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  • If you're paranoid about hackers like I am, you can set up a cert based VPN, lock down all ports, and use the VPN client to access your NAS from anywhere.

    Bonus if you have fiber, as upload to internet from home is as fast as download. That means fast download from your NAS.

  • Don't go single bay. Go 4 bay and set up RAID-6. This way, any two drives can fail at once and you won't lose data. This actually happened to me once. One drive went bad and the second drive went bad while I was waiting for the first replacement to re-sync.

    It gives you extra protection from data loss when a drive inevitably fails. Keep a new replacement drive for when one fails.

    Schedule an integrity check once a quarter, and you are protected from bit-rot.

    Do regular backups to an external drive for the important stuff. Remember, this is where you're keeping your family photographs and your important financial and legal documents.

    If you are really serious about covering yourself, keep your backups off-site, so you're covered in case of fire, flood, or military shelling.

  • I third this. I got my first one in 2014, recently upgraded to a faster model. I just popped my raid6 drives imcthe slots and continued normal ops.

    I have openvpn configured so I can access it outside my home network, if I must, everything else is locked down tight.

    It. Just. works. If you want to get sophisticated, you can. It will run docker containers, for example.

  • Note that I have never seen or met anyone who earns more than $160,000 as a developer. That is itself considered a huge sum of money here in the U.S.A. I am in the northeast, and it's the same in the mid-Atlantic.

    I think references to 300-600k pay is bullshit - a unicorn presented to make everyone outside the industry think we're priveliged and have nothing to complain about. It's a strawman, a convenient myth.

  • I find it a bit obnoxious to claim unit testing is a waste of time and then point to worthless testing of logicless code as proof.

    All that illustrates is that worthless tests are worthless. Basically, a tautology. If one wants to convince people that tests are worthless, show how actual test coverage added no value.

    The reason most coverage requirements are about 80%, is precisely that testing should not be done on code that has no business logic, like getters and setters.

    So, testing the one thing for which tests are worthless is fraudulent behavior and ironically just makes their own jobs that much more painful.

  • Sure. Let's see... There's this: Tech Layoffs Likely Pose No Deterrent to Record H-1B Visa Demand

    Continued growth in H-1B registrations despite mass layoffs undermines the idea that the demand is based on labor shortages, said Ron Hira, an associate professor of political science at Howard University.

    Tech workers willing to rake lower pay

    This illustrates how widespread these layoffs are: More than 219,000 global tech workers have lost their jobs this year

    In every other industry, hiring continues to be robust, yet pretty much the entire tech industry is in a depression. Why? Even the companies having "weak" earnings last quarter continue to do well financially.

    Outsourcing hubs like India to bag 30% to 40% of jobs lost to tech layoffs

    Big tech doubles down on union busting as labor movement intensifies

  • Thatsva tidy narrative there. Is there a correlary for the other 140k+ layofffs from the 2nd and 3rd tier tech companies that followed the lead?

    Another tidy narrative is that these tech companies, besieged by pesky overworked employees who kept trying to unionize and demanding higher pay, decided to teach them who is in control.

    Almost the same time all these "unnecessary" people were let go, these same companies ramped up their H1-b visa hires. Hmmmm, coincidence? Maaaaaayybe! It's odd that some of these firings happened as unionization gained momentum. There was a time when that was illegal.

  • Well, then the developers committed fraud, as getters and setters generally have very little logic. I'm surprised the code coverage reports failed to show the low coverage... You did have code coverage reports, rright?

  • You say that as if it makes it okay. By definition, it means those comments were not deleted in the first place. When I want my monetizable data deleted, I want it deleted. Not "hidden". I'm a programmer. Changing a mode on a group does not have to "undelete" content. In fact, in any context involving business, explicit work to ensure the data is gone forever is often legally audited.

    If they won't delete my data, and that ends up permitted, then I demand that any time my data is viewed or used, I expect compensation - just like musicians, writers, and media companies demand.