AceLewis

I have encountered this problem at work a few times, the worst was someone asking if a list of pros and cons from something we were developing and asking if the list was accurate…

I spent a long time responding to each pro and con assuming they got this list from somewhere or another companies promotional material. Every point was wrong in different ways, not understanding. I was giving detailed responses to each point explaining how they are wrong. Initially I thought the list was obtained from someone in marketing who did not understand, after a while I thought maybe this was AI and asked… they told me they just asked the pros and cons of the product/program to ChatGPT and was asking me to verify it it was correct or not before communicating to customers.

If they had just asked me the pros and cons I could have responded in a much shorter amount of time. ChatGPT basically DOSed me because the time taken to produce the text was nothing compared to the time it took me to respond.

I think when people call it a scam they are referring to the idea that it is marketed as a way that plastic can be green and good for the environment because it can be recycled. It may be profitable to be used as fuel but it is not green.

Another thing in the article is richer countries with higher environmental regulations just export to poor countries where the pollution is less regulated. Just exporting the problem to you. I have been to Kyrgyzstan most their electric is hydroelectric but in general it seemed their environmental regulations were lacking especially in the villages they just had heaps of waste, in the past it would be mostly comparable but lots of single use plastic means the waste is permanent.

Tor works on top of TCP so it can’t tunnel UDP traffic. Lots of P2P things (like torrents) support both UDP and TCP, some only UDP. If you try to torrent and only have TCP you won’t be able to connect to other peers using UDP.

ZeroNet is now not in development but using DHT was on the list of things that were wanted to be implemented. It had many other problems like the .bit domains were kindof centralised by Tamas not using the namecoin blockchain.

Good question I did this once by plugging in a keyboard and mouse and using a combination of them to unlock the phone and enable onscreen dictation (meant for blind people, you move your mouse over the thing and it tells you what is under).

Mostly blind luck, clicking the windows button then typing out the unlock PIN code and enabling the voice detection via Ok Google I think although many things were tried.

Once the onscreen dictation was enabled we were able to navigate the phone by voice to do what we wanted (take all photos off it).

Edit: also some phones support video output via USB-C and then it is much easier. Unfortunately the one I was working on did not support that.

You can also not only cache locally but cache nix builds online with services like Cachix. Then you can build a nix env on a powerful dev machine and push to the cache so when the Nix environment is built on a low powered CI machine it can easily download the build instead of trying to build and possibly time out.

Build once on one machine and all developers can just download the build.

Just to add for anyone reading this thread and aspiring to be a dev and being demotivated this is not the experience I witness (in the Netherlands). There are jobs for junior devs. One of the problem might be not wanting to advertise to hire very junior devs as I have seen people apply at the company I work for that have just completed a bootcamp or udemy course and nothing else and think they are qualified. If you advertise hiring at a low level you will get lots of spammy applications.

(I understand why these people are taking the shotgun approach and applying everywhere because some company will bite but it can be annoying on the receiving end)

My company is hiring junior devs all the time.