prole

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Interesting in c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago

fake and gay

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Anti-ICE Democrat Congress candidate Kat Abughazaleh outed as supporter of US interventionism in c/electoralism@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 3 points 4 days ago

This is what no anti-imperialism does to a motherfucker

Madeline Pendleton has been streaming 5 days a week on twitch for the past 2 months in c/videos@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

They have 1.6M followers on TikTok and as far as I can tell most of their content is discussing communism, imperialism, etc.

An open source, off-grid, decentralized mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices. No cell towers. No internet. Just pure peer-to-peer connectivity. in c/technology@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So is it realistic for these to work in remote areas? Like would I need a node every 10 miles or something for it to work? I'm pretty far away from even a smallish city, but I live on a mountain that's about 1000 feet higher than the surrounding areas.

I don't really need it, but it sounds neat and it would be cool to set one up

Anti-ICE Democrat Congress candidate Kat Abughazaleh outed as supporter of US interventionism in c/electoralism@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I swear USAian "progressives" live in a vibes based reality. Zero consistency between their domestic and foreign policy positions.

Chuds: "Make your own games instead of trying to ruin ours." | *Does that.* | Chuds: "Not like that!" in c/games@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

I went to look and got damn it's a nightmare

Trump: I am sending a great hospital boat to Greenland to take care of the many sick people. in c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

~~wrong~~ long way

Okay in c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

I keep telling libs about Obama trying to increase the ICE budget so much that even Congress was like "whoa buddy, calm down"

Idk if they don't believe me or just don't care or what, but bro was definitely part of the problem even domestically and I'm old enough to remember it clearly. Even libs were hating on Obama while he was president, especially the second term.

Mamdani to close NYC's last emergency migrant shelter by end of year in c/electoralism@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

Right wingers will say and do anything to accomplish their goals. Pretty much pointless to worry about what they'll do in response to some decision.

Today on german reddit in c/main@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 24 points 2 weeks ago

Self-defense isn't violence, problem solved

AI agent opens PR for easy first issue meant for onboarding new contributors, writes rant blog after rejection in c/libre@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fucking same. Left v right is up v down, they just have no idea what "left" means.

Will I ever stop having cringe takes? in c/askchapo@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 9 points 3 weeks ago

I have this same feeling almost constantly and I'm over 40. I've been a "leftist" of some variety most of my life, especially if we're counting anything that's anti-capitalist as left. I look at it as a good thing. My present self might cringe at my past self, but that's the cost of learning new shit.

I only really accepted this in the last 5 years or so doing software development. I have worked on the same project for 6+ years and constantly run into my old code and think how terrible it is and how could I ever be this dumb, etc. Now I just view that experience as the cost of improving.

If I looked at my old code (or my old ideology) and it was exactly the same as it is now, I would probably cringe even harder.

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Being a manager (hexbear.net)
 

Ok so, somehow I ended up being a manager at work. Mostly I just don't bother anyone and protect them from the bosses when I can. However, I'm a software dev and they had me make a bunch of scripts and such to measure productivity. I didn't really want to because fuck that, but as I was working on it I realized none of the bosses will ever look at this code or question the output.

I ended up padding the stats quite a bit in "honest" ways by doing things like excluding weekends and holidays. I also round everything up to the nearest whole number. But then I decided to just add extra values here and there as well. Instead of starting the count at 0, I start at 1.

The bosses asked for a monthly report, so I give them 28 days (and don't count the weekends). I drop the lowest count days if there are more than 28 days in the month and present all of the stats as monthly.

Anyway, just remember there are lots of ways to help your coworkers and you don't actually have to do any managing if everyone understands what's up. Just be really careful and try to always give yourself plausible deniability. LLMs are a great excuse to shift blame right now even if you aren't using one

Anyone else have ideas or things they've done?

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Do you even bother? (hexbear.net)
 

Recently I've had some frustrating conversations with people. Someone said Oregon is "deeply red", which sounds like an absolutely unhinged thing to say when you consider all branches of government in OR are controlled by Dems.

I'm sure I was rude to the person, but I tried to explain how ridiculous that is. If Oregon is deeply red then what is Alabama? Just because the rural areas are conservative? I spent way too long on this one.

Anyway how do you handle this kind of nonsense in the world? I usually just say what I'm thinking to people these days, but more and more it's feeling like I should just stfu and let people believe whatever

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Software development cooperatives? (hexbear.net)
 

I've looked at a few lists here and there, but it seems like there just aren't many co-ops that recruit strangers online. Anyone have any experience working for a co-op as a dev? It seems like it would be an awesome way to structure a small web/app dev team. Part of me wants to try to start one myself, but it's hard to imagine maintaining the motivation needed for a task like that when I can barely function as it is.

Anyway, what's up with the lack of cooperatives? Sorry if this is the wrong comm, seemed like the best place

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