as alive as you need me to be
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Exactly, that's the spirit!
Or, hire someone who can, if you can't.
I believe the current meta in the software dev resume titles is 'expert vibe code repair/cleanup' or something like that.
I worked for MSFT and other companies, for years, doing data analysis and a lot of programming... and I am a self taught programmer, my degrees are more related to data analytics, I literally did just teach myself how to code.
If the actual problem is that HR has no fucking clue how to determine how to hire someone who actually knows how to code, can learn other languages on the job... or maybe execs... don't wanna pay for that...
Then that is the actual problem.
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Or you could actually learn how to code instead of finding a new umbillical cord to attach yourself to?
Bare minimum, run one locally, so you actually control it?
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Vibe coding platform Replit's latest update is infuriating customers with surprise cost overruns
Introduce 'very useful and helpful' thing at low cost, subscription pricing model.
Wait for dependency to set in.
????
Jack up prices. (Profit)
....Duh?
Did anyone not see this coming?
This is literally the most basic tech/corpo business strategy.
Have none of you vibe coders ever studied the history of the business of software developmemt?
Did you think primarily B2B services were... immune to enshittification?
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Issues Warning About Jews Taking Over ‘Christian Patriotic Turning Point USA’
This isn't unique to her, to MTG.
Of course MTG just actually is an anti-semite, but we also have Candace Owens (I mean, also an anti-semite broadly, but still)... she's saying that basically, Kirk snubbed an offer of a bunch of money from Israeli funders, because he did not want to be that beholden to that kind of positioning, and the right is currently 'having a normal one' arguing about this.
Kirk knew that Israel isn't popular with younger Republicans, that Fuentes types and other right wingers had been attacking him from the right, for being way too supportive of Israel.
I am far from up to speed on any of this, but basically, its way more than just MTG being fucking crazy on her own, this is a thing the whole ....sphere of right wing personalities is ... yeah currently, as in literally right now, elsewhere on the internet/broadcast media... 'having a very normal one' over.
I guess you could call this something like a split between the neocons, and the
raciststrue patriots, basically? Exactly.
Words are nothing but weapons to them, tactics to distract, demoralize, dogwhistle, whatever.
You do not speak to a fascist with words.
You speak to them with a fucking baseball bat.
... not like they would ever do any good with a working jaw anyway.
Yes, but blue states also physically house or contain a massive amount of military hardware and bases.
For example, broadly speaking, there are not too many major naval bases in red states, there are not too many major army bases in blue states.
Where are which air wings, at the moment?
Which units and commanders pick which sides?
Who gets which nukes?
... Who knows?
We would be far from the first country going through a civil war or balkanization or coup or revolution or even the first time in our own history where things like this would come into play.
Also, it probably would be less about money, per se, as to where would be potentially invaded... as it would be... water, areas with any kind of major manufacturing hubs, extractable natural resources, arable land, large power plants, etc.
It is also highly unlikely that there would be a clean break along state boundaries... lines would almost certainly be redrawn, in one way or another.
If people could get over themselves and realize that fractures like this represent opportunities to try and find even the tiniest speck of shared values with those conservatives who appear to not be totally rabid MAGA cultists...
... instead of just relentlessly mocking them...
... there is a chance that a total obliteration of free speech and total crackdown on liberals and leftists, as in, throwing them all into jails, or worse, along with the establishment of a repressive theofascist state basically along the lines of Gilead...
... could at least be avoided in the near term.
The alternative is that all liberals and leftists and minorities and the homeless and soon to become homeless... act indignant and confused and outraged as they are more or less marched into camps for 'making jokes'.
If anyone has a better plan, or alternative analysis... I am all ears.
Ok, so you've chosen 'we are both going to agree that perfect would be better than not perfect'.
For what it's worth, I'm not downvoting you.
But I will be blunt: I don't think you are capable of describing a coherent, implementable version of what you want.
What is your proposal for what, precisely, should be changed?
How are you, or ... apparently you would be asking other people to do this ... how is this change going to be compatible with lemmy as it currently exists, such that every instance could easily adopt it as an update... or... some instances could adopt it as a compatible sort of 'add-on' or 'plugin'?
Who is going to implement that change, or, how is that change going to come about?
Seeing that you don't appear to be willing to code this yourself... how are you going to convince someone else to do this?
What I am saying is 'OP actually does want an unreasonable thing, not from the standpoint of an end user of software who is.concerned about their safety in the abstract, but from the standpoint of being able to outline something that might actually work and also ever be designed.'
What they are asking for is more or less an entirely fundamentally different system than lemmy. They are asking for an entirely new kind of software that works from a fundamentally different paradigm.
Its more like uh, outlining that cars could be safer, and they think they are asking for airbags to be installed, but what they are actually asking for is someone to design a public transportation system.
Thats about the scale and scope of how mechanisticly different what they are asking for is, from how things curfently work... even though, to them, its just a 'way of how they get from point a to point b', and thus seems trivial to them.
You entirely missed my point, or just disregarded it.
Yep, it ain't perfect.
