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  • New Mexico Judge Appoints Himself Meta's New Product Manager

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  • You uh ... ever heard of the school-to-prison pipeline? Judges throughout the country have repeatedly been caught literally selling kids to private prisons. Look at what Britney Spears went through and tell me the US judiciary knows-best.

    The judge could have turned the matter to experts. He didn't.

  • The Bosses Are Coding Again

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  • Sure it did. Tiles on Windows Phone were a big hit for a time. If anything, the problem on that side of things was that they didn't commit and make sure the things that worked on the phone also worked on the "tablet" version.

    Instead, they took the approach that "the developers will thank us for charging them an arm and a leg to learn and use the new APIs, like they always have, forgetting that developers often follow users, and almost every user was verbal about hating what MS had done, including Windows phone users who understood what had been promised then effectively bait-and-switched.

    Microsoft's way has just always been so inspiring, you know?

    I never got into gnome. Was more of an XFCE guy for a time, enough-so to realize Gnome had "deprecated" anything I liked about GTK. I was more looking for a classic start menu style with minimal overhead, and XFCE gave me that, while most other DE's wouldn't let me do stuff that Windows 95 had been cool with.

  • The Bosses Are Coding Again

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  • Windows 8 had a "reason"(TabletPCs, and the success of Tiles on Windows Phone) for the changes made. The old UX was still there if you knew where to look and what settings to change; Some searching online could mostly have you back to what you wanted in under an hour. It was coded by humans, tested by humans, and consistently worked as intended.

    Windows 11's changes have no such saving-graces or anything resembling rational justification. They let their AI re-code a bunch of fundamental features, and particularly the UI/UX, from a low-level programming language to frameworks intended for fucking websites, just so they could say it was capable of doing-so. Along the way, they used AI to test the results and skimped on or ignored the results from testing done by humans.

    How many times before has Microsoft publicly admitted one of their products is broken and promised to fix it? What does being technically solid have to do with UX? EVERYTHING.

  • The Bosses Are Coding Again

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  • ... Windows 11 is far worse. 8 was solid compared to 11. 8 was a pain in the ass, but it mostly did what it was supposed-to.

  • UK Wants Message Scanning on Phones, Jail CEOs Who Refuse

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  • You had me until "out of office" ... "from a great height" was right there!!

  • License to ask for for custom software?

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  • Any company that sent me this far-into the weeds for them ghosted me or replied with un-reasonable terms when I came up with something appropriate. Usually they replied with a whole boiler-plate they had on-hand, but apparently wanted to pretend it was a negotiation, until they didn't. A couple times, the legal department on the other end got shitty with everyone and tried to act like their company had never and would never interact with a contractor who hadn't already signed terms I found exploitative and walked-away from when they wouldn't budge.

    There are plenty of licenses out there that would work, but when you're two-companies removed from the legal offices of the company with the ultimate say, its never as simple as trusting your friend. That said, my limitted experiences with similar situations never involved an insider I was close with, so I mean it when I say I wish you the best of luck.

  • License to ask for for custom software?

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  • You're always gonna need to be ready or at least able to stop and ask yourself, were the favors that big, or did they just tell you they were? It's the middle of the weekend and you're fretting over this instead of spending your own time how you see fit or coding for profit.

    A company that's asking you to figure this stuff out for them isn't necessarilly going to sign-off on anything too reasonable, but I'll agree my advice was more suited for after that happens.

  • License to ask for for custom software?

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  • "My lawyer will need to talk to your legal department, he charges $xxx per hour..." If you think I'm being snarky, I'm really not. Your entitled client is hoping to force you to, or let you, do something stupid so they can hang you out to dry or wring you out for free or discount labor, maybe even a "small guy like you should be willing to pay us for the oportunity to do this work".

    I'm not saying to pretend you are a lawyer, I'm saying to get one, and if its all above-board, things will work-out. If it ends up a "missed opportunity", then it was never really an opportunity in the first place.

