It’s no surprise to me that the person at work who is most excited by AI, is the same person who is most likely to be replaced by it.

Everyone hates Palantir, but the only difference between them and every other massive tech company, is they started off evil rather than having to work their way up to it.

As somebody who had a Spectrum and an Amiga, I approve.

I’ll settle for whichever one annoys him the most.

You could always just fund the space agency you already have, instead of funneling money to a foreign billionaire.

And don’t even get them started on doors.

I’ve been asked for a referral twice in my life. Both times the person the referral was for still worked for me, so I got them to write it and just sent it on.

If somebody wants more money than we pay I won’t stand in their way. I also don’t care if you get a good employee or not. Shit, I’d write a complete dumb-ass a glowing referral if you’re a rival company.

Oh look, with the threat of a big enough fine, you can uninstall those things.

Or at least hide the front ends for them.

Not 100% sure. As a guess based on how I think the Fediverse works, I think they’d exist, but new comments and posts would cease to sync around, so they’d effectively be only on your instance.

I like Lemmy, but it’s not decentralised enough to avoid things like this.

I think it’s inevitable right now, even if it’s a lot rarer than it was during the great exodus from reddit. You’re reliant entirely on the goodwill of volunteers.

User accounts are unique only to an instance, and there’s no way to move them. If we want to avoid this, having multiple homes on an account would be a good first step. You probably don’t want them going everywhere (as that would need login details, which while hashed wouldn’t be immune to bad actors getting them). But making a new account elsewhere isn’t hard, it’s just annoying to lose your history.

Any lost communities are much harder to replace. Links get broken, etc. You can’t move those either, so have to make them anew and convince people to update any links before they vanish.

Honestly not sure if Lemmy’s approach is a good one or not. Recently we’ve had transphobic users from one instance harassing people on another, and without things like IP addresses, it’s hard to stop that. Your own instance also has to host a bunch of stuff from other places, and you can end up with illegal content being copied to your own hardware if hosting an instance. Maybe it should be on the instances to host communities, and on the clients to gather things from multiple servers.

When it’s just you, on your own PC, and you don’t value your time, it’s free.

Just from the license fees here, we’re talking what, roughly 2000 employees?

At that scale, you’re going to be paying for support. Whether through a third party, or employing enough people to fix all the things that can go wrong. And not everyone in IT knows enough about Linux to fix broken boxes.

I once recommended Linux for our customer servers, to be installed hundreds of miles away. And what I found was that employees who knew Linux (and specifically how to fix it when it fucks up) were more expensive than the trained monkeys we sent out to fix things, who at least knew how to copy data off it and reinstall Windows/slap a new drive in it, and that issues were my fault for recommending it. It was also easier to talk customers through some settings in Windows if it falls off the network somehow, than it was to deal with getting them to type things into a command line.

And that’s before you even consider servers and where your stuff all goes. With MS it goes into “the cloud”, and you don’t need to worry too much about anything other than paying for it. With your own hardware, you very much need to worry because if you don’t, then one day it won’t be there any more.

Ain’t no such thing as free.

Don’t worry. They’ll get a big discount on licenses and swap right back again.

The Tates sell their “be a man” coaching package. The message from the top of this bullshit, is that there is something you can do, we have the secrets, now give us money.

I still do.

I wish they’d open source Delphi (and most of the libraries). Might actually breathe some life back into it.

Fortran has a logo now?

I think it mostly comes down to sharing stuff with others.

There’s a lot of stuff in Jellyfin you wouldn’t want to expose to the internet.

No idea if Jellyfin even has a client for my dad’s shonky old 4K TV, but I certainly wouldn’t be able to set up Wireguard or anything on it.

But not expensive enough to stop them killing people through negligence and greed.

I’d rather recommend every CEO see it in action…

They’re the ones who would be cock-a-hoop to replace us and our expensive wages with kids and bots.

When they’re sitting around rocking back and forth and everything is on fire like that Community GIF, they’ll find my consultancy fees to be quite a bit higher than my wages used to be.

I consider boilerplate code output like that to be well within reach of simple tools though. Tools that didn’t need a year to learn from hundreds of terabytes of examples, 20GB of VRAM, or the power use of a small city.