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Captainant

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  1. lmao Ian Miles Cheong, noted milkshake survivor
  2. Doctorow talks quite a bit about this book in that Adam Conover interview I posted a few days ago - one of the biggest mechanisms that got us here is the DMCA. Under its provisions, it's a federal felony to break a "digital lock". So you're legally prohibited from cracking encryption to root your own device, or doing anything at all to interfere with their almighty Intellectual Property rights. Because there's an inherent "lock in" effect to EVERYTHING these days, it sets the stage for enshittification to happen. Because there's much higher opportunity costs for a consumer to change a behavior, it creates an economic environment where customer exploitation and extraction becomes a more viable and ideal business strategy
  3. If I were doing it again now, I'd be more interested in trade school than a 4 year university. It worked out well for me, but I had a way different "board state" than your son does. I was an ok-not-great student and I wasn't worried about finding a job - just if it would be a good (read: cool) job. That's definitely not the case anymore, like for fucking ANY degree holder. A trade school is a much more sure deal, and will give much more tangibly useful knowledge compared to the breadth of knowledge a bachelor's degree encompasses.
  4. Damn that's some incredible marksmanship - a world champion shotgun shooter had trouble knocking them down with his specialized M4
  5. AMZN posted their planned Washington layoffs to their WARN database https://esd.wa.gov/employer-requirements/layoffs-and-employee-notifications/worker-adjustment-and-retraining-notification-warn-layoff-and-closure-database looks like lots of hardware, game design, supply chain, and HR folks. I'm making an inference that most of the software engineer roles are within those hardware/games teams, but that feels accurate
  6. I've personally seen more projects fail than succeed where the implementation partner touted their accelerated timeframe thanks to their coding assistants. I use coding assistants myself and it's incredibly helpful, but """vibe coding""" replaces about 10% of what software engineering is. In my experience "coding" is working with stakeholders to ensure that what's being made is actually meeting the business need - NOT just crapping out code and throwing it over the wall.
  7. 2025 you wild'n https://www.actionnews5.com/2025/10/28/truck-hauling-aggressive-monkeys-carrying-herpes-covid-overturns-mississippi/ Authorities said the driver of the truck carrying the monkeys told law enforcement that the monkeys “were dangerous” and “posed a threat to humans.” Authorities say they took the appropriate actions after being given that information. The Jasper County Sheriff’s Office said all of the escaped monkeys, except for one, “have been destroyed.” The sheriff’s department is still looking for one of the monkeys that is still on the loose.
  8. Ya know, the most annoying part of GRUhorn constantly coming back like a bad case of herpes is that it's harder to shame him for being so fucking wrong all the goddamn time https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c891ex72nj7t BBC: Israel launches strikes on Gaza after Netanyahu orders 'powerful' attacks
  9. I think it's inclusive of the Reuters reporting, since that was prior to AMZN giving a statement
  10. if you ask the business board, you get a nice #bothsides response
  11. Mark to market valuations on revenue returned from the extreme capex expenditures. They haven't realized even ⅒ of their target revenues, and don't have anything close to a sustainable business model to buy time to fix that
  12. It's hit and miss, some free apps/games my wife (on iOS) plays look night and day when it's off/on, and others have no effect. Web browsing is better with no exceptions On android it seems to be broadly effective
  13. Problem is - even the most milquetoast criticisms of the very real problems in our current system are met with "whell thas cuz yer SOCIALIST!!!". That kind of thinking is playing a game you can't win, because it wasn't designed for you to win. Dems should stop playing appeasement fuck fuck games with the fascists. They aren't earnest criticisms - just a cudgel to rhetorically beat people who aren't in your tribe
  14. I run Adguard on my phone and have enough family licenses (like 9 lifetime licenses for $120) to cover my wife and sister's family too. It works for basically every web based ad, and most apps too.
  15. the 5th bullet point: "frustrations with the status quo are not the same as a desire for socialism" goddamn that needs to be repeated ad nauseum to maga
  16. It seems to be mostly HR and "devices and services" (read: Alexa and Fire devices) employees - not much word of it hitting AWS that I've read/heard
  17. gotta cover all those capex expendatures to fuel "AI growth"
  18. /csb one of my late dad's close friends was a wargaming buddy who was an East German armor officer who was deployed into Afghanistan. Dude was missing half a foot and smoked like a chimney, but had some mad strats in Flames of War
  19. AI is best suited for tasks where "good enough is good enough". Low-stakes small tasks like changing column headers in a CSV to be camel case instead of lower case, or building a small data scraper method for a web crawler, etc etc. But it's best thought of as another tool in the toolbox, not as THE tool in the box.
  20. A win is a win is a win, especially on the road. But holy fuck I have SOME CONCERNS
  21. Good lord we gotta make a play to not go negative
  22. How tf are we tied now lmao. Hook em
  23. It's always weird to me to see Arch by himself on the sidelines. Like he's on a different team or something
  24. His end is fucking burnt goddamnit false start
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