Yes…? All are except Microsoft, which is why most companies I work with aren’t looking that way.

I know several large companies looking to Microsoft, Xen, and Proxmox. Though the smart ones are more interested in the open source solutions to avoid future rug-pulls.

Look into RAG using a vector database, this is exactly what they’re for. https://www.linkedin.com/events/buildaragapplicationontheaistac7191489677017649153

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/glass-lewis-recommends-investors-vote-against-three-boeing-directors-2024-04-30/

The recommendation to shareholders from the independent advisor who proxies Boeing is to vote out several board members who are responsible for safety and QA. Crazy to see at a Fortune 100.

Quad9

I use FreshRSS. Can’t say I love the interface, but with the open and standardized API, there are dozens of beautiful front ends to choose on any device.

For real? Damn it that’s going to be painful.

Never ask a man his pay, a woman her weight, or a data horder the contents of their stash.

Jk. Mostly.

I have a similar-ish set up to @Davel23 , I have a couple of cool use cases.

• I seed the last 5 arch and opensuse (a few different flavors) ISOs at all times

• I run an ArchiveBot for archive.org

• I scan nontrivial mail (the paper kind) and store it in docspell for later OCR searches, tax purposes etc.

• I help keep Sci-Hub healthy

• I host several services for de-googling, including Nextcloud, Blocky, Immich, and Searxng

• I run Navidrome, that has mostly (and hopefully will soon completely) replace Spotify for my family.

• I run Plex (hoping to move to Jellyfin sometime, but there’s inertial resistance to that) that has completely replaced Disney streaming, Netflix streaming, etc for me and my extended family.

• I host backups for my family and close friends with an S3 and WebDAV backup target

I run 4x14TB, 2x8TB, 2x4TB, all from serverpartsdeals, in a ZFS RAID10 with two 1TB cache dives, so half of the spinning rust usable at ~35TB, and right now I’m at 62% utilization. I usually expand at about 85%

That’s like saying “The Monopoly money I have is very real, just not official USA currency.”

If they’re sitting in your drawer at home, they’re a toy. The moment you try to use them as official docs, they’re fake and you’ve at minimum committed fraud.

Oh yeah, they can absolutely make that work.

When you try to pass fake documents through, they’re less inclined to be helpful.

It was the bad old days of sysadmin, where literally every critical service ran on an iron box in the basement.

I was on my first oncall rotation. Got my first call from helpdesk, exchange was down, it’s 3AM, and the oncall backup and Exchange SMEs weren’t responding to pages.

Now I knew Exchange well enough, but I was new to this role and this architecture. I knew the system was clustered, so I quickly pulled the documentation and logged into the cluster manager.

I reviewed the docs several times, we had Exchange server 1 named something thoughtful like exh-001 and server 2 named exh-002 or something.

Well, I’d reviewed the docs and helpdesk and stakeholders were desperate to move forward, so I initiated a failover from clustered mode with 001 as the primary, instead to unclustered mode pointing directly to server 10.x.x.xx2

What’s that you ask? Why did I suddenly switch to the IP address rather than the DNS name? Well that’s how the servers were registered in the cluster manager. Nothing to worry about.

Well… Anyone want to guess which DNS name 10.x.x.xx2 was registered to?

Yeah. Not exh-002. For some crazy legacy reason the DNS names had been remapped in the distant past.

So anyway that’s how I made a 15 minute outage into a 5 hour one.

On the plus side, I learned a lot and didn’t get fired.

Yeah honestly no idea regarding moderation. But the codebase is maintained by a team.

There is a team, not a sole dev.

I’m not saying everything is roses and rainbows, but this is FUD messaging being spread openly by the mbin dev team.

They put ads in.

But what if they don’t need that many people working on Firefox? What if AI, VR, and Network programmers are fundamentally different in skills from a web browser programmer, and don’t want to change their career trajectory?

What if, by not firing these people, Mozilla folds in 3 years and everyone ends up without a job?

Not every project makes 2x the money with 2x the people. It’s the “Why can’t 9 Mom’s give birth in 1 month” problem. Hell most projects will slow down significantly with an influx like that.

Look, layoffs suck, but it’s quid-pro-quo. Employees can leave at any time too. If a company isn’t abusive or arbitrary with their layoff decisions, has decent layoff benefits, and doesn’t refuse to give job recommendations, it’s hard for me to hold it against the employer.

You say “no one knows coffee better than he does”, while blatantly disagreeing with his entirely empirical points in his video on decaf, that it can be made by several processes, all of them are fairly good, and the result can be masterful?

I live in a hockey capitol. That makes me nothing like an expert. Same for you.

Okay, so you make brilliant decaf. That means your point in this thread is moot?

Funny thing on that “subjectivity” is when you disagree with other people in this thread, you’ve plainly said they’re just entirely wrong.

When someone disagrees with you, you hide behind “subjectivity”.

I encourage you to introspect.

You sincerely think you have a better grasp on coffee than James Hoffmann?

Much more likely you haven’t tried good decaf from a good roaster, tried a blind tasting, or your preparation is seriously flawed.

Yeah, well for many of us it’s decaf or no coffee due to health issues. You acting like it’s a foolish, childish thing is just tribalism/elitism.

And for what it’s worth, I’d put my decaf vs your coffee in a heartbeat. A good roaster with quality beans is great coffee, decaf or no. Just like Hoffman said.

I’ve had great experiences with exactly one vendor of second hand disks.

https://serverpartdeals.com/

Currently running 8x14TB in a striped & mirrored zpool.

Really all I do is setup fail2ban on my very few external services, and then put all other access behind wireguard.

Logs are clean, I’m happy.