growing up in my grandmothers house, she never ever ever used the front door except if there was some kind of event like a funeral. It was like, the fancy door.

they also almost never used the living room except when people were visiting.

Your life is the way it is because you’ve decided that it’s more comfortable to leave it that way than to change it.

Srsly years and years of therapy this was the only thing that did anything for me

Is it worth noting that I only know this because of the spoof horror movie Repossessed?

annuities my dude

1M is 2-3 yr salary??? Hook a brother up with these $300-500k/yr job leads d00d

Sure there are plenty of situations where services remain open and free (for now), like wikipedia, linux distros, etc. but we aren’t always that lucky.

It’s got absolutely fuck all to do with “luck.” It has everything to do with adoption.

Most people won’t adopt things that aren’t sufficiently pretty. They’re more than happy being data whores for social media pimps because it’s so fun.

Nah.

I mean, if they became rich, maybe. Certainly contrast Stanford-era Brin with modern Google, sure.

But um… Nah.

The #corpolitical

I have a very very real problem with this oversimplification of very distinct tech viewpoints.

Like, what, you dont think information should be freely available? You LIKE the model where information is locked down with hefty fees? Because that’s what the actual “tech bros” want.

This is at best ignorant and at worst just hateful.

cries in left_pad

It’s kind of astonishing how many people leaned on that library just to add fucking spaces to strings

Me: I need spec – not just trust code Manager: You always make unnecessary demands, I’m replacing you AI: I would be happy to help you, if you could provide spec? Manager: god fuckin dammit

I honestly sometimes think to go into business myself just so I can write contracts that say “you will give us a fucking spec” and just keep billing while they fuck around not providing a spec

Funny, this sounds an awful lot like people who complain about the fediverse

I thought the Dear Leader didn’t have to pope

Somedays I wonder if that was driven by actual rightwing sentiment, or by a desire to just destroy and hack everything. Go back to the days of gaming American Idol to push Sanjaya, or the gags of gaming other polls to like, send Bieber to North Korea or Pitbull to Alaska etc.

Like, they realized they could do a lot, and just keep finding ways to go even further.

I look at what TFG is doing nowadays and honestly if it wasn’t a system I depend on to live, it would be easy to mistake him for some kind of grey hat hacker exploiting every single hole he can find in said system in the worst possible way in order to compel people to close them.

I will say this, too… 4chan’s opintel is completely amazing. The way they were able to track Shia Lebouf’s HWNDU by doing things like… correlating airplane noises with flight patterns is like… beyond next level.

SSO?

Easier xposting

I’m still trying to find a link to the sauce

Hot take, but I dare say 4chan was the source of as much of what’s good in internet culture as it was for much of what’s the worst in internet culture.

Rickroll, Caturday, the modern meme format, reaction gifs, “TLDR”, Anonymous (well, the good versions of it), spoderman, Rule 34, trollface, rageface, quite a bit of pet abuse justice, … they may have even successfully set back AI chatbots nearly a full decade with their gaming of Microsoft’s Tay chatbot… quite a lot of modern Internet slang such as win, fail, an hero, based, copypasta, creepypasta, “god tier”, lulz, moar, sauce…

The thing about anarchy is that it brings out both the best and the worst.

Why then did she say she didn’t care? She clearly cares a lot.

I don’t know if there’s more context, but at least as included in the article, it’s “feel free to take anything that’s useful and use it/submit it in any way” but that’s quite clearly not what she actually meant.

She repeatedly says “she wants out” but yet she apparently doesn’t really want out because she still wants to be in the creds. For not caring anymore she’s caring a whole lot.

Also:

Go ahead and do the thing, I don’t care.

does the thing

HOW DARE YOU DO THE THING, WHAT AN ASSHOLE

Doesn’t want to kernel dev anymore because of drama

Legit goes and starts a shit ton of kernel dev drama

Oh, also, chicken tikka masala was invented in Scotland in the 1970s