Congrats on getting a job!

Joyless money-hoarding is why I'm currently able to joylessly pay rent during this terrifying bout of unemployment

You write prose in Vim? What kinds of plugins do you use for that?

Even if you get published, it's likely that nobody will read it. Do people still read magazines? I'm not sure what the formula for success is now.

I prefer pay walls if I can buy a single article. I hate how everything is a subscription now.

Found the guy from the heater + aquarium + massagepad + paper + coffee + toilet paper + soap + HVAC +sugar lobby!

They are going to regret this.

I really hope they do. But now is a good time to put the squeeze on devs. Lots of people are having a hard time finding a software job and they'll be extra reluctant to do a mass exodus.

Why do you need curtains on your windows?

To make sure the whole world isn't just a window for the HR department. I can have "dissident" views, or just talk trash with my friends, and not get fired since it wasn't at the office.

To make sure real dissidents (from totalitarian countries) can express their political views.

So a lady can send her husband feet pics without some secret agent spy gawking at them too.

So I can share my family's secret BBQ sauce recipe with my cousin without Arby's stealing it (they have eyes everywhere).

But these are all specific things. The truth is that we simply cannot trust institutions with all our data. I don't need a reason for privacy. They need a reason to have my info. Security is a legit reason to seek citizens' info, generally, but you should need a specific security-related reason to access a specific person's data.

Understood, thanks!

The videos are AI because I don't have any money. The novel is written by myself, me, a human being who has no money because I spent the last three years writing a novel.

Edit:

the voice is also me, a human, who spent months huddled in a closet narrating the audiobook version.

They have electrolytes

My copy of the Bible was signed by Moses. True story!

Oh nice, fellow Canadians doing the good work.

I would greatly prefer public sector development. I'm just being fatalistic about how our oligarchy conducts itself.

I like democracy, but I don't like our short-sighted (4-8 year) election-campaign-based governing. But between our public and private sectors I know we can meet this challenge and make this happen.

Man, I wish we (Canada) were that ambitious. I know lemmy hates Elon Musk but I really admire his ambition in technical pursuits. I'm not saying we need more Elon Musks, but we should pursue more grand projects.

I don't remember ever expecting much.

All my jobs have been paycheck-to-paycheck until about 3 years ago. My last job allowed me to save up $24k, but then I lost my job. Now I'm down to $7k and getting worried.

Hey, a Norm MacDonald reference!

Yeah Microsoft should take the risk here, not American citizens.