It turns out that an orphan can inherit a critical trait from their parents: "habit of standing in the way of an important player character's ongoing battle."

"Oh well, as they say, the best laid plans of mice..."

"...and men?"

"What have men got to do with it?!"

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy

We've figured out what happened to the Wrigley Field bathrooms (continuously, every minute or so, for decades)!

I am, of course joking. We all know the

I'm sad about the puppets being muppets instead of practical creatures,

I agree. It feels to me that Start Trek has not leveraged creature shop puppet special effects much, over the years. More frequent practical puppet effects would be a welcome addition.

Is it just all of them?

I've heard of CEOs who made the mistake of buying cocaine for future quarters, and never getting to enjoy it.

Nice. Let's balance this out a bit at the other end:

98 - A scroll containing a detailed plan to burn down the nearest orphanage.

99 - Pockets full of napkins inscribed with insane anti-gnome racist gibberish.

100 - A magic communication stone that, if activated, creates a magic audio connection with the lead villain of the current story arc.

6% is Incredibly high unemployment, and a result of a persistent multi year coordinated class warfare effort against us programmers. We all use the AI they claim is taking the load off. We all know the truth. All of us who aren't so new at this to be wowed by the shiny, are quite aware of the parts of our job it cannot do.

The owner class is coming at us because we programmers tend to be organized and well connected, and we have serious leverage.

Remember that 94% employment still represents a lot of shared power. Let's look out for each-other. And remember that there's not going to be enough of us to clean up the messes they are making by under-hiring. Be choosy who you help with clean-up, and who you justly leave to rot in their choices. Don't stay too long working for shitty employers. Find the next gig, when it comes. Get the money they're trying to claw back from the next place, and from the previous place on a short lucrative contract. If all they understand is money, give them a chance to express how much like they staying online and in business, with it.

Letting Google break the law for years with illegal anti-competitive practices is now hurting everyone else's ability to earn money.

I wonder if we have the combined will to do anything about it, or if we will wait and hope the invisible hand of the market will fix it....

Those of us in technology already knew this was the skillset DOGE was hiring. There was earlier evidence of low technical competence, such as misconfigured email servers.

This seems particularly bad:

“I have no way of knowing exactly when Schutt's computer was hacked, or how many times,” Lee wrote. “I don't know nearly enough about the origins of these stealer log datasets. He might have gotten hacked years ago and the stealer log datasets were just published recently. But he also might have gotten hacked within the last few months.”

Edit: Oops. I just noticed I'm commenting in a Cybersecurity Lemmy. Y'all already knew this. I guess I'll leave it for others who might (also) wander in from All.

The issues I experienced this evening on windows were there by design.

That's exactly what has kept me loyal to Linux. When I do have an issue, at least no one designed the issue on purpose to abuse me.

"I fight for the user" has been lurking in the hindbrains of so many tech workers since the Tron years, somehow nestling comfortably alongside of the idea that "I don't need a union, I'm a temporarily embarrassed founder."

Oof. I don't like this sentence, because I'm in it.