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Ubuntu did what Debian failed at. Better LTS, More features including drivers, available by default by most providers, lot more branding/documentation and in the early days, easier distribution. I am old enough to remember distro like SuSe Linux etc and when Ubuntu came on scene, it became the de facto.

Interestingly, Ubuntu Priority is set to "High" and not "Critical" which is defined as:

"A significant problem, typically exploitable for nearly all users in a default installation of Ubuntu. Includes serious remote denial of service, local root privilege escalations, local data theft, and data loss."

You missed the point. It is tied to an actual fiat currency. That was my point. USD/GBP etc etc. Again, 9/10 people who are "cypto investors" wouldnt care unless they could cash the crypto for real fiat money.

It is tied to the dollar. If 1 bitcoin was not worth a gazillion dollars, no one would be buying or selling it.

The whole "No one gets fired for using IBM" analogy.

"There are normal people that cant even have a bank account in their homeland"

And I feel for them but 2 wrongs don't make a right. Crypto is not the answer for that problem.

It is not even remotely the same comparison. AI has real tangible use and benefit. Crypto has none except scams and get rich quick.

Yea I just don't see any real benefit and it has been almost 20 years. This is why I immediately lose respect for anyone who still peddles crypto even though there were some well meaningful people in early days.

I am a regular guy but I just never understood the point of Crypto other than for scams and get rich quick schemes. Not to mention it still is tied to the dollar for value which defeats the entire purpose doesn't it ? I thought it was supposed to be an independent currency. And then you have companies like coinbase which are centralizing something that was supposed to be decentralized ? I just don't get it.

I am confused. Is this attack possible even after the PHP patches OR these servers just didn't patch ?

I am a founder of a software company so I am not a traditional software dev anymore. However, we are doubling down on AI and improving tons of internal and customer facing solutions with AI. This will impact some people for sure.

Anyone who is just an order taker or bills by the hour or keeps people waiting too long is going to be eliminated by AI. That is the brutal and honest truth. Companies have always wanted to move fast and now AI removes the dependency on humans to a great extent. I personally have started coding again with AI to move things faster at our company. Not in everything but for anything new/experiements/product dev work.

Tthere are tons of opportunities for senior devs to adjust and use AI to make them more valuable. If you work a regular corporate 9-5, your options may be limited unless you have a say. But if you work for yourself or smaller companies, get on the AI bandwagon if you want to keep you job and excel further. For example, one of my close friends is very senior level at a company and she is now vibe coding in house tools and working with her management team to show the ROI. She otherwise manages a team of over 1000+ people across global locations.

Remember, if you can't beat them, join them. Good luck.

Few things:

- Your website confused me and I had no idea who you are. You may want to add a menu or "About Me" page etc at the minimum.

- Design jobs are becoming more rare because of AI (in my opinion as a founder myself). I want to move fast and I can prototype with tools like v0 or claude etc. May be I am not the right fit for what you do but most founders may not be looking for a "designer" anymore. This is something you have to think about.

I think that no one is going to hire only "designers" or even "frontend" devs. Now you need to be fullstack and own the end to end AND move fast with AI tools. I say this as a founder who recently ended a frontend role for someone who wanted to only work async on "tasks" based on requirements and that is not needed anymore. I just talk to my AI tool now and get things done for the most part especially for prototyping/brainstorming ideas.

If you want to move extremely fast in development/programming, you are right that you are better off with a good senior with Max Plan. But running a company/startup is not just about writing code. So the question is not about junior vs senior but about what type of humans you want to hire to help grow the startup. Start there.

No. Because that won't do anything and we will have yet another stupid law on the books. How far will go anyway ? What about banning Smart Glasses ? What about cameras that are installed everywhere ?

As far as privacy is concerned, that ship has sailed. When you are out in public, you should assume that someone/something is always recording you. You cannot beat them all. A fact of modern life in 2026. I don't necessarily like it but thats the way it is.

Your pricing page calculator is a bit strange. The minimum daily is set to 1 TB which is too high. Are you not interested in working with companies that have lesser ingestion ?

It was a tongue in cheek comment. No one can win the surveillance battle with today's tech. I have given up on that a while ago but I do try to protect whatever I can.

I recently sold my Lincoln Navigator and bought a used 2005 Honda Odyssey (single owner before me, 115K miles and well taken care of). Good luck trying to spy on me. It doesnt even have bluetooth let alone all the other smarttech crap. Good old CD player and Radio.

For me, so far AI has been a net positive. It gave me back control of my small company in a way that I really needed to continue. I am going to continue to implement AI across our company to make things more efficient but with the right guardrails. As a previous programmer who was average at best, AI has given me wings. I don't care what others think but it is helping me take my company forward.

10x code is mostly overrated. The first goal of any code is to solve a problem for the customer/business and solve it fast enough. The second goal is to make it efficient/repeatable etc as needed. But if you never meet the first goal, the 2nd goal is moot. So, based on how real world works, Bob is going to be a lot more valuable to any company unless you are building something that is very core to the machine (like an OS etc). Then, may be Bill.

No. AI is killing the average/mediocre/order taker roles whether frontend or backend or full stack. Nt because it is necessarily better than the mediocre ones but because it is 100x cheaper. Can't beat that. My honest answer.

Happy for Tailwind as this was possible the best outcomes possible for them at this stage. It is clear that most of the frameworks for software are going to struggle significantly because of AI. Especially CSS frameworks. No one cared about writing CSS code by hand before AI and now with AI, no one needs to care about frameworks as well. AI writes it for you so I don't care whether its tailwind or plain css.

This takes me back to early 2000s when HTML forms were submitted using GET request. Fun times.

I honestly feel that we living in twilight zone in the United States.

I like Keycloak a lot but didn't select them because I cannot use my own frontend framework.

I am going to be that guy.

8/10 times, you don't need these 3rd party providers. Yes, someone is going to tell me all about the SSOs, SCIMs, Audit Logs etc etc but the point is that 8/10 applications are simple enough to build their own Auth. The rest, go for these services. I never understood the appeal of these 3rd party providers who can hold you hostage just for your users to login ? In 2026 ? I don't get it. May be I am dumb.

I don't care what my level is. I fire it up, try to prompt what I need to and get things done. If it doesn't do what I want, I update my prompt accordingly.

Exactly. I was talking more about readability.

"The worst part is that AI is covering up their deficiencies. They don’t know what skills they lack. They don’t even know what skills are required because they haven’t put the effort in."

This is the biggest issue with AI. It is incredible when in the right hands (Senior devs who know good fundamentals and know how to code) but really bad when in wrong hands (Juniors with no fundamentals but they are made to believe that they know what they are doing).

Do it. It is just a beautiful language to write and much simpler to pickup than many others. I am a fan boy of course but I love Go.