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My tv runs absolutely nothing, except for the software to decode digital tv.

That’s the whole point: it’s a dumb tv. It’s an appliance.

Yeah you’re right but for most businesses increased security doesn’t lead to more sales.

I’m not saying that’s right, I’m saying that’s how a lot of businesses think.

Lol they died.

Creative commons all you want, they’re still essentially out of business. Thank god.

I have a 42” tv from this cheap brand i found in MediaWorld in italy (i guess it’s called MediaMarkt in Germany and Switzerland): it’s called Ok.

It’s just great. Besides decoding digital tv it does essentially nothing.

If i want smart features i plug in an amazon fire stick.

I had it for six years now, i still love it.

Can’t wait to see bill gates stopped from telling me what to do! /s

i don't really care, frankly.

> We

who is "we" exactly? because the vast majority of us (pretty much everybody except people working at at hyperscalers that are not the usual hyperscalers) can essentially do nothing.

> Definitely have to recommend putting $10 in openrouter and try deepseek 4.1 flash.

I'm pleasantly surprised by grok models.

We use cursor at work and i'm at the $20/month plan.

I used to mostly use Gpt, composer and occasionally opus. But this month i maxed these models quota and I've been working with Grok 4.7 essentially non stop for the last two weeks.

Grok is fairly verbose and somewhat slower but in the end it does get the job done. I've done a surprising amount of work (planning, implementing, tool usage, analysis) on the base plan.

> Most AI "utilization" is from idiots asking stupid stuff and doing stupid projects.

ah yes, the classical elitarist gatekeeping. god forbid laymen and paesants can have access to technology! only a small caste of technology priests must be able to use the new technology!

> Worth keeping in mind that his post was reviewed and vetted by Proton management

yeah as soon as i read "i'm breaking my silence" i immediately though "yeah sure bro, sure".

if this is vetted and approved by management it's been most likely edited or distorted.

and i say this without even have read the post (I don't need to).

chances are this post is, at best, corporate damage control.

EDIT: i'm reading the post. yep, it's corporate damage control.

> "this is the last year that we hire engineers”

and then:

> It means we stop hiring engineers who just code, and hire instead product engineers

classic nonsensical corporate upper-management bullshit.

> Twitter (aka X) has always had a strain of toxicity to it

truth is, all most popular platforms have an insane amount of toxicity. it doesn't strictly comes from the platform it self, but from people.

> There's definitely a chance of failure here.

I was thinking the same.

This can either go incredibly well or it can go incredibly wrong.

I’m doing interviews as a senior sre and frankly it’s extremely weird.

I’m being asked very open ended scenario-based questions, I’m answering honestly, and it seems to be going well (i’m moving through the interview funnel).

I’m not getting asked deeply technical questions. I weird obscure trivia. No stack-specific things. No linux internals. No weird networking trap questions. Coding part is essentially gone.

My interviewers so far have mostly been other senior SREs.

It looks like a market where a senior sre can recognise another senior sre. Some kind of closed circle.

So weird, so so weird.

But why stop there? Aim higher!! End of all world’s wars, no more hunger anywhere anymore, free abundant clean electric power for everyone everywhere!

Jokes aside, you can’t get anywhere near zero fault unless to impose strict operating regulations , requirements and procedures and regular checks… just like in aviation.

And even there, boeing manages to fuck it up somehow.

Maybe GP doesn’t like his fractional ass eaten.

In a way he’s right, but it’s not my fault a lot of the software i use is some web bullshit that ships it’s own chromium runtime.

> An medieval king could say things and the kingdom would bend to their will.

Lol nope? This is utter ignorance. Medieval kings were constantly balancing power with people directly underneath them.

Whole dynasties have been eradicated in the continuous power struggles, particularly from rich families.

Not only that: medieval kings had to bow to religious authorities as well (something ee don’t do anymore). In 1077 kind henry iv had to stand three days bare headed in the snow to convince pope gregory vii to reverse his excommunication (an excommunication would effectively invalidate him as a king, btw).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_to_Canossa

You comment shows your utter general ignorance and complete misunderstanding of medieval times.

> Even if we compare the standard of living for say, Mississippi lower third and Uganda lower third, it’s obvious that you’re better off in Mississippi.

