Whenever redis, mysql or postgres rear their head it raises all sorts of ugly questions like do you let apps share databases, how do you do backups, etc.
For apps that will have 1-3 users and a few hits a day a sqlite file is far less operational overhead and can be backed up with all of the other files that app has.
So far it is ok. I even have a usb zigbee dongle receiver in usb passthrough and the container in privileged mode. I am moving to the Apple ecosystem and I managed to have homekit bridge connected to Apple home. I had to use an avahi relay on the NixOS host for the discovery protocol to work. The home assistant is not the same network as my devices. The homekit bridge allows to configure the advertised IP.
I use tailscale (outside the k8s cluster) for connectivity. My phone companion app is not connected to my home assistant server outside my home but could through tailscale.
So definitely there is added complexity, especially on the iptables configuration. Without the AI help, I don’t think I would have managed to do it regardless of the time saving.
If you intend to be understood, the first thing you should do when you think someone misunderstood you is clarify your position. Simply implying your words were misinterpreted and not saying anything else is poor communication.
Right right, that’s why your post was downvoted to grey and the other people responding also understood it the same way you claim to be wrong but still refuse to clarify.
Suit yourself. I gave you ample open opportunity to provide context and let you expand on your point. If you instead refuse and prefer to shove your hand in the sand, that’s your prerogative. It would’ve taken you fewer words to clarify what you see as misconceptions than to be stubborn.
I'm on Dreamwidth. I have regular conversations with a variety of people who I've known for years, many of whom I have no idea what their real identity is. There is almost no spam, because the site owners take spam seriously, and also because you get total control over what you see.
Food scientists are very much devising addictive food:
"The difference between a watermelon and something processed by a large company is that, for the latter, those foods are altered in ways to make them literally irresistible. This happens when companies use a combination of salt, sugar and fat to create foods that overstimulate the taste buds — and yet are designed to never quite leave you feeling satisfied. Even though saturating foods in salt, sugar and fat fuels the obesity epidemic — and does not necessarily provide consumers with the best culinary experience — it guarantees that customers will keep coming back for more by overstimulating one's feeling of taste pleasure in exactly the right ways. Since the companies' view their foremost responsibility as being to their shareholders, that is in itself a good enough reason to continue preparing foods with excessive salt, sugar and fat."
They came out with a new coke can for the first time in my life some years ago. Its smaller than the old cans, not bigger. How does that fit the thesis of these companies fattening us up?
GP missed the major point. Its not even about engineering tastier food. Its about shelf stable food that isn’t going to give you botulism in 3 weeks.
But food sciences are, other than maximizing the utility of food, also largely focused on finding the point where food tantalizes but doesn't satisfy so that at a very base level people who eat a processed food are physiologically induced to eat more of it without ever getting enough.
"The difference between a watermelon and something processed by a large company is that, for the latter, those foods are altered in ways to make them literally irresistible. This happens when companies use a combination of salt, sugar and fat to create foods that overstimulate the taste buds — and yet are designed to never quite leave you feeling satisfied. Even though saturating foods in salt, sugar and fat fuels the obesity epidemic — and does not necessarily provide consumers with the best culinary experience — it guarantees that customers will keep coming back for more by overstimulating one's feeling of taste pleasure in exactly the right ways. Since the companies' view their foremost responsibility as being to their shareholders, that is in itself a good enough reason to continue preparing foods with excessive salt, sugar and fat."
First you'd have to stop the agents from flagging hundreds of irrelevant nasties.
I think the next generation of exploit will be putting up code all over the internet that does x, y and z and then when asked to one shot whatever that code does the agents bake in the exploit that was indirectly included in their training corpus.
I crave more reliable software more than I do software that is infinitely customizable.
Spinning jennys are neat but if theyd been invented in a world where use of star trek replicators was routine I think theyd be more curiosity than revolutionary.
"Artisanal code" would definitely die off if the cp command didnt work perfectly or cost thousands of dollars to run but it doesnt hence why the metaphor is at best mistaken (and at worst dishonest, e.g. when frontier labs are desperately pushing it).
And, the flip side is that artisanal clothes would probably make a huge comeback if star trek replicators were invented and nobody would want cheap sweatshop made crap any more. Why would you when handmade Gucci silk clothing could be yours for a couple of bucks?
Why are people expected to lose their goddamn minds every 2-3 months like they've never seen an AI before.
I have a secret: if you don't use AI, the new releases aren't very impressive. I'm bored out of my mind with people doing galaxy brain memes every 2 months while on the whole.... they're still boring zombies, and only getting boring-er and boring-er. There's nothing more boring than being impressed by the latest AI model.
In terms of the projections being insane you can quantify it: each model costs something to train, but after that the training has only captured so much unique new value in terms of model capability, and the race is on to drain that value as rapidly as possible. Everyone is competing to drain the same value. This generation of models makes slop video games for example, and slop video games rapidly became the most boring thing on the planet.
I tell you 3 times I was genuinely excited with AI. 1 - original Google transformers release (hope for future) 2- opus 4.6 comes out (first time an llm can do real programming for me and the code is good) 3 - Qwen3.8-Flash-Next comes out - first time a model i can run myself at good speed can do real programming and is almost as good as opus.
Again that suggests that the end goal is to use AI. As long as using AI is your goal, using AI is also the definition of succeeding at your goal.
Any society-wide productivity gain was lost when software engineers ceased collaborating with each other in good faith. In OSS, they stopped collaborating. At companies, they stopped collaborating. One by one, in silence, alone, we have been bereft of our vision, our team spirit, our passion, our uniqueness. We no longer have the will to serve others, or even to serve each other. We stopped building our future. We will accept whatever society AI makes for use like fucking cattle or lemmings or like dogs.
AI hasn't elevated humanity, it has taken a massive dump on it.
However, should they be the one to survive the inevitable wave of collapses, they will be absurdly profitable, and that's what all the investors are betting on - the usual VC playbook of creating an entirely new market (or destroying aka "disrupting" established players) fueled by absurd amounts of money, surviving until everyone is hooked and the competition is gone, and then jack up the prices.
The last one standing will probably a chip maker able to distill the frontier without having sunk too much capital advancing the frontier, essentially Google, Apple, Nvidia, Samsung and all the Chinese labs
For apps that will have 1-3 users and a few hits a day a sqlite file is far less operational overhead and can be backed up with all of the other files that app has.
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