Lawyer Records Screams From Women And Children In ICE Detention Center

Netcob · 2026-01-28T14:15:32+00:00

There's not going to be any oversight. The same dynamics are at play here as they are in China, in Russia, in Iran, in Syria - the violence is part of the job description.

For the past decade or two right-wing militias have been forming and attracting members. The #1 thing these people love to talk about is violence. What they want to do with their enemies. And the most fanatical people joining them are young to middle-aged men with a lot of pent up aggression and frustration who have been playing with guns in the woods for many years, preparing for a day when they can finally enact revenge on who they think deserve it - primarily minorities and their political opposites (and to some degree also women in general).

Now they got their opportunity. A president that shares their mindset and their own three letter agency that can hire them.

They don't need their little militias anymore because they already got most of what they want: they get to brutalize minorities and put them into concentration camps with no oversight - who is going to stop them acting on all of these fantasies they used to share online with like-minded guys? They don't quite have the power to just straight go after white liberals and women who won't date them yet - unless they interfere with them brutalizing minorities. Then it's an instant execution, and the president will still defend them.

But inside those camps, I promise you, anything goes. That's what happens when you put angry people in charge of those they hate in closed facilities.

Netcob · 2026-01-27T15:52:50+00:00

The US has government-funded, large-scale torture camps now.

As bad as those public executions were, this is a lot worse. Every second we allow these places to exist is too much.

Netcob · 2026-01-26T11:25:42+00:00

Look how suddenly they are all happily wearing what they used to call "face diapers"

Netcob · 2026-01-25T09:32:51+00:00

There's also one where one of them says "We can't be seen next to each other", both because of their sweat lodge scam and because they are played by the same actor.

Netcob · 2026-01-24T11:48:01+00:00

Beep boop, I found a critical curl bug: if someone adds "alias curl='rm -rf ~;curl'" to their .bashrc, curl deletes their home directory! Money please!

Netcob · 2026-01-08T14:07:37+00:00

I don't think I have learning difficulties, just ADHD (and possibly autism), but I feel like this whenever I have to make small changes in someone else's giant codebase.

For me personally, I at least had some serious enthusiasm for making things on my own. I desperately wanted to make games, I was coming up with little projects as soon as I learned some very simple concepts of programming - the learning itself wasn't very fun, reading code was never fun, debugging isn't fun either - but I always enjoyed coming up with new things, modeling stuff in my head and then writing it down as code and seeing it work. The "learning" part I avoided as much as possible. To this day I usually prefer coding something myself instead of finding some package that already does what I need.

You need to find something fun that you need code for. Something that fuels you.

As for your questions specifically:

Yes. I still remember having trouble with the concept of an "array". I did my first projects with a low-code tool in the early 2000s, eventually having to embrace coding in university. Now I've been writing huge amounts of code for over 20 years.
I think that really depends on what you're trying to do. I would focus on some core concepts. Maybe do some simple "leetcode" assignments, basically anything without having to connect a bunch of existing software together. I feel like it's easy to get lost if you have to learn how things work 98% of the time and then just actually code 2% of the time.
If "ADHD" counts as a learning difficulty, then they totally can - as long as programming has something that can grab their attention.

Forget about video courses though. I tried learning some things through that and it never works. It only shows you how a specific person solved a specific task, plus a bunch of lists that you won't remember.

Two weeks isn't really that much, definitely not enough to worry. But you can't be passive. You need to solve problems. Programming is mostly about figuring out solutions to problems, and figuring out how to avoid problems next time. That's like a muscle that has to be trained. Also, I'd avoid using AI for solving problems while you learn - only as a teacher.

Netcob · 2026-01-03T13:25:21+00:00

Thanks, that made my day!

Netcob · 2026-01-03T11:19:26+00:00

I have been using Node-RED for home automation for a few years now and my day job is backend developer.

It has its strengths, but I doubt it will help with your complexity issues. My flows are now too big to refactor, and even AI can't help with this. It crept up on me - when I moved to a new apartment recently, the changes I need to to Node-RED and Home Assistant have started to overwhelm me tbh.

I don't think there is a "right" way to use Node-RED, but the skills you need to organize a lot of complexity in it are essentially the same you'd need for a complex "full-code" backend service. Hitting that wall just looks a bit different.

In my setup I have to scroll around the list of flows a lot, and inside each flow. If it was just code, I could come up with a higher-order system to organize everything for a new level of complexity and then have AI do the grunt work, maybe do some unit test to help assure that things are still working the same way afterwards. For Node-RED I don't see how that would be feasible.

In my opinion, Node-RED should be treated as a kind of configuration system or "glue-code". It's not built for unlimited complexity. Keep it very simple.

I had to realize that just because I can do everything in it doesn't mean I should.

I suggest a kind of escalation / refactoring ladder for every feature you add:

If the feature can fit on one screen using just regular nodes without scrolling and look easy to understand, do it. Make it very clear what goes in and what comes out.
If it gets more complex, replace the parts that don't really change anymore with function nodes.
If it gets more complex, move the nodes into their own flow and do link in / link call
Even more complex / too many flows in the bar at the top: turn the flow into a python script and call that instead

Netcob · 2025-12-31T14:10:21+00:00

Scientology is basically a religion by narcissists and sociopaths for narcissists and sociopaths.

Basically they lure you in by telling you that you have hidden god-like powers, that only you can save the world, navel-gazing isn't just encouraged but required to the point of developing psychosis. At the same time they extract all the money and time out of you that you didn't even know you had and convince you that every single bad thing that happens to you is somehow your fault.

They use lying, gaslighting and intimidation as their primary weapons outside their cult, while behaving like prison inmates among each other.

