I once worked for a defense contractor as a programmer. 😬

…but I didn’t have a degree yet (it was an internship while I was still in college) so it’s fine, right? 😅

I had occasion to freshen up my resume recently and did some research on said defense contractor. They’d changed their name (is that an oddly-common practice among defense contractors?) and pivoted into “agentic AI” bullshit for the private sector. It’s good that I never sought a full time position there.

I recommend the book The Hardware Hacker by the legendary Andrew “Bunnie” Huang. Really gets into a lot of this stuff.

I couldn’t find the ü key on my keyboard.

(Tell me you’re American without telling me you’re American.)

It is.

I slip in the shower every day on purpose. Once the portion of me’s that survive dwindles down to one, I’ll be The One.

Slop isn’t “advanced”. Unfortunately it doesn’t have to be to create engagement.

Maybe ICP can tell us.

With just the right amount of spin.

I’d hate to see a kilobyte. Let alone a megabyte or gigabyte or terabyte or…

Sometimes people need a reminder that we’ve all been the infestation at one time or another. Maybe some of us were never a Redditor, but we were all in a similar position somewhere, sometime, in some context. But I know well that even Redditors are capable of growing and changing as people. And a Redditor having an interest in Lemmy is definitely a sure sign of being deserving of being given a chance.

Sincerely, a former Redditor.

What is that, a Kia hybrid? While you’re driving that half-gallon of skim home to put in the baby bottle you drink it out of, I’m milkmaxxing a full gallon jug of farm-fresh, unpasturized in the cup holder of my coal roller. GOMAD or go home.

Does this human Death Note take requests?

Anti-homelessillion architecturillion.

Right? I’m clearly far too American to understand. I’m more confused than I was before.

Imma go print out this image, photograph it on a wooden table, and then have that photo put on a shirt.

Mmmmmoooooowwwooooowwooowoowoowoowoo_{woowoowoowoowoo}

If there’s a “babe” holding it, I’m not going to be able to pee.

Most people who think FOSS is bad are regularly turning a blind eye to the bullshit that proprietary software puts them through with various enshittification kind of practices. And that’s not new. It’s been the case for as long as FOSS alternatives to proprietary software have existed.

I swore off of Windows when a legitimate copy of XP balked about activating for no good reason. And XP was… like the least bad version of Windows.

Even if you do ignore the bad parts, a preference for the proprietary solution over the FOSS one is often (usually?) more a matter of your preferences or prior familiarity than anything objective about the software in question.

I don’t often get super pissed about advertising, but Draft Kings has been super aggressive about advertising in my areas (maybe in every area in the U.S., not sure.) If I never hear “the crown is yours” again, it’ll be too soon.

The true communism.