At this point we need to pull their heads out of our asses

Exactly. So it’s pure surreptitious data exfiltration. They only reason they send the data back is because they can, and there is value for them.

I think yes, to your first question. Couldn’t it just crunch the lidardata locally to feed into cartographer, I don’t understand why you don’t understand that this is the issue.

Lol. Oh you were serious?

I speak for most of the world here when I say, yes.

I was on desktop not app, where Spotify will let you search its catalogue without login.

Where do I like… buy… music?

Looking at tidal, there doesn’t appear to be a way to search for music? Am I losing it?

Edit: you have to login first. Honestly, bad first impression already.

They said, racistly with no evidence.

A lot of them would have you imprisoned if they had your way. It’s become painfully obvious to me, especially with everything happening with the yank christofascists, that there are a lot of religious wackos out there kept in check by secularism. They’d had you under the boot heel in a second if they could.

I never understood the base level of acceptance theism has when they keep doing evil things, every time they get power. Religion isn’t your friend.

Yeah this worries me a lot at the minute. There’s a concerted effort to push christianity back in front of the levers of power and it disgusts me. I mean, have you ever tried to read the bible? It’s complete nonsense (nonce-sense?).

Not sure, I’m nearly 40. Felt this way since I was old enough to have an opinion. But I hear that sentiment a lot, as religious people think being a cultist is a default position… its not. Kids are just indoctrinated.

HTRIP

I’ve always said both Christianity and Islam are my enemy. Both science denying, sexist, power hungry institutions with a penchant for fucking kids. The only difference, in the West, is that Christianity was made to bend the knee a long time ago. I think Islam still needs that lesson.

Regardless, fuck them both. Sky daddy worshipping death cults.

Brilliant. It’s so valuable to have a manager that actually treats you like a professional in these situations. Sounds like a diamond in the rough alright.

Some agency when working goes a long way to fostering a really good working relationship. I’m still a lot earlier in my career, so generally in my first non-internship role I was expecting to be given little bits of work like change this button, widen this form, that kind of stuff.

Turns out I’d joined one of those “sink or swim” smaller companies where you have to wear a lot of hats. Initially I thought quite negatively about it but once I started to gain some confidence I realised he was giving me the time and space to properly learn stuff and develop it until it was “good”. He, thankfully, still shoots down my sillier ideas but if I have a good one he throws his full support behind me.

Currently he was like, I need you to investigate how to set up automated fraud prevention checks and flag, let’s say things, for clients to investigate further, and he sent me off for a week to analyse the problem, speak to everyone involved and gather a list of data points and how to calculate them. Then he gave me the time to design the system, including the mental room to develop our first shared lib after .net framework.

Really I’m rambling a bit, but my point is, you can get a lot of good work out of people if you invest in them and allow them some agency. Maybe some can’t work well without constant pressure, but I think a lot of people thrive when supported and enabled correctly by management.

Techno-solutionist lol. The power of labels eh?

Listen to yourself. Disingenuous, preachy, angry. I have no respect for people like you.

I see the vague shape of what you were going for, and had you executed it, I’m sure I would have snorted lightly in mirth.

Why would I account for capitalism when my whole point is i don’t care what people’s opinions are?

Im talking about Tankie ideology so communism yes. But again, my point is I don’t care so to try to pit communism vs capitalism to gotcha me doesn’t even make sense.

Communism has a massive body count yes.

This form of verbal maneuvering that you display is falling from grace.

I think that’s an intentional mischaracterisation. It’s more like sending money to a band that can’t be fucked moderating their discord.