Notices by Dash 🇸🇬 (dashrandom@kopiti.am)

Someone needs to invent an economic recession meter that tracks the enshittification of open source projects due to need for monetization. First WordPress and now Firefox, I guess we are really due for an economic downturn.

@houfu just read up on it. Advertising but it seems inevitable based on the EU rulings on anti-trust...

@houfu What bad things? I'm currently using a Firefox fork 😐

@mustardsauce

@mustardsauce 💀💀💀

Let me guess... SkillsFuture?

I'm in the worst PMP class ever. My trainer just told the class if you accept a risk, it doesn't mean you don't do anything about it. 🤦♂️

Imitation is the greatest form of flattery.

How to Use Sudo on Windows | Lifehacker

https://lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-use-sudo-on-windows

@mustardsauce did they explain AI training or was it like just "THIS AI GOOD. HULK USE!"?

I can't wait for all these corporations to invest so much money in AI solutions and training only to find out in a few months it's not what they thought it was and then back pedal on their investments.

AI is great, it *can* improve productivity, but probably not the way you're expecting it to by replacing humans.

@alwynispat homelab? If it is, just get a NAS for local backups then NAS to B2. Mine is for commercial use as I'm selling some services hosted on the servers. My homelab set up only has local backups and no offsite.

@alwynispat different providers for different purposes. A mix of OVHCloud and Contabo and I have zero trust in their backups or snapshots so I'm just using duplicity to on-prem for backups and then Backblaze B2 for offsite.

DeepSeek GPU smuggling probe shows Nvidia's Singapore GPU sales are 28% of its revenue, but only 1% are delivered to the country: Report | Tom's Hardware

"However, Singapore is closely tied to China — especially in business."

I- what? Huh?

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/deepseek-gpu-smuggling-probe-shows-nvidias-singapore-gpu-sales-are-28-percent-of-its-revenue-but-only-1-percent-are-delivered-to-the-country-report

After toying with the idea of consolidating my VPSes and/or getting a dedicated server, throwing Proxmox on the thing and creating VMs, I did a price analysis and realized that multiple smaller VPSes at 4GB RAM are more cost effective than any higher specced server, virtual or dedicated.

So I decided to just install Cockpit on everything and link them together in a giant botn- errr personal server farm architecture. Slight resource overhead will definitely be offset by the cost savings.

Management: Why is this software project behind the schedule? It is late, and we are not happy about it.

PM: Hope is not a project management strategy.

Management: Excuse me?

Developer: He meant the original deadline was based on hope, not logic.

There are no big problems. Only people who don't know how to break down their problems into smaller, less scary, confrontable problems.

... Ew.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFnhPmQtQCd/

I was wondering why my n8n workflow would loop infinitely. Today upon closer inspection I realized I wrote a loop based on the results of a switch but only gave it error and loop conditions and no success case 🤦♂️

Find the system app. Can't disable it cos system app. ADB magic time and disabled. All is good. Now to cautiously use this device and dive into the other weird things I've seen on the firmware over time.

Device is an Anbernic RG406H for those curious. If you have the same device and no technical know how on how to do what I did, drop me a PM.

Decide to ADB in and check the root directory. Find that the app seems to be included in the firmware. Unfortunately I cannot nuke firmware because I've seen that they have some custom drivers and functions tied to the joysticks and buttons. Great.

At best, some debug mode function they forgot to disable before shipping. At worst... malware. Telemetry like functions don't inspire confidence.