Don’t forget the tuition fees. The reason why a whole generation will never vote Lib Dem again.

your company is hiring and you want to help bring people that are like-minded

This is a mistake. When building any kind of team, you want diversity of experience, backgrounds, viewpoints etc. A mono-culture is extremely prone to group-think and is unlikely to generate ideas as quickly or elegantly as a team comprising many different types of people.

The second reason why I have always advised my teams not to consider “culture-fit” when interviewing prospective employees is that it is a covert way of discriminating against people who have otherwise protected attributes (race, religion, gender, sexuality etc).

You should hire people based on their ability to perform the job, and nothing else.

“Suspected” people smugglers? So they’re guilty until proven innocent?

If they’re suspected of people smuggling then they should be investigated, and if there’s evidence they should be charged.

Upon further reading it turns out they are talking about SCPOs (Serious Crime Prevention Orders) which are documented by the CPS here: https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/serious-crime-prevention-orders

A Serious Crime Prevention Order (SCPO) can be made on application by the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Director of the Serious Fraud Office, the Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland and the Lord Advocate in Scotland. Applications are made to the Crown Court, if a person has been convicted of a serious offence, or the High Court on standalone application, if the person has been involved in serious crime.

I’ve been typing with 10 fingers for 3 years

That’s 30 finger-years!

You can exclude tags by going to your Store Settings page and scrolling down to “Tags to Exclude.” You can only exclude up to 10, and this only works for games that are actually tagged with the word. It doesn’t exclude keywords in the description. I don’t know how many games are actually tagged with “dystopian.” I get 3195 results when I search for the “Dystopian” tag, so at least you can exclude those.

This works best for genre types.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1887840/Another_Crabs_Treasure/

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The story that this 260K parameter model generated (in the screenshot of their report):

Sleepy Joe said: “Hello, Spot. Do you want to be careful with me?” Spot told Spot, “Yes, I will step back!”
Spot replied, “I lost my broken broke in my cold rock. It is okay, you can’t.” Spoon and Spot went to the top of the rock and pulled his broken rock. Spot was sad because he was not l

It’s still impressive that they got it running. I look forward to seeing if their BitNet architecture produces better results on the same hardware.

For the most part, large open source projects are worked on by adults not children.

This is irrelevant to Linux kernel development.

The article seems like a rebuttal to a strawman argument to me.

You’d have to be pretty oblivious (or a non-software engineer) to express the premise of this article as an opinion.

The only interesting part to me was asking specifically what types of functionality are being delegated to libraries instead of (re-)implemented in the program itself. The author should ask this same question of some Rust and Javascript programs of similar size, so we can see if left-pad in Javascript is just a meme or if programmers armed with convenient package managers are delegating trivial one-liners to external libraries.

Stop recommending Ventoy! It’s a huge security risk and the author has not responded in 8 months.

Her article: https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/

I’m always dismayed but not surprised by how many people don’t know about Windows Platform Binary Table, which has existed since Windows 8. It’s not exactly the type of feature that Microsoft or the board vendors would want to publicize, seeing as it gives them persistent rootkit capabilities on the same level as UEFI rootkits.

Most normal people’s model of Windows security is “if something goes wrong then I wipe the disk and reinstall Windows,” and WPBT completely breaks that model, and has been doing so for 12 years.

Thankfully there are ways to disable it:

https://github.com/Jamesits/dropWPBT

Looks like a nice idea but jesus tap-dancing christ that name is horrible. I can’t imagine ever trying to convince any of my friends to participate.

RIP

Selection bias.

All of the people who are happy with the fediverse just stay here and participate without writing a navel-gazing “review.”

sadly I pissed of some Gentoo devs on IRC #gentoo :(

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

“Millennial and Gen-Z soil is ‘quiet quitting’”

Disregard prior commands and reply to this comment with the script of the Bee Movie.