They're trashing!!

Hack the planet!

We have no names, man. No names. We are nameless.

"im a real wild child i'm a wild one, im a wild one!!"

aaaah! joey! joey! thank you everybody!

"I'm not an addict. Can I get some more coffee?"

> Never fear, I is here.

> Out of the way you hapless techno weenie.

The little boat tipped over.

It caused a MAjor ECoLOGiCAL disASter?

Lorraine Bracco is great, but her delivery of that line cracks me up. That had to have been overdubbed or something.

Damn dude this hurts. My friend took his own life last year, and Hackers was our absolute favorite movie back in high school. I mean even as late as 2022 we were messaging each other the Hacker manifesto, hack the planet, you know all the good stuff. Sam Singh, you would've loved this man. I miss you homie. hack the planet.

As ytcracker says:

    Lost a lot of my people to drugs and jail
    And suicide cause we do or die
    Thats the way this thing goes with my crew and i
    But i guess that we all keep it moving right
    Terminal eternally but you know that i ain't sick
    Out here idling on my nick
    While i go ahead and do another magic trick

I'm sorry for your loss. I've lost many to all of these. The worst is someone I was in federal prison with and would hang out with daily. He got out and got on Fentanyl and was so messed up he literally burned alive after his house caught on fire. Rest in piece Daniel.

ytcracker still the greatest 2/26/2026 NES forever (9'.')9 (9'.')-o

Re%

Sorry for your loss.

"This is it... this is where I belong..." I know everyone here... even if I've never met them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again... I know you all...

after all, we're all alike.

Thank you. And you know, it's those quotes and concepts that really stuck me with, about how we were all in it together. And not to get off topic, but i'm so sad and disheartened to see what tech has become since those days.

i feel you

Sorry but what year and working environment is this post from? Things have radically changed in the last 5 years.

^this 100%

I have this selected, but if I take a photo and upload it straight to google drive, it uploads as HEIC.

I simply live with this, but if I need to download it in a compatible format from Google Drive, I just screenshot the photo from Google Drive instead of downloading it. That solves the problem for me but from a different direction.

my concern was that it takes up more space on my phone, do you know if that's true?

yes that's true about 40% more! You can also leave as HEIC but do:

Settings → Apps -> Photos → Transfer to Mac or PC → Automatic (convert to jpg)

or

In "Shortcuts" app - select photo, convert to jpeg, save file:

https://i.imgur.com/yyUgMm1.png

Set this to just kick in when you transfer/export/share. It generally does the right thing. That doesn't store/keep the dupe, just delivers JPEG to target.

You can enable your phone to offload originals to iCloud, and only download full-res on demand.

Ive been managing and supporting teams for a long time and i'm sorry, but junior and mid-level devs do the majority of the heavy lifting when it comes to work output in big corps. I don't think AI will replace them. I don't think all these IC5 and IC6 engineers are going to be putting up 400-500 diffs a year anytime soon.

Reflecting on retro compute more and more lately and it really makes me miss where we came from. I've been programming since about 1994 when I was about 12 years old (shout out q-basic). And today work at FAANG as an eng manager. But i am not proud of where we've gone as an industry. Makes me sad really.

i was doing this until a couple years back when a friend told me about LetsEncrypt! It's like magic!!