Reminds me of the peter principle. You’ll get promoted until you’re no longer doing a good enough job to justify another promotion. This leads to having incompetent people in higher positions.

My mother calling me by my full name

Rust introduces some pretty awesome concepts, but I see why it might be controversial to some. I (sadly) have no use case for it though.

Same honestly, it’s a hustle to convince the Java EE dinosaurs of new paradigms. Never going back to Micro$lop though.

I hope no one got left unoffended

Functional programming in Java is kind of an afterthought and it shows. That’s one of the reasons why Scala was created!

Wherever you are in life, touch some grass and stay safe. There is nothing to gain from going insane over a niche internet platform.

Don’t deploy on Friday!

Although I’m sure there are people working at Cloudflare 24/7.

When submitting issues, I live in constant fear of creating duplicates.

Apart from bad quality code, the PR might not fit the vision the owner has in mind for the project. Improvements are subjective.

Don’t know how bad this take is, but not using LLMs for coding assistance to some degree just for the sake of not using LLMs might not be the best option right now.

There has to be a middle ground between letting the thing spit out whole kernel modules and refusing to use it at all.

Also having it declared as AI assisted code might be better than the people doing it anyway undisclosed.

It is indeed a very risky move without a lot to gain for him personally. But I could guess McDonald’s would have forced him to ignore it and shut up about it if he disclosed this to the higher ups himself, in which case I would have gladly left myself instead.

My friend who helped me research the OAuth vulnerabilities was let go for “security concerns from corporate”

Good old shooting the messenger.

Yes, but element selectors based on the tag name alone are considered bad practise. Especially in bigger HTML sites. Even more so if you use a JS library / framework or some broad browser stylesheet underneath, or you use the same stylesheet in several places.

Also, a div or img tag can be a button with its own event listener as well. That may be asking for trouble as well, but I’ve been there (not proud of it).

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Uh, no thanks.

I always point people here: https://youtu.be/uPYjJYQEFSg

Hard to give you hints when we don’t know what your background is, so here is some basics:

For starting selfhosting I’d recommend getting comfortable with the linux command line at first (this may help: https://www.linuxcommand.org/). Set up a VM in Virt-manager / VirtualBox / VMWare / whatever hypervisor you want, install a Linux image (I’d recommend plain Debian without desktop environment). Now you have a sandbox where you can toy around. If you’re on windows you can use WSL2. If you’re already on a linux desktop, toy around there.

If you already got some hardware like a raspberry pi or old Laptop, get that up and running with a distro of your choice, plug it into your network and SSH into it, then you have got your playground there. Get the basic commands in like ls, pwd, cat, tail, touch, mkdir, rm, … And some things you can do with them. Check out their respective man-pages.

After that, install some packages, change configs (I’d recommend nano over vim for starters). From now on, there are no boundaries of what to do. Set up your first basic webserver with apache / nginx / caddy, install docker / podman and containerize / get some images, set up pihole, nextcloud, jellyfin, do whatever you like… Congratulations, you are now “self hosting”.

Maybe some day switch that Raspberry pi out for a thin client as seen in the picture from OP and install a hypervisor like Proxmox on it. If you got all that, which may take a while, you can consider networking and firewalls IMHO (you could get a cheap router that supports OpenWRT to learn about these things). Don’t open ports to the internet as long as you’re not 100% sure what you are doing. You can set up a VPN with DynDNS on most modems / routers connected to your ISP though, opening up your self hosted services only to you / anyone with access. Or use something like Tailscale / Twingate.

I could go on, but like I said, self hosting and home labbing is kind of use case / requirement specific.

I actually plan on putting hardware related stuff on an extra pi since I only run a single proxmox node right now. Would be home assistant and nut tools for the ups but I might put pihole and unbound on that as well.

I am worried about the performance though because of home assistant. And it is pretty comfortable to have everything on one host that is far from being used to capacity anyway.

Thank you for your insights, they seem valuable at least to me, who is even further away from being a lawyer lol.

the normal way that Corpos avoid situations like this lawsuit is by making qualified statements, estimates within a range, non absolute statement

Would be nothing less than crazy stupid if they were to be found guilty for letting marketing be to honest / lawyers be to negligent.

Now again I am not a lawyer, but in many kinds of cases… well, anything that is entered as evidence, could potentially become public knowledge…

So, forcing this lawsuit may also serve as a way to make such records more widely available.

Would be great to see some antitrust level cases against LLMs using this - as well as hopefully even clearer and more qualified cases - as precedent.