No matter what they might think, history did not actually start with the Boomers

Worked as an American consultant for the Dutch government in IT, can confirm this absolutely. It’s a case of finding private companies to funnel money to instead of actually creating capacity, all because of the incorrect illusion that the private sector is magically efficient.

My unofficial advice to my colleagues while leaving my posting was “stop hiring people like me. Spend the money on developing good internal devs”.

Graphene and e/OS exist.

Problem with Graphene is the limitation of hardware to Pixel due to manufacturers.

e/OS is good, but the missing killer app for me is contactless payment. Which brings Europe back to the Visa/MC problem. Digital Euro could fix this.

heh yeah, Lemmy gives me old phpBB vibes sometimes

Exactly. It’s like people that move to Bluesky, which is under private control, and then are shocked when abuses start there.

The problem is exactly that social spaces shouldn’t be privately owned and a source of profit. Until you address that, the slop hellsites will always wind up that way.

Yeah, people seeing pictures of children being killed in a genocide and reacting badly is obviously just a conspiracy!

the equivalent of going to rancher’s market

A few more bugs, way less poison?

Don’t Trust The B in Apt 23

Is it ads for paid users as well?

I mean, the proletarinization of the petit bourgeois isn’t exactly something nobody predicted . . .

I think the Digital Euro is going to be a better idea long term - taking off the hidden tax of payment processor fees is going to make businesses and people richer.

Princess Leia in Jedi energy

You misspelled Mossad there

and the obvious foreign control

Yeah, there’s no need for this disproven conspiracy theory. Trump is 100% American, which is why they voted him in again. He’s just the version too stupid to not say the things out loud.

You guys voted him in, twice, with the popular vote the second time. Don’t pretend you don’t own him.

Anyone else ever read Rainbow’s End? Cause this is in that.

Look at you being authoritarian! You must be a fascist!

Hahahaha this shit is why nobody goes to your birthday party.