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- Comment on Self-hosting in 2025 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure 1 week ago:
I am not your lawyer and this is not legal advice for you or anyone who reads this.
Nextcloud encrypts data e2e, so your point there is misguided and not really relevant. You can’t be compelled to provide a password/decryption key as long as it doesn’t exist as physical evidence. This is why lawyers advise clients to use a PIN instead of face ID or fingerprints; biometrics, like all physical evidence, can be subpoenad.
Self hosting services like matrix or email is a bad idea if you don’t really understand what you’re doing, like many other things. If you keep you stuff updated and are intelligent in how you structure your network there’s not really anymore risk here than paying someone else to host it. If you keep you stack simple and follow best practices, code and configurations written by industry experts do most of the heavy lifting.
- Comment on Rockstar still hasn't offered a convincing reason for firing over 30 GTA 6 developers 1 week ago:
I’ve cut down on that by only giving it tasks that are reviewed automatically.
“Spit this into a json”
It gives me the code, I continue with my program knowing exactly what is where in the json and if I get a parsing error or something I know exactly where to look. TBH, though, for things like that I must have an error rate lower than 5%
Ask it to configure a reverse proxy for a cors sensitive application, though, and I think I’d rather die
- Comment on Rockstar still hasn't offered a convincing reason for firing over 30 GTA 6 developers 1 week ago:
Yeah. AI 100% makes me more productive and by a good bit. I used it to write a section of code today to export all the information my program gathers about a system to a json file. Woulda taken me 20 minutes but chatgpt did it in seconds.
It also, in the same snippet, introduced a breaking change I didn’t ask for in the original code. I only copied the json part; I just happened to notice the change in the code it wrong. It added a fork bomb lol
- Comment on Rockstar still hasn't offered a convincing reason for firing over 30 GTA 6 developers 1 week ago:
Do you write code?
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 1 week ago:
So usually you’d shoot the dog as it’s coming to attack you. A benefit of a gun is that it’s a ranged weapon.
How would pepper spray be more useful than a gun? As someone that’s been charged by an animal on a hike, the noise (which doesn’t require effective aim like pepper spray) is enough by itself.
Wild dogs don’t simply show up out of nowhere and start attacking
They do, actually, that’s how pack animals hunt from the perspective of prey.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 1 week ago:
Fair enough, honestly.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 1 week ago:
So you’re saying in the middle of being mauled by wild dogs that not once would it occur to you there’s a tool which could prevent it, nor would you want it?
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 1 week ago:
One of those things that’s true until it isn’t, IMO.
- Comment on Check mate, atheists. 2 weeks ago:
Part of science is reproducible events, no?
- Comment on Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support 1 month ago:
Kernel modules can be installed, loaded, and run without a reboot in Linux. TPM support would just ensure that the firmware/kernel and modules loaded at boot are expected.
- Comment on We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30. 2 months ago:
Louisiana baby. 2100 sqft 0.3 acre 4 bed 2 bath recently renovated for 130k
- Comment on AI has had zero effect on jobs so far, says Yale study 3 months ago:
So, reading that study, I have a few concerns about how it was conducted and my concerns generally aligns with their findings. Primarily, their source for information is the payroll system of the companies studied, which in my experience is nothing more than an HR drone entering into the system what they’re told to enter. If the prescribed reason is AI even when it was really business performance, then that kind of aligns with the study in the OP.
Their graphs of roles most and least exposed to AI disruption is dandy, but if you think about it (with the exception of customer service roles) the jobs that are threatened are typically not production roles for the company, and are moreso ancillary positions for most companies. I’m a software engineer for a company that doesn’t sell software, which means I’m more of a luxury than a necessity; this is true for the majority of software engineers.
The roles least exposed to AI, according to the study, are production roles that play a core role in the product delivery of the company. Things like construction workers, nurses, cooks, etc. are only in businesses where they are the core of the business model. I’ve never seen a movie theater chain employ nurses or cooks in droves, but they have employed secret shoppers (auditors), accountants, software engineers, etc. and are likely to trim that fat when times get tough. I think this is more of an economic health indicator than anything, IMO.
- Comment on 2025 Self-Host User Survey: Open for Submissions 3 months ago:
Eh fair enough
- Comment on 2025 Self-Host User Survey: Open for Submissions 3 months ago:
No
- Comment on 2025 Self-Host User Survey: Open for Submissions 3 months ago:
It asks this regardless of whether you say you use orchestration or not. I would say that docker compose, used as intended, is not a container orchestration platform as it provides no automated scaling or resiliency across nodes
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 3 months ago:
As someone whose job runs several FOSS projects, I think you’re making up the fact that it adds meaningful workload.
I think that, for all intents and purposes, protecting IP is equivalent to stifling competition.
I think giving away code benefits the entire Android ecosystem, which might be the largest data mining operating Google has. I fully believe that’s of nonzero benefit.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 3 months ago:
What do you think the benefit of closing sourcing their software is if not to stifle competition?
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 3 months ago:
I’m talking about MS Authenticator
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 3 months ago:
Why do you think they’re making this arbitrary change?
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 3 months ago:
Lots of jobs require BYOD today (like, most F500 companies) and they limit to non-rooted OSs. I use Aegis for personal apps but I cannot escape microsoft as long as I want to keep paying my mortgage.
- Comment on UK is ‘worst country in Europe’ for drug prices, says Mounjaro maker 3 months ago:
Thanks. Apparently I didn’t even read the headline
- Comment on UK is ‘worst country in Europe’ for drug prices, says Mounjaro maker 3 months ago:
USA Jr.
- Comment on Natural selection at work 3 months ago:
Homie the second character evolves into a deer
- Comment on U.S. takes 10% stake in Intel as Trump flexes more power over big business 4 months ago:
You’re as bad as centrists/swing voters
- Comment on Turn linux server into a router? 5 months ago:
I’ve gone down this path.
You want an archer c7 with OpenWRT. I got one for 5 dollars on marketplace, flashing it took all of 2 minutes, and it kicks ass.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 5 months ago:
Ah yes, because the left wing is famous for the proliferation of requiring a government issued ID to use the internet in ways that make them uncomfortable.
- Comment on Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster 5 months ago:
Virtually any place that accepts a credit card will accept debit cards, too. Actually, most debit cards can be processed as credit cards. The comment you responded to simply highlighted that this trick is much easier to pull with credit card than a debit card, as the creditor hasn’t yet been repaid for the credit issued.
- Comment on The Future is NOT Self-Hosted 5 months ago:
In the USA, most power bills are the tenants’ responsibility. In the USA, virtually all internet connections are the tenants’ responsibility.
The locality hosting the services could also pass a law requiring the tenants to either bear responsibilities for, or be included in, all utility related billing.
A lot of arguments in this thread seem to be ignoring this as a solution to the legitimate problems they’re raising.