Two things have lead to that first picture though.

1. We’ve been underpaying farmers for a long time. Everyone buys from supermarkets, and supermarkets will pay farmers a meagre amount for produce. Cheap imports are further hammering the farmer. Hard to compete in northern Europe with slavery conditions in southern Spain.

2. We’ve been overpaying for solar too. Locking it to the rate of fossil fuel energy means it’s well worth covering a field in solar panels and reaping the rewards.

Both of these should change, but since nobody has any money, it’s a hard sell to make people want to pay more for farm produce, especially when you don’t know who is soaking that extra money up. Capitalism says it’s going to be the supermarket owners taking the lion’s share.

Look, I just want historical accuracy in my movie about sea monsters and cyclopses!

As we all know, despite part of the story taking place in Africa, there were no black people in ancient Greece!

Those are perfectly cromulent words.

And physically.

The hype actually feels like some of the vintage marketing for BASIC.

“So simple, your boss can do it!”

It’s probably been like this every time we go “up” a level of abstraction. We’re still needed because complicated shit will always be complicated, and people who make decisions will always need an underling to blame.

You speak for yourself, I’m flying through this killer sudoku book…

Yeah, fully agree with all that.

I’ve got some godawful spaghetti code I don’t understand fully, and it’s pretty good at deciphering that and the bizarre labyrinth of code paths leading around it. But it’s absolutely no guarantee of working code, and in any project larger than a simple crud app, you are going to still need programmers who know about things like memory and databases.

It often needs pointing at a solution you want, because as you pointed out, it’s fond of dumb band-aids. Like yesterday when it was trying to hook into mouse wheel events and create separate threads, when all it needed was an event on the dataset I was using to load a sub-dataset.

Maybe we should fork an Enshittyfin and add these vital features.

I stopped playing Wipeout 3 because it required a manual load of your save when you started it up.

Eventually I pressed the wrong option and overwrote my save with a blank file.

Never played it again.

I’d like to know what was on the driver’s phone that was so much more interesting than a stationary bus a hundred yards in front of them.

I’ve got to be honest, the occasional glitch in Firefox Android is more than worth the price of not seeing the ads and consent banners that Chrome would have forced me to look at.

We don’t want them.

Well he’s got nothing else to offer.

Although it has lead to every website have that 2/3/4 column look for about 10 years at least. Widescreen monitors have 50% of the space wasted,

I think it was Grid that started it, had 12 columns you could divvy up with a load of weird classes, and then a version of grid got added to the CSS standard instead so now it’s just there.

You can still make CSS from scratch, but I can see why a beginner would go with Bootstrap or whatever.

I don’t know who Kevin is, so I looked at his Wikipedia page and I’m still none the wiser what he’s actually done to “earn” all that money. Looks like a serial grifter.

Why would Obama do this? 😭

They’re not public services. They’re hostile psy-ops around the world, helping destabilise other governments.

It’s high time other countries just outright blocked that cesspool, and Twitter while they’re at it.

“Call it what you like, you’re still going to need us” Code.

It’s just really high level BASIC with much looser syntax. It doesn’t mean my boss could use it, any more than they could use the “no code” rubbish, BASIC, C, Fortran or Assembly that came before it.

If your job was taking really detailed technical specifications and turning it into something a computer can read, then you might be in trouble. But my job was always deciphering the nonsense amalgamations of customers, sales people, and managers, figuring out what the actual requirement is, determine the simplest thing that could handle that, and write it in such a way that the inevitable changes that they request won’t be too painful to add.

About 2019.

If it still works, keep using it.

I’m doing that and I’m not even short of money.

Just sick of nothing being available when I want it, on another app, and having to scan several services to confirm that.

With Jellyfin it’s just there. There’s no ads. There’s no “oh hey you looked away from the credits for five seconds I’ll just play something else”.