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Ah, the dread! The company now has a linkedin page and I would be an asshole not to "like" it. I've been avoiding the stupid linkedin for ages. I don't like to keep in touch with people (sorry) and I actually only communicate with a couple of people. If I create this stupid page, it will have maybe 3 linked people. And I'm in the bussiness since 1998...

Moreover, I've been avoiding linkedin and hoping it will die not just because I don't care about "links" but on philosophical grounds - it is not M$'s bussiness to know whom I know, what I do, what I learn etc. This is personal. If I can use a metaphor - in the world of cars I'm an old white indiscriminate van and not one painted in screeming purple with lightning bolts and loud stickers saying "EXPERT!!!!", "EXPERIENCED ARCHITECT!!!", "VISIONARY!!!!". Nor am I willing M$ to peddle me anywhere to anyone... Except that maybe I do, since we are trying to go into this "consulting" thing...

Well, anyway, I hate Microsoft. Also Google. Also Apple. I think these companies are the biggest cheaters and their main produce is bullshit. They managed to bullshit most of the people into buying in into their big pile of shit and now what we all do is shoveling shit all day and there is no end to it, because with the money we give them they continue to produce even more shit... Think of any of their self-serving "services" and "products". Can you name one that you can buy and use however you like, without being restricted or tracked or coralled into some "platform" or coerced to buy a new version that is exactly the same but this time the buttons are somewhat rounder? (and BTW: "we removed this feature for more streamlined experience")

Enough complaining, it's nothing new or original. I think about moving all of the company's repositories from github to gitlab. Perhaps we can also start deploying new projects to linode instead of amazon ec2. It will not move the needle for me even slightly. Now thinking about it, as time passes it's getting harder and harder to step out of the shitpile. The shit has become ubiquitous. I'd very much prefer to write implementations of numerical algorithms in assembly than deal with the ever-changing "sdk"s that objectively achieve only one thing - guarantee that anything you make today will surely break tomorrow.

And if everything breaks so fast (by design), what difference it makes what you did 5 years ago? Or whom you knew or worked with? Why do we need linkedin???

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