You have the Microsoft AI CEO, Anthropic CEO, Andrew Yang, Geoffrey Huntley… all sounding the alarm saying AI will automate most white collar jobs in 12-18 months.

You have Jack Dorsey of Block who laid off 4000 , half the company, due to AI, despite record breaking profits.

They are actively making people feel depressed and suicidal.

They already have their slice of the pie. They’ve made their money. They could quit today and be fine for the rest of their lives.

I have a wife and 2 kids I have to feed. I am a software engineer, I don’t make FAANG level salary. I’m making just above the 6 figure mark with no RSUs or bonuses. I just barely afforded a house 2 years ago with the downpayment I scrounged up, and I paid off my student loans 4 years back. I was finally able to put more into my retirement accounts this year. I drive a 15 year old beater car that’s paid off.

I am by no means complaining. I’m proud of how far I’ve come.

I’m happy with my life. Sure, sometimes it’s a tight …

I’m a backend engineer with around 12 years of experience, mostly Java, and lately I’ve been going through a bit of a career crisis. I’m curious if others in the industry have experienced something similar.

I started my career in a typical Indian service company. It was completely delivery driven. This was before AI tools, so most of our learning came from Stack Overflow and random tutorials. We basically learned syntax, created controllers, service classes, repositories and tried to make things work. As long as the feature worked and nothing broke in production, everyone was happy.

After that I moved to a bank. The delivery style was still similar, still very ticket driven, but I had a lot more autonomy. No micromanagement, good work life balance, flexible timing. I owned services end to end and deployed often. At the time I enjoyed it a lot because I could just build things and push them out. But looking back now, there were almost no engineering practices. Whatever worked was …

Hello All,

So my team recently just hired a contractor that has 10+ years of SWE experience doing frontend/backend (Angular/React/Node/Databases) even Devops and I’ve been somewhat responsible for “mentoring” this new coworker for the past 6 or so 7 months. The first 2 or so months I had been helping the new coworker get accustomed to the actual business details and how the codebase currently operates which most of the time they were agreeable and mentioning that they understood the process.

I was still taking time on to teach this person all about the business process (typical KT sessions MWF) and all seemed well. Started giving them some BASIC tasks to do and noticed they did struggle a little bit with the work and made some mistakes that were questionable. Example - not able to commit code properly and instead doing rebases for some odd reason.

Where I’m at now is that I had spent a lot of time with this person and told them to spend time getting used to …

I’m a bad software developer. I have 10 years of experience as a full-stack software engineer. Even back when I was in university, I already knew I had no passion for programming, but I was very disciplined and ambitious, so I still managed to graduate with the highest GPA. I got a job pretty easily, then managed to reach a senior role after about six years and moved to three different companies. In my last and current role, I’ve been working for more than four years. I had a chance to move to Product Manager role when I was about to transition to Senior Role, but I declined because the salary is basically going back as Junior SWE all over again.

In my current role, I work in the public sector, and the job is quite stable with no layoffs. However, there’s no career progression here, so I’m looking to find better opportunities elsewhere before I get older. After doing a couple of technical interviews, I was humbled hard.

This is how I know I’m a bad developer:

• I get things …

A development manager has been messing around with Claude for about a year. In that time (without giving too many details) he has decided that he doesn’t want his Devs to code anymore. The reason specifically is because they get too focused on code and not the actual features.

I suggested maybe there is a disconnect between the developers reading the user story and then asking Claude to write the code which is why he believes it messes up for them.

I have brought up the recent study on people not using as much of their cognitive abilities and getting worse at their jobs. I have brought up that it can hallucinate, I have even brought up it can’t say it doesn’t know and it has a hard time giving sources.

My biggest fear which I also brought up was when it needs to be supported with real customer issues and who will take responsibility. All of this has been dismissed. I have been told we will take responsibility and the tools will help us fix the issues.

I have been …

When I bought my first GoPro (hero 8) I also bought a 256 GB micro SD card and GoPro’s cloud storage subscription for $5/month. I rode my bicycle around town and to work every day, I went to family outings at the lake, had conversations with friends who I just don’t talk to anymore (one is dead), and certain experiences that I just don’t have anymore, I just press record and either mount my GoPro somewhere or strap it to my head and forget about it. Eventually I got the media mod that exposed the charging port, bought a 30,000 mAh battery and had a long USBC cable run from my battery in my backpack to my camera on my head/helmet, so I was able to record for literally hours.

All that changed when I found out that GoPro uses AWS for its cloud storage. Now I’m figuring out how to get this kind of storage as fast as possible, and I need to do this preferably before GoPro collapses as a company.

Seems like a bad direction to take the selfhosted community. Looks like the mod team is fine with this sub being bombarded with insecure, AI drivel. Like I get that it was posted on Friday but I think if you use AI to “build an app” you should be required to disclose to what extent AI was used which wasn’t disclosed by the OP. I think as a community we need to have higher standards for what we allow to be posted as vibe-coded projects can introduce very extensive security vulnerabilities we all learned with Huntarr and when things are vibe-coded the maintainer doesn’t have the capability to fix the issue.

Social media is one of the most valuable data points, that is collected about us, so it’s time to fundamentally reject surveilance capitalism and switch to self-hostable, open source and decentralized social media.

That’s exactly what the fediverse is. In the linked image, there is an overview of some of the networks out there, that are similar to platforms, you are already used to. If you want to learn more about how the fediverse works, look here.

The digital indepence day is all about taking small steps and trying to switch away one service at a time. You don’t have to fully commit to the service, just try it out and see if you like it. The fediverse as a whole is constantly growing and especially the stuff you find on piefed / lemmy theese days is often really interresting. You will find some nieche communities if you look around a bit. If you wanna learn more about the digital independence day, look at di.day .

