I'm 31, been a sysadmin for over 10 years and I've been enjoying work more than ever. I hate AI but it is very exciting at the same time.

Same here. Specifically, I do still love technology and all sorts of STEM subjects, but I have no excitement for tech products.

Trains are cool. I started woodworking because of the same thing happening to me.

Please share pics of trains

Mine has been helpdesk>sysengineer>network engineer>hgv driver. I still tinker for fun but I hate working with computers now

The problem isn't the tools, but rather the sociopath executives and the individuals who won't stick up for themselves. Everyone loses when people don't stand up for what's right.

You can't override user permissions. If you could they would be useless

Don't bypass your organizational policies

Skip NFS and ftp as they cause more problems than they solve

One plus point for recent tech trends, my Commodore 64 is seeing a lot more use!

I would hire someone who knows what they are doing. It sounds like you are out of your element here which is risky.

To answer your question, you have a few options:

• Samba

  • Samba is just a SMB server. If you have a local active directory setup use this.

• SCP

  • this just copies files over a ssh connection

• Rsync

  • this performs a sync of one directory to the other. It can run over SCP

• Unison

  • like rsync but two directional. For it to work it needs to track state

• Syncthing

  • never actually used it but it might be close to what you want.

My initial thoughts are that my original ask was this :

because I’ve yet to hear about anything above a toy project that has had any verifiable success with AI code generation as a major component of their workflow.

and the example you provided was a toy project used as a publicity stunt.

On the technical side i don't know enough rust to be able to weigh in on the technical accuracy of the project.

The ability for current LLM's to churn out something that looks relatively good at first glance isn't my point of contention, most of us know it can do that.

I'm just looking for a single medium to large project that is successfully being used in production (close to production is also fine) that was created with significant LLM involvement.

There is so much talk around this, that the fact i haven't come across any mention of a successful deliverable (in the context i mentioned) raises all sorts of red flags for me, personally.

I'm not trying to catch you out, it's just that i haven’t seen one so i was wondering if you have, if you haven't that's fine, it's not a trap.

I think it shows a lot of limitations but also a lot of potential. I don’t personally think the AI needs to get the code perfect on the first go – it has to be compared to humans and we definitely don’t do that.

Iterative progress is generally the way of things, but most non-trivial agentic workflows already work with iterative code generation and testing so expecting a correct solution at the end of that process is more reasonable than you would think.

The difference between people and LLM's is the types of interactions you have with them, you can ask the LLM to explain why it did something, but if you've ever tried that I’m sure you can understand why it's not the same as the kind of answers you'd get from a person.

Yes, of course. I think it’s important to look passed the blowhards and think about what it’s actually doing: that is the perspective I’m trying to talk about this from.

As am i, I’m not against LLM usage, I’m against the pretense that it has capabilities it does not, in fact, have.

Selling something on the basis of it being able to do something it can't do is where term "snake oil salesman" comes from.

"Community" and "Like-minded individuals" are mutually exclusive for my shut-in antisocial ass.

We should start a community of like-minded individuals who live in the middle of nowhere, prefer simplicity, and communicate through dialup. The dialup thing solely because it's easy to set up and has a low enough speed to avoid the mess the worlds turned into

The fact that you’re sharing this internal policy stuff so openly is definitely a red flag.

I don't have any advice because I'm in exactly the same boat. I think finding other hobbies is probably the best option. It sucks because things were looking so good there for a while until the fucking tech bros ruined it. My problem is all my other interests require workspace that I don't have.

I've felt much of the same things. It's depressing. The Internet used to be cool. Tech used to be cool.

Fortunately, I've been doing more things in the real world. I've been fixing up an old car. It's fun to drive it even though it's slow and noisy and hilariously unsafe. I've been practicing archery with my kid. We are both getting decent. I've been writing more. I have been raising chickens, I now have 14 lovely girls who give me and my neighbors free eggs, and one bigass hateful rooster that keeps them safe. Lastly I've been teaching myself drone photography. I've been building a meshtastic network on my area.

So the Internet used to be cool but... I've decided that I'm going to just have to be cool instead.

I love Carplay, that being said it should be built to be controlled with buttons and knobs on the steering wheel.

This year, I have given myself a project, I will try to build a model railway in a suitcase. That will be a Z-scale tiny world in a suitcase.

I used to make miniature buildings out of things like balsa wood, spackle, etc for D&D. It became a challenge to see how closely I could simulate things like grass, torches, etc.

The origin is greed and capitalism

Really, crypto is a fascinating tech, it’s not the fault of the technology that crypto-bros came to conquer everything and misuse it and abused it to make a quick buck.

Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto is a fascinating read.

What I think you find so tiring is not Crypto and LLMs but how tech is being guided to its demise, to become a tool for control and nothing more.

I struggle with this, especially in my Socialist org. Everybody (Leftists) seems so anti-tech. I get it, the oligarchs and fascists currently own basically all tech right now, and are weaponizing it against us. But it really is useful tech in the right context ... we have to wrestle control back and fight!

I would ssy Usenet is the only place left that gives me 90s vibes besides maybe like batMUD and other old games. I literally stay away from the rest of the web thats not the fediverse, Steam, or GoG. The woods I grew up.in has been turned into a tacky suburb.

I hope I never have to buy a car with one of those damn screens controlling everything.

So yes, you can visit your favorite blog, but its still not the same as it was in the 90s or early 00s.

It absolutely is. I might argue podcasts have kinda usurped the old blogging space (or, at least, supplanted it). But I've got an RSS feed full of blogs I follow that are barely different that what I was looking at 30 years ago. The 90s is alive on Feedly.

Fucken computers bullshit, its fucken sick

Lolz.

All modern web browsers are ass, even Firefox (though considerably less so than the alternatives that arent forks). So even browsing the web sucks now because most sites are business or corporations. So yes, you can visit your favorite blog, but its still not the same as it was in the 90s or early 00s. Fucken computers bullshit, its fucken sick

I think he meant self-hosting Opencloud

One method was to lower the quality of inputs. Plywood instead of hardwood. Then fiberboard/chipboard instead of plywood.

In fairness, hardwood is in limited supply. It takes a long time to produce, is expensive to harvest correctly, and typically means demolishing old growth forests to obtain. The "lower quality" products definitely have their trade-offs, but a lot of the quality issues are resolved through engineering improvements and materials sciences.

I would argue the real downside of lower quality inputs is the advent of "disposable" furniture (the IKEA brand crap most notably). Stuff that could have been designed to last, but isn't, and ends up in landfills after moving day as a result. Rather than a savings yield, what you get is a waste surplus.

And later, CNC machines stepped in to produce delicate and complicated designs in a fraction of the time - and frequently even more precisely and more cleanly - than anyone with a carving chisel could do.

And that is the part which is NOT being effectively duplicated in IT.

Lolwhut? We've come so far even in the last ten years, in terms of IDEs, deployment pipelines, and automated unit testing.