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I think this is why FVWM is around for so long, OpenBSD even still ships it as the default. The configuration is painful but every tiny thing can be adapted. I stopped using it though because other DEs were more actively maintained and so much quicker to configure.

I've been asked to do take homes for different companies recently. Each time I was very confused whether using AI is acceptable, desirable, required or unacceptable. One time I asked just in time, the other time I wasn't sure if even using Google was okay.

I mean in University there were tests where you were allowed to bring a cheat sheet, or even a bag full of books. So called bag tests. And people were still able to fail. Although I never had the latter in my curriculum.

I think it's necessary that teams for which people are hired for brainstorm up-to-date tests. Just recycling the same challenge from 3 years ago isn't good enough.

> Both will pale compared to the amount of time you spend dealing with SCIM inconsistencies between IdPs anyway.

I think that's the real problem. Just tying up things with custom, system dependent configurations would probably be more predictable. Most people are probably happy to get the happy path running.

It's strange working on Opensource these days. I've mostly worked on my own stuff alone which usually doesn't get much attention/additional contribution. Then I see on Reddit, HN or LinkedIn someone creating a major App or Plugin in a weekend. Sometimes I take a closer look the artisanal quality is effectively unmaintainable, at least for humans. But in the end it's hard to get a good overview, and the sheer quantity seems to dwarf any other efforts.

Not to mention how the code can then be sourced by an AI model in an instant without any credit.

Well as mentioned it was in the 2000s. Compiling KDE alone took several days. Also there was no automation/script, so you really had to go to ftp.gnu.org and look in which folder the coreutils package is ;) I realize there's now a list of packages with checksums

> I did it once manually over a couple of days.

Sounds like a speedrun of the tutorial. How did you approach packaging then and what system did you use to compile everything?

I did the tutorial in the late 2000s I think and it took me 4-6 months if I remember correctly. At the time I wasn't completely new to Linux but setting up things like the boot loader was quite tricky for me.

For me the main motivation was getting a deeper understanding, being able to fine tune and customize my system. Of course I didn't go blindly through the tutorial but only did steps that I understood. (In case something goes wrong) Also I started to use (x)stow for everything.

Interestingly AOL, Compuserve and similar ones originally ran without Internet. In fact it took a while until the Internet catched up with the level of interactivity, mostly through Flash. It's absurd that nowadays many websites require a central CDN to stay available.

On the Desktop fine-grained partitioning is a bit questionable but on a server it's still quite practical. E.g. preventing the database or excessive logs from filling the disk space. The latter is also an attack vector actually.

Also generally swap is recommended on all systems. During normal use it should rarely be needed but if it's needed it prevents spurious crashes. E.g. make -j16 shouldn't result in a hard to comprehend crash because I miss 1 GB of RAM.

> I wonder how many of these are false flag operations.

If I may ask, could you elaborate on what you mean?

The first thing that came into my mind was the fragile ecosystem up there. All considered this doesn't sound like a very thoughtful process.

And of course as pointed out elsewhere, Norway isn't even EU. I wonder how happy people were if rocket launches were done in rural Western Europe.

> GrapheneOS actually recommends against using Aurora and instead just using the Play Store, so this shouldn't really hurt users.

Interesting, I never tried Aurora on Graphene. For me the combination of Play Store and F-Droid worked really well so far.

Actually Microsoft is doing this since the 90s with Word documents. Did they ever pause this practice?

The graph actually peaked in 2014. That's a decade before AI became a thing while the Software engineering workforce grew a lot since then.

I think Stackoverflow was the last incarnation of romanticized old-school Q&A forums where you first had to earn your badges before being treated with respect. Luckily today's new projects have much better documentation, issue tracker's etc. And apparently AI is able to work with that by now...

> So depressing to read the non-stop political comments here.

Grok is specifically trained on political input/output. Therefore I have trouble parsing your comment.

> Where have the hardcore nerds gone? How is the model, is it good at coding? What does this mean for competition and pricing?

When was the last time you've seen tank database systems discussed here? Probably never because there seems to be some sort of unwritten moral boundary of what fits in here and what not. I hope it finds its natural alignment back.

Personally I think it's fine to point out the peculiarities of certain tech ecosystem. But at some point I rather don't read more details and move on to other aggregators.

> a photo is pretty much required which would be considered illegal in other countries like the UK

I work since over 15 years as SWE and have been job hopping most of the time. Only during one job hunt I put a (professional) photo on my CV. While a photo on the CV is obviously not illegal, employers aren't allowed to demand it since 2 decades. But I agree there is a bias.

While I'm fully German so to say, I have a foreign last name literally from centuries ago. For most of the time this was never an issue, at best a conversation starter. But companies where the daily language is German (hint: these companies usually suck) I definitely had weird situations before. Also with some recruiters, especially from the UK.

I'm no expert but to my knowledge metal cases always need to be grounded. Which is what I did with my 10" rack. I just bought a socket with a ground connector from an online store, although I'd be curious which exact cable is best practice. I don't have many things connected there anyway and the power supplies are outside of the rack.

FWIW the topic is quite a rabbit hole and for non-mobile metal cases (e.g. screwed on the wall) technically even an electrician seems to be needed.

Have you taken grounding into consideration?

