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A reject all button would appear on every page because the website wouldn't remember that you rejected cookies.

I was just thinking about ricochet while perusing the thread. Ricochet was new when I was starting in IT and I can still remember connecting a ricochet modem to a company laptop and then pulling up our novell netware file share over our vpn. It was jaw dropping to see it at the time. Amazing how far we've come since then.

They have a SaaS option as well, I'm guessing that's the main revenue plan.

Huly is pretty amazing and has a self host option. It supports chats and video calls, team rooms, and has some cool integration for speech to text note taking. It also functions as a task tracker.

Under super active development right now so host only if you can deal with occasional breaking changes.

Hey that's awesome! thank you for the share. Planning to install proxmox this weekend and give it a try.

A select few billionaires will now be able to get from SF to NY in half the time!

And everybody in the middle gets broken windows

Having electric stability issues this week in Bangkok - several 2-3 hour outages, which are too long for a UPS to cover the gap. I have several mid range but older PCs running docker, virtualbox, etc for various things including a postfix server for the family email, immich, QBittorrent, pihole, paperless, huly, postiz, a Minecraft bedrock server, a flightradar24 ads-b collector, and a variety of other homegrown projects.

Thinking about getting some or most of this over to a service like hetzner, perhaps even splurging on a baremetal dedicated system.

Recently I've been reading about/trying to learn qemu and proxmox, but don't understand them yet. Is that where it's at for managing a bunch of your own VMs? Or kubernetes/k8s?

I've been a little out of the loop for a few years and of course coming back up to speed IT wise judge take weeks. Looking for recommendations on offloading my home stuff to a cloud that I control.

This gives me an idea for a browser plug in that would show you the sellers direct store as you shop Amazon. Maybe something like that exists already.

Just about every serious seller on Amazon has a website or another direct sales channel. The bigger ones will even ship with a professional warehouse in about the same time. Some even give discounts or return incentives if you shop them regularly and can almost surely handle customer service or tech issues faster and more directly without going through Amazon. If they are honest in their dealings their return and exchange policies may even be better too.

Amazon really understands the lifetime value of a customer and benefits tremendously by having the biggest catalog in existence. They do a lot of stuff to keep buyers satisfied and sellers on edge. It's a race to the bottom there and nobody wins except Amazon, while customers get cheaper and cheaper shit and sellers can have their livelihood and the funds to pay the salaries of their staff by a Monday morning email which could come after the slightest infraction.

I’ve heard of vibe coding but in the context of being able to identify music that fits a “vibe”. What are you talking about?

This is when you give some LLM a prompt such as "write a game like Minecraft except cooler" and the system will output some code that might run and might vaguely resemble a block game.

So then you go back ask for more, it does something to the code potentially improving or breaking it, go back again ask for more, and repeat over and over. I'm being a little bit sarcastic because most serious developers look down on this, but really this is how a lot of coding is happening these days. There are tools to make this process somewhat usable and they are getting better every day.

Interesting. I can buy that idea, a model that's designed to be general and answer all questions is going to have to make compromises in a lot of ways.

So it's possible that model benchmarking needs to be revised in some way to give more useful analysis of its capabilities.

The industry is quickly moving towards using agents, MCP connections (sources of real-time data for the model to pull from, and apis that allow the model to perform tasks, like putting things on a calendar), and RAGs (augmentation with sources of truth, such as a 100 page pdf guide for example), and models that seem to be more aware that they can get data from other sources.

The future might become specialized models all the way down.

Just today I'm playing with "vibe coding" and using one agent as an orchestrator that assigns and monitors tasks to other agents. The result is still slightly bullshit code but it's amusing to watch it work. Not sure yet if this is a strategy to spend all my money through API fees or will result in something useful 😂

I'm not sure why the above comment was down voted so hard. This community should encourage insightful comments.

It seems like overall college degrees are still a worthwhile financial investment on average.

If you disagree, dialogue.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2024/03/01/college-degrees-lead-to-142-trillion-gain-in-career-earnings-study-finds/

Compared to the average high school graduate, the earnings premiums were:

$495,000 over a lifetime for people who completed an associate’s degree;
$1 million for those who completed a bachelor’s degree; and
$1.7 million for those with a graduate degree.

https://www.bls.gov/careeroutlook/2021/data-on-display/education-pays.htm

For example, workers with a bachelor’s degree had median weekly earnings of $1,305 in 2020, compared with $781 for workers with a high school diploma. And the unemployment rate for bachelor’s-level workers was 5.5 percent, compared with 9.0 percent for those whose highest level of education was a high school diploma.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/18/median-return-on-investment-for-a-college-degree.html

the typical college graduate can expect a median 12.5% return on their investment in higher education