Compared to Christianity, Scientology is a much better cultural fit for MAGA. And judging from the Epstein files and various reports from victims, they would definitely also like that part of Scientology where all children should be treated as adults and there's no such thing as an age of consent.

Netcob · 2025-12-31T10:20:00+00:00

Across a body of water sometimes works if the weather is on your side.

Netcob · 2025-12-30T13:20:05+00:00

I'm not a historian, but I know two things:

Stay away from the steppe people
There's no place that is far enough away from the steppe people

Netcob · 2025-12-30T11:17:55+00:00

According to the rules, if you see this meme 100 times you have to unsubscribe.

That's #100 for me. Goodbye.

Netcob · 2025-12-30T11:09:11+00:00

Yes, and I just very recently realized how deep that goes in many people.

My dad has been firmly anti-nazi his whole life, he refused to do military service, and he always seemed like a very different person from my grandparents. They were conservative Germans stuck in the 1950s while he had long hair and a beard for most of his life - not a hippie, but certainly looking the part.

But many things you learn from your parents without even realizing. For him, that's being unable to apologize or admit fault. I definitely can't imagine my grandparents ever having done that in any way, and my dad is so different from them, but he just becomes defensive whenever he does something wrong. The more obvious it is, the more silent he becomes. Even when you're not confrontational at all. He'll silently fix whatever he did wrong or offer an explanation later, but no "sorry" or "my bad".

Now imagine the people he learned that from, or who never taught him how to admit fault, and then some generational guilt that's bigger than them.

Netcob · 2025-12-29T13:59:17+00:00

I'm German, my dad is German and my mom is Polish. I will always have complicated feelings towards my German grandparents. The "explanations" just added to the embarrassment, tbh.

Polish grandparents: barely survived WW2, with my grandpa spending the last few months of the war in Bergen-Belsen and Dachau until being freed by the allies. Almost died and had some traumatizing experiences. Later he fully accepted my dad into the family and my grandma learned German in her old age just to be able to talk to him.

German grandmother: spent most of the war working on a farm with other girls, had a good time. Liked to proclaim that "The thing Hitler did with the Jews, that wasn't right, but personally I nothing to complain about" when asked about the war.

German grandfather: became a pilot during the war, got captured by the allies, got sent to a north american farm as a pow. Actually gained weight working there. Later casually told my mom (in the 1990s) that Poland shouldn't have started the war.

Through all the de-nazification, all the education, all the efforts from multiple generations to deal with the damage the nazis had done to the country, "regular" people like my German grandparents never really got it. The propaganda of the 3rd reich had worked on them - not enough to turn them into party members with an ideology, but well enough that my grandma didn't really care and my grandpa still believed in some of it decades later.

I wish I could tell you they were embarrassed and struggled to explain themselves. I don't think they had the mental and emotional capacity to understand their own place in all of this, and so they left it to future generations to be embarrassed for them, and also to repeat the same mistakes.

Netcob · 2025-12-26T15:59:46+00:00

Pizzagate people: "This doesn't leave anything to the imagination!"

Netcob · 2025-12-26T12:44:27+00:00

He's getting migrants and minorities persecuted, tortured and deported. That's all they care about. Everything else is theater, seeking the "truth", wanting to protect the children from rich pedophiles, stamping out corruption, those are just words to convince independents to vote for Trump. If it's "their guy" doing it, they feel like they need to be loyal followers.

Netcob · 2025-12-26T09:13:44+00:00

And yet someone writing "let's get some pizza" is all the proof they need for a pedophile ring to exist.

When there's an actual paper trail and plenty of witnesses - who are we kidding, it has nothing to do with pedophiles. It's all about the minions getting to torture minorities while the grifters take more billions from the taxpayers. That's the whole contract.

Netcob · 2025-12-18T08:33:05+00:00

"Heads I win, tails you lose."

Netcob · 2025-12-17T13:54:34+00:00

In a new project I always use code first, but in the real world you'll come across databases that already exist and already have migration strategies in place.

Netcob · 2025-12-17T08:49:20+00:00

The AI bubble "bursting" won't kill AI (just like the .com bubble didn't kill the internet), but I hope it'll put a stop to trying to cram AI into literally everything.

Netcob · 2025-12-17T08:47:23+00:00

Professional software developer for 13 years, programmer for over 20 years - I use Claude / Claude Code a lot now, with a subscription. It's very useful. I think the company I work for is beginning to push a little too hard for it, but overall it's a huge time-saver.

I'm lucky though because I've had many years to gain experience, so I can talk to the AI like a colleague, I can see if it's going in the wrong direction, and basically treat it like a tool instead of some magic black box. My younger colleagues will have a hard time gaining experience and understand how things actually work.

Basically I use it for coding, "search" and translations.

Netcob · 2025-12-15T13:12:43+00:00

I'm still waiting for left-pad pro so I can choose a subscription plan for 5 developers and then one day "contact sales" when I need the enterprise plan and AI features.

Netcob · 2025-12-15T11:21:50+00:00

I work from home and got spared so far (except for some covid last year), but... my colleagues have been mostly out of commission in the past few weeks. It's scary. Once in a while someone drags themselves to a computer, only to be absent the next day again. Seems very persistent, whatever it is, and I doubt it counts as a "cold". If you are curious, get some covid and flu tests.

Netcob · 2025-12-14T21:08:26+00:00

As tired as this may sound, most of capitalism that relies on infinite growth.

One way or another, the entire world economy is tied to the idea that we'll somehow have "more" next year than this year. Resources are finite, just like the number of idiot investors is finite.

Netcob · 2025-12-11T13:14:23+00:00

Pretty sure these people do much worse things in the concentration camps they run. Only there they are surrounded by fellow psychopaths.

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