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Cake day: January 2nd, 2025
  • gkak.laₛ@lemmy.ziptoMemes@lemmy.ml•RiskEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    Maybe not about your main employment, but I don’t understand why some people feel forced to do some other things:

    • They love web advertisements, get attached to specific products, prefer using company names instead of general words
      • e.g. “I’m in Zoom call”; just say “a voice/video call” or whatever, why do you have to advertise the company and perpetuate the mentality that “voice calls” → "Zoom calls“ and that there’s only one product people should use
      • same with sodas, medicine, browsers, search engines, tissues, copy machines, cleaning products, etc
    • Social media posts: they feel the need to advertise themselves (I’m not just talking about work-related stuff); some people can’t just post a nice vacation photo, and need to use it as an opportunity to act as influencers etc
    • I would say that some types of “I have to do a bad thing to someone else, otherwise they will do it to me” could be classified as capitalistic as well; no, Bob, no one is forcing you to undercut your coworker (except if you work in a company that uses KPIs etc maliciously)
    • The mentality that your hobbies can/should be used for profit, and that profit is the main reason anyone would do something that requires some time to do
      • I’ve written some open source stuff (code.gkak.la), and when I mention something I made to some people, their first reaction was “that’s great; so how are you going to sell it?”; and when I try to explain about open source (especially for personal scripts etc), they just can’t comprehend why would anyone do something like that, if not for profit
      • I’ve seen the same mentality online, around people being makers (e.g. knitting, 3d printing)
    • People adding advertisements to their super low-traffic personal blogs, and people arguing about the “lost income opportunity” or sth (??)
  • gkak.laₛ@lemmy.ziptoTech@programming.dev•Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot featuresEnglish
    211·
    5 months ago

    I’m not sure I understand the people in the thread advocating for the feature; they’re asking Microsoft to not have features that are hostile to the users?

    If the managers have decided they don’t want you, and they only want vibe coders and to force AI hype on you, why would you do their job for them and try to persuade them to keep their monopoly…

    Just accept that it’s bad and go somewhere else; 😕 the fact that people are used to using github and that “it’s what everyone uses”, doesn’t mean that people should stay there forever, or that Microsoft would care about the feature requests people make; stop threatening to leave or comparing github to codeberg etc, and just go create a codeberg account and start git pushing there today 🤔 (And maybe keep the github projects but only use them as mirrors for accepting PRs etc)

    (I’m not saying this in a hostile way; but I really think the solution is to just go and do sth else about, it instead of trying to reason with Microsoft)