> If you want a GmbH quickly there are specialized lawyers that maintain a pool of freshly founded GmbH's for you to buy.

That. It's possible to go even simpler if no limited liability is needed.

Just Gewerbeanmeldung costs maybe 30€ and takes less than a month normally. Large cities even have online forms for this.

Also the reporting duties are much simplified. ChatGPT and some accounting software are very helpful. Although a tax consultant and probably a liability insurance are recommended to avoid bad surprises.

I was once on a job interview there, in the Train/Station Wifi branch, mostly web programming related though IIRC. It wasn't so much of a quiz format but the interviewers wanted to know what I worked on before, why I wanted to change etc. What really stuck with me was how the department CTO insisted how superior and privacy conforming their logging system is. Not saving anything, not even for a micro second. I didn't dare to ask how they debugged anything. But in the end I was rejected and the reason was: more questions than answers.

On every boot I see the sha hash of the image plus there's the attestation App. I've never seen either before and I used both stock Android and LineageOS. Also every App gets granular permission control and there's an automatic reminder to remove permissions for unused Apps. Classic example of Enterprise thinking on VW's side.

Similar for me. One was for an overly very well paid position. I always run (p)npm audit before running npm repos, so lots of issues were found. I tried to fix them but I would have gone over the time limit. So I asked the recruiter about it and if it makes sense to run it in an isolated VM. No answer...

The other was for a DevEx crypto service. While I was very suspicious the code looked okay but the recruiter was strange and changed their profile to a different person eventually. I think this was a crypto stealing scam though since it required connecting to a wallet. I don't have any crypto though, so I might be okay for now. Although reinstalling my system clean would be the only sure way in theory...

> Carpet bombing of cities, towns, villages or other areas containing a concentration of protected civilians has been considered a war crime since 1977, through Article 51 of Additional Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions.

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

Autonomous weapons have hardly been deployed yet, maybe at the Inner Korean border or some lunatic's backyard. Therefore I don't think there is any legislation for it yet. But it seems a very cruel way of killing, also considering in this particular case they didn't even send footage back. What kind of experiment was this? Maybe they didn't like to see the brutality, perhaps people begging for mercy not to be killed, giving up and showing a white flag. Indeed this isn't possible with carpet-bombing.

Thanks, I was interested at this point ;) Yeah I don't know, the other PR is from April. Not saying AI cannot be useful. On the other hand this is a "well studied" problem. Last year I worked on a project where I mostly stopped using draft PRs because the team lead (or his AI) was stealing my code all the time :D

It's the cache, I pin-pointed the main problem correctly without ADB access, any closer details and just google.

> // Unpack into no_backup storage rather than the cache dir. Android may

> // delete files from getCacheDir() at any time to reclaim space, which

Looking further into the issue disk space is a huge problem with Kodi discussed plenty of times. In fact even the Wiki dedicates 2 pages to it:

https://kodi.wiki/view/Archive:Reduce_disk_space_usage

https://kodi.wiki/view/Texture_Cache_Maintenance_utility

I realize from your perspective this may seem still a very convincing example in the sense of it works.

A non-programmatic solution might have been possible though:

> It's likely your thumbnail cache. That's typically the biggest piece stored locally (you also have the database). You can clear the cache (short term fix) or move it to another drive (long term fix).

> Also recommend not downloading actor thumbnails. Lot of extra images.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ShieldAndroidTV/comments/1f7xfwn/ko...

I also recommend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_dredging

So I'm scrolling through this Ask HN and this is now the 3rd similar problem. Would you mind adding more details as well as the patch? Perhaps as a gist if it's unfinished?

I mean just googled https://www.google.com/search?q=kodi+crash+chromecast+4k I'm getting really a lot of issues such as https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=381239

It seems to be a quite common problem. Are you sure it was the rube goldberg fix and not a more mundane solution? Such as pulling in someone's fork from GitHub or just clearing the cache on a loop?

Being from Europe as well I've also been hearing similar advice plenty of times. With time I heard stories about people from all walks of lives having been help up by TSA, from people on business travel to kids of US senators...

It's very strange to think about this in the current context. Anything P2P used to be the Anti Christ of the Software Industry. The lengths Microsoft and game vendors went to prevent copying is insane. Installing Windows as well as various Higher End software is a huge pain because of this.

On the other hand Microsoft is very much leading with OpenAI in vacuuming any content, stripping effectively copyright claims.

That being said, nowadays the only use case for me to use Pirate Bay is when I cannot get a movie elsewhere. I'd pay for it but it's not possible - because of copyright...

I used to work with a small Aviation-related software company. There it was really not like this, the boss made jokes about it. On the other hand engineering-wise things were done really differently: no branches, fail fast, only e2e tests etc. Probably the rift between small companies and corporate culture also applies here.

It's a German website but zeit.de. At least the last time I checked. Looking into Firefox reveals almost 8 MB for loading the front page. One could easily skip this as an exception but it's one of the 2 large weekly news magazines in Germany. Also since it's part of a publishing house, I assume other publications of them might be using the same system.

The modern web very much goes by the Pareto principle. But what's almost impossible to digest without full-fledged machinery are some News websites. The complexity of running ads and gdpr flows is just out of this world. It even dwarfs social media websites in that regard.