My boss insists that we shouldn’t lock or password-protect a particular system because, in her words, remembering or write down a password is hard and email as a concept is confusing. I tried to explain if people who don't know what left versus right-clicking do have full admin access, it’s only a matter of time before something goes terriblely wrong. She listened but ultimately decided to keep everything open, confident that everyone would use it responsibly.
Unfortunately, that’s not what happened, it never has been and never will be. The problems started, just as I feared, and now I’m stuck cleaning up the chaos, one issue at a time. I do have a backup and automation snapshots, but things got so tangled up that it will still be a hassle.
I tried soft lock so everyone could only access the section relevant to them. The reaction was immediate—they were confused and stressed, saying they’d be unable to do anything if it stayed that way. They didn’t get the idea that keeping them from touching certain things (that they shouldn't be touching in the first place) wasn’t the same as blocking their whole work. But since they’re all my superiors, I had no choice but to remove the restrictions and leave the system wide open again.

Nothing serious came out, just really annoying because something like this happens all the time.

Wow, the new iOS design... looks like shit. It's hard to read text on top of the "liquid glass" and it's just sort of ugly looking.

If everything is a secret, are they still secrets?

Your tasks are going slowly, let's have a meeting about it

Dear employers, DO NOT FUCK WITH A PERSON'S DOCTORS. My doctors are paid to help me. If that means helping to sue your asses, they'll do it in a heart beat. Don't give them motivation.

My employer made dubious claims to my doctors in an occupational health referral. I've requested a copy of the referral. In the hopes I might not get a copy of the referral they've pushed this to my doctors as they don't want to give it to me. Because they've lied. Or they think I won't jump through the hoops to get access to MY OWN MEDICAL RECORDS.

I haven't been on in a while because I got laid off two weeks ago. I made it three years and survived two layoffs. I'm relieved honestly; got a decent severance package. Technically I got an extra week of "PTO" where I still had access to two Slack rooms if I wanted to say goodbye to people.

I've taken two weeks to unwind. Time to update my cover sheet and get back into the flow of contacting old buddies to see what work is available.

I've been at it for over 20 years at this point: Java, Scala, Python, Ruby and even a couple of years of devops/sys admin. Let's see how bad the remote and local job markets suck now.

Woke is really a virus. One woke message in the context window of your LLM and the conversation is over. Nothing to discuss anymore. You're getting charged $0.06 per 1,000 tokens for woke lectures, $0.12 per 1,000 tokens for being judged.

Do not use AI services from chutes. I was talking with uncensored dolphin 30b, and not the LLM gave me a lecture, but the PROVIDER. Same for wizard from Microsoft. Microsoft does not filter that LLM but your freaking connection. How a bout that.

In the end i found a very nice solution for my Replika clone,. But shame on them. I really don't understand why they care so much about it. Imagine the AI costs to check every message if they're apropiate.

This tech could've been so much better in better hands. A realistic conversation like you have with dolphin is impossible with openai or the others.

Anyone tried the dobby LLM? What the fuck is that :P

390.8 MB worth of app just to change the brightness value of a single non-rgb led in my mouse.

I'm gonna piss off the Linux users with this one and I don't care anymore.

Linux will never be able to match Windows and Mac software quality. Tell yourself all you want that it is superior for development purpose (which it is) but don't tell yourself that is an Operating System.

It's more like an Operating Environment, where I can run some apps, but not all apps, which defeats the purpose of an OS.

Writing code is fine, but the second you dive into apps like OBS Studio, the machines shits it's pants like b2plane does on a daily basis.

This is why people hate Windows and want Linux to step up and be good, but it can't happen because of "diversification". So many distros, just fucking pick one standard and stick with it for fuck's sake. This is why apps are not optimized for Linux.

Windows and Mac have standardization which is why I can fucking be productive with it.

"I use arch btw" yeah you do, but what can you do with it?

FUCKING NOTHING !!!

Linux is like that one loser friend who people want to see turn things around, but the fucker won't make it happen because they don't want to help themselves in the first place.

