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- Comment on Ideal Business Stack? 11 hours ago:
The whole reason I took this job is the stake in the company
Man I was suppressing the red flags up until now; this is the straw that breaks the camel’s back. You are going to get shafted at this job. It might be because someone is embezzling, they’re committing fraud in their manufacturing processes, or one of the owners is going to cut and run and leave the rest of you holding the bag. Maybe one day you’ll just show up and the doors are all locked.
You need to do absolutely everything by the book, document, document, document, CYA, and in a way that when shit goes south you’ll still have that documentation. And always have an exit plan.
- Comment on Ideal Business Stack? 12 hours ago:
There are plenty of document management solutions. What is the actual problem you’re trying to solve? Not just “it’s a mess” because I can solve that with a trash can. What are the needs of the users?
- Comment on Ideal Business Stack? 12 hours ago:
The value in those products is that it takes much less management, brings much greater reliability, and support teams if you have issues. If your dinky NAS shits the bed, the company’s data is gone, the company is kaput, you are all out of a job.
Of course there is a middle ground. I know there are plenty of open-source hosted products. They’re still subscriptions, but that monthly expense probably comes out cheaper than the time and effort building and maintaining your custom systems.
If you still really want to host it yourself, make sure you run through your disaster and recovery scenarios. You will have to have a 3-2-1 backup system. And remember because shit will go wrong, two is one, and one is none. That includes you personally, in the event you get hit by a
buslottery.I would recommend an actual Dell tower server with idrac for remote management, and with prosupport for when something blows up (sometimes literally, I had one PSU go bang on a server under my desk at one point). Fill it with enough disks for redundancy and data growth for the next few years, but leaving room for expansion. Put your favorite hypervisor on it, set up some vms or containers to run those services, test backups, and document everything so that a semi-trained monkey can follow it.
But don’t host your own email. Getting each individual email server to not consider you spam is a Sisyphean task.
- Comment on Ideal Business Stack? 13 hours ago:
For business? What’s the value to the business over services like Office 365?
Personally, unless there’s a very good reason for it, I strongly recommend against this. I used to work for a company that did business IT, and there were far too many times we got called in to take over for a guy that did it himself and got in over his head, left the company, or just plain died, and it ended up costing the company much more in the long run.
- Comment on Applying 'extreme heat' to lithium-ion batteries reportedly restores their capacity, and I think it's the sustainable tech breakthrough of 2025 2 days ago:
¿Que dumbasses?
- Comment on How your showerhead and fridge got roped into the culture wars 2 days ago:
It comes from not using huge amounts of water to grow water-intenaive crops in the California desert.
- Comment on Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down 2 days ago:
This is them going into IPO mode.
Matrix is a reasonable replacement.
- Comment on Video transcoding web interface (self hosted) 2 days ago:
I’m not aware of any existing products, but this sounds like you could knock it out in a day writing it yourself.
- Comment on Recipes, Meal Planning, and Shopping List 3 days ago:
It looks like it’s an open request on Mealie. I don’t see one for Tandoor. Shame, because Mealie already has aliases for ingredients, it shouldn’t be too hard to extend that to respect the language setting.
- Comment on Bethesda Gifts Everybody in the Skyblivion Team a Copy of Oblivion Remastered 3 days ago:
No, that would probably be Valve. Several fan mods became full games in their own right (Counter-Strike, Black Mesa). Others were mods of non-Valve games (Team Fortress, Dota 2 (sort of)).
- Comment on Bethesda Gifts Everybody in the Skyblivion Team a Copy of Oblivion Remastered 3 days ago:
Honestly that’s probably true. Killing them with kindness. If they all have this for free, they may not have much motivation to continue.
- Comment on Trump’s Social Media Surveillance: Social Scoring by Another Name 4 days ago:
The problem is when your previous posts are suddenly now crimes, and nobody cares about ex post facto any more.
- Comment on Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away 4 days ago:
Airbnb kitchens aren’t great either (dull knives, wrecked pans) but at least they exist.
- Comment on Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away 4 days ago:
Originally, they did fill a niche. If you have a big group of people, a hotel breaks the group up into rooms. Airbnb lets you have one place all to yourself.
Nowadays it’s gone to shit with low quality spaces, hotels listing themselves on Airbnb, stuff like that. I hope there’s a middle ground.
- Comment on Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away 4 days ago:
Depending on country, that might be the law.
- Comment on Question About Watchtower 6 days ago:
I never said anything about labels, I said tags. docs.docker.com/reference/cli/docker/image/tag/
- Comment on Question About Watchtower 6 days ago:
That has nothing to do with my question.
- Comment on Question About Watchtower 6 days ago:
Which, if any, tag are you using? You may need to use latest.
- Comment on Question About Watchtower 6 days ago:
How do you know they haven’t been updated? Is there an update available?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
it feels (very) good to interact with someone
this is not interacting with someone
i get better at communicating
if you spend a lot of time using chatgpt, you will end up sounding like chatgpt yourself
- Comment on When Nintendo games were affordable 1 week ago:
In what way?
- Comment on Judge Rules Blanket Search of Cell Tower Data Unconstitutional: Judge says tower dumps violate the 4th amendment, but will let the cops do it this one time, as a treat. 1 week ago:
Shit or get off the pot, your honor.
Soap, ballot, jury (you are here), ammo.
- Comment on When Nintendo games were affordable 1 week ago:
Still are. The Switch still takes cartridges.
- Comment on Cops are deploying AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters” 1 week ago:
The first one yes. The others, absolutely not.
- Comment on Cops are deploying AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters” 1 week ago:
More specifically, if they convince you to do something you wouldn’t normally have done. Like if you want to buy drugs, and they suggest you buy some coke off their guy, that’s not entrapment. If they spend weeks convincing you that you should do it, give you money or other resources to do it, or so on, then it can be entrapment.
- Comment on CVE fallout: The splintering of the standard vulnerability tracking system has begun 1 week ago:
It won’t be here next year, but it won’t be here in four years too.
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 1 week ago:
It cannot possibly be legal to have the odometer show anything except actual miles traveled.
- Comment on Is it normal to not have any malicious login attempts? 1 week ago:
Check the web server access logs. I’m sure you’ll see exploit attempts, but for software you’re not running. WordPress is what I see most often. Those probably won’t generate emails.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 1 week ago:
I recently bought an LG TV. I didn’t connect it to the Internet, I just use it with my Chromecast or Switch. Works great, no ads, no AI BS.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remaster is real - Eurogamer 1 week ago:
The quality of Unreal games is a product of the developer. Plenty of games have been great. Satisfactory and Talos Principle 2, for example.