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One of their access points has saved my skin twice now in the past 2 months, so I’m happy it exists.

I feel “tech” communities have always been more about smartphones and startups rather than actual tech.

Thank you for your answer, I really feel happy that Wikipedia is safe then. Stuff happening nowadays makes me always think of the worst.

Do you think your problem is similar to open-source developers fighting AI pull requests? There it was theorised that some people try to train their models by making them submit code changes and abuse the maintainers’ time and effort to get training data.

Is it possible that this is an effort to steal work from Wikipedia editors to get you to train their AI models?

Is there a danger that unscrupulous actors will try and build out a Wikipedia edit history with this and try to mass skew articles with propaganda using their “trusted” accounts?

Or what might be the goal here? Is it just stupid and bored people?

Will banks or Google itself not opt out?

Will Google not offer backroom incentives for companies to opt in to its monopoly scheme like it did before for other schemes?

Yeah, the problem is that the US has no consumer protections, and somehow this court is trying to make up for it, but it shouldn’t be in such court cases where the driver was clearly not fit to drive a car.

For me, it’s the unrenameable, unmoveable, non-hidden snap directory in my home directory’s root that doesn’t even follow the naming convention of the other directories in there.

about laws in general

Terms of Service aren’t laws. Breaking them is not illegal. It’s like using the waterslide while sitting and not lying on your back. In fact, it’s explicitly legal to use an adblocker and control what happens on your device in both the EU and the US. There are ongoing debates whether the surveillance required for blocking adblockers is legal in the EU.

Google does break laws all the time by the way, and is holding a monopoly. If people had to pay for Youtube, alternatives would spring up overnight, but since you can still watch Youtube free, they can’t.

Also, I’d be the happiest person if Google finally figured out how to block people with adblockers completely, so that the majority of people would wean themselves off of one of the world’s biggest disinfo peddlers.

The FP4 is 10 years old? How long have I had mine I wonder?

Never had a case on it, dropped it quite a few times, once or twice off a tram onto the pavement.

I started to notice some very thin cracks forming around the edges of the screen, but the frame looks like I took an angle grinder to it.

I don’t plan to replace it any time soon.

Unionise while you still have leverage. Stand together or die alone.

Self-hosted mercurial apparently

That HN comment section reminded me why I hate some people on the Internet.

You should read up on the EU then, I think you’d like it here.

• Much less centralised than the US, member states have broader rights up to and including secession
• This indeed makes the EU less corrupt, as it is indeed harder to bribe politicians as there are more of them, see EU vs Big Tech
• The EU also has a Human Rights Charter, except it is even more unalienable than the US Constitution as it extends to non-citizens and there are courts independent from the EU who actively enforce it

It is far from perfect, but it works much better than anything else this size.

But the former truck mechanic said that he had “completely screwed up” early on when two cobra bites in quick succession left him in a coma.

“I didn’t want to die. I didn’t want to lose a finger. I didn’t want to miss work,” he told the BBC.

Missing work should be okay when you’re in a coma. The US is weird.

The EU has a lower GDP and more train tracks by length in the EU than in the US, by far. Not to speak of China. The US was built on train tracks in the first place.

Trucks are not ideal for long distance transit, they are much more expensive. Even diesel trains are much more efficient than trucks.

Long distance freight over land is possible, but requires large investments and it isn’t clear what is the best investment is.

Trains? I mean what other viable way is there to transport goods over large distances?

About 95% of the résumés Harrison Leggio gets in response to job postings for his crypto startup g8keep are from North Korean engineers pretending to be American

I wonder how the job ad looks like if the only takers are North Korean scammers.

Usually what I would do is start with a baseline summary, and then either dive into a step-by-step on how you would go about solving the problem, or just ask if they want a deeper explanation.

The big secret of tech interviews I found was that if the interviewer should actually be on your side. From their perspective, the point is to fill the vacancy as soon as feasible and if you can’t cut it, they will have to sit in the same chair yet again. If you are not sure what kind of answer they need, like “Should I cover everything like I’m explaining it to a new user”, you can just go and ask them, they should be happy to help. To me, it would even present professionalism, that you are trying to tailor your response to your audience.

Of course, there are always going to be weirdos who when they get the thinnest veneer of power, will either mess with you for the sake of it, or “show off their 1337 h4x0r skillz”, but my advice to that is that just stay unfazed, and do your best.

And all in all, it’s going to be a numbers game, in every interview round. Rejections don’t mean shit when HR departments insist on collecting hundreds of CVs before calling in and hiring the person who applied first anyway. Even if you get in, and don’t get selected, it doesn’t even mean that the other candidates were better, it’s just someone jumped the bar earlier. Keep trying and good luck! BTW feel free to bother me with stuff relating to this, I’m happy to answer if I can.

You are bringing up good approaches and you would have been hired if you could explain how you would start to troubleshoot some of those issues.

The answer to the problem that this team ran into was that you can actually run out of inodes in a filesystem if you have a very large number of relatively small files, and that might show up as failed writes that can make a program like a DBMS say “the disk is full”.

Regarding getting hired though, I have no idea about the market and pay nowadays especially wherever you are. I hope it’s good for you, it was certainly good for me in the 2010s in Eastern Europe, but I’ve heard it’s shit everywhere these days.

I worked as a DBA for a while, I got into it by getting into a niche database system (Apache Cassandra) at a startup for a PoC and then the local megacorp was desperately needing someone with that experience.

The day-to-day was mostly these things:

• Organizing and educating outsourced teams in India for routine maintenance tasks, mostly by writing “do this then this” style docs for them
• Act as L3 support when stuff broke - this one was rare, I was once paid a day of overtime because someone messed up a migration, took the whole global system offline, and I had to sit there see stuff come back again when they fixed it
• Write automation for automated deployment into Microsoft Azure, imagine writing Ansible code and Terraform
• Make architecture diagrams and plans and help debug developers’ harebrained attempts at using the database for things that it was not made for, but they wanted it on their CV

It was a very slow job, with nothing to do all December - since there was a code freeze - for example. That said, it’s essential to understand Linux on a deeper level to be a DBA, like one interview question was “you have a 2TB disk with 400 gigs of data on it, yet the OS is complaining that the disk is full, what is the likely issue and how do you debug it”.