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lpcvoid
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Hobbyist Electron and Cryptocurrency hater.

  1. No, doctors shouldn't use llms. The second a doctor does this with me knowing is the moment I switch doctors.
  2. Even when it worked, it was more clunky than AMD at all times. It came in form of a huge driver bundle you had to install manually (or rely on a distro to do it for you), while AMD GPUs just worked due to `amdgpu` being part of the kernel since forever. Then is the EGLStreams debacle where nvidia lost a lot of goodwill in my opinion, including mine. And finally, nvidia has managed to opensource their driver on Linux - except that it's less performant then the closed source one, and thus a second class citizen, still. Correct me if I am wrong, please.

    The better path on Linux was always AMD, and still is, to this day, since it simply works without me needing to care about driver versions, or open vs closed source, at all.

  3. I've been using Wayland (wlroots/swaywm) for a few years now and it's been flawless, even with an eGPU.

    But I'm also running all AMD hardware, that may be a factor. Life is too short for nvidia bullshit on Linux.

  4. What do you mean?
  5. Just impose a maximum buffer size ;)
  6. What part of c++ is inefficient? I can write that pretty quickly without having some cloud service hallucinate stuff.

    And no, a faster way to write or refactor code is not anti-worker. Corporations gobbling up tax payer money to build power hungry datacenters so billionaires can replace workers is.

  7. Devs also shouldn't be using GenAI, it's inherently anti-worker and IMHO also anti-human. But I guess that's an unpopular opinion around here.
  8. If you think this is proof of it being true, then I am both worried and astonished. How about looking for the information yourself, instead of relying on LLMs? This is HN I thought?!
  9. Is there a non-LLM source for that?
  10. Going by your past comments, you're a great example of a russian troll.

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

  11. The world is going back to zones of influence, and little fish will be eaten by big fishes. I'd rather that the big fish be the EU than Russia, even if it means giving up some national rights.
  12. Well written. I hope one day the united states of europe is a real political entity, burying the stupidity that is fragmented national interests.
  13. >The word "fascist" now has positive connotations for me

    Spoken like somebody who never had to endure real fascism.

    >I realise a lot of you will want to call me fascist for this comment, or more likely something a bit snider and less direct. Just know that I genuinely don't care. It's just a word now.

    No, you may not be a fascist, but it's opinions like yours that helped make it possible. Mitläufer.

  14. Yeah, but people aren't using Cloudflare just for DDOS Mitigation. Some are running pretty much everything over it, from DNS to edge caching to load balancing and even hosting. That's what I oppose mainly.
  15. We have a few colocated servers offsite, each in a different region, each with a zpool of mirrored spinning rust. We use rsync across those at different times.
  16. I do. But I put both into the "cloud offering off-prem for very much money" shoebox. I setup a CDN once using VPS from different hosting providers for under 100 USD a month, which I would vastly prefer over trusting anything cloud.

    And yes, I know that there's sites that need the scale of an operation like Cloudflare or AWS. But 99.9(...)% of pages don't, and people should start realizing that.

  17. That's fair, yeah, and I agree it's not always feasible - but if you have any influence over technical direction at your org, I encourage what I wrote above. Otherwise yeah, let the pea counters in the C-Levels dig their own grave.
  18. I don't, since my stuff is reachable only within the company network/VPN. If I needed to though, I would consult the BSI list of official DDOS mitigation services [0] and evaluate each one before deciding. I would not auto-pick Cloudflare.

    [0] (German) https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/BSI/Cyber-Si...

  19. That's lazy engineering and I don't think we as technical, rational people should make that our way of working. I know the saying, but I disagree with it. My fuckups, my problem, but at least I can avoid fuckups actively if I am in charge.
  20. Well, between AWS US EAST 1 killing half the internet, and this incident, not even a month passed. Meanwhile, my physical servers don't care and happily serve many people at a cheaper cost than any cloud offer.
  21. Can we at some point acknowledge that constant cloud disruptions are too costly, and can we then finally move all of our hosting back on-prem?
  22. Your technical work environment sounds horrible to me. Windows + Citrix is enough to send me screaming. Kudos that you pull through like that.
  23. Lenovo Z13 Gen 2 with 64GB RAM and AMD 7840u is what I daily drive. It's 13.3 Inch, premium build with glas and aluminum. It's my favorite laptop by a wide margin, and runs Linux perfectly. Unfortunately Lenovo stopped producing the Z13/Z16, no idea what I will do afterwards.
  24. I am surprised at the amount of people on HN who don't use OpenWRT. I thought this was hacker news!
  25. You're right, my comment was not good.
  26. Sure. You buy a chinese case with 6-8 bays off Aliexpress, throw some board with ECC RAM support into it and a few disks. You install TrueNAS Scale on it, setup a OpenZFS pool. Front panel lights are controllable via Kernel [0], it even offers a ready-made disk-activity module if you want to hack. Surveillance cameras are handled by Frigate, an open source NVR Software which works really well.

    Especially when you want to build and learn, there's next to no reason to buy a Synology.

    [0] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.3/leds/leds-class.html

  27. I use swaywm and kanshi [0]. It's write once, forget forever. I have one config for each of the display compositions I have (office, home, gaming, eDP...), and "it just works".

    [0] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/emersion/kanshi

  28. Nobody privacy respecting uses stock Pixel android. Check out GrapheneOS.
  29. Nice that the community is addressing this. I was never able to trust Ventoy in the past, and as such still have a wide array of USB sticks to install Linux flavors with.

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