I’m actually trying a hybrid approach with some VPCs: use firewalled IPv6 ports for remote management, direct to the VMs; while siphoning off the IPv4 traffic to a basic Linux host with Netfilter rules acting as a NAT router. I keep the benefits of using IPv6, without eating up a bunch of external IPv4 addresses, that I would also have to account for on filtering.

I’d be curious to see a comparison against some other LLMs. https://lmarena.ai/ might be useful for this.

One thing I wonder about Linux is the OOBE for new users. A lot of Linux distros have you create the user and whatnot when you install the OS; it’s not always intuitive on making a new user account to personalize. It’d make it a lot easier to preinstall distros and then let the user deal with finishing setup to their needs.

Is the Secure Boot shim thing related to Windows breaking dual-boot setups of late? Are they all updating to avoid some kind of Secure Boot issue in general?

I just found https://google.github.io/comprehensive-rust/ today. Structured course developed by Google for its Android devs.

I found it completely by accident. Was looking at their GitHub repos for something, and saw this in there. I might even try to go through some of it (though I also want to get better at Nim).

I got on Hired; the other three seem to be more for full-time devs (I’ve done dev work in support of my jobs, but not as a job in itself).

I’ll have a look! Thanks!

Indeed bought out GlassDoor, so I’ve been using that instead; as well as LinkedIn & whatnot. Market’s also apparently more amenable to novices and specialized folks right now, so you’re going to have better luck than a lot of us I think!

Thanks for digging into this on your end. Yeah, that 7 year stint was with an outfit wherein I was the constant, and everyone else kept coming & going. The 3 year job, I got canned for an overtime dispute; and they replaced me with two people after. The rest are a mix of layoffs or other reasons for not staying: I’m not one to just “quit”. Give me the right org; that’s not overly worried about being cheap, or has too many people coming & going; and I’d be happy to stay. Otherwise, I feel like my career has been more or less a “firefighter” vs a “builder” (I had to do both in the 7 year job). I hope that makes some kind of sense?

By fake recruiters and spam for PMP training…

Struggling a little with this too. The distance of time is my biggest grief: it’s hard to apply for jobs, when my most relative experience for various roles is 5-10 years old. And the further along in my career, the less there is to show, or people to speak up for what I accomplished. “Did I really do that, at all”… worst case of imposter syndrome I can think of.

I think that’s been asked before. That’d be a massive undertaking, and they also support architectures that I don’t think Rust does (yet).

A lot of commercial apps are built with it. And if you’re not using Kotlin, you’re probably using Java for Android dev.

If NAT64/DNS64 isn’t an option, setting up a small proxy server on an OpenWRT or OPNsense router might work. That assumes you have access to public IPv6; which at that point, you’re better off using said router to provide dual-stack internally.

He went from a let-and-let-live, free-loving libertarian; to a more “kooky” libertarian. IMO, he was more palatable 20 years ago than now; though it’s hard to top the fall-from-grace Stallman has had…

If any of you happen to still be on Reddit, I actually maintain a “catalog” of these newer languages, as they come across my radar. One of my more recent finds is MiniScript, which the author of that has been using to port a fair amount of classic BASIC games from that GitHub archive I posted about recently. I got sucked into Nim, which seems like a good synthesis of Python, Javascript, and C++; c/nim exists for anyone interested.

https://shatterzone.substack.com/p/ai-is-coming-for-your-children Robert Evans just had a two-part “Behind the Bastards” about this topic, in particular about grifters trying to sell folks on cranking these out en-masse to children. He’s usually not one for moral panics, as much as this sounds like such, but it is a potential issue.

I saw some folks posting that they were doing Lemmy instances with cheap Vultr instances. Are you using something similar? And how’s the bandwidth going with peering to other nodes? I’ve toyed around with the idea of starting my own node.