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by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-01 23:08:31+00:00
I've given up pretty much all of that out of necessity, yes. Insurance and rent still goes up so I'm spending almost as much as I was at my peak, though.

>I'm just hoping you acknowledge that what people consider optional consumption has changed, which means people consume a lot more.

Of course it's changed. The point is that

1. the necessities haven't changed and have gotten more expensive. People need healthcare, housing, food, and tranport. All up.

2. the modern day expectations means necessities change. We can't walk into a business and shake someone's hand to get a job, so you "need" access to the internet to get a job. Recruiters also expect a consistent phone number to call so good luck skipping a phone line (maybe VOIP can get around this).

These are society's fault as they shifted to pleasing shareholders and outsourcing entire industries (and of course submitted to lobbying). so I don't like this blame being shifted to the individual for daring to consume to survive.
by jcalvinowens | 2025-12-01 23:08:32+00:00
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by ThatPlayer | 2025-12-01 23:08:37+00:00
This ignore actual history: anti-cheats started on community run servers. Because the majority of admins are not dealing with cheaters it because they enjoy it, but rather out of necessity. I see everyone here appreciating good admins, not many people are going to be volunteering themselves.

Punkbuster for Team Fortress. BattleEye for Battlefield. EasyAntiCheat started for Counter-Strike. I even remember Starcraft Brood War ICCUP's anti-hack client. You can see this in modern community servers too. Face-IT and ESEA for CS2 have more anti-cheat, not less. FiveM, which modded GTA V for community servers, never worked for Linux even before they added anti-cheat to the full game, because they had their own anti-cheat, adhesive.

Admins for modern game servers are not going to be interested in turning off their anti-cheat. That just gives them more unpaid work for little gain.
by parliament32 | 2025-12-01 23:08:41+00:00
So you'd think right? Nobody would like anything better than to just get output without worrying about hours or location or anything like that. But if you were in a management position when WFH started, you would've seen velocity go through the floor and stay there. And to be fair, there are absolutely a limited set of employees who are perfectly capable of working remotely with no issues whatsoever. But for the majority.. the feedback we've gotten is there is too much temptation to just do the laundry or dishes or "my wife needs a hand with X", and output just continues to stay low. And while it would be great to separate employees into groups based on who can be trusted to WFH and who can't, it feels too discriminatory and would cause way too many headaches.

So, as I'm sure you've seen in the news stories over the last few years, basically every large organization everywhere has enacted some sort of RTO mandate. I'm sure there are a few smaller startups kicking around who want to keep trying things the other way, but for the most part, the industry has spoken. We can keep complaining about it but short of another pandemic it's unlikely covid-style work is going to make a comeback IMO.
by dxxmxnd | 2025-12-01 23:08:53+00:00
I am currently an engineer at Meta. No one in my office is cross pollinating among different teams. In fact most of us are not even talking to each other unless there’s a dedicated meeting time for it. This whole thing about collaborating is better in person has never been my experience, because the collaboration (at least for engineering) is most of the time better done in a document.

There are, however, a few times when getting together and discussing something in person is valuable, but this is no more than maybe a couple times a month. I can definitely see this being different for other roles.
by zenoprax | 2025-12-01 23:08:57+00:00
I actually read "Never Split the Difference" a couple years ago! Initially just to prepare for a salary negotiation but I found it to be very useful in many other ways. Your second recommendation is also appropriate: I had a ton of latitude to build and configure whatever hardware was needed to solve $BUSINESS-PROBLEM (which was often very exciting) but it was done in a bit of a vacuum without any mentorship. Adapting to a more rigorous/larger/slower working environment is exactly what I need to do.

Great suggestions and thanks for taking the time to respond :)
by bojanac | 2025-12-01 23:08:58+00:00
OP here.

I recently moved into a house with a legacy KNX installation controlled by an old "Magiesta" server (running on a Raspberry Pi 2). The maintenance guy (later to be referred to as Branko) told me it was impossible to connect it to Apple Home.

I decided to dig into the network traffic instead. I discovered the web interface was communicating via Direct Web Remoting (DWR) - an old Java RPC protocol from ~2005.

