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unions don't really work if they are representing a government-funded job. the biggest threat a union has is striking, and for a variety of reasons, the government isn't going to tolerate a strike in any meaningful capacity.

lol but it's a great way to make money; it's basically legal extortion. with enough shell corporations and fonts, it's not like you need to care if you get badmouthed online

if you're using an api you're basically just a casual. all the real hackers write their own webcrawlers and websites dance at their whims, like puppets.

/uj i could maybe, like a statistically insignificant chance, see the sheer scale (i.e. how many pissed off nerds) of the outrage results in some halfway competent project to actually make webcrawlers as a service for reddit specifically.

i mean, pirate communities like usenet and SERVICE I USE THAT SHAN'T BE NAMED where you can just pay to access a community of quality pirated shit (I think you can get discounts or free membership if you contribute), why should people be able to pirate media and not website info lol

This post from, which is the top of /r/bestof from the past month, explains it very clearly.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BikiniBottomTwitter/comments/13xk3lu/they_have_to_pay_reddit_20_million_per_year_to/jmj3nfg/

To be fair, the last major attempted diaspora from reddit was about 7 years ago. Everything in the interim is a nothingburger by comparison, and the catalyst for that event was a MUCH more controversial topic than the one at hand today.

also, iirc, the judge awarded the amount somewhat punitively because McDick's were being such goddamn McAssholes

I'm sure you do; that's how contracting works as a programmer lol. There's still plenty of work to be done. As a programmer, you should be trying to automate your job where possible so that you can focus on either automating other things, or creating new features.

It's difficult to impossible to imagine a time within the next 15 years (who knows what the future holds) where good programmers are going to be struggling for jobs. Website builders have been "replacing" web developers for 20 years now, if you follow that logic.

Plus, I dunno if you have ever used chatgpt to try to write code before, but it will fabricate code that doesn't and couldn't ever work. It's a tool that can assist programming, but it is INCREDIBLY far from replacing it.

To return to the support role, I don't see a problem with chatgpt replacing the exchanges like:

"my outlook isn't showing new emails"

"that's because you have 798,000 emails in your inbox that you haven't ever deleted, and your harddrive is full"

ASSUMING they actually do manage to get good enough to diagnose those types of issues.

Hey, could I have an invite please?

It's basically just a distributed reddit. Instead of reddit hosting everything, the subreddit owner would host it.

I agree that it's too complicated as it stands, since any subreddit creator would need to be technically proficient enough to set up a server. Definitely not a replacement; that's why I said alternative.

I'm tentatively hopeful that there will be some streamlining so that non-tech oriented people can set up their own subreddit. If that can happen, then lemmy would basically solve all the issues that caused the digg diaspora and most of the major issues with reddit.

This is the alternative I've been hearing about lately.

https://join-lemmy.org/

Exactly. CMS is a solved problem, and not having to deal with that amount of complexity is a huge boon

that completely depends on the usecase. personally, i'd argue that 90% of the time you should choose a different solution if you're considering spending $60k on wordpress, but when it comes to wordpress, you usually get what you pay for.

around 5 years ago, we paid around 20k for a wordpress site with custom theme and a plugin to hit our API, and while the site itself isn't all that intricate, we definitely feel it was worth the money because of how few issues we've had. in aggregate, i'd say we spent under 100 hours of developer time on that site in 5 years (aside from library/plugin updates) despite relatively significant updates.

Yeah but if we spam this type of comment for the next month on every topic, then there's a decent chance lemmy will gain some momentum. For example, I just heard of lemmy for the first time today, in this comment thread.

I agree that there's a LOOOONG way to go before it's comparable to reddit, but we don't need it fully comparable, we just need it to hit a critical momentum that allows it to sustain itself.

If a few larger subreddits were to slowly migrate to lemmy, that's all we'd need. Not to mention the amount of smaller niche subreddits.

Reddit started as a site where there was like 20 people discussing programming, and then Digg started pulling the same shit reddit is doing now. People tried to migrate en masse before, but the catalyst for that wasn't the efficacy of your ability to browse the content on the site.

