I have 25y/e but I haven’t seen this, even in the worst of the worst. Normally tech debt is just something that bothers developers, but in this company I’m seeing customers leaving en masse.

So, long story short, the company makes a mobile app in the engineering/technical space and was successfully growing like crazy, but in the last few months has been hit by crazy amounts of churn and contraction due to technical issues. Despite spending hundreds of thousands dollars on advertisements and having great salespeople, our “actual growth” is near zero. This is a VC startup, btw.

IMO a lot of the technical issues are because of the massive tech debt amassed in less than a year. The app is used “out in the field” by professionals to execute their jobs, and customers have been reporting frequent data loss and a few have moved to a competitor because it’s constantly crashing, sometimes not starting at all.

The main problem is that those …

I run a small open-source project Deepkit (Trademark 017875717) I’ve been building for many years. It’s not huge, just a few thousand users compared to the big OSS names, but to me it was worth protecting, so I trademarked the name in the EU and US a few years back. I had hoped to be protected from other corporations this way and live peacefully.

A $160M-funded company named Deepki (Trademark 1751952) came along and filed for cancellation at EUIPO since they needed the trademark now after getting lots of funding. They won. Now my trademark is gone.

The frustrating part? The EU actually does allow open-source (even free projects) to have trademarks, but you have to prove “genuine use” in the EU for the goods/services your trademark covers (Software). Which seems to force you in collecting user sensitive data otherwise you are entirely unable to prove that you have actual users in the EU. I generally try to collect as little information as possible (also because …

I’m new on a team, but not the company (12yoe, 8 at the company), and a couple junior developers treat nearly every opinion that I give like it’s theoretical. Things like composition over inheritance, interfaces over abstract classes, communicating temporary changes to dev database schemas. I can give concrete examples on how I’ve learned to think the way that I do, and they counter with “we just have a difference of opinion” or a theoretical example that they created then and there.

It’s getting exhausting, and I don’t know how to respond without some unhelpful, brute-force, “I’m senior, stop talking” response (I haven’t actually said that, but when I bring it up to my boss that’s what he presents my position as).

Has anyone had experience with this, and knows how to address it?

One reply I hear about why our field hasn’t unionized is because we don’t experience the same physical backbreaking labor most unionized fields do.

And this is true. In fact, as a job coding is the easiest I’ve ever done. Remove all the office politic bullshit and it’s kinda like playing a video game.

I also have the experience of having done that backbreaking labor while going to college. In the late 2000’s, I had to work on a dock to help my family. The job could be white demanding. I was often lifting very heavy objects, climbing in tight and dangerous places, and dealing with a very dirty work environment. I had to learn to use a Neti pot because I constantly would come home with the inside of my nose caked in black soot and every shower after work involved a giant pool of dirty water circling the drain.

Truly felt like I was living in a Dickens novel for like 3 years. 6p-4a, 5 days a week.

At my second tech gig, my manager and I were having lunch and I recounted my time …

I feel like I’m crazy because whenever I read job advice online people really emphasize the importance of networking in your industry

The classic “it’s all about who you know”

However when I think back on my 10 year career of multiple jobs so far, I’ve literally never networked

Every job I’ve had as a programmer I just applied online, got an interview, and got the job…that’s it

Never been to a conference or networking mixer/meetup in my life

Is that normal or am I just an outlier?

https://nickcunningh.am/blog/how-to-automate-version-updates-for-your-self-hosted-docker-containers-with-gitea-renovate-and-komodo

No affiliation, I have no idea who this guy is, but he’s a good writer and this is a very clearly written and easy to follow along guide for getting some amazing automation running to deploy containers in your homelab. I found this when I was already about 75% there (I already had gitea set up with actions, komodo set up already), but I was missing a few things and the renovate-bot is an awesome tool!

Also, sorry if this is a repost, I searched.

