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bastardoperator··on TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday
Is there even a single phone that doesn't have a component that's derived from China? It's never been about security. I agree, the US wants access and they can't make a foreign company comply, even trying exposes the US.

Other countries have rules, make rules, the reality is they don't want to make rules because that might persuade foreign companies from not doing business here. Why make rules when you can get a warrant from a fisa court preventing any and all public scrutiny and getting everything you want?

bastardoperator··on TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday
Because for 5-20 dollars you can drive hundreds of thousands of people if not millions of people to your video, product, meme, whatever... Youtube, not so much.
bastardoperator··on GitHub Git Operations Are Down
Nope, sorry. Github offers cloud and on premise offerings. If you choose cloud and your company can't handle a 45 minute service outage, that's just a bad purchasing decision. You do realize they make most of their revenue from on premise enterprise customers and that none of those customers were impacted? The solution was there the entire time but they can't force people to use it.
bastardoperator··on Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'
It's 100% absolute bullshit. We've seen the tests, it can barely replace a low skilled job. Who's going to prompt these AI tools to do stuff and who's going to correct the bugs AI introduces? Zuck is high on steroids.
bastardoperator··on GitHub Git Operations Are Down
And for most companies, building and managing an SCM is absolutely not their core competency. Your point is valid, but not in the way you're trying to convey it.
bastardoperator··on GitHub Git Operations Are Down
Exactly, hire a team of 3 and pay 500K in compensation, or spend 100K on a system that works and you get a support person to call in the event of an issue. The math is so simple.
bastardoperator··on GitHub Git Operations Are Down
It's this type of negativity ruining the internet. Nothing thoughtful to say, nothing to add, and hoping for failure. I hope everything is okay over there...
bastardoperator··on Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs
It sounds like you're confusing affirmative action with DEI. A broader perspective benefits everyone. Different lived experiences contribute to a broader perspective. It's not about checking boxes or filling quotas and it's not specific to any particular group.
bastardoperator··on Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs
I don't have to be invested in a cause to know that diversity in problem solving can be a key component to success hence global technology companies, or that promoting the ideas of equity and inclusion are things most humans can benefit from. DEI is not about change or solving a particular problem, it's about awareness of perspective and seeking to understand others.
bastardoperator··on Who killed the rave?
Greed, aka promoters, killed the rave scene when they started charging absurd prices and pivoting to festivals where they could command 100's of dollars for entry.
bastardoperator··on Samsung gets $4.7B grants for Texas fabs
With 4.7B, maybe they'll learn how to make a product that doesn't break down in the first year.
bastardoperator··on Updates to H-1B
What don't you understand about being exploited and underpaid?
bastardoperator··on GitHub Copilot is now available for free
Isn't cursor a fork of vscode?
bastardoperator··on Updates to H-1B
I would have preferred for a multi-billion dollar company to use the H1-B program as intended and to pay an American wage to someone living and working in America.
bastardoperator··on Updates to H-1B
Are we actually doing that though? I managed H1-B employees at Verizon and honestly it felt like a scam. They weren't the best and brightest despite being awesome people in general, and they were also getting exploited by the company in terms of compensation. The only one benefitting seemed to be Verizon.
bastardoperator··on Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era
Putting your trust in Google is a fools errand. I don't know anyone that doesn't have a story.
bastardoperator··on Gitlab names Bill Staples as new CEO
We can see looking at both websites that GitHub is drastically cheaper on paper alone when it comes to enterprise. GitLab would have to be undercutting their premium offering by almost a third of the price to match GitHub which seems doubtful even if you have something like a volume discount.
bastardoperator··on Gitlab names Bill Staples as new CEO
How do they intend on competing in the enterprise space? MSFT and Atlassian will happily bundle their SCM offering for 0 dollars if you spend enough on licensing other core products like visual studio or jira.
bastardoperator··on Gitlab names Bill Staples as new CEO
They hired an axe man, people are getting hurt.
bastardoperator··on We switched from Next.js to Astro (and why it might interest you)
I completely agree with this sentiment. I will say this, vercel was easy to use and v0 is pretty cool too. I can appreciate what they're doing, I just don't have time to become a nextjs expert.
bastardoperator··on We switched from Next.js to Astro (and why it might interest you)
This is how I see it. You need to be a nextjs expert to produce a nextjs website. Astro you just need to understand basic concepts and can produce a website. I tried nextjs, and the complexity for a SPA was off the charts. Switched to Astro and never looked back.
bastardoperator··on Senators say TSA's facial recognition program is out of control
Too late, I already gave the US government my DNA/reference via blood sample. The military has been doing that since the early 90's.
bastardoperator··on I made an ls alternative for my personal use
I also used eza to replace the tree command with the --tree flag.
bastardoperator··on The Onion buys Infowars
Can't tell if this is satire or not, that's the real irony here.
bastardoperator··on Backdoor attempt on Exolabs GitHub repo through an innocent looking PR
Exactly, most of us need to work and aren't motivated enough to spend our free time committing crimes. I also assume this is full time work. From my limited perspective the hardest part was the time investment and gaining enough trust to put the code into action.
bastardoperator··on Wonder is acquiring Grubhub
Acquisition of Farming Simulator incoming...
bastardoperator··on My company has banned the use of Jetbrains IDEs internally
The best is when you open vim/nvchad in vscode terminal.
bastardoperator··on Visualizing 13M Bluesky users
Social networks require drama in order to stay relevant, this is baked in and by design. Capitalist love this feature. Also you'll never get 100's of millions of people to agree on anything.

Is it really fare to compare a political cartoon to the garbage twitter is allowing? I might still visit twitter if it wasn't so out of control.

bastardoperator··on GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic
Who's bigger, I'll wait.
bastardoperator··on GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic
Some? So you're not even aware. They're the largest OSS company in the history of OSS even if you don't like it. That's the link you're obviously missing.
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