I mean, it’s no wonder people move from uganda to mississipi (or other places in the us) and not rhe other way around.

> Was it the culture, as others here pointed out?

Rather than culture, for me it was the moderation body.

There were a bunch of people that were policing the dumbest minutie, and being assholish about that.

I occasionally would get my answers rewritten to have a completely different tone. My tone was not polemical or controversial in any way. It was just my tone. It was me. And somebody was not okay with that. They would edit MY TEXT and potentially put words in my mouth.

That's absolutely unacceptable.

Ten years on and i'm still salty about that, and i cheerish stackoverflow's death every time it gets brought up.

StackOverflow: Rest in piss, you won't be missed.

They never tell the full story…

> Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 or Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6.

Don't even get me started on USB...

> 2/ This is like complaining that climate activists were harping too much 30 years ago, and that's why nobody listened

this is a serious issue though.

if you harp too much about something, it becomes background noise. people get desensitized.

if you harp about too many things, it fatigues people as well (ever heard of "alert fatigue"?).

so yeah, harping too much, too loudly about too many things is a serious and the society should really start looking into this

(edit: i am aware of the irony of harping about harping)

I saw a decent listing for a 16" 16gb m1 pro macbook the other day, and i was seriously considering spending those money.

I have a 16" m4 max from work (36gb) and is an incredible machine (build quality, incredible display, overall feel). I also have a private macbook neo which should be similar to M1 in terms of performance but it's limited to 8gb of memory.

The neo/M1 performances are sufficient for my needs (for private computing) and chances are the M1 pro actually performs better than my neo (if anything for the more abundant memory).

I might to back to the listing and try to haggle the price even lower, considering a new generation of macbook pros has just been announced.

I've been working less, using AI, to be honest.

I'm doing a lot of investigations using AI. I know what to look into, I'm just using AI to do the menial tasks (pull logs from there, see if X is happening, edit that grafana dashboard, etc etc).

And frankly I see that mostly AI-doomers voices have been heard. I have a colleague from finance dept that's ecstatic about having a claude plugin for excel. She still reviews the sheets she compiles but she's so happy to have an incredible tool to take care of the menial work (that is, a conversational interface rather than having to go click left and right to build the kind of visualization she wants etc etc).

So... It's not as bad as some people say it is.

I’d rather have a detailed explanation of why my contributions are being rejected rather than the complete opposite which is often something along the lines of “no”

> It's far easier to get rid of a government than it is to get rid of something like Youtube at this point.

the weird thing is that ironically, the people hurt by "youtube" (whatever "youtube" is, i'm not referring to youtube.com specifically) are often the ones both complaining and keeping it alive.

talking about youtube.com specifically, i've seen many complaints about it over the years, yet essentially only two guys (Linus Sebastian and Luke Lafreniere from Linus Media Group) are actually developing an alternative platform (https://www.floatplane.com/).

Essentially all other youtubers are still begging you in tears to "hit like, subscribe and ring that bell icon".

the same also happens for other platforms. it's so... weird ?

That would explain why Samsung phones always run like shit.

so glad i bought a dumb tv.

i remember going store to store in search of one.

gg me, that was a smart move.

> their general rule is that if you save 2/3rds of your paycheque (…), you can retire after about a decade of working.

Yeah I’m around that saving rate but it’s a fairly new thing for me, to which i’m still getting used to. I guess if all goes well i might be able to retire in ten years.

I’ll be honest, i don’t really count on that. I don’t have hard evidence but i have a strong feeling/intuition that advice was valid in the old world but might not be valid in the future world.

> Are you happy or sad about your current simplicity (I cannot tell from your wordchoice "unwillingly")?

I wrote “unwillingly” because my initial plans on how to use the flat i live in and how to employ my current earn rate was radically different than what I’m doing right now. Life took a different turn. Such is life, I guess.

I am not unhappy. I am acutely aware I am moderately successful (i don’t call myself “privileged” or “lucky” - i built my current situation) and that there are a lot of people in much worse situations than i currently am (heck, that was me ten years ago).

I am old enough to understand things come and go. This is a somewhat flat (but stable) part of my life. Happier times will come, sadder time will come, more tumultuous time will come, more exciting times will come: such is life.

> docker requires root!

Podman has not required root in years, just saying.