All modern software has a shellacked turd at the center. Wrapped in more crap and more varnish. I'm not sure where we're trying to go with this, no software is trustworthy if you didn't write it, and if you did, that just means you know where to find some peanuts. Hasn't stopped us from getting by with what we have because I don't want to make all that crap myself. Security isn't black and white, it never was, it's about risk.

"Compromised" sounds an awful lot like how "unfree" is thrown around. Some kind of purity test for other people's crap. Sorry, but I'm not putting any shiny turd up on a pedestal, free or not. I'm using what works while taking a measured, risk based approach to security.

OK Putin

Projection.

so long as people still want to buy beanie babies ...

What language is this?

You are wrong. In all levels of knowledge work, if you provide garbage input you get garbage output.

There's an old notion that if you don't put care and consideration into what you're asking me to do, I might threaten to do exactly what you ask and let you find out. I may know better, my more professional judgment may be to do what you want, not what you ask. It may often be to TELL you what you want, and disregard everything you said. Someone less experienced would simply do what you ask and cause a lot of trouble. There are FAR more people like that than seasoned veterans that will tell you what you're asking is stupid to save you from yourself. People that know when to say NO.

That is why you're wrong. There is an entire world of information workers that will try to do what you ask, and they are not useless. We use formal communication to reduce the chance of errors, we make you fill out forms for work requests, we review the work of junior employees to make sure they're not satisfying a weird request or in an unconventional way without reason. We watch out for **clever** solutions that should have been aborted early because the ask was stupid. That's not even just knowledge work I described there, that's our entire workforce, every job ever, the purpose of team leads, shift leads, whatever you call them.

It's sad that on /. we have this much ignorance. There are dozens of free LLMs out there, there is no excuse for being this uninformed. They are useful because of the work we can get out of them.

You COWARD, don't you DARE blame video games for deranged psychopaths attacking election officials, judges, congressmen, governors, mayors, the Capitol, pizza parlors, or Republican leaders openly threatening to imprison or execute their opponents because they disagree with them.

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You know god damned well video games have nothing to do with all this hate, all the lies and all the cruelty going on around us. "metaphor" my ass, people eating cats and dogs wasn't presented as a metaphor, it was presented as truth, to dehumanize normal everyday people, and to stir hatred and paint a target on their backs. And that's just par for the course, because if I have to make up something cruel to bring your attention to the hatred, I will. - Vice President of the United States. Fucking video games. Are you serious.

DarkOx on self censoring to not to enrage a minority group's feelings. When he is in that group.

Yah I know your post history bud, fuck your feelings.

Everyone that doesn't understand what misinformation is should irrigate their nasal passages with hot shallow pond water to boost activity of their immune system.

That's factual, it will make your immune system go wild. It's also misleading, and dangerous. But only if you believe in misinformation, if you don't, then make sure you get the water all the way up there for maximum effect.

That is abhorrent, and extremely irresponsible medical advice. You should get things like flu vaccines to reduce the spread of a highly infectious disease, so you don't miss work unexpectedly, AND to avoid other unpleasant side effects or complications. Not just based on your individual chances of being put in the dirt by the disease.

It's not rocket surgery. The entire U.S. military requires annual flu shots despite being very young and fit compared to the general population. They do it for force readiness. They've done this long before cousin fucking magatards labeled everything they can't spell as "woke"

What kind of drooling TikTok moron gave you your opinions on the matter, because Jesus F Christ that is stupid medical advice and you should stop. YouTube is right to pull that bullshit.

How, the government has been in different hands for what, nine months now hasn't it?

So the government didn't recently change, what did? Oh, the President of the United States personally threatened and sued YouTube, who settled the bribe out of court by agreeing to ... ?

So, I'm sorry, can someone please explain which government is forcing Youtube to do something they don't want to? Which government coerced YouTube? It's blatantly obvious, Trump did.

No new wars have started, yet, so he's doing well? THAT'S the bar? Plus any war ended fully on the terms of the authoritarian shitheel that started it, you'll take credit for that too right. Ok retard.

When we invade Venezuela, you'll outlaw the term "war" and mandate "special military operation", that's the next plan right.

Christ dude, I promise never to shit in your mouth, can I get your vote? It'll be amazing, no shits in any mouths, the best no shit starter, biggest.

This message is to everyone outside the IT organization where they work but depending on it.

This is what I was talking about, this is what blamelessly creating jobs for ourselves looks like. Gee, it's going to be a shame when all those big windows break, gonna need me to fix 'em. The guys in the brick department sure don't know what they're doing I tells yah. Another day at ACME Paver & Glass Co.

The only way out of this is demanding lower complexity, more resiliency, and more accountability. Holding the IT organization's budget hostage for a singular focus on cheaper solutions is threatening us with a good time.

Think about it like your car. You want a cheaper car, so do I. What we don't want is a *cheap* car. One that keeps sending you back to unaccountable mechanics to patch it up, and a sales goon offering a replacement to "fix" it. I'm not saying both are in on some big conspiracy together, but don't let them stand there pointing fingers at one another. Part of the problem is us demanding more for less, but it's not as simple as offering more money. Compromising on quality is a decision someone has to make or unmake. Hold people accountable when it happens. It will take a lot more general knowledge about what quality looks like, in cars and IT, and that's how we can reverse this mess.

*IT operations and the rest of the business rolls their eyes*

Seriously? Most of what we do ("knowledge workers") is figuring out what over complicated shenanigans some developer thought was a great idea, overlaid on someone else's *brilliant* idea, duct taped to an intern's chain of wet brain farts produced over the spring break he got herpes.

All I can do is look at twenty years of progress towards unusable software, inhumane interface design, time-vampire-ware, undisciplined antiengineering and feel no empathy whatsoever. If you created usable software, well engineered tools, you'd recognize that a kid with AI CAN'T DO THAT. If you're creating another PoS web app with indescribable, unintuitive UI elements or if your man page is a .go file on GitHub, then go fuck yourselves, you highly skilled fuckwits. Good. Be afraid some kid will out produce your bullshit, because they can.

This industry constantly creates jobs by making dog shit tier software solutions. What we're now looking at is AI assisted dog doo. A single yaml structure created with all the care it takes to press out a steaming pile can generate THOUSANDS of jobs across the whole IT sector. AI will be used to make it, and more AI will be used to infer what the hell we're supposed to do with it from sparse examples online and missing documentation. Net increase in jobs. I fucking promise, that is the future of AI in software engineering. A bunch of highly skilled tools couldn't reduce complexity before, they won't now.

Thank you for saying the quiet part out loud. If more conservatives would openly admit they were into the dong, so many problems would go away. Go get yourself some gay onlyfans and stop the hate, be brave buck-yar.