In what way do you perceive my words here to be hostile? I said only that I suspected you were kidding: I assumed you understood that NordVPN is a famously bad VPN. Again, it hid a data breach for 18mo.

You, however, accused me of an incapability of sincere thought, which is hostile and insulting.

I have not been hostile or rude to you, despite your hostility and brashness toward me. I struggle to see how you are offended, or how you took an imagined slight as justification for verbal rock-slinging.

Doctor Who, hm?

That wasn’t very clear from your message.

You can use tone tags to make it more obvious when your messages are meant to be interpreted a certain way. For example, /j for joking or /s for sarcastic.

I am glad you were joking.

There is no need for hostility.

NordVPN has documented issues with:

• longer than necessary data retention
• a past data breach that NordVPN didn’t disclose to users for 18 months
• third-party sharing of data with analytics and advertising partners
• an illegal subscription enrollment model

yes to Copilot

no to AI slop

Mutually exclusive.

Don’t call it that. We should not cater to the renaming whims of a fascist.

That wasn’t the Capytistas.

Which they did. The article is misleading. The website is https://capybara.info/.

True. So is any use of it, but that is particularly bad.

No. Generative AI is bad, its use and development are moral failures, and everything it makes is worthless.

The Fediverse should hate gen-AI.

No sane person uses generative AI.

Personally I am okay with code being written by AI as long as it is properly being checked and tested.

I disagree.

The CEO is a prime example of management becoming a security and safety risk, which all engineers know is very dangerous. It is the same story as what caused the Challenger disaster.

I agree.

That CEO needs to step down, not just for their reputation but for the safety of their software.

I agree.

Surely you aren’t serious.

Everyone go vote at their feedback website. There are several posts in the General Suggestions section that suggest Andy Yen step down. Mark them as critical.

Don’t be a meat proxy.

Artist credit?

E.D. They have pills for that.

It is already doing their jobs. They need to be replaced with people selected from productive non-managerial roles at the workplace and replaced often.

Ah, right, and leaders are always experienced and knowledgeable. Explain how that applies to hereditary rule or oligarchy, then.