Which application do you think is good but does not have any better alternatives? I’m trying to figure out if there is any gap in the open source community of self hosters where someone is searching for a better alternative of a specific application.

Thanks!

I just got an email from Spotify saying they’re increasing the Premium prices again.

For a lot of years I refused using Spotify and instead just had my own music library that I used with AIMP on Windows and Poweramp on my phone.

After the switch to Spotify I did miss some Poweramp features but Spotify’s flexibility and especially it’s recommendation algorithms are really great.

I do selfhost Jellyfin which already has my music and audio book libraries but it really doesn’t hold a candle to Spotify.

I looked at Navidrome’s feature set which sounds nice but doesn’t seam to have any capability for recommendations (comparable to Spotify’s release radar, song radios and so on).

My dream would be an app that has some algorithms that recommend songs to me and asks Lidarr to download them (or the album they’re on…).

I also use Spotify for Podcasts a lot so some support for finding and streaming those would be great as well.

I doubt …

Debian 13 is out, and I have a mini pc (its not a new machine, Intel 7th gen, so nothing too demanding) I want to convert into a server. What is recommended these days?

• OS: I’m assuming Debian, but is Ubuntu (with snap disabled) better due to faster updates? or do you use another distro?

• docker or podman or nerdctl with containerd (just learnt about this)

• portainer, dockge or something else?

• monitoring: do you run a full prometheus + grafana stack, netdata, telegraf? the latest and smallest one I’ve read about is beszel

• remote access: tailscale and cloudflare tunnels? do you need both?

• dashboard/homepage: I have no idea whats good

• youtube downloader: I don’t think anything other than tubearchivist gets comments? I’d really want that. On the other hand there are posts about it being too heavy since it uses Elasticsearch. I’ve written my own yt-dlp scripts before, I just want something automated this time

• documents: I don’t mean scanned ones, …

Just thought I would give my over a years’ experience with owning a NAS system, for anyone who is interested.

With the rise of “age checking apps” and Netflix, Disney, Hulu, Amazon Prime slow-walking price increases in perpetuity while adding advertising and removing your favorite movies so it can turn back into cable TV, I’ve never been happier to own my own NAS. There are many brands you can get but mine in particular is Synology which has been a great buy. I spent probably around $2,000 to get the NAS and 2 7TB HDDs so I could mirror all my data.

Now I can:

- Back-up my iPhone to it without paying an iCloud subscription

- Create docs there instead of Google Docs

- Store all my music from my favorite bands I purchase on it

- Watch all my movies on Plex streaming to my whole house

- Download Wikipedia data and other data for offline perusal (in case power goes out for extended time)

- Stream my surveillance camera to it as NVR

- Host Docker …

My uncle passed away in 2004 when I was 5, and he has a relatively unique name for the anglosphere (unique on usenet at least I think). He was a computer programmer who had been around since the early UNIX days, and had a taste for old computers like me, and my mom tells me how she wishes I’d met him (me too).

He was an avid user of alt.folklore.computers, rec.humor, comp.os.*, comp.lang.pl1 & others, alt.obituaries, alt.humor etc, and he was also good friends with a lot of users on those groups, to the point he’s been remembered in a necrology post from the last few years, and an “AO family member” post in the later ‘00s. (Don’t dox me please.)

Searching Google Groups, it finds 5500+ posts containing his name, but only back to 1995. I found a couple on Narkive that are indexed by Google Search, but Narkive doesn’t have a search feature? and I guess disables search engine indexing.

*I’m not asking for scraper support – …

I have been experimenting with older NZBs. I’ve noticed that some previously 430’d uploads return months later. Are specific Usenet providers temporarily removing new releases to satisfy DMCA requests?
I’m curious and would like to learn more. Thanks!

Does anybody know of an upload tool, that’s as convenient or has similar features as ngPost, but doesn’t encrypt the files?

What I mean by features is a watch folder for automatic posting, or at least drag-and-drop capability with auto generating NZBs and post subject.

