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My place has this thing where most phishing test emails are obvious but every once in a while they’ll drop a really good one, sometimes these even pose as our managers.

I teached embedded programming for a while and students were to find out that AI often failed miserably at our tasks.

And the funny thing is that when I tried it myself to see if it’s that bad at given tasks - I explained the task like I would explain to a student, and actually got a decent result - readable comprehensive code with meaningful comments. It all simply comes down to the fact that AI won’t really help you if you can’t do without it. So I double that making the guy pass some guidelines on styling the code to Claude should at least make the code less shit to debug.

My friend had an old colleague that was maintaining one project for decades. Grandpa sadly kicked the bucket at some point and friend inherited that project - tens of thousands of lines of Assembly. 🌝

Nigel Farage’s party has been plunged into crisis after an undercover sting operation revealed racist, sexual, and violent rhetoric among its members.

What a blue baller article. I thought there’d be some definitive proof of Russian funding or something, not public knowledge that Farage and Co are racists, sexists and generally all around assholes.

Actually how some some small governments work - “okay, the discussion today has gone too heated now so we all have to go cool down and continue tomorrow.

I’m not that big against systemd, but Wayland (relevant to Hyprland here) makes me cry.

I’m still using X11 sessions quite often because Wayland gets confused when there are 2 GPUs in the system. And there are many more issues I’ve encountered that I won’t be able to remember right off the bat, but that all results in overall frustrating experience.

Yep, people involved are the biggest problem sometimes.

I’ve had to figure how to fix many issues myself, because quite often upon finding a thread where someone already had an issue that I had, folks were tryna gaslight the OP why it’s not actually an issue, eventually turning the thread into shit flinging contest. Or the good old “don’t do that, you’ll break something” (that I proceeded to do and was absolutely okay).

Not to mention how FOSS developers have to deal with entitled assholes every now and then.

Wait, so he’s been at it for years now?

I’ve had his posts in my feed somewhat recently and I was kind of in awe of dude’s dedication to do full time posting on topic of Linux users having no life, but had no idea he’s been doing it for so long now. 🌚

If you’re very new to that - I’d just recommend picking up some Arduino (at least UNO R3) starter kit plus some measurement tools - multimeter and maybe an oscilloscope (there are cheap handheld ones like DSO).

And then you just fool around with what you’ve got - try to read each sensors data, try to use each actuator, think of some useful projects with what you’ve got.

And from there you can go to stuff like ESP32 to explore wireless stuff (mostly compatible with Arduino too).

That’s a big “IF” tho. I’ve been teaching embedded programming classes and had to teach folks some very basic stuff like how to RTFM or how to look for stuff on the internet - people don’t even use search engines anymore. 🌚

“Oh, someone had the same problem” as I see forum thread in search results, followed by finding out that thread turned into a gaslighting session on why OP’s problem wasn’t actually a problem, and no solution was provided as result. 🌝

As someone doing teaching, I already had quite enough of “If you have any further questions - just let me now! 😊” in answer boxes.