never had a large qa team. And my experience has when we have qa resources, people move to the new feature so it’s up to the developers to not break the critical features everyone forgets about until they break. And I’ve yet to meet a developer that has time to also be a full time qa resource

I meant my first sentence to be an apology for jumping to conclusions but it clearly isn’t. It’s late. Sorry for the snarky response.

I see it seemed more like a weird flex.

Anyways, I couldnt possibly deploy with any confidence a large project or honestly a small project I expected someone to rely on without layers of test. Unintended consequences of even a small change are just a reality. And with the expectation to move quick with large legacy systems, if you don’t have tests that’s a dangerous high wire act.

Is this like a who’s got a bigger portfolio situation? I’m not sure how to respond

I guess I’ve been developing for decades including consulting for Page 6, a stint in RD at Sony Music. One of my open source contributions was used as part of the backend for one of Obama’s State of the Unions. I spend my time these days writing and maintaining multiple software stacks integrating across multiple platforms.

I think we do very different development.

You… just started writing unit tests?

I kind of agree it’s a multiplier. But so far every time I’ve had it do something its written such an ugly turd I have to rewire it all taking more time than if I’d just solved the problem to start with. Maybe someday but it’s not up to the quality I expect of development.

I remember several decades ago when I dug into wine things asynch io was a thing there was a lot of discussion over. Apparently windows actually has a very robust asyncio interface that’s emulated with a bunch of epoll and other logic.

I believe a lot of games did tricks with this and the hacks sometimes had performance costs.

A quick Google says that’s still a thing being worked on and there’s a newish io_uring but apparently that has problems. So maybe that’s a place we can see improvements in the future.

I to have multi tiered backups for my laptops and do regular restores to validate them. Same for my parents and all my non technical family and friends. Its amazing that big companies mess this up since everyone does it. It’s just so cheap and easy to do. /s

Same. I’m kinda half migrated running both but plex is convenient and (for me) still free.

When plex initially exploded in popularity, the alternatives required like manual xml config, constant babying the database, and generally barely worked.

Plex had apps on all the devices from wii to your phone and just worked. There was also lots of promises of privacy, you owning your data, segregating accounts to coordinating direct access, etc etc. It was almost a no brainer because there was no alternative that could deliver that experience.

Now is very different. The vibes at plex are very different, the world is a lot more hostile to privacy, and there are open source alternatives that get very close to the same experience.

So for a lot of people, yeah, plex doesn’t make sense anymore.

It’s probably that one device with a battery. You know the one. It’s in that one room next to the thing.

Yeah I was wanting more. This looks like things that support development. Being open-source, a lot of developers have day jobs elsewhere so kinda makes sense the line items for paying them might be small.

Was this coming from within the kernel community?

I don’t know about expert but yes. Top results heavily influence the ai response and are listed as references and reddit is commonly high in results.

That’s the joke!

Got a notice just yesterday that my browser wasn’t supported on a site and I needed the latest version of chrome. Luckily chromium fooled it. So… Chrome is still the IE of the modern web.

“zsh: regedit: command not found…” I use arch btw. 😂

I don’t think that’s actually true. Most route traffic through malware/protection software which would be bypassed by split vpns.

There are also a number of attacks that target this sort of VPN setup so it’s my understanding it’s generally not a good idea.

Ive worked with ecommerce enough to not store my card anywhere. Also pretty sure they’d store it in the cloud so could max it out in the store and I could claim the fraud.

But if your in my living room thinking, I’m going to sit down and hack his Playstation to get his credit card… Don’t know man, seems there’s better plans.

I mean, my phone has all sorts of private and confidential information and is regularly in hostile environments where attackers might get physical access to it. Kinda want the best, most hardened security posture.

My Playstation sits in my living room and has my gaming history and access to my games…