I use Powerpost at the moment but it’s quite laborious to prepare the posts.

I know they changed their policy for lifetime membership a whiel back but I have been out of the game for a while. Tried to sign in with my saved user/pass with no success. Tried re-setting the password with no automated email to my address.

Wanted to check if there’s something I can do to get back my account and access, even if it means paying for the service again. Someone want to verify I’m locked out / account deleted for good?

I’ve been searching for one, but can only find Usenet applications for Amiga Workbench 3.0 and none for 1.3. I want to use Usenet on my Amiga 500 computer but cannot find any actual guides on doing that, I found one video by Dan Wood but that was using a much more recent version of Workbench. I’m signed up to a Usenet service and I’ll be using TCPser for connections. I use A Talk III already but I doubt anything related to this would function on A Talk III since it’s more oriented on BBS’s. (Ignore the typo in the title)

Email I received.

Update Your Plex Media Server Dear Plex user, We recently received a report via our bug bounty program that there was a potential security issue affecting Plex Media Server versions 1.41.7.x to 1.42.0.x. Thanks to that user, we were able to address the issue, release an updated version of the server, and continue to improve our security and defenses. You’re receiving this notice because our information indicates that a Plex Media Server owned by your Plex account is running an older version of the server. We strongly recommend that everyone update their Plex Media Server to the most recent version as soon as possible, if you have not already done so. The new version (1.42.1.10060 or later) is now available to update through your regular server management page or you can download the package from our downloads page (https://www.plex.tv/media-server-downloads/). Thank you, The Plex Team

I’m just venting here. Why are we losing features with Plex instead of gaining? Accidentally updated the iPad app and now I’m mad.

- No more browsing plex while watching a show, even during Picture in Picture (I have ADD with shows and like to browse while I watch or watch something temporarily while I browse)

- List view for content is not available (why remove such a basic browsing option?)

- PIP for Plex free content does not work for the few shows I enjoy there (not a big deal)

- Casting to non apple devices lost its icon when in a show or movie (seems to only be available when in the app menu)

- In video control settings seems buried away

Would love to get the ability to double tap left or right to rewind or fast forward. The ability to adjust subtitles speed. Or to be able to Download content via USB-C instead of only WiFi.

The features we gain most people don’t want or need and are being forced into our user experience. I almost regret getting a lifetime pass.

Hey everyone!

I’m excited to announce Pulsarr v0.5.0, which brings powerful new automation capabilities with the Plex Label Sync System.

What is Pulsarr?

Pulsarr bridges Plex watchlists with Sonarr and Radarr, turning your Plex watchlist into your request system. Users add to their Plex watchlist, and Pulsarr handles the rest. Everything runs on your primary Plex token, monitoring all your friends’ and family’s watchlists automatically.

Core Features: * Real-time Monitoring: Instant watchlist updates for Plex Pass users (20-minute polling for non-Pass users) * Smart Content Routing: Route content based on genre, user, language, year, certification, and more * Multi-Instance Support: Distribute content across multiple Sonarr/Radarr instances with intelligent synchronization * Multi-User Support: Monitor watchlists for friends and family with granular permissions * Discord Bot Integration: Complete management directly from Discord with interactive commands * …

I recently moved my Plex server from one state to another across the country. It was a relatively painless move and I got things up and running in the new location on the new network without much trouble.

I left my HD Homerun and antenna in the old house because I wasn’t going to crawl up in the attic to get it and I hardly ever watched Live TV anyway.

I run Plex on Unraid and have a Tailscale network setup for my devices…

Maybe you can see where this is going… but lo and behold, I can still stream my local channels from my old location to my Plex server in the new location just fine. It’s going through the Tailscale VPN as if it were on the same network without any configuration on my part.

I thought it was pretty neat. I don’t have much use for it, but as long as the network stays running in the old location I’ve still got access lol. Probably boring to most of you, but the fact that it worked without me having to do anything or me even …