It’s Just Another Day.

Just a reminder that real devs are using AI, and even vibe coding because the alternative is unemployment. I agree with the sentiment, though.

If these yahoos come back to hire people like me who were dismissed like so much garbage, they are going to find we processed our loss and moved on after a year of self reflection and accepatance.

They will either pay us through the nose to convince us to help, or piss off.

So… Make vpn do the opposite if it’s very purpose. Excellent. We’re cooked.

Ayep. Probably including where you live and what you do for a living.

It is worse than that. They often share your information directly, or initiate services that require your participation, and of course you must prove who you are to do so.

The real issue is the comparative lack of charging stations and the duration of the refill. There are solutions being worked on now.

Those of us who like to road-trip and camp have real anxiety about range and charge availability.

You mean like Musk’s “Boring company”?

Too late, they’re already on it.

For a while there, after hitting 50, I was kind of happy they thought I looked so young. 🤔

Find a local special interest group that gets together to practice. Check meetup.

It could be FOMO. Personally, I see value in keeping social media from children. The problem is I don’t believe this is all about that. As usual, it’s all about surveillance.

It would awesome if he has incriminating emails, especially if they involve his current job.

GenX entered the chat.

Sufficient enshitification results in us simply reverting to how we did it in 1990. I am using actually useful software, but when that becomes unavailable, I will walk away like I already did with so much.

I’ve been using Linux since 1995, for this very reason.

Increasingly, when I find services don’t work any more, support says, “we don’t support linux”. I stop using that service and find an alternative. Never been on Facebook, and it’s stopped me from spending money at several retailers. Oh, well. Their loss, not mine.

It’s happening, but do you really believe a bunch of nonprofit low income “woke” “DEI” loving hippies are going to lobby more effectively than billion dollar corporations - er, sorry, PEOPLE - will lobby? These people literally bankroll candidates for office to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars and have hundreds of lawyers to pick apart any resistance.

Sure, lobby. Just understand we are just continuing the fight on principle, not because it will have any impact.

We can’t give up, but we aren’t going to win, short of a literal uprising and even then it’s probably just going to remove the lipstick from this political pig, and the pretense of “for the people” will fall away.

We were hyped over the tech and the “punk” aspect. That’s the rebellion against the dystopia, not embrace of it.

I think I’m past the principle. I’ve been fighting for my privacycfor decades. I think we are beyond any hope now. Not only is it relentless, but it is happening on every front imaginable. I think I’ve checked out. Nothing short of total collapse or ground up revolution will change anything.

As “the kids” say, we’re cooked.

For sociopaths like Musk, yes. The rest of us, not so much.

I actually commented on that somewhere. Cyberpunk is a good example of authors warning us of dystopian possibilities, not glorifying them.

Oh, yes they are…

You’re implying there is an option other than not owning a TV. Please send us specifics so we can join you.