This post details how I:

Intercepted the traffic to find the command structure.

Found the un-minified JS source code on the server to reverse-engineer the room mapping logic.

Wrote a Python script to handle the legacy Acegi Security authentication and bridge the DWR protocol to Home Assistant.

Total cost was $0 (used a spare Pi I had lying around).
by waterTanuki | 2025-12-01 23:09:37+00:00
One would hope that Microsoft will eventually revoke kernel access to these companies (see, Crowdstrike incident) eventually forcing game developers to support Linux for many popular online service games and actually stop being so lazy with anticheat. Somehow a smaller studio like Embark managed to make Arc Raiders compatible with Linux. I have 95 hours into the game and have not encountered 1 cheater. Yet a mega corp like EA can't possibly afford to support BF6 on Linux because of kernel anticheat. I put only 10 hours into bf6 and got killed by aimbots three times.
by autoexec | 2025-12-01 23:09:40+00:00
> but if you dropped all government funding of healthcare tomorrow, healthcare plans would get cheaper.

I doubt it. Hospitals charge $15 for a single pill of Tylenol because they know insurance will pay for it, and that includes private insurance.

The best thing we could do is ditch the private healthcare industry to the extent that the rest of the first world has and cover everyone with government plans. Those plans can then negotiate for much better prices and refuse the kinds of insane charges we're seeing. The cost of plans would also drop because prices would be spread out over every taxpayer. Having primarily a single provider for insurance would make everything easier and less expensive for hospitals and doctors offices too.

The billions in profits private healthcare companies rake in all comes at the expense of everyone else one way or another and they have every incentive to make as much money in profit as they can. Without that excess fortune in profits being skimmed off and stuffed into pockets a government funded insurance plan which covered everyone could get the job done taking in closer to what it actually costs to deliver the services we want and no more.
by DaveZale | 2025-12-01 23:10:39+00:00
I was placed by a recruiting firm that places a lot of tech workers from India for a short term project a few years ago. The recruiter worked hard to edit my resume to fit the job description (and I had to edit his edits to fit reality). It was embarassing. I was placed along with a couple other temps. They both had minimal experience, but despite my credentials far exceeding theirs, I was the lowest paid in the bunch. Not that it mattered to me. It was nice to get placed in a really beautiful campus. But the manager pointed out in a group meeting, indirectly but obviously, that my pay was way too low. I contacted the firm to express my disappointment and all I got was crickets. The firm had a "closer" whose only job was to lie to me, that was okay, I knew he was lying and he probably knew I knew he was lying.

I will caution that even submitting a resume to one of these firms can mean that your contact information may be distributed to other firms and you may get a LOT of spam job inquiries. It's really hard to block all those texts and emails, which is the only option when they don't ever respond to replies. Just really unnerving.

You don't even know which country these people are in... and they don't know our customs. In a word: degrading. But, they were aggressive and did their job, though it seemed very unprofessional to an American.
by Buttons840 | 2025-12-01 23:10:43+00:00
I'm saying they have their fair share of cheating and they have managed to moderate it well without using any form of anti-cheat software.

Of course a small game is going to have fewer cheaters. They have fewer cheaters, but they also have fewer moderators; it's literally like 4 or 5 people doing it in their free time.
by verdverm | 2025-12-01 23:10:45+00:00
> "Even GPT-5, Claude 4.5, and Gemini 3.0 agreed: This is the kernel of AGI."

Of course they did, they are sycophants

They will tell you any idea is a great idea. It has no bearing on the actual "goodness" of an idea

https://www.seangoedecke.com/ai-sycophancy/ (currently on the front of HN)

> the LLM executed it as a game engine

Did it? How did you verify?

How do you know it's not just telling you it did something without actually doing it?
by k_roy | 2025-12-01 23:11:00+00:00
My main exposure to this was just in a couple of online social communities.

1. AI happens 2. Every response (that are often memes in themselves), is complaining about the AI. Hell, some of them were clever in the way a brand new meme template was in 2015. 3. Memeing about the AI happens to the point where a few borderline freaking death threats start sneaking in. 4. Someone posts thoughtful original content, the whole place degrades into a “thank god it’s not AI” meme.