... Got any... useful ideas about that?
About how to rework that design?
How we gonna make that happen?
What's the plan?
Or do we just want to agree that perfect would be better than not perfect?
Talk is cheap, most of it is near totally useless noise, hosting all that talk though, facilitating all that blather, in a functional, much less ideal manner... now that's complicated and expensive, and lemmy's budget is basically zero, and all the devs are volunteers.
Fuck you!
I was first!
rofl
You laugh at the shopping cart, but it works, and its better than raw uncooked meat.
Probably also a lot less likely to go overbudget if you just aim for that from the start.
... And I say this both as a programmer and as someone who has cooked a steak on a shopping cart.
Job market is pretty rough these days, ngl.
I mean...
I am describing a technical reality of how lemmy works.
You can 'disagree' with that, but uh, you would just be wrong.
Not in the sense of 'I do not have enough empathy to consider the plight of a regularly harassed person'.
More in the sense of ... ok, then don't use lemmy, if you don't like how it works.
Or... make it work the way you want it to work, by actually coding it.
Like, I wasn't joking when I basically said 'I am reasonbly confident it is impossible to make lemmy work the way you want it to.'
Thats not my opinion, in a... how should things work in an ideal world, sense of 'opinion'.
It is my opinion, as a person who understands a bit (certainly not all) about how the code just actually works.
If you can figure it out, I'd be impressed.
Alternatively, if you'd like to pay me $50 an hour to attempt to develop that, I may have some room in my schedule.
What you are asking for is closer to something like being able to personally ban another user from all your own content.
This would be more like if you made all your comments and posts in your own personal community, and then banned a user from it.
This, your suggested paradigm, can also be entirely defeated by someone just... making another account.
Or even: Logging out, and viewing as a guest.
Closer to message board styled systems are not twitter, are not instagram.
If you wanna try to develop something like a 'private profile' mode for lemmy, where you would have to grant access to every individual user you wanted to be able to see your posts and comments, good luck, go for it, code's open source, best I can tell, all dev work on it is unpaid, volunteers.
I am reasonably confident this is basically impossible given how lemmy is architected, but hey, maybe I'm wrong.
I mean, what can you expect from another DUI hire?
Having fairly recently escaped from a bout of homelessness that lasted about a year...
Oh, fucking hell yes, fent, carfent, blues, whatever the fuck its called in your neck of the woods...
Holy fuck this shit is horrifying, turns people into basically actual zombies.
Destroys their minds, destroys their bodies.
I did my best with an ultimately inadequate but above average amount of first aid and trauma care training to more or less trade medical care for food and cigarettes for a while... this shit is a goddamned nightmare.
Immense paranoia and delusions and violent snaps can happen on a dime, for no apparent reason, basically just causes schizophrenia as best I can tell.
And when I say zombies, I mean ... beyond the infamous 'lean' and shambling...
The shit also destroys your immune system, and when your homeless, you tend to get injured a lot.
I saw, and tried to help, many people, fent addicts, with just... necrotic zones, wounds that were beyond horribly infected, had been infected and untreated for so long... just... you'd have to do an amputation, the actual underlying flesh just ... yeah, necrotic, grayish goop, not blood, is what came out.
I had gloves and masks and wouldn't do anything close to that unless we could use some area in a shelter that I could sterilize, and then bandage them up, usually got one other person to act as a kind of 'guard' and prevent anyone from waltzing in or what not... but fuck man... shit's horrifying, these people all need ERs and probably ORs and actual professionals...
It... is probably also worth throwing in some additoonal context about Bill Pulte, here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Pulte
Pulte is the grandson of William J. Pulte, the founder of PulteGroup, a residential home construction company. He studied broadcast journalism at Northwestern University. Pulte founded Pulte Capital in 2011, a private equity firm, and founded The Blight Authority, a nonprofit that clears empty homes, in 2015. Amid a leadership dispute, Pulte was named to PulteGroup's board in 2016, serving for a four year term. Since 2019, he has used Twitter as a platform for philanthropic donations.
Yeah, that's right, we have the grandkid of the founder of one of the largest home construction firms in the country... which is itself mired in swathes of allegations (and if you go on tiktok you can just see this) of building homes to such shoddy specs that it arguably constitutes mass fraud...
Yeah this guy, he's in charge government backed home loans, in the US.
Just horrifically obvious and blatent corruption.
https://www.thebuildersdaily.com/pultegroup-legal-plot-thickens-as-firm-moves-to-dismiss-suit/
This guy is a huge piece of shit.
Like Trump, functionally a corrupt mobster by way of real estate, piece of shit.
I think we are closer to OD'ing.
Very well said.
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No, no!
Strawberry lemonade!
My pet (hyuck) theory is:
Cats see into the UV range.
Anything capable of refracting light is potentially mesmerizing to them, they would be seeing 'colors' that we cannot perceive.
I feel this also explains a lot of the times cats seem to ... just be staring at a wall, for no apparent reason.
... that or maybe he's just a silly bean and really appreciates ice cubes, on a conceptual level.