Get a life is a series I remember fondly. However it might be nostalgia and not be that great, or maybe it hasn’t stood the test of time. I don’t know because it’s nowhere to be found nowadays.

This. You can sync your photos when you’re connected to your home wifi or via tailscale/vpn. You can look at your photos either via vpn or at home in your own network. There is little need for opening it up to the Internet.

I notice getting lazier. Even adding a. gitignore file I ask Claude now. It takes longer than typing it myself and costs more probably. But I don’t have to do anything but wait a few seconds.

Yes… Finally… The wait is over.

So we’re at the point where A I. Is not only stealing intellectual property, but also driving up costs for people while doing it.

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What annoys me endlessly in SFA is the constant lens flares they add, and the unrealistic looking droids floating around all the time. It’s super distracting.

Sounds like a win/win!

Sodium ion batteries have less energy density as opposed to Lithium ion (100-150 WH per Kg instead of 150-250). I’m curious how much these “wet” batteries improve that. The article doesn’t say.

Nonetheless, even if it’s not the new battery for your car, it could be useful as energy storage for the grid, storing green (solar) energy for the night, and desalinating seawater at the same time.

Found them:

• https://github.com/maxdorninger/MediaManager?tab=readme-ov-file
• https://github.com/getmydia/mydia If you get round to it and have an opinion on these alternatives, let me know.

Oh thanks, I hadn’t even noticed that. I did some research into *arr alternatives a few weeks ago. I found 3 and this one looked like it had the most features. I will look up the other two contenders again then.

You’re not alone. It’s super frustrating when things don’t work and you have to search through 4 apps to figure out what is wrong. This architecture makes the whole setup brittle.

Fortunately, there are all in one alternatives to the arr stack. I found a couple, but I think Cinephage is the most mature.

Well, we can certainly agree to disagree. I’m not oblivious to having a blind spot here and there. In fact, I very much enjoyed our discussion here, and your perspective. It almost feels like a 2000s era forum discussion, before all the sour people got access to the internet. So thanks, and get well soon!

Thanks for your reply. I get the pros you mention, and auditing is more relevant for bigger shops than smaller ones of course.

Your remark on peer review reminds me of a situation where I had to change a database scheme. So that’s in a database project, and I have to do a PR on that. Now I can’t deploy it because argocd won’t allow me to manually scale down the pods of our application, and I need the database to be idle. It will revert to the defined state, so I’m unable to update without also doing a second PR on the infrastructure yaml. Then after the update I have to reverse the situation again and do a third PR.

So now I’m waiting for two approvals, and I haven’t even touched any code yet. It just seems like so much overhead for doing something that used to take two minutes. I think this is a question of trust and the bigger the organization, the harder it is to trust everyone. That’s why small shops can get a lot more done in less time.

I get CLI users, sometimes using the cli is faster and more efficient.

However I have had frequent discussions with people (all of them also avid CLI users) that set up infrastructure as code. I prefer the super understandable Gui of a tool like octopus deploy over hundreds of yaml files whose content can only be understood by doing a year long deep dive any day.

They always use the same two arguments: Infrastructure as code allows you to rebuild your entire software deployment from scratch, and the code can be versioned, thereby providing an audit trail for deployments.

In decades of software development I have exactly had to redeploy an entire network from scratch 0 times. If you’re in that stage the cause is most likely hardware and re-provisioning that will probably take the bulk of your time.

About the versioning: I’m not arguing against storing deployments as yaml files, but writing them by hand is insanely inefficient. There should be a nice GUI that generates and writes these yaml files, so you don’t have to know every option an value and every validation rule by heart.

Also, I am relatively certain that a tool like octopus deploy also has auditing of who deployed what software in which location.

It might also be overheating. If you can monitor the temperature it might give you a clue.

I’ve written thousands of lines of untyped python code for a system (still) used daily by hundreds of users, handling time critical as well as financial data. It made the company I worked for millions and it worked. Was it bug free? Nope, bugs would appear in production from time to time, but they were very easy to detect, and very quickly solved, especially because of the fact that python is an interpreted language. In 7 years of working on that application there was only one bug that caused data corruption and required us to reprocess some data that took a day or three. That was the worst thing to happen in the entire lifetime of that codebase. I totally agree that if you structure your code properly, log properly and give your developers the trust and permissions to actually solve stuff in production quickly, you might even get a competitive advantage.

This article makes it sound like Zhang was the victim here. Short story is that he took over a Dutch Tech company, mismanaged it and took its Intellectual property to transfer it to a Chinese company, essentially gutting nexperia. The board of the company and the Dutch Chamber of Commerce intervened. Note that the Dutch government didn’t do this for political reasons, but based on the findings of the Chamber of Commerce, who intervened because of intentional bad management.

Does it have an app to automatically backup photos and documents from an Android or iOS phone by chance? I know I can use syncthing, but in my experience a tool like Synology Drive works more reliably.

I think vercel (formerly zeit.co) has a free tier for static websites.