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Madison on why she quit

I had heard Linus' anti-union remarks on WAN Show and was slightly weirded out, because I don't believe for a second that a company owner AND manager of a company much smaller than theirs has enough time and resources to really be in touch with what their workers need, even if they have the best intentions.

There once was a WAN Show segment about quiet quitting and his fear that people might do that and it came across as if he was more scared that his employees might do it and thereby "hurt the company" than him being interested in why people feel compelled to only work the minimum amount required. As if he was expecting people to always give him 110%.

Even 90% is enough, that's just reality. If you have people working for you full time, you can't just pay them for their most productive and focused time. There's also socializing with coworkers, taking short breaks and being creative without direct output. It's all part of being a team. A good and healthy team that feels appreciated can take up extra work and make short extra bursts as they become necessary, but that can never be the expected normal.

There was also some WAN Show segment about compensation, free time and the likes that was weird. Maybe it was part of one of the upper two, I don't quite remember. It's a bit fuzzy but I remember that I was a little surprised that they operated on the same scheme of low amount of days off + limited sick days system that many US/North-American companies seem to run on. I get that it's normal in that part of the world, but I still had this idea in my head that they were somehow different. It all felt so quirky, close-knit and best-buddy-like in the videos. That made me think that they were somehow more progressive and worker focused than it turns out after all.

Hearing these allegations is like finding that missing puzzle piece and suddenly it fits into a much bigger picture. I had a lot of respect for Linus and his company and really believed that they were "better". I really like their content, it is super entertaining and of very consistent quality. They are experts at making things accessible and interesting for a broader audience. But they are also running in a giant hamster wheel that is the youtube algorithm and several daily uploads.

Very sad to see how all this could happen. Even worse is how all of this is being handled. They need a proper restructuring because these problems seem to be structural and deep-rooted. I wish Madison all the best!

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non-Euclidean filesystem

Your btrfs snapshots are possibly counted separately by all the regular tools. They simply go into every directory they can find and add up the size of the files they see. They do not care if they are looking at an identical snapshot of the folder next to them, they simply add it all up.

Use sudo btrfs filesystem show (and maybe add a path behind it, I am not sure). That will give you the true usage.

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Mehr Patienten als gedacht bekommen Wiederbelebung mit​

Super Kommentar von einem Rettungssanitäter unter dem Artikel, den ich hier einmal schamlos reinkopiere:

" Eine wichtige Info zur Reanimation fehlt

Ich (Arzt/Notarzt) finde es gut, dass in diesem Artikel auch einmal erwähnt wird, wie schlecht die Überlebensrate bei Notwendigkeit von Reanimationsmaßnahmen wirklich ist. Selbst unter uns Ärzten gibt es viele, die dies nicht wissen und die die Erfolgsrate bei 30 bis 40% einschätzen.

Ich hätte mir allerdings gewünscht, dass auch noch erwähnt worden wäre, dass die Erfolgsrate der Wiederbelebungen und das neurologische Outcome besser werden, je früher mit Wiederbelebungsmaßnahmen begonnen wird. Gerade wenn Anwesende sofort mit Herzdruckmassage (HDM) beginnen, erhöht dies die Chancen des Patienten mit gutem Outcome zu überleben massiv. Es ist dabei noch nicht einmal zwingend notwendig, den Pat. zu beatmen, wovor sich viele ekeln, Hauptsache ist, dass die HDM beginnt.

Ich habe schon etliche Fälle gesehen, in denen Verwandte, Passanten und Ersthelfer in Betrieben durch das sofortige Beginnen mit HDM dem Patienten das Leben retteten. Gerade vor vier Wochen hatte ich so einen Fall: Angehörige wurden Zeugen des Kreislaufstillstands und begannen sofort mit HDM, wir waren innerhalb von vier Minuten am Patienten und übernahmen die Reanimation. Nach insgesamt 10 Minuten Reanimation durch Angehörige und uns kam es zu einem eigenen suffizienten Kreislauf des Pat. Der Pat. überlebte OHNE neurologische Schäden, wie ich später erfuhr.

Bitte liebe Mitbürger, macht einen sog. BLS-Kurs mit (BLS = Basic Life Support). Ihr könnt damit Leben retten!"

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VLC Media Player Plans to Add Online Media Streaming

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Dude, they are not starting their own ad supported streaming service. They are merely adding dupport for one more streaming protocol that happens to be used for that. If these services were using RTSP for their streams, they'd already be supported. This is absolutely in line with VLC's swiss army knife-approach.

Otherwise, new GUI sounds good to me. The old one is proven but a bit clunky.

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Firefox 115 released

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Oh come on, it's still a free and open source browser. As seen in the other comments, it's a badly worded security feature for firefox internal pages and mozilla pages.

It's not going to kill adblock, it won't send your data everywhere and it can be disabled through an option as well as by simply building firefox yourself.

Everybody should stop being so negative towards open source developers.

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Sind Deutsche überdurchschnittlich nerdig?

Der Anteil deutschsprachiger Internetnutzer an allen Internetznutzern ist gar nicht mal so klein. Dazu kommt noch, dass wir ähnliche Interessen und kulturelle Ähnlichkeiten zu englischsprachigem Content haben. Dementsprechend tauchen viele Deutsche Nutzer bei englischsprachigem Content auf.

Letzten Endes ist auch das englische Internet eine Bubble. Zwar sehr groß und divers, aber trotzdem recht stark abgegrenzt zu anderen Sprachen und Regionen in beispielsweise Asien.

Wir betrachten also die englischsprachige Bubble, die für uns (womöglich zurecht) als die große Weltbühne gilt. Russische oder chinesische Nutzer sind aber auf ganz anderen, eigenen Plattformen aktiv und tauchen daher in Statistiken von englischsprachigen Youtubern oder von westlichen Social-Media-Plattformen allgemein kaum ins Gewicht.

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higher wages for the servers... by the customers. Fnbs

Even if all the money does make into into the staff's pockets, the owner still averts financial risk by making worker pay a function of sales. An employer must have higher business risks than their staff, because otherwise the staff wouldn't need an employer anyways! This absolutely goes against the high risk - high reward scheme that is common place elsewhere. Want to earn more? Take a risky choice! Just want stable support for your life? Get employed and earn a regular wage.

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Cloudflare is bad. Youre right.

Sure it's easy to set up, but the same behaviour is what I get with my handrolled solution. I rent a cheap VPS with a fixed IP solely for forwarding all traffic through wireguard. My DNS entries all point to the VPS and my servers connect to the VPS to be reachable. It is absolutely network agnostic and does not require any port shenanigans on the local network nor does it require a fixed IP for the internet connection of my home server.

Data security wise the HTTPS terminates on my own hardware (homeserver with reverse proxy) and the wireguard connection is additionally encrypted. There are no secrets or certificates on the rented VPS beyond the bare minimum for the wireguard tunnel and my public key for SSH access.

Shuttling the packets on the VPS (inet to wireguard) is done by socat because I haven't had the will or need to get in the weeds with nftables/iptables. I am just happy that it works reliably and am happy to loose some potential bandwidth to the kernelspace/userspace hoops.