Fuck that. Emailing coworkers shouldn’t be a formal thing. Just wastes everyone’s time.

I wrote my last email today and it was literally just 3 sentences.

1. Hi, tomorrow is my last day, thanks for the good time.
2. Snacks and champagne in the break room at 1pm.
3. My socials if you wanna keep in touch.

I could have had the company-mandated AI make it “professional” and unnecessarily long but nah, I’d rather be human.

My parents are coming over today because their ZorinOS installation suddenly started acting up after an Ubuntu Kernel update. Thanks Ubuntu.

Have you ever pressed F12? We technically weren’t allowed to see the config either, but LiteLLM literally returned a users password hash as part of the user data json in the version we were using. It was easy enough to see that it wasn’t salted.
Another fun thing it does is that any user can see their entire teams token spend trough the network tab, even if they technically shouldn’t be allowed to do that. Oh and LiteLLM had a CVSS score 9.9 vulnerability recently where any user with any sort of write privilege (including the “privilege” to change any of your own data, like your password) could just change their own role to admin 🤷

The pure incompetence of that software would be really funny if it wasn’t such a pain in the ass to be the person who has to convince coworkers to rotate compromised credentials…

Even better, LiteLLM does not salt their SHA256 password hashes by default. I had to make a huge fucking fuss over that fact until my org changed the configuration last month. Bet we’re in that leak, with password hashes that are easily cracked with a dictionary.

DankPods

Another fun thing about Melatonin is also that nocturnal animals produce it basically the same way - dim light makes them produce melatonin while bright light flushes the melatonin out of their system. The melatonin itself just affects their nervous system in the opposite way and acts like a stimulant, so they get less sleepy when they have a lot of it. I think that’s kinda neat and maybe a bit counterintuitive if you have never thought about it before. I sure know that I would have either expected nocturnal animals to have their own separate compound or to produce melatonin at daytime.

It really isn’t hard to get out of a docker container. Especially when its config is vibecoded.

Yeah, for many people they do that! But if your brain is in absolute overdrive by nature it’s actually a performance boost to slow it down to a point where you have proper control over it.

I don’t work in the food industry, but I do have the flavor of ADHD that would absolutely LOVE the work environment. There really is a special kind of zen you achieve when everything is on fire and you have to think on your feet all day. Plus the working times are fucked up and your diet consists of cigarettes, energy drinks and coke. That might not sound like an upside but if your life already is like that it really must be quite nice to have a job that conforms to it.

Nothing, I have the day (and all other Wednesdays until October) off so I’m just hanging out on my couch at 8am instead of working. It’s nice. Might go play some games later

based. So glad I moved there recently.

Fuck those glasses. But also, my brain can’t let go of the question of “How would I feel if I saw a woman wearing these?”. And honestly I’m not sure??? Like you could make an argument that at least they would deter creepy men?? Anyone got any thoughts on that?

Yea, working in tech be like that sometimes. I quit my current job because I hate the AI push (especially the part about paying Antropic 250€ per month per employee) and because I think relying on AWS for critical European infrastructure is a really stupid idea.
The new job I’m starting in October isn’t much better though. It’s with a company that I would personally never ever enter a customer relationship with. It’s still reliant on AWS, but at least it’s not critical infrastructure. An AWS outage would only cost the company, not the customer. And the AI push in the new company is much milder because the teams there are highly skilled 3-5 senior engineer teams that don’t tolerate being told what tools to use.

There can be different reasons for different people. I personally have zero fear of being laid off (strong worker protection laws in Germany) and finding a new job this year was surprisingly easy (50-ish applications with no cover letters -> 3 interviews -> 3 offers) and I still feel the exact dread that is described in the article. The industry sucks in multiple different ways rn.

fuck off clanker

indians:

Just one 🤷 I’ve always been picky, so anyone who’d get that far would be someone I could see working out long-term. We’re in our 7th year together now.

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We should follow in the footsteps of many tech companies and stop numbering the Gs in favour of tagging on the year they were launched. So next year we wouldn’t get 6G, we would get G2027. Sounds much cooler, doesn’t it?

There’s a sack of flesh some of us have that can produce computational power at the cost of a granola bar every few hours. Can’t beat the value of that.