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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even in space it's possible to get hit by a self-driving Tesla.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s actually pretty cool. That thing might be forgot about and then found again 10,000 years from now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even in space it's possible to get hit by a self-driving Tesla.⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that car in some kind of orbit, or did we just send it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  There are at least 2 of us! I think it was widely reported that the downfall of MySpace was at least partially linked to their use Coldfusion. When they needed to scale and adapt it just wasn’t ready.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember that IBM was famously missing the trend in the late 80s/90s and couldn’t understand why regular consumers would ever want to buy a PC. It’s why they gave the PC clone market away, never seriously approached their OS/2 thing, and never really marketed directly to anybody except businesses.

  Microsoft really pushed the idea that regular people needed a home PC which laid the foundation for so many people already having the hardware in place to jump on the internet as soon as it became accessible.

  For a brief moment it looked like a toss up between Microsoft IIS webservers serving up .asp files (or coldfusion .cf - RIP) vs Apache pushing CGI but in the end the Linux solution was more baked and flexible when it was time to launch and scale an internet startup in that era.

  Somebody else would have done what Microsoft did for sure, had they not been there, and I suppose we could be paying AT&T for Unix licenses these days too. But yeah, ultimately both Gates and Torvalds were right in terms of operating systems and well timed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Both Torvalds and Gates are nerds… Gates decided to monetize it and Torvalds decided to give it away.

  But without Microsoft’s “PC on every desktop” vision for the ‘90s, we may not have seen such an increased demand for server infrastructure which is all running the Linux kernel now.

  Arguably Torvalds’ strategy had a greater impact than Gates because now many of us carry his kernel in our pocket. But I think both needed each other to get where we are today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wtf⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So apex that most of us outsource our hunting and farming, which makes us fat and slow unless we purposefully burn energy for no other purpose than to burn it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Absolute unit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Somebody must have had a rad cable label machine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese AI outfits smuggling suitcases full of hard drives to evade U.S. chip restrictions — training AI models in Malaysia using rented servers⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese AI outfits smuggling suitcases full of hard drives to evade U.S. chip restrictions — training AI models in Malaysia using rented servers⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an interesting observation. Chinese tend to run scrappy operations with something like a “do it no matter what, ethics be damned” strategy.

  But it doesn’t bode too well for OpenAIs current level given how much funding and talent they presumably have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how are my fellow peeps hosting your music collection these days?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  E:\mp3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Right to Repair Gains Traction as John Deere Faces Trial⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok I’m a proponent of right to repair and despise manufacturing techniques that lock repair shops out, make spare parts from 3rd parties impossible to install, or create planned obsolescence, or any shenanigans like this. It’s basically anti-everybody else and suggests weakness and fear instead of quality and strength.

  But help me understand how it’s possible that our “free market” is enabling this, unless it’s just a controlled market charading as free?

  Is John Deere giving the hardware away for free to those who sign long term subscriptions or something?

  If John Deere is the Apple-esque ecosystem of tractors where is the “PC” diy manufacture and why doesn’t the market support them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Game Pass might be getting a price hike⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A bit pissed at this possibility. Games that I bought many years ago require me to be signed in to use my unlocks, even during solo play.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My company gets a lot of incoming chats from customers (and potential customers)

  The challenge of this side of the business is 98% of the questions asked over chat are already answered on the very website that person started the chat from. Like it’s all written right there!

  So real human chat agents are reduced to copy paste monkeys in most interactions.

  But here’s the rub. The people asking the questions fit into one of two groups: not smart or patient enough to read (unfortunate waste of our resources) or they are checking whether our business has real humans and is responsive before they buy.

  It’s that latter group for whom we must keep red blooded, educated and service minded humans on the job to respond, and this is where small companies can really kick ass next to behemoths like google who bring in over $1m per employee but still can’t seem to afford a phone line to support your account with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Been a good couple of years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Still miss RiF and what reddit used to be.

  For much of reddit’s best years, RiF was my top app.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One major issue with social media is that it operates on a first come, first served basis. This essentially rules out the possibility of well-considered, well-researched content being successful.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Most social media is the wrong format for long-term discussion. Whatever you post, it will soon be replaced by something newer.

  Consumers just want that quick dopamine hit every time they open the app.

  There are still quite a few phpBB-style bulletin boards out there with threads that survive for years. I think that’s the social media you’re looking for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instead of asking all my stupid questions separately, could I just get a ton of "How to Adult" type resources in the comments?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Learning how to do small talk will improve your social, economic, and relationship opportunities in countless ways.

  Asking people questions about themselves makes them think of you as likable.

  Remember the acronym f o r d: Family Occupation Recreation Dreams

  Small talk can be learned and getting in some more practice might make it bearable, perhaps even enjoyable.

