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filister OP , 2 months ago to Technology in Tesla seeks to award Elon Musk $56bn pay package | BBC

It comes just days after Musk announced plans to cut more than 10% of its global workforce.

In a memo issued to staff Musk said there was nothing he hated more, "but it must be done".

I am speechless, are his employees and shareholders buying this ****?

filister OP , 2 months ago to Technology in Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM

Yes, my bad, I wanted to say the difference in price between the 8 and 16Gb model, I know that RAM became dirt cheap nowadays and there aren't any excuses for Apple to continue offering 8Gb model, as this is exactly a planned obsolescence.

filister OP , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to Technology in Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM

Have you seen the difference between the 8 and 16Gb Macbooks, it is ridiculously expensive.

filister , 2 months ago to Technology in Google Contract Shows Deal With Israel Defense Ministry

Once upon a time they had Don't be evil in their code of conduct.

filister , 2 months ago to Technology in The internet is dying - here's why.

I think this is the market model of a lot of American startup companies having a huge financial backbone. Work years even decades on loss in order to catch as much of the market as possible, and once you are a market leader start the enshittification and abuse your market position.

filister , 2 months ago to Technology in Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt

I just wonder in the not so distant future, majority of the content online being produced will be AI-generated, hence with lower quality, wouldn't this lead to gradual decrease of the quality of the AI-models?

filister , 2 months ago to Technology in The Google One VPN service is heading to the Google graveyard - The Verge

Same here, it is quite infuriating

filister , 2 months ago to Selfhosted in Best resources to learn more about networking

The reality is that you won't learn much just by reading, you need to try to debug stuff and eventually work in the area to truly learn.

But I am sure there are plenty of tutorials and video courses in various platforms where you can learn a bit on the topic. Coursera might be a good place to start as you can enroll for free to those courses if I am not wrong.

filister , 2 months ago to Privacy in Fuck ads at the gas pump

Damn, paying 4$ for a gallon, here in Europe the gallon is more than 7$.

filister , 2 months ago to Privacy in Instagram thinks I should reduce my privacy protections

You know when something is free on the internet, you are the product

filister , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in Poor speeds from my home server

https://www.baeldung.com/linux/network-speed-testing try some of the options offered here.

You can also try rsync/rclone too and see how they perform.

filister , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in Poor speeds from my home server

SCP encrypts your traffic before sending it, so it might be CPU/RAM bottleneck. You can try with different cypher or different compression levels, which are defined in your .ssh/config file.

filister , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in Poor speeds from my home server

Sorry in that case I would recommend you do iperf and see what the traffic would be. Make sure you whitelist the traffic as well.

filister , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in Poor speeds from my home server

Try to execute

ping -c 1000 1.1.1.1

And check for any packet loss and jitter.

Additionally I would also recommend trying a different test server and comparing the results.

Keep in mind that your ISP might also have issues with the connectivity which can be fixed in the following days.

filister , 3 months ago to Technology in Twelve years after the death of Steve Jobs, the cracks are starting to appear at Apple

I think in one of his autobiographies he was claiming that he self educated how to build rockets from some books and I wonder how much of this is true and how much is coming from his ego.