    Maybe I'm just cynical, but I've always made double or triple the $$-per-hour as a contractor than I have as a W2. Some "clients", head-hunters, and would-be "lead-finding services" would try to interact with me as though being a contractor just meant I was jobless, which, maybe they would have been right, in a world where I had or made the time to interact with people set on wasting it like so...

    Read that last sentence again; By entertaining their non-sense, their assumptions about how they can get-away with exploiting you become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

    Hire a lawyer or become one. You can be out some money paying the lawyer(which becomes overhead expense to factor-into what money the client should owe you, in beautiful black-and-white contract/invoice form that let's you sleep at night), or you can be out time, near-infinite amounts of time, doing your client's homework on-top-of the programming they ostensibly are paying you for. Everything you care about suffers in the second version, including your code quality.

  • How Telegram Users Are De-Anonymized (unemployed edition)

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  • Are people confusing Telegram for offering anything like privacy or anonymity now? It's been wide-open five ways from Sunday since inception, by the standards of this community. I am NOT watching a goddamned video about it in 2026!!!

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    White House considering bulletproof vest for Trump after third assassination attempt on president: report

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  • ... so they've started broadcasting reasons to doubt there have been any real attempts? I mean, reasons on the order of "no one asked and they should never tell". I can smell one of his "genius ideas" they could not convince him not to act on from here.

  • "Modern SEO explained"

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  • It's "parents" stole everyone's work. The agency of AI-itself is still very much in-question.

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    eah I’d risk the curse

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  • The conversation in the comments was inspired by the comic. Y'all reached deep to confuse yourselves on that one, and ignore what's right in front of you.

  • Leak Shows ICE Planning to Use Facial Recognition Glasses to Identify Targets in Real Time

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  • They'll toss them as soon as it returns "CITIZEN" on a brown-person they "just KNOW" is in the country illegally...

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    eah I’d risk the curse

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  • My first comment ended on the note that if you got your way, we would likely never interact again, and that that was fine by me. You didn't have to treat this thread like your last chance to save my soul or sell me the latest from Amway global, but here we are.

    I'm not here to apologize that some rosy cheeks and a linen-wrapped body that's had its organs ripped-out doesn't do it for either of us. Maybe move on with your day rather than literally chasing things to annoy and then claim you were the one being annoyed-by.

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    eah I’d risk the curse

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  • Attempted, sure, but it very much requires specific audiences to land. Did you think the word "delivers" was in there to look pretty?

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    eah I’d risk the curse

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  • Inspiring conversation and thought is far from "nothing else". I thought I had implied this one delivers fuck-all in the way of "sexualization" unless one is desperate or aversive, but I guess I'll make that statement explicit; It's not sexy unless that's what one is desperate to see or avoid.

    I chuckled at this one for many reasons, not least of which because she would be dry, brittle, smelly, taste awful, voice probably horrifying, as well as delusional, dumb, or just inconsiderate to boot.

    Whatever the case, not even a conversation first? On all but my worst days, I had more game than that, and could draw a mummy that doesn't look like a water-filled baloon too, but sure, all that's possibly going on with this one is innuendo.

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    eah I’d risk the curse

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  • I checked myself on the dude.

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    eah I’d risk the curse

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  • I thought the joke was that she forgot what Mummies do and made up something on the spot that just happens to suit her and her victim, this time.

    EDIT: we don't get the victim's reaction. Not every dude's a monster-fucker wannabe.

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    eah I’d risk the curse

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  • This is some of the most over-dressed, under-cleavaged-nippled-camel-toed-or-ass-hanging-out gooner-bait I've seen in a minute, but maybe the fact I can say that means you're onto something.

    It mostly amounts to you and I would be in seperate circles, but you do you.

  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
    MachineFab812 @discuss.tchncs.de

    Governor Newsom proclaims Ronald Reagan Day

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