This (tech) career has proven to be so disappointing, and it's all the stuff around the actual work. I love working on computers. Started my career in the decade of offshoring and didn't think we'd have anything close…
I'm celebrating it today. No idea who is replacing her but I am ecstatic.
lol I absolutely do not want non digital goods nor pirating. Ever. It's 2025. I don't have a cdplayer, a tape player, a blue ray player, I don't even know what the most modern "blue ray" disc would be. I have $2k worth…
I deleted my facebook account about 10 years ago. Downloaded data, deleted. Not deactivated. Nothing in my life made me ever want to go back except for when I got back into playing hockey, and all the hockey leagues use…
Webhosting is one of the most scammy shitty industries. I worked in it for 15 years. Do not give that industry any sort of benefit of the doubt. There are good companies but there are a lot of not.
You should never look up potential domain names at the big registrars. Or most registrars. Or any registrars. They'll buy it out from under you if it generates enough attention. They know exactly how many people looked…
Not that it doesn't happen but I've worked in datacenters, including our favorite clouds, and cdn/video architecture for 15 years and have never seen servers replaced on any cadence that wasn't us losing a customer and…
I've assumed he thought it would damage the FBI/CIA/someone he's dismantling. I'm a millennial so I didn't grow up with it but I can't explain how little I care. JFK was born in 1917. Seeing people line up at the curve…
I don't know the minutia and I'm thankfully nowhere near the webhosting industry any longer but Wordpress dominated my life for almost 20 years- I'm pretty sure it can be summed up with "WPEngine is taking all of our…
And WordPress can thank CPanel and the tens of thousands of customer support and sysadmins that supported millions of WordPress users at $9/mo for a decade and have never once interacted or known who Mullenweg is. And…
Eh, I make tooling for a living. It sucks to have nobody using your tools even if they were fun to make. You spend months/years putting something out there that you think will really benefit a company/team/foss and it…
I can't imagine getting an engineering job at an engineering company and asking them if I'd be allowed to create an opensource IDE that would never be a sold product. I can barely even get allowed time to write SRE…
I feel bad that I feel this way but I really dislike them, but I can't believe those gamer chairs became the mainstream chair to see over the last few years. A few years ago they would get clowned, then it was less, and…
I was 6-teens in hampton /vabeach (84), i didn't have friends IRL doing anything with computers ever as a kid. Computer stuff was considered super nerdy. Dad was army so he'd be gone for 2-4 years at a time and all I…
I was a kid in Virginia in the 80-90s and never got to do any of this stuff, but I was on irc and I saw people all over california and in college doing lan parties. Made me so jealous. My friends didn't have the…
Paywalled but from the comments here it sounds like this is moving near your HS friends? Absolutely not. Nothing in common with them. If this is more about living in a more dense area where you have friends closeby,…
This entire industry is something I feel like I understand 2% of and every time I make progress to get to 10% (3 months later) some massive change happens and all the terminology changes.
My big takeaway from this is that War Thunder is only 200 employees. I know this is a massive income generating game so I'm googling around.. I found this post from Dec 2023 that has a mention of 121 million euros net…
I have about 30 years as a linux eng, starting with openbsd and have spent a LOT of time with hardware building webhosts and CDNs until about 2020 where my last few roles have been 100% aws/gcloud/heroku. I love…
I use them for a bunch of things on a bunch of different devices/OSes and one light frustration I've had is I've accidentally stored a few of them in different apps because I'll be on a different device and either not…
I'd appreciate it if they let me block specific countries, etc from even attempting to log in. You can see the failure attempts somewhere in your user settings and I have them all day long from countries I'll never step…
I don't know how I convinced my parents to get me this in elementary but not a single other person I ever met had heard of it. I had no idea it had interesting tech, definitely didn't know it used satellites. It was a…
They built a very nice declarative CI/CD system before Github Actions existed. I think I was on Bamboo (and Jenkins) before going over to Gitlab and it was a breath of fresh air, a huge understatement. 2015ish.
