Publicly traded companies are legally required to put profits over sanity, safety, and everything else. It’s a truly insane system we’ve put together for ourselves.

SSD prices have spiked as well. Everything I’ve looked at is 2-3x the price it was just a month or two ago.

Just use client-side encryption, then it doesn’t matter where it goes

the network appliance is now discontinued and self-hosting the network appliance can no longer happen software-only, you have to use their “server os”, which can’t be run in a container.

Of course it can, they just don’t provide a pre-containerized version but other people do. The server software just a regular program that you can install on any Linux OS. I use the linuxserver Docker version, it’s regularly updated and works without issue. It uses about 1.2 GB of RAM, so a little heavy, but nothing crazy.

https://community.ui.com/releases/UniFi-Network-Application-10-0-162/2efd581a-3a55-4c36-80bf-1267dbfc2aee

https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-unifi-network-application/

You can back up ~/.ssh though, and restore it on any system.

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

The conventional direction of current, also known as conventional current,[10][11] is arbitrarily defined as the direction in which positive charges flow.

Current is defined as the flow of positive charge. The fact that electrons, which are negatively charged, actually flow the opposite direction is irrelevant. The diagrams are still correct per the definition of current.

Even worse, they’re legally required to be evil, when being evil is in the shareholders’ best interests. This system is completely broken…

Friendly reminder that VSCodium exists, and nobody should be using Microslop’s spyware version anyway.

I’m sorry to hear that. Our company recently got acquired, and every 4-6 months the new IT team tries to say, “but do you guys really need Linux? What for?”. We answer them, in depth, every time, but then it just comes back up a few months later.

I’m scared one of these days they’re just going to force the change on us, all productivity will grind to an absolute halt, deliverables will be missed, and eventually they’ll backtrack but only after it’s too late to recover the programs that got hosed in the process.

Clawdbot, OpenClaw, etc. are such a ridiculously massive security vulnerability, I can’t believe people are actually trying to use them. Unlike traditional systems, where an attacker has to probe your system to try to find an unpatched vulnerability via some barely-known memory overflow issue in the code, with these AI assistants all an attacker needs to do is ask it nicely to hand over everything, and it will.

This is like removing all of the locks on your house and protecting it instead with a golden retriever puppy that falls in love with everyone it meets.

Reliable appliances already exist. They cost 10x what the cheap stuff costs and very, very few people buy them because “why would I get this washing machine for $5000 when I can get this other one with more features for $500?”.

I do the same. I start with the large task, break it into smaller chunks, and I usually end up writing most of them myself. But occasionally there will be one function that is just so cookie-cutter, insignificant to the overall function of the program, and outside of my normal area of experitise, that I’ll offload that one to an LLM.

They actually do pretty well for tasks like that, when given a targeted task with very specific inputs and outputs, and I can learn a bit by looking at what it ended up generating. I’d say it’s only about 5-10% of the code that I write that falls into the category where an LLM could realistically take it on though.

You can use their modem with your own router. Just switch the modem to bridge mode and then you don’t have to deal with it or any of its security issues.

If you ignore the election bump in Nov 2024 that had completely reset by Mar 2025, their stock is up 100% in a little over a year. Yes that counts as skyrocketing, considering sales and profit have plummeted over the same time frame.

Interesting, I haven’t seen that approach before

You can’t do that anymore, at least not with a normal Windows installation. All of the tricks of forcing it offline, clicking cancel 10 times and jumping up and down don’t work anymore, they’ve disabled them all, the only way to install Windows 11 now (using the normal Microsoft installer) is by linking it to a Microsoft account.

I came here to say the same thing. Trump can’t be humiliated, he’s a narcissist, you have to be capable of feeling shame to feel humiliated.

misinformation is posting incorrect information accidentally

disinformation is posting incorrect information intentionally

That word is disinformation

They know it’s a lie, they’re posting it anyway because they think the ends justify the means