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It's midnight, time for shitposting (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 87 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

In a (rare for me) defense of Boomers, goddamn, the one dude I knew who learned COBOL on his GI Bill out of Vietnam...

that man was a fucking wizard.

He actually cackled to me when he told me how C Suite knew he was retiring in 6 months, they were not planning on hiring a replacement for him... he was planning on being hired back as a contractor within 2 years, seeing as he personally built the company's entire transaction accounting payroll and billing systems in the mid 70s, and no one else had any idea how any of it worked.

... For an international logistics company, with over 100 offices all over the world.

But yes, the rest of the Boomers csn go back to Minions memes and being catfished by AI Brad Pitt or whatever it is they do these days on the 'puter.

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago (3 children)

We often forget that half the boomers were the hippies, pioneers of the Internet, and activist that got the civil rights act passed.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We forget that it was a minority of them. The majority is like every other generation: kept disinterested and selfish.

[–] deft@lemmy.wtf 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ours included. I get the idea millennials are supposed to be best with computers but I'll be honest that shit ain't true. Plenty of people I know are complete bozos

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Every generation

[–] MartianRecon@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Half the boomers were absolutely not hippies.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hot take but the hippies fucking sucked and I absolutely despise the entire movement. They had no political message, no demands, no way of achieving their goals, and were an entire movement based on vibes alone. The 70s was a time of great economic upheaval and there was a real chance that things could change, that we could have became a more progressive society, even revolution was possible, but then the hippies came and channeled the revolutionary energy of an entire generation into doing fuck all. Quite frankly I feel the same about the no kings protest today, an entire movement based on vibes with no plans of accomplishing anything.

[–] Amberskin@europe.pub 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well, we (boomers) actually invented the PC…

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A few of you. The rest can barely operate a smartphone let alone do online banking, much less understand a phishing scam.

The problem though isn't that people in general lack the understanding or capability to operate computers, it's that we live in a society where continuous learning is not encouraged nor funded. Education is seen a means to an end, and learning isn't seen as a way of life.

If the government either provided or paid for lifelong learning, things would be very very different. For example when new tech comes out affecting everybody, it should be encouraged to take a week or two off work, at full pay or paid for by the government, to stay current. But right now, only the wealthy and lucky few can even afford that.

[–] Amberskin@europe.pub 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Most of ‘us’ were street smart in our glory days and would not have fallen to the current day scams then. But even without dementia involved, our cognitive abilities degrade and our ability to adapt to changes slows down.

Unfortunately, your generation will get there too.

[–] 01011@monero.town 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

More of your generation fell for the scam that is religion.

[–] Amberskin@europe.pub 1 points 2 months ago

Well, fortunately I dodged that bullet. Atheist since 13 years old.

[–] deft@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 month ago

And our generation gets rugpulled every other week

[–] Mesa@programming.dev 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My generation has 17 inch long dicks.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago

Especially the women! 😋

[–] Maerman@lemmy.world 79 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I mean, for gen alpha, that's an intentional effect. Tech is becoming more and more obfuscated by design.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 94 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Error messages when I was growing up:

Network Error: TCP protocol not installed.

Error messages now:

Something went wrong. :(

[–] Maerman@lemmy.world 46 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Exactly. That second example infuriates me. Just give me something to troubleshoot, for fuck's sake.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 20 points 2 months ago

Needed to add my phone number for 2FA on a website. Something went wrong :( checked network tab and the error being returned from the API was too short phone number, they'd made an assumption based on the country they were from.

I still had to message their support to let them know, but... They could've made it easier to find out the reason at least.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 19 points 2 months ago

It infuriates me because it’s disrespectful. The message insinuates that I wouldn’t be able to figure it out.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

I'll just check the logs then...

The logs:

[–] sours@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Never forget that they took away our moving progress bars w/ descriptions of the task being performed at each stage and gave us shitty spinning circles.

We used to progress, now we get fucked around.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

A spinning circle requires just two threads, one to do the work and one to spin the circle. And they don't have to talk to each other.

A progress bar is the same thing, but now the work thread has to periodically communicate the progress to the bar thread, and inter-thread synchronization has to be setup. And how do you know how much progress a single file transfer represents? Or how many progress points is a registry edit versus a file transfer? It's hard to figure out in advance, which is why so many progress bars are shitty estimates of progress.

[–] nightlily@leminal.space 5 points 2 months ago

I mean we used to just put them on the same thread and block the window message handling loop, causing Windows to freak out. And we liked it.

[–] rain_worl@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

message passing duh

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We have 209 monkeys working on it

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago

Hahaha! Were so fucking quirky! How did you get here? Uh-oh, that wasn't supposed to happen! ThIs iS nOt ThE PaGe YoU'rE lOoKiNg fOr! Hahaha! Like in The Star Wars, which is a nerd movie! HAHAHAHA! Oh noes too mani kittens 😺😸😹😺😸😹😺😸😹!

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 46 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Not for my daughter, I'm starting her early on Arch (she's 4 but she will learn to love the terminal lol)

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago (2 children)

"Now sweetie, find the etc directory or no ice cream."

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You mean like that's difficult?

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

We all start somewhere!

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Idk personally if I was teaching a child how to use Linux I would focus on more practical skills like updating pkgs

[–] flameleaf@programming.dev 12 points 2 months ago

You've got a hacker in training there

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

A Gen X old person once said to me "Oh you're not familiar with computers, that's okay" because I was typing awkwardly on a shitty old work keyboard in a new job

My nerdy millennial ass has literally never been more offended

[–] dosuser123456@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

so real

im sick of being the classroom it guy just because i know how to use the computer beyond clicking stuff onthe desktop