or, as you wrote, “steals”

Nice hallucination, clanker. Fuck off.

This is a great change. I wonder how long before the hate brigade comes along to complain.

No. Employment is finite. Including someone means excluding someone else.

“DEI hire” has a different definition depending on whether you’re talking about design or implementation.

Design: Non-discriminatory hiring practices where race, gender, age, religion and disabilities are overlooked. You get hired purely on your ability to do the job. Appropriate disability supports are given if required.

Implementation: Cheap foreign labour obscured by marketing spin and a calendar of wokewashing. Applicants are hired based on a quota that in no way reflects the talent pool.

I get that hiring practices should not discriminate, but in practice, what I have seen is the opposite of meritocracy. My company had many DEI hires, and they were the first to go when the money got tight.

I’m in Australia. We have a king and it’s no big deal. Thailand has a king and it’s no big deal.

What you have on your hands is an imminient dictator. You don’t want that.

I looked it up. It was a thing from 1973 to 1981.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Tasman_Travel_Arrangement

It wasn’t that long ago that you could travel between the two without a passport.

Bed goes up. AWS goes down.

AWS outage. Basically Bezos went down on all his customers.

It’s funny that people get upset about one line in a config file that’s not even selected by default.

Imagine running a website for 20 years, changing absolutely nothing, and one day you’re being targeted because someone else on the other side of the planet changed something at their end.

Tell them to piss off.

They’ll come after your phpbb instance next.

It would be nice if this extended to all text, images, audio and video on news websites. That’s where the real damage is happening.

The stepping-stone would be de-googled Android like LineageOS or GrapheneOS. I think Linux is the end-game though.

frustrated by ads that feel irrelevant

What?

Do they think we have a friend-or-foe system that only shoots down advertisements from adversaries?

An ad is an ad, and should be terminated on sight.

It’s not attention to detail. Normies are affected by social pressures and emotions. Their behavioural patterns are baised towards acceptance.

Without emotional senses, an autist will assess the function and intent. The only desire is something that works, and is designed to work towards the user’s interests. Anything with a dark pattern will be set alight.

Even as a dev, I use a 32" QHD screen for programming. If I went 4K, I would need to use 150% scaling, and that breaks a LOT of stuff.

Everything is built for 100% scaling. Every time I’ve plugged my PC into a 4K display I’ve regretted it. It go to 30Hz (on HDMI) or glitch out or something. Even if it doesn’t, it’s never as smooth.

It creates more problems than it solves. You would need an order of magnitude more processing power to play a game on it. Personally I would prefer 4K at a higher framerate. Even 1080 if it improves response.

Video in 8K are massive. You need better codecs to handle them, and they aren’t that widely supported. Storage is more expensive than it was a decade ago.

Also, there is no content. Nobody wants to store and transmit such massive amounts of data over the internet.

HDMI cables will fail sooner at higher resolutions. That 5 year old cable will begin dropping out when you try it at 8k.

4K is barely worth the tradeoffs.

I was trying to write something that would save an AVIF image this week. Holy shit the ecosystem is bad. I had to encode the image and write the exif tags with two different libraries. The latter being a CLI program and not a library. The WEBP situation is even worse.

We are never getting away from JPEG.

Google has already started killing GrapheneOS by removing device trees from AOSP releases. Android 16 works fine, but for how long?

I would imagine the first thing any custom ROM would do is bypass Google’s app restrictions.

I wouldn’t be surprised if in 3 years I would need to pass hardware attestation to install a calculator app from the Play store.