It always infuriates me when people say Windows is all about games. Techies are so detached from reality they forget that people have creative hobbies and have to use industrial grade software. Doing creative hobbies on Linux is an act of sadomasochism. And on top of that, Linux and MacOS cannot run software from 3 years ago while Windows can run software from 35 years ago. And on top of that, Linux is completely unusable to Japanese/Chinese speakers due to how hard it is to input the moon runes, and on top of that Wayland breaks the least painful setup that you could have earlier. And on top of that, Wayland people shown a middle finger to all the people who need accessibility features.
No, Windows is not about games, Windows is about being an objectively the most stable pile of garbage there is.
There is no sound evidence of having so much microplastics in the brain. The studies that show it are very broad, incomplete and did not check for false positives.
"The main analytical method used in this study was pyrolysis gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. This method can give false results when used to measure plastics because fats (which the brain is mainly made of) give the same pyrolysis products as polyethylene (the main plastic reported)"
And then you have something like this: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32882126
Unfortunately developers cannot be blamed. Most customers give unrealistic deadlines that you can only meet if you use a framework. Convincing them to wait a little bit more time to do it right does not work, they will just hire somebody else. I am working for a customer who opted out from a properly working, fast website with a Go backend in favor of Wordpress, because Wordpress happens to have a WYSIWYG editor. So we comply and install an enormous pile of insecure bloat that loads for eternity... just so the customer can change colors and move blocks around the landing page. It sucks, but having no food on your table sucks more.
That's what I get with my software projects. People tell me that it sucks and I suck at code and other projects have it better, and don't forget to waste months of your time rewriting to Rust, and don't you dare to use unsafe all over your code (see: actix drama)... sigh. But when asked to show their alternative they get silent. So as long as you keep being assertive this is fine. For everyone who comes and behaves like a drama queen you have to prove again and again that talk is cheap and code is how you get the job done. Or you simply ignore them.
I wish that in 100 years Hitler becomes truly synonymous to "Satan", and instead of "satanic" or "demonic" people would say "hitleric". Because it sounds cooler and it suits the way how people throw "hitlers" at each other online.
This is what interested me for a long time. The media industry in particular demonstrates very well that DEI content is not only unprofitable; it is net negative to the companies that produce it. The state of the movie industry is such that we have movies that have positive journalist reviews and negative user reviews, yet nobody is watching these movies, and each movie production costs them hundreds of millions. This should have a giant impact on a company that produces such content, yet the company keeps going on producing something that is net negative to it. Obviously, this looks like a push from investors. But why aren't investors interested in seeing more profits?
I've used OVH, Scaleway, Linode and Amazon in the past, right now I use a small provider that resells Serverius and Hetzner, none of them ever asked me for my ID and all of them allow usage of VPN to sign up for service. As to payment, at least Amazon used to allow usage of debit cards in the past. Hetzner was the only provider that asked me for an ID. I'm not from the banned countries either.
Hetzner was always like that, even before the AI wave. They lowball people with cheap pricing and arguably this attracts a lot of "unwanted" people, so Hetzner always acted strict on such issues.
Last time I used them (pre-2020) they were going as far as requesting customer's ID and rejecting them on the basis of country of origin, and I assume this also includes facial features that may resemble "an average scammer". Obviously this did not happen to European/American IPs so they never faced such issues, and as such this practice was invisible to the world.
I can say for sure OVH and Scaleway would try to negotiate with you before erasing your data - this may have changed over the years.
>teen depression and suicides
How many children are bullied in school, completely socially isolated, with their only outlet online? Who is going to help them? Why do people think they can solve deep, complex social issues - with a single piece of paper that dictates the law?
This is not surprising. The companies received grants during covid lockdowns, so they started listing a lot of fake jobs. When the money dried up the layoffs followed, which was an expected outcome. Media does not let people know about the grants and presents everything in such light that it seems like the market is getting absolutely destroyed, while in reality it only slightly declined.
The bigger problem are HRs employed by big companies who autoreject every application and take no responsibility for doing this.
The real reason may be that the websites in question simply do not work.
I have had troubles with Epic and Spotify accounts in the past. I make an account, I use it for a week, after a week session expires - Spotify kicks me out of my account. I try to log in, it says my password is incorrect. This is impossible, because my password is saved in my password manager. So I have no choice but to reset through email. First several times I receive the email, reset the password, the pattern repeats, after 3 or 4 repeats I don't even receive the email anymore, so I am forced to make a new account.
Currently I am logged into Spotify through my Google account, where I have zero issues so far. But if I use plain email, their auth system simply does not work.
This is a ridiculous article because the author did not even bother to check the stackoverflow developer survey. Majority of developers use Windows. I use Linux, but just because I use Linux does not mean that I have to be delusional about it. Programming != {webdev,AI}. What operating system game developers are going to use? What operating system business GUI application developers are going to use? Win32 is still the most stable API out there.
And even if you, for some insane reason, decide to pick Linux and fight its technological challenges, in the end only a tiny percent of users is going to use your product. Yet they will be responsible for generating over 50% of the bug reports. To make matters even worse, most of them will come from Arch Linux users, providing absolutely useless debug traces because they use a distro notorious for not shipping the debug packages.
I come to think that corporate people love React because if you stop following the news and not be constantly reminded about the direction React is currently heading, you will fall out of the loop and your projects will stop working in 1 year or so. Which is beneficial for the employees, as they will never run out of work to do, maintaining the framework itself rather than their actual project. And the framework gets more complex with each year, too, so you can pretend that you are doing some complex work without actually doing it.