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My three decades of software engineering experience tells me that getting a degree in CS is still quite worth it and anyone who says otherwise is talking out of their ass.

AI will change things, but not the way the doomsayers think and certainly not the way the bandwagoning idiot CEOs think. It will become a tool, yet another one, in our arsenal. If it replaces humans, then good riddance to the moron CEOs and the companies who decide that.

This is a bit of apples and oranges, but I remember when people lost their shit over npm. And those of us who have been in the field for quite some time are like “wtf is wrong with you people? It’s just a package manager — a concept that has existed for at least two decades” by then.

People jump on the next big thing because they have the attention span of a squirrel and the anxiety and ignorance of one as well.

This definitely has to do with AI. Because CEOs are losing their stupid minds over it. I agree with you in principle, but let’s not lose sight of the fact that this specific technology is what CEOs are drooling over. Even in my company I had to tell the owner/CEO, “What problem are you trying to solve with AI?” His response was his mouth being open with a dumb look on his face.

So no business should rely on AI (or, to your point, any software) that it becomes detrimental to their business or workforce should that access be revoked.

Or… taps mic… don’t fucking rely on AI for your business! Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

And I guarantee you that over half of them voted for him, still support him, and will still defend this bullshit and him.

…on your left.

So maybe a few hundred deluded morons.

Bring on the Zune!

I’m shocked. Shocked, I tell you!

As much as I might like her, she will not win. No one likes hearing this, but there are simply too many racist and misogynist voters for her to ever win. Then add the fact that a convicted felon and likely pedophile won against her already.

It’s time to move on from the typical DNC bullshit and get someone who will vow to prosecute every last corrupt piece of shit in this current administration and vow to impeach and remove all corrupt judges and justices, especially those put there by this administration.

The DNC needs to stop fucking around.

Impeach Trump, Vance, all judges appointed by Trump, including those in the Supreme Court. Prosecute Trump for war crimes and hang him. Prosecute Hegseth for war crimes and sentence him to die by firing squad. Prosecute Bondi and sentence her to have to lick the White House floor clean every day. Prosecute Noem and deport her to Antarctica, naked.

And…so…much…more…

Johnson doesn’t immediately become Vice-President. That’s not how the succession works. But you’re right, Captain Couchfucker is just as insane and stupid as Colonel Orangeballs.

And that is the inherent problem – “the dumbing down” as Sagan once wrote.

His criminal lawlessness has invited blowback against the United States and its citizens risking 9/11 2.0.

Seriously? I mean I agree with the sentiment, but putting the words “9/11 2.0” just reeks of amateur and unprofessional writing. If you’re going to write articles of impeachment, don’t sound like a teenager.

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Maybe provide a link to an article on the internet instead of a link to a discord chat.

And nothing of value was lost. Same result when this administration will finally be ousted. Same result when Trump dies. Same result when his family and all the MAGA morons fade into obscurity or die. I just hope I’m alive to see it happen and I will drink and dance when this nightmare is finally over.

Well, I suppose with my suggestion, which in my view is the correct path they should have taken, any alt account would also have to be a paid subscriber to Reddit if they wanted to access the full API with that account. I don’t really see much justification to support alt accounts on the same subscription.

And you hit the nail on the head about Reddit trying to make the third party app developers be payment middlemen. It made zero sense to me if it wasn’t for greed or to squeeze out those app developers so they could force their user base to their own mobile application which was considerably inferior at the time, but allowed Reddit to show advertisements.

It was apparent to me that they did this to make their impending IPO more appealing to potential investors because it shows that “line goes up” — which is the only thing investors care about and why the enshittification of good things always happens.

If you can feel my bitterness, it’s because I deleted my 15-year Reddit account in July 2023 that had a couple of posts during the account lifetime that made it to the front page. Which, for a nobody like me, was kind-of cool. However, while I’m not over Spez being a greedy piece of crap, I am quite over being on Reddit and, like you, am very happy to be a part of the Fediverse!

No, they made the third party app developers pay the license fees, not the users. If they changed that since I left, then that I’m ignorant of. It made zero sense to force payment from the developers and every sense to simply create a two-tiered API where maybe only a read-only front page works (no commenting) unless you’re a paid subscriber to Reddit, which could be available via an authorization scheme on the logged-in user. It’s simple to do. But they decided (at the time) to screw over the third party developers directly by forcing them to pay.

Thing is, even Christian (the guy who made Apollo) said a nominal fee makes sense and he would have been fine paying that, but he would have had to pay literal millions of dollars within like a month’s notice in order to keep going, and have to pass that exorbitant cost onto his users who ALREADY paid him for yearly subscriptions/etc.

Simply put: Reddit should only have charged users directly, via subscription to Reddit, in order to use a fully-featured API irrespective of which client they use it through.

Spez is a greedy piece of garbage.

The only way I’ll ever rejoin Reddit is if they fire that piece of shit, Spez, and every other piece of shit who had a hand in the monetization of their API access which destroyed third party apps like Apollo; and if they change that monetization, either making it free or making it so you have to be a paid Reddit subscriber to have expanded API access.

They did the whole thing with their API completely backwards, on purpose, to shut out the third party apps – when they could have still been able to make money by doing it properly and not alienating a lot of their userbase.

And now that Reddit is effectively a right-wing cesspool of lies and bullshit, just like Twitter has become, even if they fix what they broke, it may not be worth rejoining.

Ah yes, President Couch Fucker