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- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 6 hours ago:
Use grayjay.app, they have it for desktop too. No ads, sponsorblock built in, and has multiple platforms in one place.
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 1 day ago:
Try just telling someone that they need to switch to Linux with no other details. They’ll either get confused/overwhelmed by choice, or possibly choose one that isn’t user friendly and hate it.
People have to start somewhere, and I see no issue with recommending user friendly distros to get them going.
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 1 day ago:
Rivian didn’t over produce, and notably, didn’t go all in with the new authoritarian regime. Also, a 36% decrease in sales is much less than having $800 million (in MSRP) sitting in lots. The R1T is a very successful vehicle if you compare it to the Swastitruck, with more sales in general.
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 1 day ago:
- Comment on Scientists caution against charging electric vehicles at home overnight 1 day ago:
This absolutely depends on your location. My power company recommends charging at night, when the grid isn’t as strained. My area primarily uses hydro and wind, and this article seems to be talking about solar which is not very efficient here.
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 1 day ago:
I sure hope that “some time” is coming soon, because I’m exhausted after three years and counting.
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 1 day ago:
I’m not saying there wouldn’t be layoffs without it, but it certainly would be better. I know from experience that a lot of the people that were laid off were a critical part of the team, and those that remained had to bare that load. It has burned me out several times, because I’m doing work that should be done by two or three people.
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 1 day ago:
I’m a DevOps engineer, if that counts.
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 1 day ago:
It is, at least in my experience. My recently laid off colleagues have been trying to find work for months, some of whom have been applying for jobs that would require pay cuts. Pretty much every job listing in the tech space gets hundreds if not thousands of applicants because the layoffs have not stopped for three years. You can see what I mean at layoffs.fyi. In tech, 60,000 so far this year, 153,000 in 2024, 264,000 in 2023, and 165,000 in 2022.
That’s not even counting those that graduated in the last couple of years. Those people are in an extra bad spot because they have a large amount of college debt with no way to make their payments.
All of STEM is suffering because of corporate greed and rising anti-intellectualism.
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 1 day ago:
Sure, it’s just even worse with big tech.
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- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 2 days ago:
There will definitely be more, especially as the economic situation in the US continues to worsen. Big tech works under the unsustainable model of unlimited growth, and even if profits increase, if they don’t increase “enough” they lay off workers. They could save a ton of money by laying off execs, but they’ll never do that.
I’ve found layoffs.fyi to be pretty up to date with tracking how many people are laid off in the tech sector. It’s no wonder that it’s nearly impossible to find a job in tech, and these execs and boards are to blame.
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- Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised rangeelectrek.co ↗Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 117 comments
- Comment on how to get unbanned from communities? 1 week ago:
Yikes.
- Comment on Forget megabucks Nvidia GPUs, apparently all you need to run an LLM is a Pentium II CPU from 1997 1 week ago:
The GitHub has more details. github.com/exo-explore/llama98.c
- Comment on Forget megabucks Nvidia GPUs, apparently all you need to run an LLM is a Pentium II CPU from 1997 1 week ago:
The other catch is that the model is tiny, which will cause hallucinations to skyrocket.
- Comment on 'Makes no sense': Hollywood shocked by Trump's film tariffs announcement 1 week ago:
That implies that the other tariffs made sense. None of them do, so this shouldn’t be shocking to anyone.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 1 week ago:
If it was just my parents and I using it, that’d be fine, but it’s not. In my experience, nothing is quite as simple as “always on”, and if something breaks, even unrelated to tailscale or anything I set up, I’ll be to blame even when it wasn’t my fault.
It just wouldn’t work for my users, unfortunately, and I don’t want to be responsible for endpoints not on networks I own. I’m not denying that it’s possible or that it works for some people.
That’s the real benefit of a solution like Plex - it makes it so I only have to manage my own network, and if I want to invite someone new, I just ask them for the email attached to their Plex account, and I’m done.
I also am curious where you’re finding rpi’s for $35.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 weeks ago:
Your users shouldn’t be upset because nothing has changed for them. It shouldn’t be the end of the world to tell your users that nothing has changed. None of my users have reached out.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 weeks ago:
I’m not a diehard fan of plex or anything, but I would never be able to get my mother in law to properly set up any type of VPN. None of my users are technically inclined. Until Jellyfin has a different solution, I will unfortunately be sticking with Plex.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t matter that they got the email, everyone did. You need to read it further and see that if a server owner has a Plex pass, the users do not need to pay.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 weeks ago:
I don’t quite understand your confusion, they sent the email to everyone with an account. The email indicates clearly that if a server owner has a Plex pass, the users do not need it. The email is not “wrong”.
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- Comment on Need tips for moving forward 3 weeks ago:
In the past, when I’ve used SFTP, I just use the openssh docker container with a mount of my filesystem (since SFTP uses SSH). Particularly this image: hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/openssh-server
I can’t speak to sftpgo as I haven’t used it, but from looking it up it seems that some people like it, although it’s a pain to set up. If you want something simple I’d still just go with openssh.
- Comment on Would you, could you with a kink? 3 weeks ago:
Just needs a shorter hose.
Is that fecal material on that though?
- Comment on CVE Board members launch the CVE Foundation, a dedicated, non-profit to continue identifying vulnerabilities, after the US ended its contract with Mitre 4 weeks ago:
I’m inclined to believe it’s US based since the press release says Bremerton, WA.
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 4 weeks ago:
Seedvault worked fine for me when I moved phones last year.
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