Boycot / protest against any data centers being built for AI bs in your local area.

They will not only drive up the prices for electronics, but also for electricity & water.

Thanks for creating this community.
Looking forward to what it will bring,
but assume/hope it will be some very welcome positive things! :D

Oh misread my bad,
not much experience with PostgreSQL

Yeah,
I did a speed test comparison between Oracle MySQL and MariaDB MySQL,
MariaDB is about 10 times faster.

FYI: When Oracle bought MySQL a lot of developers left and created MariaDB, so the brains behind the project moved, and in the meantime Oracle did a great job of fucking things up.

You’re right,
gambling is to screw you out of your money.
I’d recommend to steer clear of it.

Also the prediction market stuff,
it’s the latest new gambling hype thing,
since they can use loopholes to bypass gambling laws.

I wish more communities implemented this rule.

You’ll run into that on many distros,
not only Debian, since most of the distros use a specific python version for OS packages, its recommended to leave the python for your OS unchanged.

But VirtualBox is not a good idea either.

Instead use a venv (virtual environment),
which is the python way to develop/run under different python versions.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html

By not accepting your time estimate,
requesting your reasoning why it takes that long, you explaining you calculated time in for refactoring, then rejecting your idea and granting you only time to implement the new thing, without granting time for refactoring.

And dw, my project manager is a pretty chill friend and fellow senior developer, who is reasonable and helps me with calculating in time for refactoring whenever possible/nessecary.

It’s only higher up, CEOs/management, who seek to cut corners, with rocks for brains, who don’t see that in the long run such practices are bad for business.

Which sadly is the case for most IT businesses. But at least in my workplace the project manager is not a rat & on the side of the developers.

Just increase your time estimate,
calculate in the time needed to refactor,
but don’t tell them you’re gonna refactor.

Works out most of the time.
Only when they ask why the estimate is so long, then you explain your reasoning behind it, and then they might reply with your statement and block your refactoring idea.

However, getting time to refactor most of the time, is aleady way better then never being allowed to do so.

You can install ClassyShark3xodus,
which can de-compile apps and scan them for trackers on the fly to figure it out yourself.

Do let us know the results :)

Well, it ain’t just the EU :/

Our right to privacy is under attack basically globally (EU, USA, England, Australia, maybe more, but those I’m aware off).

Being wrapped into bullshit reasons “to protect the children” or “to fight crime”, which won’t help, since malicious actors and creative kids will find work arounds for such measures.

The truth is likely more to put a oppressive surveillance police state into place. Where opposition can more easily be tracked down and silenced.

Now it’s more important then ever before to protect your rights to privacy. Since rights are easily eroded by politicians, but very hard to re-gain afterwards.

DuckDuckGo has a “NoAI” subdomain:
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

Works like normal DDG,
except, you guessed it, no AI :)

Alien,
the original 1979 one.

Imo it really aged well,
recently rewatched it and was amazed by how good the special effects looked, especially for that time.

It’s also a really good movie,
scores 8.5/10 on IMDB,
kept me on the tip of my chair for the full 2 houra.

Check the changes,
they’re quite funny :P

I like the electric part.

What I don’t like is that it’s a steaming heap of spy-ware on wheels with no opt-out ability.

Which may lead to more expensive insurance depending on your driving style, or could be abused for even more nefarious reasons.

I hate that nowadays everything comes with pre-installed spyware and that they charge you for it makes it even worse…

• Want a TV? Suck on our Android TV with Google spyware embedded
• Want a phone? Get our Android with Google spyware, or go for an Apple with Apple spyware
• Want a computer? We’ll shove Windows spyware down your throat

Ffs I just want devices that I own to not spy on me, and I can’t even buy them anymore…

Each of them require flashing a custom privacy respecting OS onto it,
and that’s a real problem…