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Most people who are in dev aren’t maintaining shit.

I disagree, but maybe what I do in "dev" is a bubble where things are different.

They are going to care if you can maintain your code. Programming isn't "write, throw it over the fence and forget about it", you usually have to work with what you - or your coworkers - have already done. "Reading other people's code" is, like, 95% of the programmers job. Sometimes the output of a week long, intensive work is a change in one line of code, which is a result of deep understanding of a project which can span through many files, sometimes many small applications connected with each other.

ChatGPT et al aren't good at that at all. Maybe they will be in the future, but at the moment they are not.

Turns out he isn't Adrian: https://maia.crimew.gay/posts/adrian-dittmann/

I remember some PCs had an option in BIOS to turn on at specific time

I think most people can believe that he knows something about manufacturing, but almost everyone doubts that he "knows more than anyone currently alive on this planet". Those are quite different things.

I'd rather say that it's "learning from history of similar services". Facebook also seemed nice in the beginning.

You need to buy an Apple-branded computer to use it (at least legally). It's price is just included in the device you buy.

I always go with the following strategy:

• Tons of public transport to ensure that local commute doesn't have to rely on cars. In general, if I start to get the feeling that I need to place a highway in the city to solve the congestion problem, then I look what route is under served by public transport.
  • Buses or trams (if I want to be fancy) for shorter routes, metro for longer distances.
  • Passenger trains for inter-city and longest local transport.
  • Cargo trains in industrial hubs, but careful with those, as they tend to generate a lot of traffic when trucks come and go. I usually do some sort of a traffic sponge (one-way road that leads only to the cargo train station) for trucks to wait without blocking other traffic.
• I use highways sparingly and only for longer distances, like connections between cities. I try to build them outside of the city, so it would also act as a bypass - the cars which are not going into my city but through it won't generate traffic in the city itself this way.

I personally switched from NextCloud to Syncthing.

Syncthing:

• is easier for me to maintain,
• allows for the "server" to be behind NAT,
• lets me have multiple "servers" at the same time (eg. something at home and a VPS)
• lets me have certain "servers" set as untrusted, so all data on them is encrypted, while others can have it unencrypted for easier access I put "server" in quotes, as Syncthing doesn't really have a server, all clients are equal peers.

On the other hand, NextCloud:

• gives me a way to share files by link with others,
• lets me browse files via a web interface,
• mobile app lets me access files as I need them instead of having to synchronize everything.

I wonder how it compares with Ergo IRC Server. Seems to take the more minimalistic approach.

It uses systemd services. My understanding is that it aims to have the applications installed in the most straightforward way possible - avoiding containers where possible.

Still I am surprised that they got a fine at all, considering that Amazon is rarely used in Poland in general.