupdate for years and it worked just fine. I remember it being down, one time only, for like five minutes. For a project that depends entirely on donations, the service and availability they provide are just awesome.