ValtteriL

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Polyglot devopsy Hacker/Engineer

Blog: https://shufflingbytes.com/

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Comment · 9 days ago
Curious to see how many tokens was spent
Comment · 1 month ago
Professional CMake: A Practical Guide
Comment · 1 month ago
Reminds me of a story about Ericsson engineers missing vital troubleshooting practice when Erlang turned out to be too reliable.
Comment · 2 months ago
I made the jump to Immich a month ago after having to prune my Drive more and more often as my free Drive quota ran totally out after 8 years of freeloading.

My homelab had spare capacity and I had already offsite backups to Hetzner Storage Box sorted out so it didn't take long or increase my costs.

Very good experience so far. I moved all my photos including multiple complete wedding albums to it, something I couldn't do with Drive without "converting". Nice to finally have all the Google Photos goodies for everything.

Shout out to immich-go, a cli tool for bulk uploads from Google takeout archives.

Comment · 2 months ago
Slow and TCP only. Also requires client to have software that raises the odds that you're doing something sketchy.

I did use them in the past to access my homelab via SSH but replaced that a long time ago with VPN.

Comment · 2 months ago
I use it at work for ubiquity.

Every new member with Linux experience at least feels familiar with it, and therefore can get to speed faster and with confidence. When we build containers to be used or built on by other teams, Ubuntu as the base minimizes the friction and support needed for the same reason.

There are Arch/Fedora/etc users too, but Ubuntu is the common denominator. I think it is good enough.

At home I started with Debian and after a few missteps have always come back to it.

Comment · 4 months ago
I have attributed this experience to the same thing that happens when you look closely to AI-generated images. On the first glance they look great but closer inspection reveals flaws.

Perhaps one just learns to see through the model after a while.

Comment · 4 months ago
Also in IEC 62443
Comment · 6 months ago
For AI written content I have a very low tolerance. I bounce right away when I notice I'm reading generated content, especially if it tries to be an essay or anything else than direct answer to my question at hand.

When it comes to books, I avoid anything written by an author debuting after 2022 unless there is a strong recommendation by someone close.

As for genres, it has made me read less purely technical books. My assumption is that I can learn enough of the subject as I go by chatting with a model.

Comment · 6 months ago
>The feedback was simply: "What do you even need funding for?"

Not clear from the text, but what was your plan using the funding on? If you did not have a plan, what did you expect? VCs want to see how adding more money results in asymmetric returns.

Comment · 7 months ago
Impressive, ambitious work.

I wonder how long he waited for the CPAN nologin case. I remember requesting a CPAN account 3 years back and it took ~2 months for someone to look at and accept.

Comment · 7 months ago
Mikrotik.

Past experiences include Cisco (bad incentives, they make a lot of money from certifications and licenses), TP-Link (broke the case physically when pressing a button, was left without updates after some time), Ubiquiti (could not handle the load of my home network. I had the edgerouter-x though which is weak)

Comment · 8 months ago
Why would your customer invest in your system instead of going directly to stocks/ETFs?

The people holding 10k€+ in cash/ bank savings account that I know are old, tech illiterate, afraid of investing, and oblivious to the effects of inflation. They simply store the money somewhere so they can use it later at a short notice.

With these people you have way too much friction with the Coinbase way. Even if you succeeded in convincing them they deserve yield, it will be hard to compete with investing tools that are integrated into their banking apps that show higher profits than you.

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