Always keep in mind that your own state is almost always the group of actors having the most power over you. They are the ones who can hurt you or just make you jump though an infinite amount of hoops without any fear of consequence.

Normal people really can just ignore everyone who is or comes after “Hackers”. Focus on your own government. That’s where the real risks are.

The movies of the 70s are more a product of LSD than cocaine. And Zardoz is definitely one of the movies worth watching.

This basically is the stereotype I am coming from. So far, the answers don’t contradict it.

It’s Microslop. The people who had any resemblance of work ethics left a long time ago. No one still working there gives any shits about QA - especially not the management.

Trump already won that war 20 times. So it’s probably all fine.

It’s called entry-level for a reason. Back in my days, you could start such a position without any formal education as long as you were willing to acquire the required skills and knowledge without needing a nanny. We had to go to the library or actually buy the books for knowledge. Now they can just use the internet.
The actual requirement for doing the job never changed. And it’s not knowledge.

Nah, AI isn’t that good. When you don’t properly review every single line twice, you get the most absurd bullshit you’ve ever seen.
I use Claude Code Opus daily btw.

Computing was never as great as it is now. Never before did we have so much free open source software at such a high level of quality to use and tinker with. Never before was it this easy to find help for the most obscure problems. Never before was playing on Linux a viable option.

But online and offline social networking really got enshittified a lot. 3rd spaces online like offline are fully commercialized. Online, everything is remembered and if it can be used against you, it will be used against you either by the government or some rando just because they can.
But you can use a VPN and as many pseudonyms as you need to properly separate your community-specific personas. And if you live in a city of religious fanatics, the internet also is a great to find like-minded people. There are communities for everything.

Some of the illegal streaming sites still have search, sorting, and filtering.

To be fair, Iran briefly had a democracy. The elected leader immediately started to nationalize the oil industry. Obviously, The Great US Empire had to immediately regime change him.

The reason most countries opposing The Great US Empire have autocratic regimes is evolutionary pressure. The countries who tried to go with a democracy either became vassals of The Great US Empire or got regime changed into chaos or an autocratic regime by The Great US Empire.

Nothing wrong with “vibe coding”, “prompting”, “generating” or the other terms associated with using AI to generate something.

If you do proper quality assurance, and assume ownership and accountability it is your piece of work. If not, it’s AI slop.

Grats.

I don’t watch movies or series often anymore. But when I do, I just go through the streaming sites section in the r/Piracy megathread until I find what I search for on one of them. Most of them let you search for a specific title or prefix. Some mimic the Netflix browsing experience. Some also have a download button for offline-watching. If it’s out for a while and has some mainstream appeal, you will probably find it on one of these.

I am honestly surprised, paid video on demand even survived the post-Netflix fragmentation. YouTube is free. uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock make it usable. Illegal streaming sites exist and are trivial to use without any risk.

Why even consider paid video on demand services?

That’s just what total democracy looks like. Completely normal. In Germany, some political parties (left and right) are also banned to make sure they can’t ever be elected.

It’s like Brexit with the exception, that most citizen of the core country of The Great US Empire don’t really profit from the absurd benefits that come with being the defacto ruler of the world. They never got full state healthcare anyway. They never got a real social security net. All the profits were hoovered up by the military industrial complex and the Epstein billionaire club anyway. For the majority of the people, losing the world leader status might actually be a neutral change. They can’t lose what they never had.

Just continue coding using the natural neural networks in the brains of those 60 employees until the problem has been resolved and/or another AI provider selected. It’s not like Claude invented coding. Sure, it’s a pretty useful tool. But it is possible to research obscure APIs and develop software manually.