No but this time will be different I’m sure!! I’m sure they’ve learned their lessons from their past mistakes. Trust me on this… I’m a dolphin

What a beautiful, lovely gentleman he was. Sorry for your loss.

I installed Zorin OS on two family laptops today. Hope it works out. They also run Ubuntu Cinnamon on another one and I was amazed to see a crusty 2005 laptop I’d last booted to install Debian on in 2018 start up for the first time in 7 years just fine. The thing just bloody worked, no drama.

Asking for source on the internet? We don’t do that round these parts

I mean sure, OP’s title is somewhat clickbaity but it’s kind of true though. YouTube have broken compatibility with all existing unofficial clients. It’s good that yt-dlp are managing to work around it. I expect many other clients will follow suit but some of them may be unable to install additional dependencies and remain broken.

Ultimately, what is the last straw that will break the camel’s back? Every client/consumer will have their breaking point.

If kids have learned to run their own Minecraft private servers, hosting a VPN should be child’s play… Pun maybe intended.

I tried GPT-5 to write some code the other day and was quite unimpressed with how lazy it is. For every single thing, it needed nudging. I’m going back to Sonnet and Gemini. And even so, you’re right. As it stands, LLMs are useful at refactoring and writing boilerplate and repetitive code, which does save time. But they’re definitely shit at actually solving non-trivial problems in code and designing and planning implementation at a high level.

They’re basically a better IntelliSense and automated refactoring tool, but I wouldn’t trust them with proper software engineering tasks. All this vibe coding and especially agentic development bullshit people (mainly uneducated users and the AI vendors themselves) are shilling these days, I’m going nowhere near around.

I work in a professional software development team in a business that is pushing the AI coding stuff really hard. So many of my coworkers use agentic development tools routinely now to do most (if not all) of their work for them. And guess what, every other PR that goes in, random features that had been built and working are removed entirely, so then we have to do extra work to literally build things again that had been ripped out by one of these AI agents. smh

This hits the nail right on the head. The point of cloud services is to take away all the overheads of building and delivering software solutions that have nothing to do with the actual business problem I’m trying to solve.

If I want to get a new product to market, I want to spend most of my time making my core product better, more marketable, more efficient. I don’t want to divert time and resources to just keep the lights on, like having to hire a whole bunch of people whose only jobs is to provision and manage servers and IT infrastructure (or nurse a Kubernetes cluster for that matter). Managing Kubernetes or physical tin servers is not what my business is about. All this tech infrastructure is a means to an end, not the end itself.

That’s why cloud services is such a cost efficient proposition for 98% businesses. Hell, if I could run everything using a serverless model (not always possible or cost effective) I’d do it gladly.

Yeah, but there are degrees of vulnerability. Otherwise, things like password strength or MFA wouldn’t matter.

If all your passwords are fully random, then that’s one less weakness that can be exploited. People can’t make educated guesses about your passwords just from analysing your social media profiles and history, e.g. if you post a lot about Star Wars, it’s more likely your passwords could contain a Star Wars reference.

That system is vulnerable to social engineering attacks. If hackers found out all their favourite things that lead to the core part of the password, guessing the prefix wouldn’t be that hard. Also, what would your friend do if one of these passwords got compromised and had to change it? Would he just add a 1 to the site-specific part of the password?

Lol

Sure, on their own, but are they part of any defence treaties like NATO or have alliances with other countries strong enough to drag them into this conflict with Pakistan and start a world war?

Agreed.

A lot of the time the cause of bad UX or poor quality code is not the Devs, but management, one way or another. Either through pressure to build more to increasingly delirious timelines or by not looking after their company culture.

You tend to see nonsensical, disjointed product UX and usability decisions a lot more in bigger, highly hierarchical organisations, with big teams, highly specialised, siloed ICs several levels removed from their end users by layers and layers of middle management fat.

I imagine if HSBC put out apps like OP’s article claims is because they probably follow a command and control structure like above, where developers are just tiny cogs hyper-focused on low-level tasks in a bigger, complex corporate machine and nobody really understands the full picture.

But you can validate the business rules with the people that make them: the business or your users?

I get some companies do things pretty fucking backwards and QA as a separate function is harmful, pointless and should be abandoned.

However, I don’t see how anyone from QA is going to physically stop your from testing and validating your code. As a dev, you could be more proactive in understanding what you’re building, why you’re building it, and how to make sure it works and it does what your stakeholders/users need it to do.

If you don’t, then refer to OP’s post.

Yes they would, in theory, because those prosthetics she’s wearing were NHS-funded. I can see the waitlist to get ones like those being pretty fucking long though but hey, what NHS waitlist is not pretty fuck long these days anyway

ITT people claiming this could be a WW3 starter. Even if India engaged Pakistan militarily, I fail to see how that would lead to anything larger than a localised conflict.

Like, neither country is geopolitically significant enough for any major players to care at that level. Sure, India getting bogged down in war could affect supply chains around the world, but would any of the heavyweights like US, China, Russia or a semi-relevant NATO country think that would be worth their involvement? If Russia being on year 11 of their military invasion of a NATO-bordering country hasn’t sparked a world war yet, I don’t see how this would either.

I don’t think he has a clue either.

Literally the only good thing that could come out of this shit show.

I’m getting really fucking tired of living in interesting times. I’ve lived through 9/11, the 2008 crash, a first Trump term through COVID-19, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and now a second Trump term through another financial crisis.

Give me a fucking break.

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