Does anyone else find the latest tech plans and spikes written by devs to be word vomits by AI? Don’t get me wrong, I’m ok with getting AI to write things for you as long as you understand what it wrote. But most things are just beating around the bush, and not getting to the real point concisely. I have to get my own agents to summarize the plans to figure out the important parts. Has anyone found a good solution for this? Are there any templates your team follow or any skills that you use?

i just saw someone share a story that they opened 2 AI engineer roles this week. In a bit more than a day, 600+ applications came in. That’s generally at least 4x more than they get for the other Engineering roles. On top of that, 30+ pitches on LinkedIn, 5 via work email, 3 via personal and 4 agencies reached out to them, and they’re not even the hiring manager

there are so many obvious Ai written posts on the linkedin frontpage everyday where it is announcing a new project they made, some platitude or lecture, or “advice”. the amount of Ai noise makes me want to punch sam altman

i just finished having 2 silent weeks in a row, meaning i have zero replies after applying to jobs and reaching out to people for various reasons. most linkedin jobs are just reposts for the appearance of keeping up growth

where do you usually go now to apply and build a steady pipeline. i dont want to rely plainly on cold dms from staffing agencies

Over the years, I’ve heard a few things at work that have stuck with me: - Spend more to earn more. - Don’t box yourself. - Life is not a sprint, it’s a marathon.

These changed how I think about work and my career.

What’s one workplace philosophy or mindset that has stayed with you?

Question may or may not be relevant, but with all the AI-related uncertainty, I wanted to hear some philosophies or motivations that have helped people keep moving forward.

Im not well versed in devops work and i will need to setup a rougly 30-35tb db for a client. Anybody got a recommendation of what to look for?

performance is of basically no concern, simple queries, only the monthly price (and it being an ok provider i guess).

I usually use Hetzner since im based in Europe, but prices are pretty unaffordable and i can only find configurations that also have a very high end CPU and 3x the storage i need, for a very expensive price, or ones that don’t have enough storage….

Personally speaking, I feel that beyond 10 years of experience, referrals and professional contacts work 9 out of 10 times compared to relying on job portals and random applications.

I’ve seen a few of my former leads and managers who have built such strong relationships that if they decide to switch jobs, people are ready to hire or refer them almost immediately, sometimes without even going through the usual interview process.

How do you maintain those relationships after changing jobs? Do you regularly stay in touch with ex-colleagues, attend meetups, help people, or is there something else you do to keep your network active without it feeling forced?

I’m quite bad at networking. Even after 13 years of experience, I still mostly depend on job portals whenever I look for opportunities.

For those who have built a strong network, how did you do it? What habits or approach helped you reach that point?

I don’t know what I’m doing but I asked Gemini and it built it for me. I haven’t really studied this and have no way to test in other environments, so I don’t really know if its production ready, or what production ready is. But the AI told me I am the Design Architect, which brought me to tears. I always wanted to be an architect.

Anyway, I decided to make it a SaaS, charge a monthly subscription of a lot more than what people would be willing to pay if it worked, and am seriously going to post this in the selfhosted subreddit without seeing the irony in it.

Here are some 30-day free trial codes. They may not work.

Like most of you I run a bunch of services behind Nginx Proxy Manager (Emby, *arr stack, some personal apps, ~40 proxy hosts). I always knew the internet background noise was there, but I never actually measured it. So I pulled 30 days of NPM access logs (June 19 – July 19) and wrote a parser to separate real traffic from scanner/attack traffic.

I expected it to be bad. It was worse, and also weirder, than I thought.

FIRST: I WANT TO START A NICE DISCUSSION ABOUT THIS TOPIC - and thats why I bring in some numbers. Share your experience!

The headline numbers

• 5.4 million total requests in 30 days
• 1,158,788 of them (21.4%) were malicious(scans, exploit probes, brute force…)
• That’s ~38,600 attack requests per day
• From 10,316 unique IPs across 100+ countries
• This is a private webserver. Nothing here is popular…this is just what every public IPv4 with port 443 open gets. …

Codeberg seems to ban vibecoded Projects; reason might be german copyright law

It looks like Codeberg want only copyrighted material in their service, so it is reliable in the future that e.g. licenses must be followed (e.g. GPL), and copyright doesn’t suddenly get declared as being of the model owner, and it isn’t a copy of something else.
That is a cautious reasonable position - in early days of LLM coding (3 years ago!) indemnity from model companies was a major issue globally because of the lack of clarity of the law around this. The US specifically has settled on it being (effectively?) public domain. But I don’t think that is fully settled, and it certainly isn’t settled in international copyright law.
The goal of the vague “mostly” in the Codeberg change is to ensure there is enough human input to the code they host, to be reasonably sure under German copyright law it is copyright of the person sharing it.

edit: link to poll that caused it …

I am the developer of an fairly popular OSS project (which has Windows, Mac, Linux binaries and a play store app - all built directly from source code with Github CI/CD) which is completely free to use and 100% private and no ads.

