I was thinking the dark side version of president skroob

WTF I can't believe thats a real photo. It looks like someone cut two heads in half and then swapped halves before squishing them back together.

Remember this is the BEST he can look. The hair color, the skin ointments and surgery, all of it. This is him at his best.

This guy was never a looker.

Also, the gloves are off for the filthy rich, we should attack them on every level, including calling them ugly. Never defend a monster.

I was JUST going to say!! Disney Villain looking ass lmao

He looks so old that even the botched plastic surgeries are looking old now. Damn he looks frail....

How can you afford to own your own island but not afford a suit that fits?

It's a combination of buccal fat removal (apparently everyone is doing this?), hard drugs probably and shit genetics.

If you're evil nowadays, you can just buy a Mar-a-lago face to short circuit the whole process.

yes

this is the male equivalent of those MAGA women with the botched plastic surgeries.

Needs more Bobby Kotick, with a dash of that evil sham pastor who actually looks like the devil.

I saw the image first, thought it was bbno$ cosplaying as trump.

He looks slightly burnt, or grilled.

Yes.

Guy looks like a hot dog that went bad

I trained as a clown at literal clown school. Everyone laughed at me and told me I should've been a software engineer. Well, no ones laughing now.

I feel you here. I graduated into covid and then as soon as things started opening again all these non stop layoffs

Just speaking for myself, as a systems administrator, I am actively pursuing my backup plans to get out of IT ASAP. What's coming is topsy-turvy and will be dog eat dog.

The coal miners were told to learn to code, but maybe software engineers should be learning coal mining at this point. With all the AI data centers being built, there sure is going to be a lot of demand for coal.

it's possible. just, if you are looking right now, don't expect the same salary you were getting. Be willing to take a minor pay cut, and be willing to take a service industry job just to get money. (that never touches your resume)

I was in accounting and very underemployed when Arthur Andersen disintegrated. And then again for Lehman Brothers. It was rough, but I got through.

the job search will destroy your soul. take breaks to keep yourself from doing things you will regret.

I don't know why software engineers being on lemmy, so are using activitypub, are so down and out about industry job cuts. Don't get me wrong, change of industry might be on the cards, but that doesn't mean being a software engineer stops, and these proof of concept sites and networks are a revelation.

There are so many projects for software engineers. For example, Activitypub is the chance to develop a genuinely healthy market of small to medium sized networked social media sites that are far more reactive to users, unique, and experimental than the likes of engagement driven fb could ever be.

I don't know, the rivers of gold might be over for a portion of 'big' tech software engineers, but it seems like a super exciting time to be in small enterprise software engineering, with the plethora amount of projects that could be being explored.

Of course there are heaps of other non-social media software engineering small scale projects, i just focused on activitypub here because it seems so strange and obvious to a rando like me.

Writing iron-clad, deal-with-the-devil level contracts that cannot be broken by mere customers. And nipping open-source projects in the bud via mergers and acquisitions.

They have way more than 100,000 employees

Firing 30,000 of them. You can't fire people if you don't hire them in the first place. And as you all know stock price jumps after big layoffs.

Java, mysql, vmware...

You should see their license fees

Yeah, just like the other comment: likely mostly lawyers, lobbyists and trolls of all colors.

Lol no he just looks like that

When they renamed 23c to 23ai I cringed so hard. You don't install the DB and get an AI, you get an empty DB that has vectors.

Kinda late to the party aren't they?

Looks like Luigi, assuming he did it, was a once in a lifetime. He was driven enough and smart enough to pull it off, and he attacked low-hanging fruit. Billionaires are surrounded by armed guards 24/7.

Maybe, just maybe, we'll get a disgruntled sniper back from Iran, assuming we get boots on the ground, and they'll be able to pull it off.

It's just a continuation of the trend that's been going on for 2+ years now.