[-] mlen@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That time when Zitron himself admits that the post is long 💀

[-] mlen@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago

As someone living in Switzerland for over 6 years, the labor laws aren't exactly like in the rest of Europe and people are sometimes a bit too much on the freedumb side of things. Also weird german or (possibly less weird, I don't speak it) french and high cost of living.

Then again, it's not anywhere as bad as what's happening in the us

[-] mlen@awful.systems 9 points 5 months ago

Second observation is that when a thing gets cheaper it's used more, i.e. they'll be pushing even harded to shove it into everything.

Are they trying to imply that when they will make it cheaper by shoving it everywhere? I honestly can't see how that logic is holding together

[-] mlen@awful.systems 8 points 6 months ago

I'm surprised that alphabetical lists are included. Maybe my brain has completely rotten, but keeping the data sorted is pretty neat for efficient processing

[-] mlen@awful.systems 8 points 6 months ago

I'm sure her surveys are immune to sampling bias and therefore perfectly represent the general population. /s

[-] mlen@awful.systems 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

If the purpose of a metric is to show adoption, the metric can be defined in a way to show adoption. Could be just an effect of promo driven culture, AI push and good'ol Goodhart's law.

Like, how do you even measure when code is ai authored and when not. If you insert 25% of a variable name and the autocompleter guesses the rest of the name correctly, are the remaining 75% AI generated?

[-] mlen@awful.systems 7 points 9 months ago

Do you actually need to share your bookmarks? I found that bookmarks in Firefox and an RSS reader hosted on my nextcloud are enough for personal use.

[-] mlen@awful.systems 6 points 11 months ago
[-] mlen@awful.systems 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I think ClownStrike is the name they deserve

[-] mlen@awful.systems 9 points 11 months ago

Thanks, I hate it

[-] mlen@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago

He also did sawzall, but thankfully that didn't get widely adopted

[-] mlen@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago

Switzerland requires "wet" signatures too

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