But why are they being poked with pointy sticks?

I've worked my whole career in European tech and I've never heard the term sovereignty as much as since 2025. There was an undercurrent certainly, and people were keenly aware that technically the US government could look at their data whenever they felt like it, but it was still natural to plop your infrastructure on AWS or azure and not think too much about it.

Things have really accelerated since he took office, first in the public sector then in the private sector. The burden of proof has kind of reversed, I've started hearing a lot of "what specific service do you need on AWS that you can't have on a European server" whereas it used to be "why don't we just take AWS".

They have the audacity of doing things, that is despicable and definitely reprehensible.

Yeah if I understand correctly Allah is just a contraction of "Al Illah" which means "the god".

I love the history of the emergence of monotheism, it was very gradual and often the one god had to cohabit with lesser deities for centuries before they fully took over. Interestingly, Yahweh was in competition for some time with other warrior storm gods, including Belial and Baal which were ultimately demonized to the highest degree to prevent them coming back.

This weekend i decided to adapt an old analog phone i thrifted, so that i could use it as a microphone on stage. Last time i soldered a resistor was a long ass time ago during the 20th century so i had to rely on Claude to help me every step along the way, including designing the overall circuit, telling me the exact components i needed to buy and how to assemble them.

It was a lot of fun and we did a piss poor job of it but it worked ! And we already have ideas for improving it in V2. Granted it was a very simple design but it felt like a barrier was finally coming down. I've been having this kind of ideas for ages but i never really committed to any of them, and now i know that i can knock one out of the park in a few hours of focus, it's great.

I don't think it's threatening your job as a professional's experience is tough to replace, but expect to see a lot of vibe-soldered side projects in the coming years. Probably a bunch of house fires too hehe...

It's always the converts lmao

But we are in the current situation because everybody thinks like you and small prices tend to add up :(

Dude, we work for the same company and I could have typed that in, and maybe I did. I wanted your experience with it, that’s why I asked you.

To me it's like sending the "let me google that for you" link to answer a question. It's just bad form. I don't want your whole reasoning trace man, i just want to know what you understand of it and maybe you'll catch some detail i'm missing or whatever. It's simple, i won't read LLM output, my colleagues know it and i get shit for it but no i am not digesting this material for you. Give me a 3 bullet-point version in your own words, the point is not just in the data exchange it's also to make sure you are aware of the answer and we have a common truth.

Or failing that, just give me the fucking prompt and at least i'll know if you understand the question.

Oh great the campaign of harassment is continuing. Keep going guys, hopefully you can get another dev to quit a project, and I know none of the people commenting here have what it takes to fork and maintain it.

You wouldn't be doing anything different if you were getting paid by corporate interests to hurt the open source movement. Great job you can be proud of yourselves.

Yes, both threads are led by two accounts with probably less than 50 commits to their names during the last year, none of which are of any relevance to the subject they are discussing.

In a world where you could contribute your time to make some things better, there is a certain category of people who seek out nice things specifically to harm them. As open source enters mainstream culture, it also appears on the radar of this kind of people. It's dangerous to catch their attention, as once they have you they'll coordinate over reddit, lemmy, github, discord to ruin your reputation. The reputation of some guy who never ever did them any harm apart from bringing them something they needed, for free, but in a way that doesn't 100% satisfy them. Pure vicious entitlement.

I'd sooner have a drink with a salesman from OpenAI than with one of them.

It's typical of dev burnout, though. Communication starts becoming more impulsive and less constructive, especially in the face of conflicts of opinions.

I've seen it play a few times already. A toxic community will take a dev who's already struggling, troll them, screenshot their problematic responses, and use that in a campaign across relevant places such as github, reddit, lemmy... Maybe add a little light harassment on the side, as a treat. It's a fun activity ! The dev spirals, posts increasingly unhinged responses and often quits as a result.

The fact that the thread is titled "is lutris slop now" is a clear indication that the intention of the poster wasn't to contribute anything constructive but to attack the dev and put them on their back foot.

I hate the "Random industry is cooked" trope. Right now if you go on LinkedIn you'll find a ton of bros proclaiming the death of Hollywood because Seedance can now generate 3 minutes of incoherent eye-candy with vaguely realistic looking special effects.

It's like brainrot for boomers, you can see they are getting absolutely hypnotized by the loud noises and bright colors, and totally missing that the main character who was running to the right with blue pants is now walking to the left with red shorts.