Joe Schmoe comes in as a new hire and says we’re going to change the world with my new ideas. Joe Schmoe has full buyin from management. Over the course of two years, Joe Schmoe implements his ideas to revitalize the software. Wow, Joe Schmoe is great. He gets a new job or moves up the ladder to somewhere else.

Joe Schmoe is gone. It turns out there are holes all over Joe Schmoes changes. Maintainer Mike now has to clean up Joe Schmoes mess.

is this common in the industry

Not trying to be inflammatory, genuine question, I work in a big media company and we’ve been through this and I’m trying to understand if this is just us or a pattern.

The model seems to be: enterprise signs a big contract, gets a large team of developers who are technically competent but have zero context on the product, zero urgency about the deadline, zero accountability when something ships broken because the contract doesn’t allow for penalties on their own errors, and the onshore team spends more time writing requirements for the offshore team than they would have spent just building the thing themselves.

The billing is monthly and flat. The incentive to finish is therefore nonexistent. The incentive to scope creep and extend is enormous.

I’ve watched a six month delay on something described internally as a five minute task. I’ve watched basic features ship broken and stay broken for months. I’ve watched the same discovery meeting happen four times because the person who …

Few years back there was crazy hype around blockchain. Every other day it was this is the future, decentralization will change everything.

People were jumping into it like anything:

- Blockchain developers

- Blockchain architects

- Even blockchain managers

- So many conferences and meetups

Now suddenly it feels very quiet.

What happened to all those folks?

Did most of them move to AI/ML now since that’s the new hype?

Or are companies still working on blockchain but without all the noise?

Genuinely curious how that whole space looks today compared to a few years ago.

I have been shopping around for a new role and I landed a few interviews here and there. Also, I am a C++ dev and I have mainly worked on the internals behind distributed systems and for the defense sector. So think stuff like preventing deadlocks, mutual exclusion around operations on file descriptors and other I/O devices from multiple threads, yada yada.

I had an interview with a big-ish company recently and the interviewer straight up asked how I implemented a concurrency control policy and asked for specific details. I could not answer this exact question for IP (and TS) reasons, so I paused and explained to him this and then I tried to “reframe” the problem such that I could answer his question without revealing any secrets.

Lo and behold, he cuts me off and starts saying “I need you to explain to me exactly how you implemented the solution - no tangential examples or anything!” and then he sprinkles in “You need to be a better job showing me your …

So I am starting this new project that is doing some work with agentic AI. It’s fairly boring work, but it’s not mechanical (e.g. generating reports or something). It’s something that requires a bit of research per task.

A bunch of managers decided that they want to achieve 5x speedup in the work using agents. So for example, if it would take a team of say 5 people 2 months to complete the entire thing, the same people would use a bunch of prompt engineering to do the work in 12 days.

How they got the 5x figure, I don’t know. Is it achievable? Don’t know either. Is any speedup achievable? Maybe.

How do I tell them that they should not assume a target at the start and just go with what results the team can get? Forcing an arbitrary goal on people will lead to burnout and I want to communicate that.

After a lot of trial & error (and a few docker restart moments 😅), I finally got my dashboard where I want it:

• Full monitoring (Docker, services, network)
• Tailscale + WireGuard integration
• Custom API widgets (live stats & device tracking)
• Home Assistant + automation layer
• Custom themes & UI tweaks

All running on a Raspberry Pi 5 with a clean and optimized Docker stack.

Still a work in progress (because let’s be honest… a homelab is never “finished”), but it’s already my daily control center.

What would you add next? Any ideas for the next upgrade?

--> https://github.com/ginesjunior11/glance-dashboard-config 👌😎

CopyFail just dropped, it’s a new Linux kernel vulnerability that gives attackers root privileges. https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/04/as-the-most-severe-linux-threat-in-years-surfaces-the-world-scrambles/

Debian has an updated kernel, Proxmox too. Looks like Raspberry Pi hasn’t released an updated version yet.

What is Hound?

Hound is a self-hosted, open-source media server, like Plex/Jellyfin, but with the extra ability to stream content through P2P (torrent) or HTTP/Debrid without downloading first. With Hound, you have the flexibility of fully controlling your media like Jellyfin, but can also stream instantly ala streaming services. It’s the best of both worlds.

I posted about Hound in this sub years ago, when it was originally built as a simple movie/tvshow tracker. Since then Hound has evolved into a full media server. Link.

