Echo Dot @ echodot @feddit.uk

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Oh well that was a fun video to watch. When he walked in the building the total IQ the room in no way changed did it, he has absolutely no idea what he's supporting. He claims to support human dignity and to be against the murder of Innocents (which should be the default position of everyone) yet says he's happy to be called a Nazi. I assume history books are a bit hard and too full of long phrases like "overwhelming photographic evidence" and "independently verified".

Yeah I've been told by quite a few jobs not to discuss pay rise offers. I've always said "yeah sure" and then completely ignored them the moment I left the office.

If they hadn't said anything at all I would have just assumed that everyone was getting the same offer the fact that they told me not to discuss it meant they were probably screwing us over. Best to find out about that.

Yeah I've heard stories about cruise ships. Who absolutely do not want to work on one where the crew are not in a union. You are effectively trapped in the office 24 hours a day for months on end, there's a lot of scope for abuse of personnel in that scenario.

I don't think Linux people entirely understand just how uninviting the prospect of messing around with an operating system is for the vast majority of the public.

As bad as Windows is, and it is it getting worse by the minute, it honestly does just work. I dual boot my computer, mostly into Linux everyday and even now I occasionally come across problems that don't exist on the Windows side. The community need give up with this idea that Linux doesn't have major usability issues.

The conservative party themselves won't back any kind of progressive policy as long as bad Enoch is in charge. Right now their only official position is something vague about immigration but they don't even have a concrete policy on that.

That's why no one should trust anything that Reform say about electoral reform. They only want it because there's zero chance they'll get into power otherwise no matter what the polls say.

Sounds like how I make cheese sauce.

Mayonnaise plus cheese plus anything else I happen to have in the fridge. I put gherkins in it one time, wouldn't recommend it wasn't terrible but wasn't great.

The government are amazingly far behind when it comes to technology. About a decade ago the job centre ended up having to get sued into updating their website, because it was designed for old 800x600 CRT displays with white text on a lime green background. Much of the text was actually images of text so you couldn't search anything. Zero accessibility.

I feel like they would just not notice anyone like that.

There's always some office drama going on where I work but I never have any idea what any of it's about. No one tries to engage me with it though.

That's why businesses insist on seeing your actual passport. Not a picture of it.

I can give you a picture of anything, that's been true for years even before the rise of image generation AI. I once had to mail my passport via recorded courier to a company in London in order to apply for a job in Leeds. Hell of a pain but necessary.

Not of course that there is such a thing as professional recorder players.

You know that they only are prepared to offer cyber security experts minimum wage.

I was literally looking at this yesterday, if they doubled what they are offering it would still be well short of an entry-level wage in the private sector. Up to a point you can get away with it and rely on "patriotism" to fill the difference but not to this extent.

Couldn't they just make off what less crap, like give them some actual authority or something. Why are they burning it down and starting again?

Nah, that's the problem.

The empire were the ones that built the sewage network.

So everyone told the government they were worried about AI taking their jobs and the government's response is this.

I'm not going to say they're worse than the conservatives because that would truly be an impressive feat, but they're not exactly impressing me with their brilliance.

Well it depends on the union and it depends on local laws. But some of them are international.

Unions don't prevent companies being crap in my experience but at a certain point they step in and yell at them for being crap. You still have to put up with HR being ridiculous, being incomprehensibly corrupt is practically part of the job description.

If openai can find a use for the government that'll be swell.

They tend to get it under everybody's feet otherwise.

It's because these people don't have a clue how AI actually works. They think it's like a human intelligence and that writing something in all caps is in some way going to give it more emphasis. They're trying to reason with something that has zero self-awareness.

“Vibe coding makes software creation accessible to everyone, entirely through natural language,” Replit explains, and on social media promotes its tools as doing things like enabling an operations manager “with 0 coding skills” who used the service to create software that saved his company $145,000

Yeah if you believe that you're part of the problem.

I'm prepared to accept that Vibe coding might work in certain circumstances but I'm not prepared to accept that someone with zero code experience can make use of it. Claude is pretty good for coding but even it makes fairly dumb mistakes, if you point them out it fixes them but you have to be a competent enough programmer to recognise them otherwise it's just going to go full steam ahead.

Vibe coding is like self-driving cars, it works up to a point, but eventually it's going to do something stupid and drive to a tree unless you take hold of the wheel and steer it back onto the road. But these vibe codeing idiots are like Tesla owners who decide that they can go to sleep with self-driving on.

In my experience firefighters are alright. Cops like shooting people but firefighters just want to put fires out and otherwise be the hero, they want nothing more than to be pictured saving a cat for a house fire. If you want to be the hero you can't be the villain, cops don't care though because they get off on bullying people.