Nintendo has always been offensively litiguous
Has anyone gone from absolutely hating cooking to enjoying it? I just don't enjoy the process of it. I've done cooking classes, blue apron sort of stuff, etc. I love eating good home cooked food but I've had partners…
This (tech) career has proven to be so disappointing, and it's all the stuff around the actual work. I love working on computers. Started my career in the decade of offshoring and didn't think we'd have anything close…
I'm celebrating it today. No idea who is replacing her but I am ecstatic.
lol I absolutely do not want non digital goods nor pirating. Ever. It's 2025. I don't have a cdplayer, a tape player, a blue ray player, I don't even know what the most modern "blue ray" disc would be. I have $2k worth…
I deleted my facebook account about 10 years ago. Downloaded data, deleted. Not deactivated. Nothing in my life made me ever want to go back except for when I got back into playing hockey, and all the hockey leagues use…
Webhosting is one of the most scammy shitty industries. I worked in it for 15 years. Do not give that industry any sort of benefit of the doubt. There are good companies but there are a lot of not.
You should never look up potential domain names at the big registrars. Or most registrars. Or any registrars. They'll buy it out from under you if it generates enough attention. They know exactly how many people looked…
Not that it doesn't happen but I've worked in datacenters, including our favorite clouds, and cdn/video architecture for 15 years and have never seen servers replaced on any cadence that wasn't us losing a customer and…
I've assumed he thought it would damage the FBI/CIA/someone he's dismantling. I'm a millennial so I didn't grow up with it but I can't explain how little I care. JFK was born in 1917. Seeing people line up at the curve…
I don't know the minutia and I'm thankfully nowhere near the webhosting industry any longer but Wordpress dominated my life for almost 20 years- I'm pretty sure it can be summed up with "WPEngine is taking all of our…
And WordPress can thank CPanel and the tens of thousands of customer support and sysadmins that supported millions of WordPress users at $9/mo for a decade and have never once interacted or known who Mullenweg is. And…
Eh, I make tooling for a living. It sucks to have nobody using your tools even if they were fun to make. You spend months/years putting something out there that you think will really benefit a company/team/foss and it…
I can't imagine getting an engineering job at an engineering company and asking them if I'd be allowed to create an opensource IDE that would never be a sold product. I can barely even get allowed time to write SRE…
I feel bad that I feel this way but I really dislike them, but I can't believe those gamer chairs became the mainstream chair to see over the last few years. A few years ago they would get clowned, then it was less, and…
I was 6-teens in hampton /vabeach (84), i didn't have friends IRL doing anything with computers ever as a kid. Computer stuff was considered super nerdy. Dad was army so he'd be gone for 2-4 years at a time and all I…
I was a kid in Virginia in the 80-90s and never got to do any of this stuff, but I was on irc and I saw people all over california and in college doing lan parties. Made me so jealous. My friends didn't have the…
Paywalled but from the comments here it sounds like this is moving near your HS friends? Absolutely not. Nothing in common with them. If this is more about living in a more dense area where you have friends closeby,…
This entire industry is something I feel like I understand 2% of and every time I make progress to get to 10% (3 months later) some massive change happens and all the terminology changes.
My big takeaway from this is that War Thunder is only 200 employees. I know this is a massive income generating game so I'm googling around.. I found this post from Dec 2023 that has a mention of 121 million euros net…
I have about 30 years as a linux eng, starting with openbsd and have spent a LOT of time with hardware building webhosts and CDNs until about 2020 where my last few roles have been 100% aws/gcloud/heroku. I love…
I use them for a bunch of things on a bunch of different devices/OSes and one light frustration I've had is I've accidentally stored a few of them in different apps because I'll be on a different device and either not…
I'd appreciate it if they let me block specific countries, etc from even attempting to log in. You can see the failure attempts somewhere in your user settings and I have them all day long from countries I'll never step…
I don't know how I convinced my parents to get me this in elementary but not a single other person I ever met had heard of it. I had no idea it had interesting tech, definitely didn't know it used satellites. It was a…
They built a very nice declarative CI/CD system before Github Actions existed. I think I was on Bamboo (and Jenkins) before going over to Gitlab and it was a breath of fresh air, a huge understatement. 2015ish.
Nintendo has always been offensively litiguous
Has anyone gone from absolutely hating cooking to enjoying it? I just don't enjoy the process of it. I've done cooking classes, blue apron sort of stuff, etc. I love eating good home cooked food but I've had partners…