Not arguing that Gates isn’t a total bastard with how he ran things but that was decades ago and he hasn’t been in charge for just about as long.

We need to stop making him the target of rants and focus on the people who are actively destroying software and democracy. The current crop of ceos and board members are arguably worse with even less oversight and regulations combined with more wieldable power. Focusing on Gates is just diverting attention from these current monsters.

These are the questions that need answers before any meaningful advice can be given.

System is working as designed…

Dabo Wheel: DABO!!

Tribbles: Fuckin’ and more fuckin’

And solutions!

GrapheneOS has a panic pin you can setup that when entered fully wipes the phone. You lose whatever was on it but that is the best “defense” I have seen so far.

Edit: not sure how thorough the wipe is but it would likely prevent access except through forensics.

In the last 5 years we have blocked access to the internet through bot checks and ad networks. We block screens with ads or consent forms which aren’t even enforceable and make the user bark on command to get past.

We have become trained seals. Captcha popped up? Better bark. Cloudflare challenge appeared? Better bark like the trained seal and click the checkbox.

Nobody even talks about this. The fact these things are annoying is constantly discussed but I have yet to see any article covering the fact we have trained our species to bark when asked without question and what the ramifications are down the road.

There isn’t even a planned offramp from this trajectory, these things are going to get more pervasive and annoying while technology improves. Where doea this actually end?

If I remember right they were one of the first countries to “work” with the administration to limit the impact of the tariffs so they likely got the best deals.

That said, it is important to note they were still not at really spared. If the US and Mexico were people this would still be considered an abusive relationship.

Either his cat is good at the job or the raccoons got him and this is all a ruse of theirs.

Some people call that an abusive relationship. I call it M-F.

I look forward to their update on how that is going in 2036.

I would agree with you on the civic duty part if the news was just the news but it has morphed into a amalgamation of ragebait, social media content, and updates so granular to be worthless and just noise. Even the “good” sources of news do this. RSS feeds are nice but not a viable solution to the average person.

At a concept level I think you are right that a well informed population is better. I just don’t think our current handling of news and journalism is at a spot where that is even possible without a ton of extra work (hence this thread).

Choosing a level of engagement that prevents you from turning into a screaming asshole is key and unfortunately that level varies from person to person.

We have an enormous problem with software optimization both in cycles and memory costs. I would love for that to change but the vast majority of customers don’t care. It’s painful to think about but most don’t care as long as it works “good enough” which is a nebulous measure that management can use to lie to shareholders.

Even mentioning that we’ve wiped out roughly a decade in hardware gains with how bloated and slow our software is doesn’t move the needle. All of the younger devs in our teams truly see no issue. They consider nextjs apps to be instant. Their term, not me putting words in their mouths. VSCode is blazingly fast in their eyes.

We’ve let the problem slide so long that we have a whole generation of upcoming devs that don’t even see a problem let alone care about it. Anyone who mentors devs should really hammer this home and maybe together we can all start shifting that apathy.

It will forever baffle me how people all seemed to land on vibe coding as a term worth promoting let alone brag about.

Unless we’re talking about the programming that goes into the micro-controllers of sex toys. People doing that kind of vibe coding are doing god’s work.

Yes

I can confirm this has been my experience as well.

Anectdotally, the only people I know who say vscode is lightweight and snappy are devs that have have primarily used it, visual studio, jet brains, or some other common and bloated application.

I think pretty much every dev understands the issue but they are limited in what they can do about it. Quitting a job because they won’t let you optimize is noble but unrealistic for the vast majority of devs.

I would love for optimizations to start being prioritized. More specifically, I would love to see vendors place limits on memory use in apps. For example, Steam could reject any game over 50gb. I do not believe for a moment that any game we currently have needs more than 50gb except maybe an mmo with 20 years of content. Or Microsoft could reject apps that use more than X ram. They won’t ever do that but without an outright rejection, this won’t be fixed.

Unless you want to get fancy for the sake of not being fancy, you will likely be best just sticking with Kate.

Basic editing can be done in vi or nano or even piped to a file via she’ll. I don’t think any of those are necessarily better or worse than using Kate. Vi and nano would probably be faster but you would need to be in a terminal already.

That said, I am curious as well if anyone has a better answer.

They had no viable business plan with which to pay back investors so this was inevitable. It sucks though…not a day goes by where I don’t grumble about what an insult Discord is to their users.

Holy shit, ok I’ll state it yet again and then I’m done. For the 3rd time, this isn’t about who can afford what drives or who has what drives or what drives exist in our universe. Pretend drives doesn’t exist if that is easier because the drives don’t matter. Drive space is a symptom of the underlying issue.

This is about the near universal trend of software companies destroying a decade plus of hardware performance gains because they refuse to properly optimize their software. Full stop. Anything else is a side effect of not properly optimizing things. The drive type arguments, drive space arguments…they disappear once the fundamental issue (optimization) is addressed.

Holding these companies accountable is how this gets fixed. It’s how this particular instance got fixed. This thread wouldn’t even exist if these weren’t legitimate complaints because the devs wouldn’t have bothered with this round of size reduction if there wasn’t a problem affecting their bottom line.