Fixing tech debt is more a people/commercial problem than a technical one. You just had to send a report to one guy, but that guy has to spend ridiculous amounts of energy convincing execs and stakeholders that it is worth breaking their current real workflows for a future imaginary payoff. Piling AI on the broken establishment model is relatively more appealing. That Principal might have just done you a favor you didn’t realize.

The only way communism works is if it is grassroots instead of a top-down imposition. Vietnam seems to have done (and is doing) well for itself, will be interesting to see how it goes.

Age of Empires 2 DE is an addictive brainworm that eats up hours like nothing and turns your mind to mush

Did they pay in Rupees? I recall a headline from a few years ago that Iran had agreed to sell oil for Rupees.

Just upload ye olde tarballs onto your static raw-HTML-coded site like the classic programmers (like the legendary Monsieur Bellard) do.

Using XLibre is an option, as is using anything in the Linux world.

My gaming PC has no personally-identifiable information whatsoever and can be purged freely at a moment’s notice.

Checkmate.

Shit like that doesn’t happen overnight, bub

The time scale for those changes to materialize is measured in decades. We might eventually see a dedollarized world if the US continues failing spectacularly for the next few years. Right now things are still in “anyone’s game” territory.

inb4 everybody except the people who have actually been daily-driving linux for 10+ years have an answer

fwiw I use Mint

If you’re a pirate I always recommend keeping your gaming/media PC dedicated to only that and do other work stuff on another computer. That way even if you catch malware or viruses it can’t harm any important stuff.

LOL, try this attitude when working on a job where (thanks to LLMs) management expectations are now updated for you to ship at twice the speed or more and see how long you last

It’s honestly remarkable that LLM code generators are somehow succeeding in making writing software easier where graphical RAD tools failed. Frontier software dev engineers may argue it to be useless for complex tasks but the regular analyst or officeman is definitely better off for internal CRUD use cases that’d earlier would have required them to consult the dev team.

Many GOATed piracy resources have always been hosted on Github. Massgrave and abbodi1406’s Windows and Office activators, Goldberg’s SteamEmu, and many of the public wikis that accept edits through pull requests.

So standardizing one language across state institutions is “minority exploitation” now? By that logic every country on earth is a fascist state

Airdrop? Windows Network (SMB) Sharing?

Just don’t use IM apps to communicate with clients? I have always only known to do official communications over email. Is this not a universally well-established convention?

You don’t need AI for headless apps; you can (and often should) just forego a dedicated UI if existing platforms are a simpler approach. E.g. in most Indian cities we book metro/subway tickets not through an app, but over a WhatsApp text with a simple bot.

I believe enjoying these things needs the kind of environment that had it been available, you simply wouldn’t need narcotics to enjoy yourself in the first place.

The orange techbro forum site (news.ycombinator.com) is built on a Common Lisp backend (it used to be a Racket-based DSL before). IIRC Grammarly is (was?) also written in Common Lisp.

They’re actually acknowledging this in their latest blogpost