Don’t worry. They’ll take the woke sissy hygiene to the gun range and shoot it.

What’d someone do, advocate for free healthcare?

He’s so stupid it’s astounding.

“The smartest man in the world.”

As many free alternatives as there were before the rampant vibecoding, it seems that this growing collection of tools is not only functional, but a message to the large companies as well. Most of these apps are still far from what they intend to replace, however, so we’ll have to see how deep this message cuts.

Blood in the water for Adobe. Acrobat is a steaming pile of garbage. My org worked with their engineering team to track down a bug that we reported. They affirmed the bug (app hangs on launch) and then took four to five months fixing it.

I’ve worked in software engineering. I know that debugging, patching, testing, verifying is difficult. But the enterprise license costs a lot and that was a very long time with a crippling bug. The only satisfactory answer (to me) is that they don’t feel urgency because they are entrenched without real competition. They need to wake up.

(No, I don’t think vibe-coded Acrobat replacements will unseat them. I think LLM-powered real devs will come for them because the moat is smaller.)

Incapable. Completely, utterly, unable to understand.

Yep. Pretty much.

Alabama Man!

“When his wife asks him where he’s been, just use the action button and bust her lip open.”

Another franchise, but also relevant.

I’m so proud that we’re led by a cool guy who doesn’t give a fuck about us. Yay California.

State workers are about to strike in a couple of weeks. Even cooler.

Pathetic.

Was it because Win11 had a bunch of slopcoded Copilot bs? Inquiring minds want to know.

Good. That’s a captive audience. Fuck people who do this. Same as when a dance group plays loud music on a train I can’t exit while performing a routine.

Hi. I’m Nobody.

MAGA women are so good at making themselves look plastic and fake.

That you don’t care what happens to the Trans people that I know and care about?

I’m sorry that I want more than what dems are willing to deliver. It’s my fault they aren’t offering anything but “us or it’ll be even worse.” You’re right. I should stop asking for universal healthcare, Trans rights, an end to the genocide of the Palestinian people, and all that other crap. Sure thing.

Wake up. Most dems don’t care about you. It’s time we replace them.

So do I. We had our financial person take steps to limit our exposure. Still, I expect we’ll take a major hit regardless. Hopefully, we can ride it out with no major financial emergency forcing us to sell while the market is down.

Forgive me, but I’m just gonna be vulgar for a moment. My partner and I are well off. I don’t usually like to mention it, but I will in this context. We were discussing our ability to absorb the price increases pretty easily and how we feel not a shred of compassion for the maga shitheads who experience financial precarity because of how they voted. Fuck 'em.

On the other hand, I feel bad for their children who didn’t choose to have groceries become less accessible, their education shat upon, and the same with every other way those kids get hurt by their stupid parents’ bad politics.

And that’s saying nothing of all the good people who didn’t invite this upon themselves and tried to prevent it from happening but suffer just the same. I hope for the least harm to be visited upon people who didn’t do this to themselves. And the most for those that cheered for it. (I normally only want good things for people, but I take this moment to give in to my anger a bit.)

No, piracy is about “Yaaaarrrr!”

In its submission to the EU’s Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List consultation, the group calls yt-dlp “a major problem for the music industry” and names four of its maintainers by their GitHub handles.

Ok, so add YouTube to the list.