  When you are running out of topics keep the acronym above in mind and ask a question related to one of those topics. Something like this example:

  Q: So, have you always lived in (wherever you are)?

  However they reply, follow up with it positive and encouraging response such as: “ah you’re a long timer. I thought there weren’t too many of us left!” and then go right into a follow up Q also related to the acronym but now attached to the new information you have such as: is your family from this area too? What brought you here initially? What do you do for work? Hey since you’ve been here so long, what do you think about (insert local drama that’s been in the news).

  The goal isn’t to interrogate, but to smoothly and rapidly sort through topics until you find commonalities. Then you can lift off and the conversation will feel very natural and easy.

  I heard about this 20 some years ago and have used it at the start and end of business meetings, on first dates, with strangers, and heck sometimes even with my friends if we’re catching up and I want to cover things that are core to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I’m understanding the playbook here.

  Eventually YouTube will cost 89.99 a month and also be full of ads.

  Then they will be disrupted by some startup company that will have to fight uphill for search and bandwidth access through Google’s monopolistic front door.

  Years later a court case will be decided and the new guy will be up and running a free service with a few ads or 1.99 a month for no ads!

  And then we get to go through it all again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Correct Grindr Response⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well they are sure gonna have fun with all this equipment

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is something you like to tell people?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  WTF she said it does!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare built an oauth provider with Claude⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Doctors face a similar obstacle before they can practice: medical school and residency. They literally have to jump from zero to hero before the first real paycheck.

  Things may evolve this way for senior software developers with a high rate of dropout.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If AI was going to advance exponentially I'd of expected it to take off by now.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  True, I tried to qualify it with just about or on the way.

  From the perspective of my desk, my core business apps have AI auto suggest in key fields (software IDEs, ad buying tools, marketing content preparation such as Canva). My Whatsapp and Facebook messenger apps now have an “Ask meta AI” feature front and center. Making a post on Instagram, it asks if I want AI assistance to write the caption.

  I use an app to track my sleeping rhythm and it has an AI sleep analysis feature built in. The photo gallery on my phone includes AI photo editing like background removal, editing things out (or in).

  That’s what I mean when I say it’s in just about everything, at least relative to where we were just a short bit of time ago.

  You’re definitely right that it’s not literally in everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If AI was going to advance exponentially I'd of expected it to take off by now.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you consider having “taken off”?

  It’s been integrated with just about everything or is in the works. A lot of people still don’t like it, but that’s not an unusual phase of tech adoption.

  From where I sit I’m seeing it everywhere I look compared to last year or the year before where pretty much only the early adopters were actually using it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If it ain’t broke…⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure I’m not the only one who does this too. After finding a t-shirt style that I really like, I’ll buy 20 or 30 at once.

  Same with pants, socks, shoes. In every pic I’m dressed exactly the same. I never have to think what to put on and I never have to think too hard about what to pack on a trip.

  One less thing to worry or think about in life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monty Python predicted social media⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you came looking for the video: https://youtu.be/uLlv_aZjHXc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosted Teams alternative?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m selfhosting it on box next to me. Wasn’t so hard for me to find the GitHub link on their website.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK some cities in the US are starting to build an affordable community built wifi network that goes around big telecom companies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was just thinking about ricochet while perusing the thread. Ricochet was new when I was starting in IT and I can still remember connecting a ricochet modem to a company laptop and then pulling up our novell netware file share over our vpn. It was jaw dropping to see it at the time. Amazing how far we’ve come since then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosted Teams alternative?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They have a SaaS option as well, I’m guessing that’s the main revenue plan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosted Teams alternative?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Huly is pretty amazing and has a self host option. It supports chats and video calls, team rooms, and has some cool integration for speech to text note taking. It also functions as a task tracker.

  Under super active development right now so host only if you can deal with occasional breaking changes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday again!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey that’s awesome! thank you for the share. Planning to install proxmox this weekend and give it a try.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday again!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Having electric stability issues this week in Bangkok - several 2-3 hour outages, which are too long for a UPS to cover the gap. I have several mid range but older PCs running docker, virtualbox, etc for various things including a postfix server for the family email, immich, QBittorrent, pihole, paperless, huly, postiz, a Minecraft bedrock server, a flightradar24 ads-b collector, and a variety of other homegrown projects.

  Thinking about getting some or most of this over to a service like hetzner, perhaps even splurging on a baremetal dedicated system.

  Recently I’ve been reading about/trying to learn qemu and proxmox, but don’t understand them yet. Is that where it’s at for managing a bunch of your own VMs? Or kubernetes/k8s?

  I’ve been a little out of the loop for a few years and of course coming back up to speed IT wise judge take weeks. Looking for recommendations on offloading my home stuff to a cloud that I control.