Programming, hacking, development

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/405662 > Today, a project I was working on with a team for about 7-8 months got canceled abruptly. I was part of a team that was making a website version of an existing mobile app the company owned, hitting the same backend as the mobilie app and shit. Nobody was using the app, so management decided to pull the plug. > > Flashback to earlier this year. I was part of a team that was working on a marketing thingy for financial advisors that connects to our bread and butter app. After about a year of adding features to the thingy and refactoring horrendous code, our team was about to start working on a big addition to the thing. We got as far as setting up the environments for the microservices when management decided to cancel all future development on the marketing thingy and everyone on the team was moved to different teams. > > Before all that, I was part of a team that was working on a single page application meant to fit into our bread and butter financial planning app to make the experience of interacting with some existing stuff less shitty. I don't remember how long that went on for, but the plug got pulled on that before any of that UI could make it to production. Most of my coworkers quit. > > In my somewhat over 4 year career as a professional code monkey, the only code I've written for my employer that has reached development have been small tweaks and refactors to software that no longer receives new features. > > The original sin of my company (besides the obvious one of being a capitalist enterprise) is that all of our software is made at the behest of the financial advisors, with minimal to no input from the end users. > > I know some other users here are programmers and probably understand some of what I'm talking about. I figured this vent would be interesting and discussion provoking. Fuck, I have a few other things about the company I could talk about that people might find interesting. It's a fintech company after all, and I'm sure the ML website is gonna be full of people who understand finance capital's role in imperialism.

Computers and the internet define our modern society, yet the only groups that seem to be actively trying to subvert their power are criminals that're only interested in stealing money for themselves or libertarian types that preach an unattainable cyber utopia ala John Perry Barlow and his clownish manifesto, "the declaration of the independence of cyberspace". The closest hacktivists have ever gotten to challenging real power was when they targeted the police and began doxing them during the height of the occupy movement. Since then, virtually all hacktivist activity targeted against states appears to have been directed exclusively against the geopolitical targets of US imperialism, such as Anonymous, which made a declaration of war against Russia at the onset of its current conflict with Ukraine. It appears that these groups, who once openly attempted to challenge authorities in the west, have now instead been subsumed by them and dance to their tune. So far, there has been no publicly visible attempt by communists to subvert these systems and put them to use in the service of class struggle. Why is it that we see ransomware being used to enrich cybercriminals when it would be better used to expropriate wealth for the revolutionary cause? Why do self-styled anti establishment hackers lend their skills to attack people thousands of miles away when their actual enemies are much closer to home? Why is there such an abundance of white hat stooges on the one hand that prop up corporate and state control of the internet, and black hat parasites on the other that view hacking simply as a tool for self-enrichment at other peoples' expense, while red hat proletarian heroes seeking to harness the internet for workers' power are nowhere to be seen?

I'm not a programmer (or just a beginner one) So just wanted to know if it is possible and will happen in the near future. Isn't C/C++ decades old and has some good amount of limitations?

If I load my very simple web page it shows as blank with the PHP at the top But if I remove the PHP my website loads the few headers I've created <?php $servername = "localhost"; $username = "user"; $password = "password12345"; $dbname = "test"; // Create connection $conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname); // Check connection if ($conn->connect_error) { die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error); } // sql to create table $sql = "CREATE TABLE MyGuests ( id INT(6) UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY, firstname VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL, lastname VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL, email VARCHAR(50), reg_date TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP )"; if ($conn->query($sql) === TRUE) { echo "Table MyGuests created successfully"; } else { echo "Error creating table: " . $conn->error; } $conn->close(); ?>