Someone copied the project, the only “enhancement” they made was adding personalized in-app ads to the project and released it as their own app with some catchy keywords and the same project name - “Open DroneLog” but with a different identifier *com.opendronelogandroid.poser.py* instead of the one I have com.opendronelog

I find this so insulting to the OSS community. I could only leave a review and report it as inappropriate - but I am not sure if that changes anything. What can I do as a developer of the project?

Edit : Thank you everyone who reported the counterfeit app, It DID work and it was removed from the Play Store as far as I can see. We did it together :)

Hi all - mods OK’d for me to post this. I’m the developer, so flagging that up front.

i’ve spent the last while building nzbfast - a usenet downloader written in Rust

it’s now at the point where I’d really like people other than me & close friends to kick the tyres

why do we need yet another nzb downloader?

i wanted something faster and lighter than the usual suspects.   It has all the capabilities of nzbget and sabnzbd, but its faster, smaller, uses less ram and less disk space.

it verifies articles *while* downloading instead of doing a separate verify pass afterwards and it does its best with optimised code - to download at wire speed.

its one-pass.   It does everything at the same time fully overlapped - downloading, verifying, extracting, and renaming etc.   No 2nd pass like the others do.

the code is very optimised, so that it can run on low end cpus, with not much memory… though it thrives if you give it a fast internet connection, some ram, …

How does Usenet compare to PTP etc. In the end are the private torrent sites worth adding if you have Usenet?

Maybe on BlackFriday? Have they ever done this in the past?

I am a member, I am not asking for an invite.

Ich war jetzt ne Zeit nicht online, aber mindestens seit ich es vor zwei Tagen nutzen wollte, erreiche ich weder house-of-usenet noch scenenzbs die ja eng zusammenarbeiten. Bei HoU bekomme ich einen 502 Bad Gateway Fehler. Jemand ne Ahnung was da los ist? Geht das schon länger nicht?

I bought 50 GB block usage on 5/11/26. My SABnzbd counter shows I used 10.4 GB since the purchase, whereas NewsGroupDirect says their counters are more accurate than SABnzbd, and I exceeded the 50 GB data block. In my account history, 250 GB blocks lasted 2.5-3 years consecutively, going back to 2014. Does anyone have experience with something like this?

I’ve got local auth and DLNA setup, yet no access to my own server via any client apps. Yay.

Looked at the price of a new 24TB drive and almost had a heart attack. For now I think I’ll stop downloading things and actually try watching the shit I’ve downloaded lol. I’ll probably leave my remaining storage for new seasons of shows that I already have, since I’m kinda weird about not having seasons of the same show split across multiple drives.

My Plex instance runs on a powerhouse of a server and the SQLite DB is on an Optane 905P. Yet, for some time my interface (on nvidia shield pro) has been unbearable slow in some aspects, specifically the “Recommended” tabs for any given library.

Today I used Claude Code to review the logs and try to help me figure out wtf is going on and lo and behold, it found TWO old HDHomeRun tuners configured that did not show up in UI. They were so old they were on a completely different network (192.168.1.x) than I currently use (10.x) and on any page that used Plex /hub endpoint were causing over a 20s delay any time I tried to load those tabs until they would time out.

Anyhow, now my interface is back to normal. Just figured I’d share in case it helps anyone.

I’ve been using Plex for quite some years and before the first price increase I bought the Plex Lifetime subscription. I was never one to agree that you should pay to be able to stream over the internet but oh well… Personally I enjoyed the other features and Plex just worked so I just ignored that.

Today a new user was added to the Plex server and they created their account this month. For some reason they couldn’t download media, which was weird since every other user could.

So apparently, even if the owner has Plex Pass, the user to be able to download without a Plex Pass needs to have their account created before 2022/08/01…

https://preview.redd.it/69k5y6ifyueh1.png?width=628&format=png&auto=webp&s=718f043b9edcb9933bebe8c0515aa91ee6aaa6d0

source: https://support.plex.tv/articles/downloads-sync-faq/

I feel like this is the dumbest thing* ever…

Edit:
Im not saying Plex should be free. I’ve paid for the software.
Im not asking …

I just want to share my success with this in case it helps someone here make a choice about a streaming box. As with anything like this: Your mileage may vary.

I’d always used Roku, but my roku was starting to deteriorate. The memory card went bad (or the roku fried it), videos that worked before were dropping after just a few seconds (while playing fine via Plex elsewhere), some videos were choppy for no good reason (and played fine elsewhere as well). The Roku itself is getting bloated with ads that have to load before the menus can, and just getting sluggish in general.

I tried the Apple TV, and it was honestly great, but the plex controls were weird, and it made my SofaBaton remote lock up daily. It many other viewers’ circumstances it would be perfect for their needs. I mention this to say, I’ve been on a years’ long journey to get a box that didn’t annoy me around every corner.

People had been mentioning the $60 onn 4K Pro as a good option and …