https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

The more I learn about finance the angrier it makes me.

The thousandth time is Luke on the Death Star run and then somehow still stepping on a rake.

Depends on your paranoia/fault tolerance level. In general some form of the 3-2-1 backup rule. Personally I use arqbackup:

1. Local live copy
2. Hourly differential backups to another network share
3. Hourly differential backups to an s3 compatible bucket with object lock and versioning so malware can’t wipe the latest 3 months or so.

Edit: I also forgot, 2 and 3 don’t exist unless you’ve verified that you can restore from them recently.

Becoming more efficient about the shit at least.

It’s as if all these tech companies being the middleman just makes things worse for everybody.

Q: But I need to share with family who aren’t technical
A: IINA (Mac) or mpv.net (Windows) give them a normal GUI that uses MPV underneath. Or just… teach them? play movie.mkv isn’t rocket science.

Spoken like somebody that hasn’t been stuck with family tech support or tech support in general.

Three other profs studying authoritarianism left earlier this year. Clocks running out. https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/yale-professors-self-deport-trump-fascism-rcna207108

Just a whole bunch of people gotta suffer until it crash and burns.

The irony of a tech worker storing crypto in a centralized exchange instead of an offline wallet.

Put options on NVIDIA? Still has the problem of having to prefict when it’ll pop.

Yo mama so fat because her nibbles are the size of bytes

You leave it alone and wait so that management doesn’t expect tasks to be completed quickly.

You’re assuming they know version control exists.

Kinda touches on the psychological aspect of this

I used to be a 110x high order vibe coder like you. Then I took an AIrrow to the knee.

If it were generating that much new value, where is the associated bump in wages ( hint: working class issues circa 1970)? Dunno why people are pushing this so hard to generate someone else more value while making everyone else miserable in the process.

Their AI driven moderation is going well then.

Depends what they want, if fixing gets more billable hours and that’s what the client wants so be it.

I can’t wait for the tide to turn so I can charge ridiculous consulting fees to fix shit.