I didn’t see that thread. But I stand by the image as being perfect for the story on several specific points.

“it’s a tool” - a tool

this post has also broken containment in the wider world, the video’s got thousands of views, I got 100+ subscribers on youtube and another $25/mo of patrons

this user has been escorted off the premises via the fourth floor window

you’ll be waiting a while. it turns out “i’m not saying it’s always programming.dev, but” was already in my previous ban reasons, and it was this time too.

you must understand

Sam promised me all the eyeballs I could eat

All the eyeballs

to get you into ahem vibe coding

“i’m a lawyer i will file a CoC complaint”

You say that, but as an operator->sysadmin->devops I’m increasingly disconcerted by the rise of “devops” who can’t actually find their way around a Unix command prompt.

but look how delighted they are!

why is no-one demanding to know why the robot is so sexay

I think the guy’s in Russia! It’s a pretty common style.

this guy, use his stuff a lot

yeah nah, it’s bad then too actually

the message I get is to preemptively ban user ms178 from any project I’m on

FT are centrist market liberals, but gibbering US nazis will be happy to tell you why that’s communism.

FT Alphaville is the bloggy section of FT, it’s where the writers let rip

it’s very tired and shagged out after a long squawk. Just today I did [REDACTED] to alleviate the DDOS scraper bots and it’s ticking along nicely right now. Keeping an eye on things.

sometimes a thread breaks containment, the “all” algorithm feeds it to even more people, and we see that Lemmy really does replace Reddit

here’s another version of the same sketch

a machine is constructed in the form of a pretty lady to present you with a magical answer and the answer is a lie too

and the hand is empty and the style is retro pop art of a comforting past that never existed

now what could the incredibly obvious symbolism here mean, why all these choices

hope our poster never goes to an art gallery, could be fatal