Except those Germans who still think being a Nazi is great. Of which there’s a whole Eastern Germany worth of.

That’s an actually good one!

Not really. The only car-specific parts traffic laws are about keeping the car in working order and behaviour on car-only roads.

On the other hand, bike-specific parts of traffic laws are about keeping the bike in working order and behaviour on cycling lanes.

But for the most part car-laws also apply to cyclists going on the road.

“No? Oh well, I didn’t want her anyway, she’ll just cause trouble along the way. But that way I can trick the boy into thinking I did everything I could.”

There are some companies as bad as Apple (John Deere comes to mind), but it’s certainly not the norm.

User-replacable standard m.2 SSDs are bog standard and non-standard formats are really rare. Apart from Apple I can not think of many companies that do that. IIRC Red Magic cameras, and Synology NAS but that’s the only ones I can think of.

Please do!

Why is it that in fantasy, humans always suck the most?

Some of them were

GrapheneOS without any invasive apps is really bare-bones and limited, that’s what I wanted to say using hyperbole, but I guess figures of speech are too advanced for some people.

That’s more than fair :)

That’s my issue with AI. I go to AI after my skills, the documentation and google failed me. Then I go to ChatGPT to get lied to, because ChatGPT doesn’t know either.

And almost without fail, AI doesn’t help me there.

The only thing where AI helps is AI autocomplete in die IDE, if I am doing something very simple and monotonous, then it helps me to sometimes reduce my typing speed a little bit compared to regular autocomplete.

But typing time is like 0.5% of the time I spend developing stuff.

Why would anyone think about an empire every day?

You were just born 200 years too late ;)

Yeah. If you never install software that is.

A C64 doesn’t run invasive software either.

Did you not read what I wrote?

Inflation went up due to the knock-on effects of the sanctions. Specifically prices for oil and gas skyrocketed.

And since everything runs on oil and gas, all prices skyrocketed.

Covid stimulus packages had nothing to do with that, especially in 2023, 2024 and 2025, when there were no COVID stimulus packages, yet the inflation was much higher than at any time during COVID.

Surely it is not too much to ask that people remember what year stuff happened in, especially if we are talking about things that happened just 2 years ago.

No, it just amplifies it.

Before, as a photografer you might get stuck with a soulless stock photography job. Now that crap is AI generated and you don’t have a job at all anymore.

It’s been a while since I was a student. When I was in university, I actually had one project that was then used in a real world context for at least a few years - by university students.

But most of my colleagues never did anything like that. Here are a few reasons why (and also why I didn’t do more):

• Lack of experience

Making an actual useful real-life application is hard. You quickly get into things like security, device-model-specific bugs, support for users using the thing wrong, because you have no idea to do proper UX and so on.

Moving from making toy prototypes to real programs is not simple at all.

• Lack of mentoring

University teaches you stuff, but only the very broad-strokes basics. When you get your first real job you are usually in a team with some more senior people and they can help you move the university basics into a real-world context.

• Lack of funding

Most people can’t afford putting hundreds or thousands of hours of work into a project without anyone paying the bills.

• Lack of time

Most people have to finance stuff like rent themselves. They are already balancing university, work and life. There’s not a ton of time left for a third thing.

• Not a lack of ideas

Every programmer I know has more ideas than they will ever finish in their entire life. And every programmer has a bunch of MBA people who tell them every time they meet about their amazing app idea (“You know, an app where you can buy things, but you buy by swiping right! It’s going to be the next Amazon! If you implement it, you can have 10% of the profits!”).

If anything, having too many ideas leads to switching your side projects once your last side project becomes too annoying.

Define better.

There are hundreds of languages that improve things. Kotlin for example was an improvement over Java while Java was stuck in the perpetual hell that was Java 8. Now it itself is pretty stuck.

For C, there is D, for Java you have Kotlin, Groovy, C#, and dozens of others. For JS there’s TypeScript. For CSS there is SCSS and dozens of other *CSS variants. Rust and Go (and again hundreds of others) try to replace C/C++.

The ones I listed here are somewhat well-known and some of them are used by a lot of people. But there are hundreds more, some do really cool, creative stuff, but they are also obscure and are lacking any kind of community and libraries, which makes them worse for practical use.

And back then you had stuff like Oberon/Component Pascal, Smalltalk, and many other good languages.

Just check out the list: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_programming_languages

But programming languages aren’t chosen for how cool the language is, but mainly for how likely it is to find people who can use them and how much resources are available. Popularity trumps language design.

While artists will get the enshitified end of the stick.

What you are looking for is the panopticon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon

You aren’t being watched all the time, but sometimes, and you can’t tell whether you are being watched right now.