100÷. I used to work for a bank and the lending team didn’t even know how to calculate loan repayments. They just deferred to what the core banking system did.

The core banking system was written in a proprietary language in the 70’s and machine translated into another (slightly newer) proprietary language in the 90’s. At the time I wouldnt be surprised if management was patting themselves on the back for a modernisation job well done. Just get the computer to do the conversion, right? The sales guys of the new platform assured us they could migrate everything automatically and we always trust a sales guy!

Of course the machine translation is like reading machine code so very difficult to understand / follow / change. The developers working on it were in maintenance mode and everyone was afraid to touch it incase some calculation broke.

The point is that it’s exactly what you described - the users were trained to push buttons and trust the system output without actually knowing what they were doing and if it was correct.

Pretty sure the bank recently got fined for compliance breaches as well. It’s not because anyone there was bad, they just had no idea how anything was meant to work

I can make up numbers too!

France is a safe haven for foss media codecs because its law does not consider software patentable

TIL there is a country that sees reason about software patents

If I was a bot author intent on causing misery I’d just use the user agent from the latest version of Firefox/Chrome/Edge that legitimate users would use.

It’s just a string controlled by the client at the end of the day and I’m surprised the GPT and OpenAI bots announce themselves in it. Associating meaning on the server side is always going to be problematic if the client can control the value

TIL Cert Warden is a thing. Looks awesome!

100s is 100 seconds

Takes me back to my first Arch install in like 2008.

I used Arch btw

The irony is, unlike the old days - actually AMD (ATI) is recommend for Linux now because the drivers are better.

This is in stark contrast to the fglrx days where that driver was an absolute abortion and NVIDIA was really the only usable one.

Not sure when you started your Linux journey but I avoided AMD for years based on that.

Now the tables have turned but I didn’t realize until after I purchased my NUC which has NVIDIA RTX graphics. So I guess I’m stuck on NVIDIA for the foreseeable future

unishittification, that’s a new one.

I like it!

^ this guy corporates

Also, new manager would be part owner in a UX design firm of “experts” that conveniently, via their expert advice, convince management that a major redesign is needed and their firm is the only one that can do it (since everyone knows you can’t get expert advice internally)

80% of the way through the project, the manager gets promoted and moves on, leaving a new manager with no vested interest in their predecessors project to try and clean up the steaming dumpster fire that is now 300x over budget

640 exabytes should be enough for anyone!

In a free market, aren’t you free to collude with your competitors in order to fix prices?

What are you talking about? TempleOS isn’t a punishment, it’s a reward

We cannot, Python explicitly doesn’t do TCO.

http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2009/04/tail-recursion-elimination.html?m=1

RecursionError: Maximum recursion depth exceeded image manipulation toolkit

No way, at least Gentoo is up to date

If you wanted to truly punish them, install Debian Stable

I hope this never happens to me but based on the Peter Principle I won’t know when it happens.

Oh shit maybe it’s already happened…

I was thinking about this the other day. Because Lemmy instances keep defederating from each other, I don’t really experience Lemmy. I experience a fragment of Lemmy as determined by the admins of the instance I’m connected to.

Even if I run my own instance, I guess there’s nothing stopping instances from defederating from me (or just refusing to federate to begin with because my instance is too small to bother with).

Is there even a way to experience all of Lemmy, including spam and things some people don’t agree with?

Why? All it’s going to do is output some words that have a statistical correlation to your input words