Tech bros really never got the idea that cyberpunk is a genre of dystopian fiction.
You’re confusing the people who wrote the code with the product (business) team that decided they could monetize it. Engineers in large companies have zero creative control, and the people who do look more like wall street finance bros than the guys on silicon valley. Not that they don’t also suck, but please get why they suck.
Tech bros refers to a misogynistic behavior within tech circles and especially software development tied to traditional ideas that women can’t be technical because their vaginas get in the way. As a secondary bonus this leads to women trying to crush other women.
What if tech bros could be considered bad for two reasons?
No. No it does not.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/tech-bro
Because I see you skipped the first search result I’ll put this here for you https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brogrammer
Here is the third https://yourstory.com/2024/05/tech-bro-mindset-culture-decoded
You’re blaming the toxic worker for the differently toxic management decisions.
I think you might want to read that Wikipedia article, because it makes it very clear that the way you’re using it is not the only way it is used. That is generally not how people use it these days.
It always amazes me when people insist a word must have only one meaning and that must be the original meaning.
The idea that language isn’t fluid is very silly to me, and by that, I don’t mean prosperous. Maybe it isn’t the best meme.
Well the article is about two paragraphs long, so why don’t you highlight the section you think backs up your point because I sure don’t see it.
And to be clear, a product executive at VW is by no stretch “in tech”. I’d even consider IBM to be more of a tech company than VW, and IBM has more in common with PWC than apple.
I mean it’s literally right there:
but some programmers self-describe themselves as a brogrammer positively as a word for “sociable or outgoing programmer”, and it also tends to represent a subculture within the greater tech industry.
So that’s three different meanings for the same word. Again, it sounds to me like it’s possible for words to have more than one meaning or for word meanings to change. But that’s just my liberal woke viewpoint obviously.
So you’re leaning harder into the part I took most issue with? The deciders here are not programmers. Also, that behavior is a coping mechanism for not wanting to believe they are misogynistic douches.
And uh…what the fuck are you talking about with bringing in liberal woke viewpoint as a thing in this conversation? I sincerely hope you’re just a Russian troll because otherwise you’re incomprehensible.
It’s a dystopic for us, for them it is the bright future
Then they need to read/watch more closely, because it isn’t all that bright for the people at the top either.
…because they think they’ll be on the profiteering side.
And they think that the profiteering side still works like how it does today.
I just watched the video. It is again a great and understandable talk, even for someone who has little technical knowledge. They also subtitle all their videos in English. I recommend it to everyone.
Video-Link with English dub: https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-wir-wissen-wo-dein-auto-steht-volksdaten-von-volkswagen#l=eng
It’s a well known privacy issue to those who care about privacy. It’s Official: Cars Are Terrible at Privacy and Security
The good news is that it this information will eventually reach the insurance companies. That should help with terrible car drivers getting some incentives and disincentives to not suck so much.
Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies - The New York Times
If you want freedom, you get a bicycle.
Nah, it’ll just make insurance more expensive and allow them to have more excuses to deny claims. Giving insurance companies more data to work with is never a good thing.
Deny claims and raise the premium.
Don’t want to deal with car insurance? Help end car dependency.
Slow!=good, slow is just slow. Driving 25 in a 35 doesn’t make you a better driver.
But lowering the speed limit to 25 and redisigning the street so 25 feels fast does increase safety.
Putting digital GPS governors in all the cars to limit them to the speed limit also increases safety. If e-bikes are dangerous enough to require governors, then cars certainly need them as well.
Neither of these ideas are remotely related to the topic. There’s probably arguments for and against both of your points, but that doesn’t matter.
You can probably assume every device with satnav and an internet connection is doing this.
And those 20 pages of text you scrolled to the bottom of without reading in order to click the OK button to get the directions to the nearest McDonalds gives them every right to do so.
They collect every single thing from how many times you open your door to how fast you drive
hahahaha toldya x50
Teaching sand to think was a mistake
I am so glad my car was made just before all this massive enshittification.
Chaos Communication Congress is such a cool event… 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪
Last year, they hacked a train to prove that the manufacturing company wrote code that fully locks the train when it arrives at rival repair shops.
Is there a company yet that let’s me pay them to internet disconnect and rip out sensors on a modern car?
I recognize that its a tricky process, but since the Mozilla report, it seems like there’s a market for it. I’d happily pay $5k for a privacy-mod to an electric vehicle.
You misspelled: “I will happily re-elect and maybe donate to someone that will vote against this bullshit use of people’s data.”
Edit: my point is no one should be subject to this BS regardless of how much they can pay.
No
I don’t want this data to exist
That’s different from controlling use
Either way, it’s better not to force people to pay to keep their privacy.
Surprisingly little in Turkey
Same in Spain