Or, let’s fragment our already tiny community into NO AI SLOP

I’ve seen this exact thing happen in three very niche communities.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-01 23:11:16+00:00
> it really feels like Apple focused so much on privacy and now has no strategy of how to make that work with AI right now

I see Apple dusting off its OG playbook.

We're in the minicomputing era of AI. If scaling continues to bear fruit, we'll stay there for some time. Potentially indefinitely. If, however, scaling plateaus, miniaturisation retakes precedence. At that point, Apple's hardware (and Google's mindshare) incumbency gains precedence.

In the meantime, Apple builds devices and writes the OS that commands how the richest consumers on Earth store and transmit their data. That gives them a default seat at every AI table, whether they bother to show up or not.
by reactordev | 2025-12-01 23:11:17+00:00
Source had some insane rag doll. CS players weren’t ready for the physics and honestly, Valve spent a hell of a lot of effort to refine the physics for CS:GO to make it feel like CS1. Kudos to the dev teams.

I’d also love a Battle-bits CS version. (Battle-bits was a fun Battlefield low poly spoof).
by cheeze | 2025-12-01 23:11:27+00:00
It works pretty well for me, but doesn't do nearly what I'd expect.

EG I can talk to it like I would chatgpt and it works well. But I can't be like "hey I want to get dinner with my wife on our anniversary, please book the best available option in my city for fine dining"

It's still way better than Siri, which feels like a voice CLI to me (same as Alexa, which is very low quality IME)
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by randycupertino | 2025-12-01 23:11:51+00:00
5 days is just offensive babysitting level amount of butts in seats. People need room to run their lives, meet contractors, sign for a package, etc. 2-3 days in office is the perfect reasonable sweet spot.

Requiring 5 days in office is going to decrease their available talent pool to only get lesser talent who is desperate for any work and can't get any better offers.
Has anyone heard of the W Windowing System?
by danceitbreakit | 2025-12-01 23:11:54+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W_Window_System This article I came across is quite interesting, especially the fact that after looking around, it doesn't seem to exist in its original form today, despite its successor X obviously surviving quite well. Anybody have any more information or first-hand accounts with this fascinating software?
by CamperBob2 | 2025-12-01 23:12:03+00:00
Eh, I don't see the risk, no pun intended. It's not collimated, and it's not going to be in focus anywhere but on-target. It's also probably in the long-wave range >>1000 nm that's not focused by the eye. At the end of the day it's no different from any other source of spot heating. I get more nervous around some of the LED flashlights you can buy these days.

I want one. Hot air blows.
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by AdamMyers17 | 2025-12-01 23:13:18+00:00
I built this out of a personal need because I didn't want to miss a meeting. I typically have a lot of meetings, and the default calendar notification wasn't enough.

Before this I resorted to setting an alarm on my phone minutes before each meeting. This was time consuming especially when meetings happen at different times each day.

Now my app syncs with my calendar and will tell me what meetings I have today and what I have tomorrow. Then I click the ones I want an alarm for and there's an auto alarm set for 2 minutes before the meeting (this can be changed in settings). It's a progressive web app, so you go to it in your browser then add it to your home screen and it operates like an application without a download required.

The alarm shows up as an audible and/or vibrate setting and the default is 4 vibrates/pings.

This has saved me on many occasions and prevented me from missing my meetings.
by makeitdouble | 2025-12-01 23:13:19+00:00
To be blunt, this looks like a feel-good piece from someone who spent an ungodly amount of time in shitty meetings but have no agency on the situation, will vent with diagrams as they can't tackle the actual issues of the org not giving a shit about their time.

If your calendar looks like the one the slides, you're spending half of your time reading meeting agendas and refusing meetings right and left, which is also should not a be good use of your time. At that point you're already trapped.

Sure, that mess was for comedic purpose, but the crux of the issue is usually not how shitty your meetings are.

It will be either coworkers looking at your agenda and deciding to add one more meeting to the pile and/or overriding the time blocks you've set up. At that point they already don't care about you, and your team is hell on earth either way. They might as well write bullshit agendas if that helps them.

