Same here for mailbox. I left tuta mostly due to their shitty spam filtering, weird billing, and the hard requirement of only being able to manage emails through their app(s).

The inability to add my own pgp always irked me as well. Now I got that with mailbox, and I can use whatever mail app of my choice.

I’m a senior full stack dev, 22 years into it. I lost my job 16 months ago due to federal funding cuts killing a project I was specifically hired to build.

I have landed a total of 5 interviews since then. Rejected or ghosted. I’ve stopped tracking the number of applications/resumes I have submitted, but as of this past July, it was close to 150.

I think my time in this line of work is done. I’m looking at finding a different type of work that isn’t so completely fucked up from AI and the (very public) fascist takeover of the open source ecosystem.

I’ll still code, but it’ll be on my terms. No AI, no deadlines. Just like how it started for me a long time ago.

It has AI built into it. Check out the website, halfway down.

I’m doing my part on Mastodon to spread the word. If you’re on there, boost my post or start up your own.

https://veganism.social/@mattwebbdev/117311062704363151

Wouldn’t that be some crazy shit? I mean… this timeline is not following any logic, so this could probably be a reality…

Agreed. Then dye it some bright color to really distance yourself from the villain look

As a bald man myself, I can not speak to their specific Baldman tribe.

I just left this comment, might be an alternative for you: https://programming.dev/comment/25901788

Same. Someone on Mastodon gave praises to https://upcloud.com/. They’re also on Masto @upcloud@glitchy.upcloud.world

Their VPS plans look decent: https://upcloud.com/global/products/cloud-servers/#plans

There’s been some talk of possible money laundering I saw on some threads in other Lemmy communities recently. I suppose that’s possible. We may never know.

I haven’t once said anyone was wrong. What they said is immaterial to what I was originally talking about. I was pointing critique/concerns/feelings towards the present day tech industry as a whole.

I kinda expect the guys who are investing in something they hope to see a positive return on to try to calm everyone down. That’s why I don’t give a shit what either of them said; its predictable and they don’t like the internal disruption. It costs company time/money money to put out that fire. Their priorities dont align with the staff.

My comment was aimed at the tech industry as a whole.

Let’s call it what it is in tech right now; it’s a supply chain attack against the whole industry. We’re being told to grab a bowl of this shit stew of venture capital, solidified grifts, and xenophobia with a side of Elon styled political activism.

These fascists have bought, bullied, or got backing from fellow fascists to coopt the F/OSS community with sums of money not commonly used in this space. Elon bought a whole social media platform to craft it into a fascist/Nazi hellscape, strictly to sway public opinion.

These guys are taking it even further; the very tools and means of production are being setup as a deeper rot in tech.

The same fuckheads in DHH’s orbit are only a few contacts away from Elon himself. We developers of all stripes need to move our projects off of corpo services. Self host your repo, partner up with like minded devs, make software for the people who need it.

Blue Swriley Head Guy, aka Lorenzo Swirlington, III, Esq. fought for more, but alas he was pulled into a swirly abyss before his goal was realized 💙

Kumquat

Because it’s fun to say

Considering how long this game has been out, that 100 hours gets stretched over a long time.

I hope the fury of a million meth-fueled fire ants set up a colony in this person’s urethra.