Nathaniel Chapman, a designer who has worked at both Blizzard and Obsidian, also added: "The slow grind on something you do not believe in is 10x as soul crushing as crunching for something you care about."

I felt that

It's probably a feature, not a bug.

See: Dark Pattern (to be specific, Roach Motel)

You can introduce interoperability. I am on X. I can't go to Bluesky. Let's say that Elon Musk decides to block me because I said something he didn't like. He has blocked me before for a couple of weeks. Now, I have more than a million followers on X. I cannot leave without losing them. If I go to Bluesky, I have 10 followers. Interoperability would mean that if I go to another platform, to Bluesky, when I post something on Bluesky, then my 1 million followers on X can hear it.

Sounds like Fediverse's ActivityPub

Since everyone else before me is too mature:

They made it for your mom

The conspiracy theory that there's a small group of evil, rich people controlling the world keeps getting validated.

Can't violate human rights if they are sub-human

They can simply count which products are being sold more / run out of stock more quickly.

(But I get that they probably bought into the hype of AI)

Sounds like the UAC from Doom (2016).

Maybe the real monsters are the people we met along the way.

Java is looking more and more cool.

Too bad companies are still stuck on Java 8😔

S

Learn to use the 3 sacred treasures of conversation from Yumiella (Villainess Level 99):

create a website that catalogues all the spiders in my area

You are a web developer looking for other web developers ;)

Then, since light cannot reach you, you are effectively blind.

Frieren

I wouldn't have known about it if not for this post.

Now this post feels like an ad.

Nothing special - Fern just told it to stay Stille

So, a bullshit job as per David Graeber?

That's pure torture to me. I'd rather do something meaningful.

Has anyone read the manga?

Yep.

Am I going to suffer terribly for my rash decision?

Nope