I’m currently working in data automation.
My job is to take away as much of the monotonous work as possible from skilled workers. In many fields it would probably mean the end of many jobs. For s start-up with much more growth to do, it means that we can hit our goals while still hiring even more skilled workers.
It’s a weird age for my line of work.
We’ve been married 12 years now. She still doesn’t have a clue.
Yes, but now you get all the bad news streamed straight to you 24/7.
Previously you would have to pick up a newspaper or turn on the TV at the right time to hear about it.
I ran it 2003-2006ish.
Having a package manager that updates online was a game changer for Linux distributions.
I had been using slackware for 6 years prior, and there was no real update path. Best case you’d just get the latest release on CD and install it over your (hopefully) separate root partiton.
Conpiling all your stuff sounded like a good idea in the age of the architecture options at the time. Alpha, Crusoe, PowerPC, SPARC and MIPS were all viable options.
I wonder if those DevOps cost $72M/h.
Otherwise I have an idea that might save AWS some money.
I have two machines running the latest kernels on EndeavourOS. One with a Radeon RX 7900 XTX has no issues.
The other one has a Radeon 6650 XT, which since a week or two ago starts getting kworker threads stuck while throwing errors about fence queues. Load can go up to the hundreds (while there’s no real load, but just blocked threads), until the machine crashes.
As I recall there was an amdgpu firmware update around the time it started happening, but the changelog on the amdgpu kernel driver hints at solving similar issues.
Back in these days you’d install your distribution and stay there until the next major release. There were no online software repositiories for updates.
And exploits were plentiful. It was an easier time if you were up for mischief.
A mistake is when your foot slips and you hit the accelerator instead of the brake.
She made the choice to take pink cocaine and get behind the wheel. Choices have consequences. These choices endangered and killed people. Some rehabilitation closed off from the rest of society sounds in order.
Apparently she was already driving with a suspended license, so there seems to be a history of bad choices.
If you’re coming from a feature phone - it’s great!
If you’re coming from a modern smartphone, you probably won’t be happy with it as a daily driver.
I’m voting with my feet, but carrying two devices.
Maemo on the N900 was close, but MeeGo on the N9 was there. The Ovi store even had the hot apps of the era.
Fuck Microsoft for killing that dream.
Oh wait, you said modern.
I flipped in 1997, so any software I might have missed since those days are probably not around anymore.
Windows 95 was pretty shitty in comparison to Linux, and a lot of software broke with NT 4.0
It was an easy choice at the time. Linux was the operating system for this new fancy thing called the internet. Software development turned into a career, and Linux is just a very nice stack for building backends and infrastructure.
I do have an old ThinkPad around running windows 10. I’ve only used it three times in the past five years: To unbrick an Android phone, to set the MMSI on a marine radio, and to update the maps on my car’s satnav.
I have a Xiaomi Mi A2 that I ran ubuntu touch on. The camera didn’t work, and it was based on ubuntu 16.04. They’ve dropped support for it now. It was not ready to be a daily driver.
I should be getting a poco x3 nfc in the mail tomorrow. It should have excellent support on both postmarketos and ubuntu touch. I don’t expect it to be a daily driver, but I can’t get the idea out of my head. I don’t like where iOS and Android are headed.
GPT has been quite hit and miss for me, but Claude is usually quite solid.
It needs micromanaging, otherwise it will do bad design decisions and go off on unrelated side quests. When micromanaged it’ll get you to that MVP very fast.
The trap is that you need to be able to find the errors it makes, or at least call them out immediately. Trying to have co-pilot fix it’s own mistakes is usually a neverending prompt-cycle.
It can summarise big code bases fast, and find how things fit together a lot faster than me. It’s been very useful when being thrown in head first into a new project.
They do scan and try all ports.
I have a tiny VPS as reverse proxy with SSL termination for my fiddling. That one has a wireguard network to my hardware at home to which it forwards some hosts.
The tiny VPS is definitely the bottleneck in the equation, and if I were to have loads of traffic I’d probably go with cloudflare or -front in front of it.
Demoscene stuff!
https://www.pouet.net/ and https://scenestream.net/demovibes/
Both are still kicking like it’s 2000 even though there are modern alternatives like https://demozoo.org/ and https://hypr.website/
He’s all Finnish. His mother tongue just happens to be a (official) minority language.
I’ve got my important data encrypted and backed up weekly to the cloud.
I used to have a 1985 sailboat where some previous owner had installed a safe. I guess cash was more important when cruising abroad 30+ years ago.
I have a caravan now. The caravan door is flimsy enough to tear open with your bare hands. I’d like to put something bolted to a cupboard wall just to lock up our electronic devices while we’re out and about.