I made this FOSS template for easy reuse.

def describe_nintendo_creativity(nintendo_game_name, new_version_number):
    print(
        f"Hm, {nintendo_game_name} {new_version_number} seems to look pretty similar " 
        f"to {nintendo_game_name} {new_version_number - 1}."
    )

describe_nintendo_creativity("Mario Kart", 9)
describe_nintendo_creativity("Pokemon", 21)

I can vouch for Mullvad working well on Android and Arch in the past years.

No, I didn’t know that! I thought it was some kind of honor for comedian to only play one character in their whole career. Thank you for your valuable contribution.

slav squat was developed to stay warm in harsh slav winters whilst waiting around for death. but since then it has developed, now its cultural

He should try to open a factory with us in France.

Impressive

What was you initial intentions when writing the code? Were you paid to do it for a specific project that was obviously used for “bad”?

You mean you published something on the internet under you real name (which the company probably didn’t notice)?

What a relief

Norwegians aren’t more environmentally-minded than people elsewhere, she reckons. “I don’t think a green mindset has much to do with it. It has to do with strong policies, and people gradually understanding that driving an electric car is possible.”

Yet Norway is also a very wealthy nation, which thanks to its huge oil and gas exports, has a sovereign wealth fund worth more than $1.7tn (£1.3tn). This means it can more easily afford big infrastructure-build projects, and absorb the loss of tax revenue from the sale of petrol and diesel cars and their fuel.

The country also has an abundance of renewable hydro electricity, which accounts for 88% of its production capacity.

Thank you for this personal contribution. I like the Robin Hood angle of it.

the building maintenance technician also works for the evil company

Yes

you’re asking if they’re just as guilty as the software engineer that worked to create the evil product?

Or the opposite, if they are as free from guilt as the maintenance guy.

That’s kind of the origin of my question, does this thinking about the technician extends to someone more involved in the product made, such as an engineer?

That’s the most convincing explanation I have read, thank you!

I am talking about morality rather than legality. No doubts the owners are more guilty, but that’s an easy consensus here. I’m more interested in the opinion of the many software engineers who participate here.

I’m assuming they both work at same “evil” company.

Yes

Did the roof collapse despite numerous warnings from the maintenance staff about structural issues? If the worker failed to report outside the company, yes there is some fault on them for inaction.

Let’s say there is no issue regarding maintenance, everything is safe, the building technician is only “guilty” of helping an “evil” company run.

If the company ordered some cyrpto mining baked into their software, then the developer who accepted the task and implemented it would share guilt.

So it’s more about directly working on something bad?
I guess that means people working directly on the chain of personal data exploitation at the tech giants are more guilty.

Let’s take what may be the average software engineer on Lemmy or Reddit. So I would guess:

• Do they know the company is evil? Yes
• if so, do they agree with what the company is doing? Some yes, like the cutting edge tech, some no, like the personal data harvesting or undermining democracy.
• if not, do they have any viable alternate options? Yes, many other options but with less money making.

The point is to better match the current pronunciation bəl, not change the pronunciation.

I am French, I know that. Let me expend the title to make it easier to understand.

In American English, words of French origin like “meter” (American English) inverted the last letters of “metre” (British English from French “mètre”) to better match the English pronunciation. Why isn’t it also the case for other similar situations like “possible”?

I guess this post went higher in my feed that the others at my checking time.