It’s just a thing that needs repeated basically constantly for all of us.

People were playing text-based multiplayer, effectively mmos with PvP well before Tim-Berners Lee invented the Web Browser.

http://mud.arctic.org/ this one is still around.

But why? You don’t need telnet to transfer text.

I’ll always be able to play Balatro, Factorio, and he’ll, I’d go to text based MUDs first.

It’s always going to sound accurate. That’s what’s it’s built to do. It’s just that often the easiest way to sound accurate is to be accurate, but not always. Shortly after you forget that it’s going to fuck you.

Better not forget.

Like a wireless router?

Can your neighborhood communicate when the Internet goes down like Iran?

Shouldn’t it be called Microsoft 250? There are 250 working days in a year. As soon as I’m home I’m using Thunderbird or Libreoffice, certainly not the product formerly known as Microsoft Office.

It’s already happening, in part because of this and in part because of the unstable, unpredictable US government.

Several European countries are looking towards investing in open source as a way to get away from American big tech because they’re suddenly considering US sanctions against them a real possibility, or at least a real threat.

Best language, suitable for all but the most low level stuff where you don’t want a garbage collector. For that use Rust.

C#, Rust, and maybe just a minimum amount of JavaScript, and I didn’t think you need anything else.

The worst part of C# is that sometimes Java devs sneak in, but that happens in every language.

You can just have things be out of scope. It’s really okay!

Thanks for the work you’ve put into this.

Don’t get complacent. The EU countries are toying with the idea of collapsing with us. AfD doesn’t seem to be shrinking, and there will be a lot of money and propaganda dumped that way soon.

I hope you’re better at resisting it than we were, but seeing as how we’re all still on vulnerable social media…

The latest Libreoffice update has ribbon menus (optionally).

It works well when you use it for small (or repetitive) and explicit tasks. That you can easily check.

Which is probably a good thing. I appreciate projects like Thunderbird as well.

You can not push the button that says AI.

You can also hit the kill switch that completely removes that button.

That’s opt-in enough.

If it starts reading pages or doing things without you pushing a button, that’s an issue.

Yeah, nuance exists. Weird, I know.

How do I put this.

AI isn’t exactly the cause of the rise in the price of hardware. Only 1/6th of the purchased Nvidia cards are actually in data centers. Same for the memory.

We’re not using it.

What’s really drumming up all the prices is that the billionaires are convinced that AI is going to replace tons and tons of people. It’s not. It’s the insane corporate hype that’s doing all the damage.

It will replace some, sure. The same way the electric drill replaced carpenters. One electric drill does not replace one carpenter. That’s not how that works. Instead the carpenters can work a bit faster and their job is a bit easier. It’s worth buying and it’s worth using, but it doesn’t really replace a person. Accountants didn’t disappear as a profession when spreadsheets were invented.

There were books written in the 1980s about how household appliances raised the standard of cleanliness. Turns out people change clothes more when cleaning clothes doesn’t involve a washing board. And I don’t think Roombas replaced that many jobs either.

In particular, I think this is a thing that will happen for software development. I don’t think it’ll reduce the number of developers we need. I think the standards for development will just be higher. All the front end stuff in particular is going to get easier, and you won’t need as many frameworks. We’ll especially need just as many devs, if not more, in the short term. Someone’s going to have to fix the mess all these companies are going to make after they’ve fired half their devs and tried to just vibe code everything.

Because AI in this case is the opposite of help, in case Illecors wasn’t clear enough.

It’s almost like it needs a dedicated person to hold its hand as it does your job. I wonder who would be well suited for that task.