It’s always interesting to me how when coworker gets laid off suddenly after 2,5,10, even 20 years who actually reaches out to them after on Linkedin.
They get their slack and laptop shut down immediately so they can’t tell anyone and then throughout next few days your colleagues find out you were.

REACH OUT if you worked with them!! Say Hey how are you doing? It was a pleasure working with you and wish you success.

It is sad in our industry we work 10-12 hour days a huge part of our lives in at work everyday interacting with the same group of people yet when you’re done some of them say nothing at all. Or worse they linger on your profile and disappear like all those years were just nothing. At a human level, if you had positive interaction say something.

It feels good to the laid off person having some connection to bring closure to it. No one’s expecting long notes or that every person will but you would expect the PM you talk to everyday the SWE constantly mingling on ERD to say …

There’s a lot of posts on here about, of course, AI and how it’s caused havoc and anxiety amongst developers, and something I’ve been thinking about is the attitude given off by a lot of companies and non-dev leaders and workers in general. There was almost a delight in the idea of completely replacing full teams of human beings with a robot that could replace them. Lots of smirking and snide comments.

I remember seeing ads for AI solutions (many of which were garbage and are now gone) happily brag that you’ll be able to cut massive amounts of people. I know progress is progress but still there was a tone of “thanks for your service, don’t let the door hit you on the ass on the way out, dorks.”

Now that some of the hype has scaled back a bit and companies are either rehiring devs or greatly reducing their estimates for layoffs, I’m just wondering if it’s made you look at leadership the same way? I’m not trying to sound like …

Most of the experienced folks say - of AI is not production ready because it produces bugs or shitty code overall. They add more tests and do manual code reviews, and hope it fixes the AI problem.

Well, it is true if you use shit models (anything < the latest Anthropic/OpenAI), but the story is about something different.

Good models generate production-ready code, covered with tests - there’s not much you can improve actually.

The biggest issue is overengineering.

I did not see an agent ever suggesting to drop 3 tables and 30% of code to simplify the app.

You ask for updates - and it will keep generating shit by adding mode code, + extending your schema, + converters + migrations + tests.

Everything looks solid and kinda production ready, but the whole thing is already poisoned - it keeps accumulating the tech debt.

Eventually you will need some major feature added and it does not fit the schema, and you realize there’s not much you can do in reasonable amount of …

during my unemployment period, there were multiple jobs that were transparent about the interview process. While I appreciated the transparency, it was also a bit taken back that some where four, six, seven plus rounds in total. Like what?? I personally have a young family and with the wife picking up more hours, I obviously had more responsibilities at home, and with that barely any time to search for jobs, do interviews, and then restudy/relearn all my Data Structures and Algorithms for the leetcode challenge. And why?? If they’re just gonna Make me us AI to prompt my way to not writing a line of code. Guess it’s my fault for not being a cracked engineer? Lol

And not just parents I imagine if someone currently has a job and perhaps less responsibilities at home, how are you gonna explain to your employer that you’re gonna be absent for an hour plus the coming weeks? oh and also time to study and prepare for the interviews.

again maybe it’s my fault for not keeping up with DSA, i …

First off, I’ll acknowledge that this is probably one of the most confusing times to work in technology. AI is reshaping the industry in how we work, in how we solve problems, in how we get information.

But I feel like I’m losing it a little bit. I’ve been hiring for a few weeks now and have been wildly disappointed with the candidates I’m seeing. We’re using the same panels we used half a decade ago, a time where good devs were at a premium, and finding that candidates can’t get halfway through the problem. It’s gotten to the point where my interviewers are asking if they should use different questions because these are too hard.

And it seems to be true across the leveling spectrum. Mid levels who don’t know the difference between map and forEach and seniors/managers who don’t know how state is managed.

Maybe this is my “Ok boomer” moment and I need to understand that devs are prompting more and writing less code themselves. I’m prepared to receive that feedback. But I expect my …

How can I get such a blue verification check mark on my personal domains?

Is it something I’d need to pay for or something only available for big established brands?

Atleast according to perplexity..

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New limits:

- ARM: 2 OCPUs and 12GB of RAM (from 4 OCPUs and 24GB of RAM)

- AMD: Unchanged (still 2x 1 CPU, 1 GB)

Billing starts on the 15th (in 2 days). Update your instances by then, otherwise free instances will be shut down and PAYG instances will be charged $10-15 at the end of the month. Oracle decided to not notify their users about this…

To update the instance:

1. Back up any important data
2. Log in to Oracle Cloud dashboard, head to the “Instances” section and click on your instance.
3. Click on Actions -> More actions -> Edit (see 3rd image)
4. Change “Number of OCPUs” to 2 and “Amount of Memory” to 12 (see 4th image)
5. Click “Save changes”. The new limits will be applied and your instance will restart.