Links

• Github Repo
• Website + Docs
• Subreddit
• Demo: see below
• Github Repo (Client Apps)

Features

• Free-range, organic code, written by a person
• Stream your own content from your drives, or stream content directly from P2P (torrent) and HTTP/Debrid sources through Stremio addons
• Download content to your drives directly from the Hound Web portal
• Very simple to deploy, <10 mins before you start watching content
• Hound was originally built as a media tracker, so it has robust features such as …

This is my setup. Image made by AI but overall looks like this. There is no connection between proxmost host and media but proxmox uses my truenas storage (16TB). I removed everything. Nginx isn’t connected anymore. Everything is LAN. Started homelabbing in Feb with no background.

Watched a lot of videos and read too many posts on here. I run apps I vibe code for personal use.

Just learned about S3-style object storage and was looking into self-hosted options for my homelab. Came across MinIO and got pretty excited because it seemed like exactly the kind of thing I’d want to learn and maybe use.

Then I noticed the repo is archived, which was a bit discouraging.

I know that doesn’t necessarily mean the software is dead, but it made me pause before building around it.

For those using MinIO, would you still adopt it today for a homelab? Or would you look at alternatives instead?

Curious what people here are doing.

https://sabnzbd.org/downloads

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.

Please note the breaking changes described below!

New features in 5.0.0

• Added support for NNTP Pipelining which eliminates idle waiting between requests, significantly improving speeds on high-latency connections. Read more here: https://sabnzbd.org/wiki/advanced/nntp-pipelining New servers will have Articles per request set to 2 by default. Existing servers need to be manually changed to use NNTP Pipelining.
• Implemented Direct Write to optimize assembly of downloaded files. Read more here: https://sabnzbd.org/wiki/advanced/direct-write
• Post-processing scripts will always be executed, even for failed jobs. Make sure to check the status of the job in your scripts!
• Removed Special setting …

Recently I’ve been on a kick of reading old usenet discussions from the 80s and 90s. It seems like there was a really interesting culture back then covering a pretty wide breadth of topics and subcultures. Seemed like it was very lively in its heyday and had quite the dedicated userbase.

I was wondering then, do any significant number of people who use usenet today still have discussions there? If they do, is there any kind of unique culture or feel to it today or is it now basically just like everywhere else? If people don’t talk much on usenet anymore is there any reason why besides just the alternative platforms having more people?

Oh and a final question I guess is: Which usenet providers have the furthest text archives? I don’t personally use usenet currently and have no idea what goes into starting to use it but I would like to make personal note of who has the oldest stuff if I ever did in the future (which I likely will)

Why not simply reduce the speed or impose a monthly usage quota? It’s better than engaging in misleading advertising and not answering how much data traffic we can use before banning/blocking accounts.

https://preview.redd.it/lcldz2nexdxg1.png?width=613&format=png&auto=webp&s=1f78be76dd6d26e8a29e2e72edaffa778165b6e9

Other Omicron providers do the same. Deceptive advertising?

Hi gang,

I’ve recently built my first home lab on Proxmox & loving it so far and I’ve just built my ArrStack using Docker in a VM.

My question is what are people’s recommendations for indexers/providers for my ArrStack?

I’m probably going to go down the Usenet route as it looks to be the most reliable and I even thought I’m using a VPN, I don’t like the idea of seeding.

Any recommendations or advice is appreciated🤠

Saw some mentions about indexers having higher latency than others. I’ve got mostly everything running though Sonarr and Radarr, so I’m not really interacting with indexers much outside of sometimes logging in to dig around.

If you’re automating, does latency even matter? If you’re hand grabbing nzbs, does it still even matter?

I have to explain to my non technical family users how they need one app to watch the family movies, and a completely separate app to listen to audio books and music and a third app to see the family photo’s.

Shittest idea ever for the end user.

I really only have two active users. I have a 2.5gb/s fiber line, and both of their connections are fast enough to play 4K, so I leave it available to them.

Anybody else let their users watch 4K stuff?

This was a part of a trailer making contest, and for funsies I decided to make a promo for my Plex server.

I hope this helps others. I’m running Plex on my Synology NAS as a docker container. While I do all I can to avoid transcoding, my 4K Samsung TV drops audio to AAC and transcodes to do this (yes this is next on the list but not sure I want to add a soundbar to my setup). While Audio transcoding does not tax the CPU, it does take drive space under the transcode folder. Remote watching frequently transcodes as well. My NAS has spinning drives only but I did upgrade the RAM to 20GB so I have some capacity to play with. Most of the Plex guides don’t tell you to setup a ramdisk for the transcode folder so I’ve been missing out this entire time on the performance benefit and reduced wear on my drives.

To use ramdisk/tmpfs for the transcode folder, I made the below change to my NAS Project YAML to get a 4gb transcode folder in ram:

   volumes:
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
      - /etc/TZ:/etc/timezone:ro #Synology specific
      - …

I can’t join the beta but I am curious about the upcoming update. Is it just the Roku app now on plex?