Hah, yeah I got a Debian floppy and then tried to install packages over DSL. Somehow it didn’t immediately kill my interest in Linux, eventually ran OpenBSD as my server for a while.

I do do interviews too. It’s a lot of time and work. A well designed interview can and should be a realistic, rewarding problem solving session where you get to try out collaboration with potential colleagues.

Cheating leetcode interviews with AI doesn’t seem that innovative to me, just adding dishonesty to a broken practice. Destruction is always easier than creation.

Also, as someone who frequently designs and runs SW interviews, it’s totally possible to run interviews that test actually important SW skills like OO design, error handling, and using APIs, which AIs still fail handily.

If you want to do something cool, make an AI to refactor your codebase for maintainability and security.

Hmm, it’s been a while, maybe I’m misremembering. There were definitely some categories of Plex content not from my library that kept reappearing on the home page of my server, despite trying to get rid of them a few times. Maybe they weren’t actually paid, I just assumed they’d only be pushing something if it was going to bring them more revenue.

The other thing that made me want to jump ship extremely fast was when they started sharing your recently watched items with other users, without asking.

Even with Plex pass they were really pushing their paid content. Much happier with Jellyfin, and it was very easy to switch.

“Japanese Canadians were to be disposed of all their property without their consent,” write the authors. “Many did not learn of the fate of their homes, farms, businesses, or belongings until it was too late: everything they owned had been sold, usually for prices far below [market rates].”

The settlement included a largely symbolic redress payment of $21,000 to survivors, as well as monies for a community fund and human rights projects to work to prevent such racist outrages in the future.

Yikes. Thanks for sharing. I have yet to hear an example of reparations that really make things right.

No no they’re not “wrong,” they’re slouched in defeat because someone stole their keyboard, mouse, and desktop, leaving them with only a 1280x760 DVI monitor.

How do you manage switching between accounts? I ideally just want one feed.

Steganography may be interesting in that vein. Hiding data within larger images / sound files etc.

that discussion of topics that was more popular on Lemmy, like Linux, would drown out my other interests

I certainly run into that. I don’t think I have the energy for multiple accounts, but I wish I could ask for roughly equal numbers of posts from my top 4-5 communities, instead of News + WorldNews dominating everything.

Good point about a default deny approach to users and ssh, so random services don’t add insecure logins.

The one db I saw compromised at a previous employer was an AWS RDS with public Internet access open and default admin username/password. Luckily it was just full of test data, so when we noticed its contents had been replaced with a ransom message we just deleted the instance.

Didn’t expect the snake to turn the box. Excellent loop.

I have ESP8266 WiFi modules running Tasmota firmware for a few parts of this. Some report temperature (and humidity just for fun), I like DS18B20 sensors better than SHT30s which seem to have a bit more self heating. Then I also have Mitsubishi mini split heat pumps for which there’s a Tasmota control library. MQTT for communication + HomeAssistant for UI + AppDaemon for automation scripts in Python.

Examples of the UI in HA:

Sorry Susie, you will always be plagued by Calvins.

I found the Lawrence Systems videos very helpful to get a sense of what the administration tools actually would be like to use. And have been pleasantly surprised with the reality (got set up in the last month, only point of comparison is consumer routers + FreshTomato).

One of the attractions is Unifi for me was that even if you can use the cloud management, it’s still possible to do it all self-hosted (even run the network controller on any OS) too. I didn’t feel like it was being too pushy about going cloud.

I started messing with Linux, then became a developer. Whatever draws your interest!

Mostly chaotic neutral? I guess he does side with Susie and pounce on Calvin pretty often.

Yeah, every time I find some weird annoying behavior or some missing feature in MySQL, PostgreSQL is doing it right.

That said, also ask yourself if you really need a relational database, or whether an object store or append-only / timeseries db would fit better.