Chais

Is there another kind? If it wants to be my spirit animal it better be horny.

Well that’s one wide open backdoor. More like a back gate, really.

The fuck?? They promised discreet packaging!

And you believed that??

Good luck with that. People seeking power are seldom suited for wielding it.

sometimes they just make shit up.



Kinda disqualifies it as a “search engine” in my book.

“Senior backend engineer” tells us it’s likely backend software development, which is mostly platform agnostic. NodeJS, PHP, Python or whatever language you want to write your backend in can be developed on any OS. Even C#, unless you insist on specific versions.

The limitation to Windows as a developer OS was likely not communicated in the job advert or during the interview process and was only revealed when the developer machine was requested.

Going purely on phrasing, Devin seems to be head of IT. So this may be his call to make, but this will alienate some candidates, as we can see.

Software development on Windows is a uniquely frustrating experience. Nowadays it can mostly be sidestepped with WSL, but that still leaves you “using” an OS that you will have to fight frequently.

I really don’t see which part of “senior backend engineer” suggests a Windows shop to you. Devin is the internal IT support person of the company.

What makes you assume it’s a Windows shop?

That’s the recipient using gmail, I think. It shows the inbox tag.

Bin auch überrascht CDU und AfD auf der richtigen Seite des Grabens zu sehen. Ob das ein versehen war?

Ingesting then counts as consent. It’s like those banners reading: “By continuing to use this site you agree to our privacy policy.”

Nice attempt at reductio ad absurdum. Here, let me try, too:

Since we already outsourced all the parenting, I guess you think we should all proliferate like rabbits to further feed the machine. How’s that?


OK, now that we got that out of our respective systems, no I’m not opposed to school.

I think as a species we’ve moved well past the point where a single person could reasonably possess, let alone teach all the knowledge that might be relevant to any single person’s life.

I’d also argue that, while adjacent, education is not parenting. Someone can be a teacher to someone without being their parent. Literal well as figurative.

But educators definitely require parents’ help and support, otherwise teaching really turns into an uphill battle against unwilling brats.


The point I was alluding to is, that I think it’s impossible to shield children from all the “harmful information” on the internet. Not without turning it into a totalitarian nightmare, and even then I’m not convinced you could fully prevent children occasionally setting “something bad”. But you’d surveil the entire population and criminalise perfectly harmless actions in the process.

Instead I think it’s the parents’ responsibility to prepare their children and contextualise the information they’ll doubtlessly come across. They can maybe delay the inevitable with parental control software, but that’s their responsibility and if they’re technologically inept that’s also their problem. Existing laws are perfectly sufficient, if not already overreaching.


I refuse to give up civil liberties because you’re afraid to talk to your kids about porn.

You seem opposed to the idea of parents doing actual parenting.

But for that matter, apparently so do many parents. They’d rather outsource the issue to the government, the operating system, the operator of whatever platform the kids happen to be using, complete strangers, literally anyone but themselves.

Anything to avoid talking to their offspring about porn, violence, drugs or whatever else.

I suggest [RFC 2549: IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service
](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2549)

For a better source maybe try Rust?

*farther

Make it an actual Linux phone and it might be a winner.

Very interesting talk but rather painful to listen to.

But you’re not the first one to make that up, at least.

You could’ve made it -halF

Couldn’t find anything useful what that might be.

Incorrect comma.

Exactly. It only has to beat the user by a small margin.