Real consequences need to be implemented such as prison time or ideally death penalty. But sadly we’ll never see that happen

DAC is always the best option for short runs in terms of cost and compatibility.

Agreed. I have a 10 Gb DAC connecting my workstation and a small server to a Mikrotik. They are way cheaper, use less electric, and run cooler compared to a UTP SFP. I don't like UTP for 10Gb as its both costly and less efficient though that is going to get better with time.

It won’t get much better because that’s just a limitation of how 10GBASE-T works. There’s never a good reason to use it. Always just use a DAC or fibre.

It’s a good thing I haven’t needed your respect so far to have a pretty successful career as a software engineer.

A bit harsh off a single post. I like solving problems, not just software engineering problems and I like writing code as a hobby, but I went to this job field only due to high salary and benefits.

In fact, I usually hate writing code at day job because it is boring things 20 out of 26 sprints.

>A bit harsh off a single post.

I don't think it is. Labeling passion and love for your work "tech fetishism", is spiritually bankrupt. Mind you we're in general here not talking about people working in a mine to survive, which is a different story.

But people who do have a choice in their career, doing something they have no love for solely to add more zeros to their bank account? That is the fetish, that is someone who has himself become an automaton. It's no surprise they seem to take no issues with LLMs because they're already living like one. Like how devoid of curiosity do you have to be to do something half your waking life that you don't appreciate if you're very likely someone who has the freedom to choose?

It definitely is. You are taking it way too far with your criticisms.

> Like how devoid of curiosity do you have to be to do something half your waking life that you don't appreciate if you're very likely someone who has the freedom to choose?

Do you understand work-life balance? I get paid to do the job, I satisfy my curiosities in my free-time.

> But people who do have a choice in their career, doing something they have no love for solely to add more zeros to their bank account?

Because I doubt finding a well paying job that you love is something that is achievable in our society, at least not for most people.

IMO, the real fetishization here is "work is something more than a way to get paid" that's a corporate propaganda I'm not falling for.

>Because I doubt finding a well paying job that you love is something that is achievable in our society,

Which is why I stressed twice, including in the part you chose to quote, that I am talking about people who can achieve that. If you have to take care of your sick grandmother, you don't need to feel addressed.

But if you did have the resources to choose a career, like many people who comment here, and you ended up a software developer completely devoid of passion for the craft you're living like a Severance character. You don't get to blame the big evil corporations for a lack of dedication to a craft. You don't need to work for one to be a gainfully employed programmer, and even if you do and end up on a deadbeat project, you can still love what you do.

This complete indifference to what you produce, complete alienation from work, voluntarily chosen is a diseased attitude.

> If you have to take care of your sick grandmother, you don't need to feel addressed.

That's not what am I saying at all. Unless you have Stockholm syndrome about your job, it's very hard to find a well paying job that you can love.

It is much harder than it used to be, and the big reason why is because we've meekly accepted the slow enshittification of our craft in the past.

If you could share a little more on what you actually mean, that would help a ton. I’m not a developer, I put this together as I went, learning along the way. It’s not perfect, and I’m aware of some issues, but if you’d be so kind to expand on “pretty terrible” then maybe I can see if it’s already known, or something I should add to the list.

How so? Where are the bugs you speak of? I don't find the UI to be nightmarish either. Can you point to specific issues the site maintainer can look at?

If this is the worst modern website you've seen, you're very lucky.

I've been clicking my way around the website for a while now. I haven't seen any bugs or glitches. Could you give an example of what's failing for you?

Very easy to remove it with an HDCP remover like HDFury, or even an HDCP downconverter and then using the known master keys to decrypt that.

Yes actually you can. But you don't even need to go that far, there are HDCP converters that do it for you and convert to HDCP 1 (whose master keys have been made available) or just plain HDMI. See HDFury etc.

If Docker is in any way _required_, it's still a dealbreaker.

Docker is not magic, just extract the contents an OCI image[1] and run it with your favorite container runtime, like cri-o[2]. Or use the docker or OCI inage with podman[0].

And if containers are the problem then unpack the image into it's contents, take the binary, relink it and run it on bare metal.

[0]: https://podman.io/ [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73961256/how-to-convert-... [2]: https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o/tree/main

That's an extremist view.

You like to have it signed by RMS personally?

(Nothing against the FSF, but "dealbreaker" is a very relative concept.)

Docker is never required by anything, it just makes communicating software dependencies simple and concise.

I'm not a fan of Go, but the connection pooling in the standard library doesn't leak. You're just not closing the Rows object if you encounter an error. It automatically closes if you fully iterate through it. But if you stop part way, you have to manually close it or the connection will not be returned to the pool.