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by seniorThrowaway 7mo ago
I feel almost exactly the same as you on the subject. When I was young and starry eyed I built my own router out of a PC running openBSD, all by hand. Nice learning experience, interesting OS, but definitely not maintenance free especially
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by seniorThrowaway 7mo ago
I think you overestimate the public.
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by seniorThrowaway 7mo ago
Ok, I still don't see how that's "hostile to linux" and not just windows being crappy, which it is.
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by seniorThrowaway 7mo ago
>I'm forced to use Microsoft products and they're actively hostile to Linux How so? Powershell has openSSH built in now, and WSL2 basically works minus some annoying behavior and caveats. I have a Windows 11 laptop and I use
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by seniorThrowaway 7mo ago
I'd say Macs have a far greater association with developers and tech nerds now, most code was being written for Windows and Unix back then. I was in a Computer Science University program in the 90's, and our labs were full of U
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by seniorThrowaway 8mo ago
It's really not that hard to run them in docker. Can give them a nestybox (with a little work) sidecar so they can run docker-in-docker. As far as permissions, the only mental model that makes sense to me is treating them like actual
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by seniorThrowaway 9mo ago
>Private entities might have their own policies, but government censorship is fairly small. It's a distinction without a difference when these "private" entities in the West are the actual power centers. Most regular peop
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by seniorThrowaway 9mo ago
I think this is a great analogy
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by seniorThrowaway 9mo ago
I've been doing this a long time too. The anti-patterns tend to come from the hype cycles of "xyz shiny tool/pattern will take away all the nasty human problems that end up creating bad software". Yes, LLMs will follow
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by seniorThrowaway 9mo ago
Then it is new for everyone, no?
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by seniorThrowaway 9mo ago
While quality libraries do exist, let's not pretend that most people are validating and testing the libraries they pull in, that abandoned / unmaintained libraries aren't widely used, and that managing the dependency hell cau
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by seniorThrowaway 9mo ago
AI's / LLM's have already been trained on best practices for most domains. I've recently faced this decision and I went the LLM custom app path, because the software I needed was a simple internal business type app. T
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by seniorThrowaway 9mo ago
You're being a bit obtuse here yourself. The original premise of Plex was to stream your own media on your own network. I was a very early user of it, before these additional "features" that were pushed more by the Plex tea
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by seniorThrowaway 9mo ago
Agree with others it's not solely about cost. For me it was about the very clear monetization drive Plex started doing years ago, while remaining nominally free to use for your own media. At some point, and I've already switched
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by seniorThrowaway 9mo ago
I've run both and Jellyfin is actually easier to run IMO, since it is in package managers. Also has free android/iphone app. What do you think you have to do in Jellyfin you don't in Plex?
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by seniorThrowaway 10mo ago
Maybe it isn't the US government we need to worry about. What's stopping Flock from compiling and selling personal dossiers on every citizen like all the other big tech companies? They're just a private company so nothing t
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by seniorThrowaway 10mo ago
Yep and a good example of how using the convenient best practice pushed by the vendor (the marketplace action) isn't a good idea. But I did.
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by seniorThrowaway 10mo ago
Most of it is just time waiting either while the source assets are downloaded (I clean slate it, that's the point of CI after all), the build itself runs, or the artifact is uploading to it's storage home. I'm sure it could
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by seniorThrowaway 10mo ago
I have a nightly software build of a piece of software that takes 6 hours to create a 70GB artifact. The build process requires a GPU so it runs on my own HW. That's ~180 hours per month for this job alone. Is that really so hard to
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by seniorThrowaway 10mo ago
Love-hate for me as well. Love that there is native github integration for triggering events and other github bits. Hate the brittleness and anymore the reliability even if you are just using the control plane. I've always sought to
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by seniorThrowaway 10mo ago
I've been running self hosted runners for my company using Actions Runner Controller (ARC) on my own kubernetes infrastructure. Could never really get the devs invested in GitOps style dev cycles so I may just chuck actions and use a
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by seniorThrowaway 10mo ago
I started my career as a telecom tech in the mid Atlantic (late 90's) and can confirm it was that for me too
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by seniorThrowaway 11mo ago
Cloud is not great for GPU workloads. I run a nightly workload that takes 6-8 hours to run and requires a Nvidia GPU, along with high RAM and CPU requirements. It can't be interrupted. It has a 100GB output and stores 6 nightly vers
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by seniorThrowaway 11mo ago
Agree, I’ve thought about this one too. The history of SSL/TLS certs is pretty hacky anyway in my opinion. The main problem they are solving really should have been solved at the network layer with ubiquitous IPsec and key distribution
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by seniorThrowaway 11mo ago
Yep for anyone unaware of how awful things truly are, look up what a "residential proxy" is. Back in my day we called that a botnet.
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by seniorThrowaway 11mo ago
Depending on how you are defining AI models, they already do. Think of the $15 security camera that can detect people and objects. That is AI model driven. LLM's are another story, but smaller, less effective ones can and do already
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by seniorThrowaway 1y ago
Azure, from my experience with it has stuff go down a lot and degrades even more. Seems to either not admit the degradation happened or rely on 1000 pages of fine print SLA docs to prove you don't get any credits for it. I suppose th
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by seniorThrowaway 1y ago
yep tech is a truly revolutionary industry - it goes in circles. Once you seen the same BS cycle happen a few times it's real hard to not become jaded.
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by seniorThrowaway 1y ago
An entirely different economic paradigm.
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by seniorThrowaway 1y ago
Watched an expat video on youtube recently where he said he would never go back to America because the legal system is effectively lawless. Reading things like this, and others, makes me agree. There is this idea in America that countries

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