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Big Tech Told Kids to Code. The Jobs Didn’t Follow. (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 23 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Then code for free. Open source is a huge threat to these fuckers that made you bust your asses and then NOT HIRE YOU ANYWAY.

They are hoping you just do something else. I say code something else and take their fucking power away.

[–] recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (4 children)

A threat? They will be more than happy to take work done for free and use it for their own needs. I guess at least if it's a copyleft license they can't just outright steal it.

[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 hours ago

If the code is GPL they'll generally be scared to use it. I agree with you for non-copyleft open source though

[–] skibidi@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

All the big tech companies are built on open source projects... No idea what the guy you replied to was on about.

Any useful thing you code will be used to feed the beast.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 points 28 minutes ago

Usually companies avoid GPL code like a plague

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 37 minutes ago

Company: “buy this code from us” Consumer: “no, the guy you stole from is giving it away for free. We’ll take from him directly and cut you out.” Company: Vaderno.wav

[–] mynameisbob@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

wait... it will be a matter of national security and like you know "you and what army"

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

But they can, and do.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Slip a pointless easter egg into the code. Make sure that if you don't know it's there, it can only be found by careful examination. Then sue any company whose code displays the easter egg and didn't follow the terms of the license, and you're set for life.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

I was referring to AI scraping.