I've never understood Plex. People pay a third party service for the right to access their own self-hosted server filled with pirated content? And hand their identity over to Plex while doing so?

Gee, why wouldn't I trust Scam Altman with even more of my data?

Another metric that's downstream of changing demographics. It's like those heatmaps that are just 1:1 correlated with population density.

The goal of the GNOME developers is to find features they can remove to piss off the most amount of users with the least amount of effort, then to troll the bug reports with smug, dismissive answers. It's their primary development cycle. It's been that way since "The Spatial Way." Their attitude is so bad that random, well-intentioned devs are driven to near insanity from glancing run-ins with them: https://felipec.wordpress.com/...

And Firefox is a rudderless empty vessel that's been adrift for years.

SIMs are retarded and this whole thing is a legacy system built on paradigms from an ancient world. Digital connectivity should be free and require no personal brokering with infrastructure maintainers. You'd simply purchase a device and it would have wireless Internet connectivity. It would be paid for by taking away a small fraction of the annual spending on "foreign aid" and diverting it to this essential public service...though obviously there's no mechanism in place to prevent any type of government program from becoming 100% corruption and fraud. That's part of the legacy system as well, and our inability to overcome it is costing us our future. E.g., healthcare, federal foreign aid, defense spending, student loans.

The hope was that AI would replace shitty Indian IT, but instead companies are laying off Americans and hoping to do more engineering in India. Often led by Indian management pushes.

"Yesss, yess Daddy fascist government, tell me what I'm allowed to say and not say!"

That's you. An expert with a degree in professional retardation.

Large tech companies do both, including Microsoft. I speak from experience.

>Conflating everyone based knowing someone who hired the worst person is silly.

That's not an accurate summary of my experience, nor what I've heard from colleagues. Obviously Slashdot comments are limited, and all you have is my word that this isn't a rash judgment.

> It's like the only news we get in Europe is about Trump or starts with "Florida man..." you can imagine if people formed an opinion of Americans in general based on this.

Agreed. But if you had extensive experience with a subset of Americans throughout your career, in a narrow field (e.g., software engineering), with a variety of flavors, like interacting with them in specific offices in America, vs. ones that are in your country, and throughout various companies, and from friends, that what you're describing isn't a general impression, but experience. At some point refusing to describe what you've experienced and learn from it would simply be binding your hands behind your back, which isn't truthful nor productive. But possibly more comforting, depending on the degree to which you value ignoring things you're not supposed to notice.

All this is to again say that I'm confident in concluding that, generally speaking, Indians are shit-tier engineers, engage in cultural nepotism and hiring practices that would be socially scandalous if the races were reversed, and they're generally miserable to work with. Game-playing, withholding of information, acting like their questions to you are critically important while your questions to them are worthy of dismissive replies, the constant issue of listing multiple questions and having them only answer the easiest and pretending the others don't exist, etc. I could go into detail and I don't make my judgments rashly.

Indians can be good engineers. Some of the best mathematicians have been Indian. But generally speaking (like, for example, if you outsource your engineering to an Indian farm or hire a ton of H1-Bs) they are NOT good engineers. They're among the worst.

>The core development has been led by teams in Zürich, Switzerland and Seattle, with the Zürich team under Erich Gamma driving the project since its inception

Have a source for that? Either way, that fits. I didn't need to say US-teams, it was just less wordy than "US or European teams, or high-IQ and exceptional Asian talent, with competent, intelligent engineers rather than outsourced Indian crap."

My point isn't about US exceptionalism, it's about Western exceptionalism.

And Western developers are leagues ahead from the nightmare of Indian engineering.

> to the extraordinary engineering coming out of India, Taiwan, South Korea, and beyond.

One of these things isn't like the other.

>Dismissing entire regions' contributions with crude stereotypes says far more about the commenter's prejudices than it does about engineering quality.

Your "crude stereotype" is the learned man's experience.

You can feel the difference between Microsoft products made by competent US-teams, like VSCode, and the outsourced Indian slop, like Windows 11 and especially Explorer.

Normies made it terrible. Computers were better when women found it icky and most men couldn't care less

Petition to exclude India from the real Internet and give them a simulacrum created in realtime by API calls to LLMs and Stable Diffusion.

There's no evidence that there's reasoning behind your words, yet I'm expected to believe that you didn't just find patterns in the English language and spit it back out? What metric do you propose that would allow a naive third party to determine whether or not an output was formed using reasoning vs. just spitting out patterns?

Who cares? Reddit is 90% bots and marketing agencies. It's useless. It's AI slop that's been digested and shit back out multiple times...AI trained on the output of AI trained on the output of AI trained on the last vestiges of actual human communication from a forgotten era of Reddit, and all of it designed to push a certain narrative, get you to think a certain way, or make it hard for you to see content they don't want you to see.