the fact that LLM use is more rampant in software development compared to seemingly any other industry is probably a sign that most programmers don't have moral standards and never did

Maritime communities break heat records, some standing for more than a century https://www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/article/maritime-communities-break-heat-records-some-standing-for-more-than-a-century/

The Apple PowerBook TV ad for the ID4 movie. :D

Happy Independence Day!!!

Are you afraid of the dark?

Both Canada and the USA cancelled events in their national capitals on their national holidays due to extreme weather.

But pipelines!
But Secure, stable, fossil fuel deliveries!
But divisiveness!
But Jobs!

But The Economeeehhhhh!!

#endfossilfuels #climateChange #climateEmergency #canpoli #cdnpoli #canadaDay #fourthOfJuly

Red, White And American Flag Blue

Happy 4th everyone.

Mistakenly clicked on a Medium link. Started reading. Then got a dickpopover to ask for my email.

Closed the tab. I hope your analytics are good because if they don't tell you people close after the dickpopover appear, then you are doing it wrong.

Do. Not. Post. To. Medium.

Mass email containing parents' personal information sent out by Montreal-area school board

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/sir-wilfrid-laurier-school-board-confidentiality-breach-9.7256866

But:

1. why did they have that information in the first place (like SIN)?
2. why was it in an Excel file?

#privacy

It is just so fucking convoluted to block. The report feature though is still garbage.

So github doesn't allow to block users on personal repositories And their report procedure is more than a joke. FUCK YOU Copilot.

Edit: see follow up

If you wonder about Electron, turns out one of the core maintainer is lead engineer for one of the slop machine client app.

In case you need more reason to dislike Electron. Bloat + Slop.

I don't understand why the weekend lycra bike crowd happily plasters themselves with logos for companies that they aren't even endorsed by.

Why are you wearing a bicycle jersey with a giant Emirates logo on it? You aren't being paid by them. You should be embarrassed.

Reasonable preventions for ClickFix attacks would also probably kill "benign" curl | bash installation—and that's good.

Figure out better installation pathways, devs.

@futurebird You remind me of who we think that all Roman roads were well built due to the ones that survive to today. But we ignore all of the poorly made Roman roads that no longer exist. Surviver bias.

My parents bought bookcases from the NY Museum of Modern Art in the 1950s. They were on the fragile side. Destroyed in a flood.

And young people often can't afford to move furniture when they move, so why get expensive stuff?

For example I recently encountered a rant about the terrible quality of Temu furniture.

"Furniture used to be a family heirloom... but now it's disposable" --this isn't a statment without merit, but low quality items that didn't last may not be documented because they didn't last.

The selection bias of it all annoys me a little.

2/2

The great things with services like @Tutanota is that cowards use anonymous email to send you insults.

#sarcasm

hand to god like 90% of my professional growth has been learning how to say "there might be a personal growth or process improvement opportunity here" when what I mean is WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

Terrorism + Genocide = Profit

#Neoliberalism101

Maybe we really need to transcend "Open Source" and move towards more of a "community software" or "humane software" kind of direction that puts the focus on Freedom (similar to how Open Source works) but also on responsibility and care for each other and the infrastructures these systems establish.

The "AI" reactions really show how heterogenous the "Open Source" field and the people's and organizations' values are.