If you haven’t been to Italy, there are quite a few cultural differences to be aware of. One of them is generally you don’t make demands, dinner is an experience that you are there to have and they want to give you their experience. So it’s at least worth calling out that it could be part of the experience they want you to have.

Man, that’s hard. When I go there I try to follow etiquette closely, it’s their custom and I want to follow it, and the woman may have been a bit of a Karen.

However, tap water should be free. Anywhere. Maybe I just hiked a mile to get there. Maybe I’m just thirsty. 7 euro to drink water is simply extortion of your tourists. If that’s etiquette then it’s wrong.

Good move. Nothing kills a passion like working in the industry.

Monkey Paw Twist: We revert to Steam and wood energy

What?? I’m genuinely confused, I got an email that said they were ending it, I’ll try to dig it up

Cloudflare actually stopped their service. If you come up with another let us know

Think of the poor corporations, there are so few places to advertise on!

I mean in a downtown core, where else do you advertise? Billboards? Other walls? Street signs? Busses? Storefronts? Paint on the street itself?

What alternatives did they have? You couldn’t expect them to just put a temporary tarp over it or something, come on, that would have cost slightly more money!

What they’re supposed to be content with just those few thousand options?

What a sad dystopian thing, to decide that a mural that’s brought joy is somehow less important than your temporary ad, and worse than that, that there were so many other places it could have gone that wouldn’t have destroyed a piece of art.

yep, welcome to the horrible conversation. It’s a full on monopoly. They control the venues, the ticketing, the marketing, the selling, everything. Unfortunately as a consumer/concertgoer you have two options: Deal with it or never go. Artists who refuse to use them get blacklisted from them and that means they don’t get the large venues, or the good locations, so that’s about it

That local should be eligible for sainthood, or at least a key to the city

If Walmart is paying more, than it’s time to go work for Walmart. As the other comment said, they’re greedy, and the only way to get around this is to show them that they won’t take it. They lowered the wage because they know the employees won’t do anything about it.

Agree, and I think it’s funny someone downvoted you because that’s always been the case, AI didn’t change that. It’s just now we’re seeing the next evolution and we’ll see who sticks around and who doesn’t.

This is the only sane answer here, and it makes sense because of the sentiment on Lemmy.

There is one constant rule about software engineering. You must be adaptable. The career is ever changing, you need to be okay with that. I think a lot of people right now are finding out that if they dig in their heels they think they’re making a point, but the company doesn’t care, there’s the door. AI is just another change in the career. Adapt, or be left behind.

The job isn’t the same as it was 5 years ago, which also was different than it was 10 years before that, and then 10 years before that. I’ll say this is a large change, but that’s the job.

I think the biggest thing is there’s no room for “I’m a react engineer” anymore. Everyone needs to be everything, and it means learn as much as you can as fast as you can. You must be a “T-shaped” engineer. Wide breadth, with specific deep knowledge that makes you stand out. You can be an expert at react, but should also know how to code in the backend, and how to deploy, how to work with APIs, some basic cloud architecture. If you’re not learning, you’re falling behind.

I empathize with this so much. Online communities can be great, and also so demoralizing. No matter how much you enjoy or do something there is someone else who does it way better, and worse they will look down on you for it. They will foam at the mouth if you aren’t 1000% committed, people will gatekeep and make you feel small for something that should simply bring you joy.

Damn how many girlfriends have you gotten pregnant?

Fairphone has their own with /e/OS

Yes but that’s been lost on people unfortunately. It’s a lesson only millennials and gen X have retained in my experience, growing up with it we were drilled in to not trust anyone on the internet.

Boomers have forgotten and never learned it for themselves.

Gen Z grew up with walled gardens and thinking their accounts were private.

Sure, but that’s not my point. Social pressures aside, there is no way for instance a to control what instance (or server, or data collector) B does with it. Unless you audit every server federated, there is no way to know if anyone is doing anything with your data.

3 letter agencies can and may even already have servers that look like ordinary fediverse servers already just happily listening and storing everything. No amount of social pressure here is going to stop that. So all users need to understand this about the fediverse, that anyone can do whatever they want with your data whenever. For privacy, go to Matrix.

When did that sentiment change on the internet where this was somewhere you could privately say something? I remember that being beat into me as a kid. Everything on the internet is public and permanent, don’t post anything you wouldn’t want a future boss reading or read aloud in court. Somewhere that sentiment dropped when absolutely it shouldn’t have. It’s like people here don’t know that FB/Insta/all of them logged everything everyone ever said in giant databases ready to be handed over or leaked.

Seriously the Fediverse isn’t dangerous, the internet as a whole is. People need to stop thinking it’s “safe” to post things on the internet.

It’s an important thought to have, and it’s been going around in other circles too. What you post here is public, and you have absolutely no control of where it goes or who it spreads to. I’m all for it, I think open socials are important to not lock out anyone, and if you don’t like something as an individual you can block and as a server owner you can defederate. The flipside though is that anyone can spin up a server and do whatever they like with what you post. Train LLMs, save in a gov database, just count votes, whatever they like. This is the tradeoff of corporate social media.

Great. You show me an 10 foot fence I’ll show you an 11 foot ladder. Go ahead and audit every server that federates with you, send them a questionaire. There’s absolutely nothing stopping the next lemvotes from setting another server up, and there is nothing stopping any three letter agency from setting up their own listening server.