EDIT: More confirmation from Oracle …

been self hosting for a while now and theres a huge difference between apps people recommend and apps that are actually worth maintaining long term

ones i actually kept running:

- nextcloud — replaced google drive and photos, worth the setup headache

- vaultwarden — bitwarden but yours. rock solid

- jellyfin — media server, no subscription ever again

- pihole — network-wide adblock, cant imagine going back

- uptime kuma — monitoring dashboard, super clean

- immich — google photos replacement, still in heavy development but already solid

- paperless-ngx — document scanning and organisation, way more useful than expected

- mealie — recipe manager, actually use it

ones i set up and abandoned:

- gitea — cool but i just use github, no real reason to self host this unless youre paranoid

- matrix/element — tried to get people to switch, nobody did lol

- bookstack — wiki is nice but overkill for personal use

the pattern i noticed is that apps replacing paid subscriptions are …

I loved the idea behind the Google Fitbit Air: an LLM wrapped around your health data, daily briefs, and a coach you can ask questions.

But there app is really terrible, it’s expensive $100 band plus $10/mo, and Google getting a constant stream of your heart rate, sleep, and other private data. Whoop is worse, with a subscription that runs up to $360 a year. It won’t take much for these companies to start selling our health data to health insurances.

So I bought a $7 generic Chinese smart ring off Temu. It came with an app with an abysmal UI, and again, you have no idea whether it’s shipping your data to some server. I used a BLE dongle to sniff the packets between the ring and the app and worked out the protocol, then built my own iOS app that keeps all the data locally on your iPhone.

Introducing PulseLoop: a no-subscription, open-source iOS app. Your health data stays on your phone, paired with an AI coach that reads your real ring data, draws charts, and …

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In this fifth major release of SABnzbd, we included:

• Smarter (and potentially faster) downloads with NNTP Pipelining and Direct Write.
• Reliability gains from a reworked cache and safer processing.
• A significant number of bug fixes and platform updates.

Features and bug fixes in 5.0.4

• RSS feed modifications no longe require clicking Apply Filters.
• Fixed RSS priority handling.
• Server Test could block the queue.
• Use reduced progress bar width in Compact layout.
• Replaced unreliable directory access check.
• Prevent crash in idle-jobs check.
• Jobs with invalid date would show as Fetching.
• Windows and macOS: Updated Python to 3.14.5 and Unrar to 7.22.

Features and bug fixes in 5.0.1, 5.0.2 and 5.0.3

• Fetching NZB’s failed on new installations.
• Queue entries from older versions now load correctly after upgrading.
• nzo_id now uses GUIDs to prevent duplicates.
• Updating to 5.0 now succeeds even when duplicate nzo_id values exist.
• URL fetching no longer …

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If usenet is secure, why do some places bundle it with a VPN? Always curious about this.

Has anyone gotten a letter about downloading anything from their ISP or from anyone else?

Curious before I dig in and start downloading.

if you’re using an indexer site, couldn’t they hand over your information? Some dont allow throw away emails, so wouldnt be too hard to figure out the user then.

Currently keep getting an error when trying to download nzbs, it brings me to another page and says server temporarily unavailable. Just wanted to make sure it wasnt just me. Never had this issue before.

Update: Someone on discord said “An upstream provider is currently experiencing large scale volumetric DDOS attacks.”

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So we knew its bad with maybe 2-3 people working on it…but never thought literally no one is except the person who left in his spare time out of passion

Elan response “ Plex kindly allowed me to keep access to Plexamp source and make changes to it, but I’m the only one working on it.”

Used a cheap Roku tv and a pi to make a dynamic poster. Cycles every 10 seconds or so. Displays random movies, stuff coming soon via sonarr and radarr etc. It all runs on a pi and Posterr. The screen is powered on and off via my home automation system so when I leave the screen shuts down.

I know most people don’t care, but I still feel like posting my experience.
This is the internet after all, lol.

With all the recent ongoing stuff, this place has obviously been filled with people who say they are moving away from Plex because they are unhappy with the direction its going.
I’m not going to comment on what I think about that, other than that I think everyone is always entitled to their own opinion.

But for me personally, I have actually moved over from Emby to Plex.
I’m probably in the minority to do so in recent times, but here we are.

Not because I’m unhappy with Emby, in fact, I will keep it on in the background, because I still love messing around and being very free in what I can do to it.
But the stuff a lot of people call “feature bloat” are actually things I was missing in Emby and Jellyfin.

I’m a sucker for User Interfaces and User Experiences, and no matter how much time and effort I spend in customising the Emby …

I feel like one feature that actually makes sense for plex would be for Plex to use it’s avaliable index of subtitles and be able to automatically grab subtitles for titles on your server missing them. Since I find programs like Bazarr to be very finicky and pretty bad at downloading stuff, it would be nice if plex could automatically download and sync up captions. I’ve already posted this to the Plex feature recommendation page, but I wanted to see what the good people of reddit would think.

Thought I’d post this as I thought it was cool. I have a home in Texas and a home in the UK with my Plex server being located in Texas. I was able to setup a HD Homerun in both locations, with the UK Homerun accessible over my Tailnet. So they all appear in one Plex feed and I can watch from anywhere on earth. Works really well. Can also happily stream my 4K Blu-ray rips.

Perfect for when I want to watch football in the US and rugby in the UK.