DevDave

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[–] DevDave@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

From my experience, the number one culprit of legacy code breaking is someone asking if anyone knows how it works. Second most common culprit is someone making a "quick patch" to legacy code.

[–] DevDave@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Adjacent comment. I've found working in a true posix environment is drastically better than the oddities I dealt with Win32. One annoyance is Microsoft has never been able to implement fork().

Though i never messed with x11 as I was never motivated to see what it was like under the figurative hood.

[–] DevDave@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Sorry, switched contexts there. Microsoft broke their clipboard service recently which makes me think they added "telemetry" collecting logic somewhere in there.

[–] DevDave@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Also as a life long programmer, I have this feeling it is possible to just go in and make some changes so I can have the system just make shit up about the TPM while indeed also doing the equivalent of having system-d decide to respond with random bullshit.

Don't even need to be a programmer, just find a community of them that you trust that distribute their own "fixes".

Definitely not doing that with anything else because its both hidden in compilation and buried like herpes across multiple components. Probably/hopefully not directly related but I really want to know what they changed to break the clipboard service.

[–] DevDave@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No it was a reply to you and your statement of Apple being predatory, which they indeed are. AI is just a different flavor of sinister.

[–] DevDave@piefed.social 20 points 1 month ago (12 children)

also there's the TPM chip.

[–] DevDave@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

It feels surreal in how unsurprised I am at such rampant fraud. This whole mess is like the Emperor's new clothes was used a blue print and not a cautionary tale.

[–] DevDave@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Trying to find the source of this "AI is designed for wealth to access skill while keeping skill from accessing wealth."

[–] DevDave@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

The inverters send status reports for tracking and auditing their production. unfortunately disconnecting some of these systems will cause them to go into standby mode after not being able to call home after two to three days.

[–] DevDave@piefed.social 7 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Are the flavors something like: Apple is built on captive labor while OpenAI is built on stolen art

[–] DevDave@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

Oh I like that but you might scare the MBA's using techno babble like "thermodynamics" :)

[–] DevDave@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I framed the "AI" craze as parallel to self checkout kiosks. They were sold as the future and a way of getting rid of those pesky human workers. Reality is they're an open wound on the company. Unfortunately it will cost more money to get rid of them so they're still there.

That's the difference with AI currently. Cancel your subscription, toggle it to off in your IDE, and its gone. I believe this is why they're trying to push "AI" everywhere, hoping it will stick somewhere.

Otherwise I liked a well manged agile development process. Heck of a lot less stressful than water fall.

edit: fax spalling erwor

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