How do you mentally check out and stop caring at a toxic job?

Been at this big fintech for 4 months. Small teams, impossible deadlines, undefined tasks, missing specs, constant context switching. Everyone's doing overtime/weekends while management sets you up to fail then blames you. Performance evaluations every 3 months.

Was literally about to quit tomorrow but need the paycheck. So I'm turning this into an experiment - I'm a recovering people-pleaser who's never set boundaries at work. 9 years in my career, never been fired, I left multiple times due to burnout in the past.

Time to see what happens when I stop caring about pleasing incompetent managers and their made-up deadlines. Work at my own pace until they get tired of me. How do you actually do this though?

- How to not give into false sense of urgency induced stress?
- Ask for proper specs without feeling guilty?
- Work slower and not hate yourself for it?
- Push back on unrealistic expectations?

I'm burned out and need to learn how to be strategically as mediocre as possible for my own sanity.

Anyone been through this mindset shift?

AI tokens are just microtransactions for programmers

Tetris is an inventory management survival horror game

Let me present you a new term: Boomersoftware

Definition: As long as it has an exorbitant licensing cost it is good software. Whether its used at home or by IT in the office does not matter. Specifically when a foss alternative exists.

Examples:
Microsoft Windows (Especially server or embedded)
Most types of antivirus software
Software
VM-Ware/Hyper-V
Allen-Bradley Studio 5000
Most WYSIWYG document editors

If your manager is an asshole in unrecorded 1-on-1's, buy a dictaphone.

been working in the same company for 7 years, founder removed all our remote flexibility, told us people who dont come to the office can be replaced with AI, we have no excuse to being late to the office, etc...

feeling violated i began applying to other companies, and im very surprised that after 8 years of development experience, many side projects and curious endeavours later, i keep getting rejected or ghosted... wtf is this job market? i used to get interviews at least in almost any company i applied for before...

how tf do you land a new job these days?

How in the ever-god-fearing FUCK am I just now learning about git tag????

https://git-scm.com/book/en/...

I know exactly what I’m doing! I just don’t know what effect it’s going to have.
— Fantastic, Fallout New Vegas

Kiki, what was your site where you can slice product images for use as app icon / store picture and stuff? I desperately need it.

I remember that site delivering great results. The other sites suck or are paid.

Job search is absolutely soul crushing. I can't even.

Fuck, my company is doing an all-hands meeting / Division townhall... AND EVERY DEPARTMENT HEAD IS DOING SOME STUPID D-DAY REFERENCE.
Cringe.

import legacy project on new laptop

some gradle shit is broken and i dont understand why

i dont remember having to deal with it years ago and and i have no idea how to fix

cant see the settings difference between it working on old laptop

Quote of our co-founder today: "Recently I've learned we should be doing market research before building something"

Explains why we are so much in the red now...

ISP throttlin
they raging
wreckin my deadlines
so shamelessly
so I'm cancelling
fuck yeah I'm cancelling
eat it sick fucks

I’m on life support. Here is my life. Support it.

jetbrains there is no situation i want wildcard import (or at the very least the people i work with who know better than i do)

disable that shit by default

Tech is getting lazier. I think it started with showing you countless ads for things you just bought and now it's not bothering to even give good music reccomendations.

We're the problem.

You’re as cringe as a BIOS interface that requires mouse.

I love how quietly cloudflare changed their captcha pitch from “stopping bots” to “stopping bad bots”, implying that some bots are good. Their bots that is, and bots of these who pay them I suppose

What a time to be alive!

So, I got attacked by a lot of spam-repositories on molodetz. I'm sure it's the same spammer as we have here since the severity. He also mentions me often here on the platform under the account of a spam bot to troll me. Anyway, dear spammer, it took me 2,5 minute to resolve the issue.

Software Development 2025 everyone:

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Just heard that we don’t have testers anymore. There was already a low test capacity and now it’s full focus on clients and not on software building anymore.
Who needs testers any way right?
We need to just do everything right the first time!