Edit: If you are interrested in some niche fun …

first off, thank you. legitimately. i work i finance. i have zero technical expertise in this area, but y’all have made this so fucking simple that even a dumbass like me can selfhost a server with a bunch of rad life-improving tools. and this community has been really great, both to follow, and for help/support.

but why the hell do you all just give these things away for free? i ask this as a genuine question. i don’t really understand how this works.

-is it career development? does writing/maintaining/contributing to open source projects help pad resumes?

-i know a lot of projects have a small group of dedicated maintainers, but there are a lot of projects where thousands of people have made contributions. is contributing actually easy for someone with your skill set? i understand building something from the ground up is a significant investment. and i understand that everyone has competencies and proficiencies in their respective fields. but all of this is greek to …

After months of planning and building, I finally have a fully self-hosted setup that replaced almost everything I was paying for or trusting to big tech. Put together a video walking through the whole build if anyone’s interested.

https://preview.redd.it/87mqpt1utfng1.jpg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=943578451b7da34e1ef993b177895a85de9bde67

What I replaced:

• Google Photos → Immich
• Google Drive / OneDrive → Nextcloud (file sync across all devices)
• Ring / Nest cameras → Frigate NVR (Coral AI detection + Home Assistant integration)
• Various streaming → Plex (with full *arr stack)
• Commercial router → pfSense (firewall, DNS, DHCP, WireGuard VPN, ntopng monitoring)
• LastPass → Vaultwarden
• DNS ad blocking → Pfblocker

https://preview.redd.it/wrdq62uztfng1.png?width=2605&format=png&auto=webp&s=6646b0aa7ef45cbbfe99dd104d91ce6bfa581fef

Hardware:

• 3x Lenovo M720q + 1x M920q (Proxmox cluster + pfSense)
• Terramaster D5-310 DAS with 42TB raw storage
• Google …

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So I’ve been learning alot the last few days. I never been torrenting before and started this project about 3 days ago. I’ve setup a TrueNAS Server with Jellyfin, and running arr stack.

Now when reading a bit more about this I’ve come to notice that Usenet is a good thing. But my question is if it’s worth it for a small home media server, or would I just be wasting my money?

My credentials no longer work when connecting via Sabnzbd. When I go to www.thundernews.com I am able to login, but any of the links, including support, just take me back to the login page. The login page just has a login button and a signup button. Clicking on the signup button reloads the page with the button missing. Anyone know what’s going on?

Update: ND_Guru_Brent has resolved my issue. Thanks!

I don’t know why but I can’t find the downloadable info for the VPN for either of these services that I have. Why do they make it so hard to find ? Anyone here have access to the VPNs if you sign up to either those usenet services ? Maybe it is because I am on a cheap black friday deal.

UPDATE: They reached out and took care of me, I got the confirmation support ticket as of this morning. Email support@newshosting.com if you need assistance. Include your username/ email and full description of issue to make it easier for support!

I tried filling out the form, but when I click Create Ticket it doesn’t do anything…

EDIT: I’ve done everything in this support link for adblocker also, tried 3 different browsers and when I complete the captcha, then hit Create Ticket it unchecks the captcha and doesn’t appear to be doing anything.

I randomly looked at Tautulli and saw that 4 people on my server were watching something. I think the most I’ve seen is 3 concurrent streams but never 4. The little things are great. It feels awesome since I do all the back end work on my Unraid Server and I get excited when people use it.

tl;dr: You can now download Coax from the App Store and be channel-surfing your Plex media server in seconds on an AppleTV, iOS device, Mac, or Vision Pro.

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Over the last few months, I’ve been running a public beta for my Plex channel surfer, Coax. Some of you may remember some of the earlier posts - I listened, I coded, I tinkered, I fixed, and now I’ve shipped. Needless to say, it has improved a lot since the first beta, and if you haven’t checked it out for a while, I highly recommend you do.

What is it?

Coax (rhymes with Relax) is a zero-config, on-device answer to the age-old question: “What do you want to watch tonight, honey?” With Coax, you can rediscover your media library in an easy, sleek, private, and dare-I-say charming way - by browsing automatically generated channels, filled with your content.

Another one of these?

There are some great existing solutions for this problem in the Android ecosystem - NostalgiaTV, QuasiTV, …

So there’s a certain medical drama on TV right now, very popular, to which I am subscribed via Overseerr > Sonarr (with Prowlarr) > qBittorrent on my NAS. Great stuff, works a treat.

The only repeated issue I get is that some idiot malware crew (I assume) keeps camping / spamming executable files using the show’s scene release format… so I keep getting fake releases ahead of each episode like “<> S02E09 1080p WEB h264-ETHEL.exe”

I have tried everything I can think of to filter this out:

- Release profile in Sonarr to disallow .exe

- Executables disallowed in Tracker profiles in Sonarr preferences

- *.exe in the “Excluded File Names” box in qBittorrent settings

The best I’ve been able to manage now is that at least qBittorrent doesn’t waste time downloading the actual files - but it still shows up in my active torrents list and still emails me to tell me it’s finished.

I would much prefer that Sonarr never …

Hi, how do you keep track of what media you have in the event you loose it all? Say your whole pc gets destroyed along with all your data disk, and you don’t have a back-up of everything? How do you know what to replace?

I have a database stored in the cloud that tells every media file I have. While it doesn’t have the actual data, I know what I am missing so I can start to rebuild my media library.

Just curios what methods are out there.

Thanks.