Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Decemberās finally arrived, and the run-up to Christmas has begun. Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Considering the sorry state of the software industry, plus said industryās adamant refusal to learn from its mistakes, I think society should actively avoid starting or implementing new software, if not actively cut back on software usage when possible, until the industry improves or collapses.
Thatās probably an extreme position to take, but IT as it stands is a serious liability - one that AIās set to make so much worse.
For a lot of this stuff at the larger end of the scale, the problem mostly seems to be a complete lack of accountability and consequences, combined with there being, like, four contractors capable of doing the work, with three giant accountancy firms able to audit the books.
Giant government projects always seem to be a disaster, be they construction, heathcare, IT, and no heads ever roll. Fujitsu was still getting contracts from the UK government even after it was clear theyād been covering up the absolute clusterfuck that was their post office system that resulted in people being driven to poverty and suicide.
At the smaller scale, well. āNo warranty or fitness for any particular purposeā is the whole of the software industry outside of safety critical firmware sort of things. We have to expend an enormous amount of effort to get our products at work CE certified so weāre allowed to sell them, but the software that runs them? we can shovel that shit out of the door and no-one cares.
Iām not sure will ever escape āmove fast and break thingsā this side of a civilisation-toppling catastrophe. Which we might get.
Considering how āvibe codingā has corroded IT infrastructure at all levels, the AI bubble is set to trigger a 2008-style financial crisis upon its burst, and AI itself has been deskilling students and workers at an alarming rate, I can easily see why.
In the land of the blind the one-eyed man will make a killling as an independent contractor cleaning up after this disaster concludes.