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b3n4khon Nobody Pushed Back: Why Engineers Stay Silent Until It's Too Late

So my Boss gets 50X my salary for "something something, having to take tough decisions and taking blame for failure"

But I have to push back?

Just end middle management and the issue from that article suddenly vanishes.

b3n4khon "People who don't use AI will be left behind"

People who don’t use Online search engines will be left behind.

No, it is not an issue that they might „forget“ how to get this information from a book in a public library.

b3n4khon "People who don't use AI will be left behind"

People who don’t use online search engines will be left behind.

No, it is not an issue that they might „forget“ how to search for the information in a book from a public library.

b3n4khon 'No Reasonable Officer' Would Have Arrested a Guy for a Covid-19 Joke

Sitting here in Europe, reading this, I can only chuckle. You will get fined if you call a policeman a "buddy" (Hawara) in Austria [1]. You got fined for sitting outside alone on a park bench during COVID or if you played with your kids on a public lawn [2]. All public parks were closed. We had lockdowns until mid-2022. If you insult a politician online, you will be fined or put in jail [3]. It feels like a completely different world that the author of this post is living in.

[1] https://www-heute-at.translate.goog/s/-oida-ist-strafbar-wei... [2] https://fm4-orf-at.translate.goog/stories/3001181/?_x_tr_sl=... [3] https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/cases/glawisc...

b3n4khon XFS maintainer, Darrik Wong, steps down

I wonder if this is in any way related to the fact that ̶r̶e̶d̶h̶a̶t̶ IBM cut down their OpenSource staff, afaik they are the biggest OS that uses XFS as their default FS.

b3n4khon Guthib

I love that it is a git repository, unfortunately, it is a private one.

But it can be browsed anyway: https://guthib.com/.git/logs/refs/heads/master

b3n4khon Bikes, not self driving cars, are the technological gateway to urban progress

Tell me you never heard of snow without telling me you never heard of snow.

b3n4khon Google engineer put on leave after saying AI chatbot has become sentient

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol2WP0hc0NY

I don't think a Turingtest (any form of conversation) can proof that either side is sentient.

b3n4khon G Suite free edition no longer available starting July 1, 2022

Thank you for the answer! Selfhosted in Europe is what I guess I hoped to read. The soviewt bunker is a bit cringy but nice touch. I really consider switching - I just registerd a free address to play with the UI. Is there anything specific I should watch out where the freemium differs from the business plan?

b3n4khon G Suite free edition no longer available starting July 1, 2022

Looks nice, I looked through the FAQ and couldn't find anything, can you tell me where the servers are located / hosted?

b3n4khon Ask HN: Do you also alternate between super productive and slow days?

What you do sounds awesome! I never heard of "workflow consultants". How can I hire you?

b3n4khon Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods

It seems like podman machine is deprecated: https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/replace-docker-podman-macos

b3n4khon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)

Sent an application in january, and got an E-Mail "We have received your job application [...] We will send you a response as soon as possible."

Never got any response. Should I assume applying again is futile?

b3n4khon Have you ever asked yourself “how did research get done before LateX?”

I love that I can just read this handwrting, I usually can't even read my own...

b3n4khon Austria to make basic face masks compulsory in supermarkets

Masks are explicitly allowed. They cleared that up right aftre the law come to effect.

""" kein Verstoß gegen das Gesichtsverhüllungsverbot vor:

Mund- und Nasen-Schutzmasken, Atemschutzmasken; Gesichtsverhüllung zum Schutz vor Frost """

Roughly translates to:

""" It is no violation of the ban on face covering:

Mouth and nose protective masks, respiratory masks; Face covering to protect against frost """

Source[1] https://www.oesterreich.gv.at/themen/leben_in_oesterreich/au...