What do people even do in there ?

In France some banks illegally force users to use the banking application to approve online transactions as a security feature.

They could implement OTP as an alternative but they don’t because they are lazy.

I was young and didn’t want to waste my time. I got my paycheck quicker that way with a bonus for being an annoying bastard.

What about https://news.sky.com/story/you-wouldnt-steal-a-font-famous-anti-piracy-campaign-may-have-used-pirated-typeface-13357462 ?

Personal story:

• Company: you’re fired because you suck and we may sue your ass.
• Me: forwarding all the illegal shit of that company to CEO+HR+managers because I saved it in my personal email and ending with “my friend is a lawyer, I can call him anytime.”

Fun times. Save your emails, especially the bad ones.

https://ente.io/

Pinterest is not a backup.

I have a job. I use LinkedIn to follow my friends and that’s it. I don’t post or follow idiots.

Banks are still running Cobol programs written by Jesus on punchcards. But it’s not the same use case, Linux is mostly running on servers without a UI.

I’m not pirating, I’m training the LLM that is in my skull. Don’t worry, I won’t remember the whole thing in a week and won’t use it to create art out of what I saw.

“Don’t copy that floppy” funded by rich people, or the more recent “You wouldn’t download” with pirated song and font. Fucking hypocrites.

You can’t have a better law. Copyright laws are one-sided towards $billion companies. They would never agree to give more power to small creators or (worse) open-source projects who rely on such laws without making money.

A lot of AI fanboys secretly think that artists who rely on public funding to make a living deserve to be raped by gen AI companies.

Don’t you like to smoke meats with your fake friends?

She hasn’t seen rugby players in the south of France.

The history of the CTO at a previous job was filled with dc and sl because he was a fucking moron. Yes I’m still bitter that he earned way more money than me who had to fix all his mess.

first date to a museum

You had me until this fake detail, don’t lie to us.

Dan Brown knows the secret but he doesn’t want to say it. Dan Brown, it was in front of us the whole time.

In France you cannot fail a middle or high school class anymore. The official explanation is that it hurts the kids’ feelings. The teachers’ explanation is that too many people would fail.

It’s in France and I guess everywhere else. Students can cheat for free and no longer need to do anything, why would they study anymore?

I’ve also seen a few young engineers using ChatGPT to do their job because it’s easier than working. When I told them their code was bad (with mentoring and help, I’m not an asshole), they used another prompt that changed their whole code but it was still full of bugs.

We’re doomed.

Please tell me because I have been using Windows at home and at work for more than 30 years and I still believe that most people only need Firefox and LibreOffice.

For the past whole year, yes. Hacker News is now 1/3 technology, 1/3 politics, 1/3 AI. It’s annoying.