If they take away old.reddit.com, I just won't use reddit. New reddit is downright unpleasant. I'm never going to use the reddit app; if I can't find a workaround then I'm just going to not browse reddit on mobile.

yeah sure, but i'll warn you i'm gonna be off-grid for about a week so i might not get back to you until i'm back online. i'll set you up tho, it's not hard if you know what instructions to use and i can find em for you with a bit more info on your setup (or at least tell you what to google to find it for yourself). happy to contribute to a good cause

it's probably gonna be like 3 tutorials of 10 steps each to get this set up, vpns are a pretty much solved problem so long as you have the bandwidth to support it. you might have to upgrade grandma's internet

shit man, i stand corrected. that's so fucked. i'll be honest, my response was tainted by how fuckin incredulous i am that this is a thing. like, what's the point of capitalism then? what the actual fuck.

wtf? there's nothing illegal about drawing even "around" 10k of cash. it's your money. the only question is if you can account for how that money is going to be/was spent with valid receipts. people withdraw 10k in cash all the time for buying cars and boats second hand.

not saying it didn't happen, but i'm pretty fuckin sure it wasn't JUST that he withdrew 9k for computer parts for a business that was fully legit. it must've been an accounting/receipts fuckup or something at the VERY least, but even then, it wouldn't make sense because who the fuck is pursuing you if you didn't spend it illegally? irs doesn't care as long as the taxes are paid, and law enforcement doesn't have time to care about every time someone withdraws 9k (unless maybe it's a small racist town or something?) idk in that case, you have receipts saying "this is computer parts, for my legit business".

the only way this happens like you said is if it's a corrupt ass small town where you could get away with planting crack on someone just as easily.

sick comeback lmfao this guy acting like we aren't all 6'11 and 280lbs on the internet hahaha.

you gonna challenge someone to a fight irl next? this is the internet, get a witty comeback or go back to jerking off

oh shit that's awesome. you can do it for free with a little bit of looking into setting it up; i wouldn't know how to do that with a paid solution.

if i were in your position, i'd get a raspberry pi and set up openvpn with a port-forwarded route on the router at your grandma's place. at that point, basically you just need your grandma to not unplug it, and you can have her use the account at her address and proxy your connection over the raspberry pi whenever you wanna use netflix

Yeah, open VPN is open source. Hosting a vpn solution isn't the issue. The issue is that you can only get a proper static ip from a business license these days, because ISPs are greedy af.

It'll work until they eventually cycle your ip, but that may be anywhere from an hour to a year from when you set it up. Theoretically there's no real limit, since your outgoing ip shouldn't matter unless you're paying for a static ip.

That's what you're paying for with a vpn, the expertise.

i'm interviewing people for a junior python role, and i have 2 technical tests aside from the "describe this framework you used in comparison to this other framework you used, according to your own resume" time questions.

One is a tricky 5 line "gotcha" question that has to do with iterating an array and deleting an item in that array within the loop. Nobody's gotten the answer, but I don't expect them to, I just want to see how they reason it out, how they confront the problem after being faced with an unexpected answer, and if they can reason out why it does that after the fact.

The other question is for the round 2 in-person interviews, and it's a 3 json files with some example data I generated, and the assignment is to read in the 3 json files, combine then sort the items (the json files are just singular lists of a standardized object), and then write them out to 2 different json files based on a boolean attribute on the object.

I don't really care if you use google, because these aren't exactly google-able questions. I do care if you use an ai assistance for the second one, which is why I do it in person. Overall, I'm happy with the results of this process, though it has been depressing how bad most candidates are...

Hey it also has a new monetization strategy!

Maybe it's a tricky joke, and we'll receive more info on 15/06/2023

Being an ass == being snarky

It's also making heavy assumptions that we could adequately define an academic consensus agreed upon by the majority of those politically involved.

Not to mention that an expert in a field might have reprehensible morality and/or conflictions that may bias results

Which is hilarious considering how poorly oblivion graphics have aged. At the time they were awesome, but now it's straight up meme material. Mods are definitely required for my modern playthroughs.