Or your whole org just generates streams of group meeting, and nobody higher up seems to care about productivity. Which is also the hallmark of shitty org you'll be fighting at every turn to just do your job.

Or a mix of both.

Refusing meetings won't save you. You're still dealing with job nobody seems to care about.
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by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-01 23:13:40+00:00
> or do something entirely unrelated to my request (eg responding to "hey siri, how much is fourteen kilograms in pounds" by playing a song from my music library

My personal favourite is Siri responding to a request to open the garage door, a request it had successfully fielded hundreds of times before, by placing a call to the Tanzanian embassy. (I've never been to Tanzania. If I have a connection to it, it's unknown to me. The best I can come up with is Zanzibar sort of sounds like garage door.)
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-01 23:13:43+00:00
>If you want to live in a high cost of living area, that's a form of consumption.

Not really a "want" as much as "move where the jobs are". Remote jobs are shakey now and being in the middle of nowhere only worsens your compensation aspects. Being able to live wherever you please is indeed a luxury. The suburb structure already sacrificed the aspect of high CoL for increase commute time to work.

I also do think that dismissing aspects of humanity like family, community and sense of purpose to "luxuries" is an extremely dangerous line of thinking.
by danielhlockard | 2025-12-01 23:13:51+00:00
Another user said this, but I'm going to echo it -- Firefox opened up the LLM chat sidebar one time. I closed it. It's stayed closed. It hasn't asked me to open it again. I don't understand the hatred for something you can just _not use_. People will use it if they want to. Firefox also has a very tiny market share in comparison to other browsers.
by Nevermark | 2025-12-01 23:14:02+00:00
[EDIT - Deleted poor humor re how we flatter our pets.]

I am not sure we are going to solve these problems in the time frames in which they will change again, or be moot.

We still haven't brought social media manipulation enabled by vast privacy violating surveillance to heel. It has been 20 years. What will the world look like in 20 more years?

If we can't outlaw scalable, damaging, conflicts of interest (the conflict, not the business), in the age of scaling, how are we going to stop people from finding models that will tell them nice things.

It will be the same privacy violating manipulators who supply sycophantic models. Surveillance + manipulation (ads, politics, ...) + AI + real time. Surveillance informed manipulation is the product/harm/service they are paid for.
by BeetleB | 2025-12-01 23:14:03+00:00
> Hmm, counting the insurance premiums 100% towards the birth of the child is a bit misleading.

I see your point, but do you not think that if you're a family of 4, having to pay $40K before insurance kicks in is ridiculously expensive, and out of reach for most Americans?

I'd wager that most self employed folks in the US almost never benefit from insurance (except for things covered by Obamacare which come nowhere near justifying the premiums). The deductibles can be so high that you're pretty much always paying out of pocket.
by venturecruelty | 2025-12-01 23:14:20+00:00
"Healthcare too expensive? Have you considered dying?"

Sorry, what are you going to do when you get into a car accident and they rush you to the hospital? Assuming you're even conscious. "No, I'm voting with my wallet!" flatlines Come on.

What if we used our collective power to fix the system? (Up to and including replacing it with something that works for the majority, and not the minority.)
by kace91 | 2025-12-01 23:14:28+00:00
If there's a company who could ever afford to be late to the party is apple though.

Not the first to bring mp3 players to the market, nor phones, nor tablets. Market leader every time.

They could have just stayed in a corner talking about privacy, offer a solid experience while everything else drowns in slop, researched UX for llms and come 5 years later with a killer product.

I don't get why they went for the rush. It's not like AI is killing their hardware sales either.
by wildylion | 2025-12-01 23:14:31+00:00
Fuck yes. Our 2022 Latitude 5420s have the worst lithium ever -- and Dell is actually offering to get you good batteries for twice the price, as an 'extended service life battery'.

This, and literally all of them have paint chipping off the chassis at the slightest provocation. I have like 50 at work.

edit: we have now a mix of MacBook Airs/Pros (most of workforce), Frameworks (specialized tech roles running Linux and resource-intensive software) and HP ProBooks (run-of-the-mill Windows machines, or just where you don't need anything special at all).