Notices by Pawlicker (pawlicker@makai.chaotic.ninja)

man if only the anti capitalists didn't use the code as collateral

The problem with the tech industry is the opposite one of the British car industry.

The British car industry would sell a car from the 1950s-70s barely changed until the 00s when every single car maker got bought out by foreign companies, seeing what was for sale, and replacing it because they were like "holy shit this is dated" until even European regulations caught up to the USA ones.

The tech industry does something because they heard it was good or because Apple did it, and now your entire company is down because your cloud provider is down and you had no fallbacks, or people are pissed because you soldered everything but the SSD and your USB-C port broke for the 3rd time.

Dell has engineered a solution to the USB-C problem: ports that don't need a motherboard swap because the port broke again

The RTX 5090

bsky's blocking system is backfiring

@whut@outerheaven.club yeah the issue is, the last time someone told me about better stuff it was the Linux user stereotype of "use this half baked thing"

@WALFTEAM@outerheaven.club >all the healthcare companies deleted their lists of CEOs and board executives

@Kyonko802@varishangout.net @EdBoatConnoisseur@poa.st @cowanon@nicecrew.digital @redneonglow@varishangout.net That's literally what happened at my old job and why I quit. Sure, you busted your ass the previous day, now we want you to do this every day and also do this and that because nobody else wants to touch it.

The #1 thing I learned from this job is the grand flaw with NEETs: it's not that they're NEETs but that instead of doing something grand and autistic with their lives, they spend all night shitposting and watching anime/cartoons/gaming. The most "down bad" of those NEETs will even use "friend simulators" like VRC and other games of that nature to try to pretend they're going out when a voice call of some sort will suffice for most people.

@Kyonko802@varishangout.net @cowanon@nicecrew.digital @redneonglow@varishangout.net My old job had 12 hour shifts that were brutal but only due to the working conditions and the "rotating them" where one week was 4 12 hour shifts and one was 3, also the job was a bit of a drive and I didn't have much in the way of social interaction there.

@Kyonko802@varishangout.net @EdBoatConnoisseur@poa.st @cowanon@nicecrew.digital @redneonglow@varishangout.net oh my job wanted people to "volunteer" a lot when the numbers were down in the wrong metrics.

We have too much stuff sitting here we need someone to come in and fix the numbers and do overtime, thankfully one coworker who was notoriously slacking off gave me good advice: "You don't need to come in for overtime here".

@Kyonko802@varishangout.net @cowanon@nicecrew.digital @redneonglow@varishangout.net It's efficient in terms of pencil pushers.

Sure, you're driving a ton there and back. Sure you're driving possibly hours each day, depending on the kind of low-wage job you got. But thanks to labor rules, they have to pay overtime after 40 hours, healthcare after 29 hours, and whatnot.

So you have less pay, a demoralized workforce, healthcare you're having to get from the ACA market or some shit instead of being able to "take some out of your paycheck" (still above "lol good luck finding a doctor" with medicaid), and more turnover relying on whatever wagie will fall for this job next because the job market is full of HR people rejecting your resume.

But their bottom line is, "do we need to pay benefits" and "how can we avoid paying employees as much as possible".

remember the best advice i can give anyone online is to never mix your friend groups, that is all

@SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo this was a old 90s port for PC-98 Linux, it's so weird seeing FOSS on that platform given how obscure it is outside Japan.

it's surreal seeing that grub was ported to the pc98 LOL

@sun@shitposter.world rob ford did nothing wrong

@mhatta@techpolicy.social >be fedibe actually decentralized

VZEditor for the PC-98 (a popular text editor) is now 3 Clause BSD licensed.

https://github.com/vcraftjp/VZEditor

@theorytoe@ak.kyaruc.moe @sun@shitposter.world yes turbo C and C++ were the Borland C compilers, notably used for Touhou on the PC-98 and tons of DOS games on the PC.

@YTFoidLover1488@poa.st @theorytoe@ak.kyaruc.moe @sun@shitposter.world you can use djgpp on the pc98 kinda sorta, watcom nope

@sun@shitposter.world @theorytoe@ak.kyaruc.moe I'm not gonna spoil it just yet but I've obtained another "missing link" in the PC-98 OS lineage that's heading to my house.

I'll announce it when I dump it likely. In the meantime I've been scanning in PC-98 era books, and I have some Turbo Pascal manuals to scan for the PC-98 (when I am not struggling with IRL drama and work)