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New comment by 0x1ch in "Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews'"

0x1ch — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 19:00:06 +0000

I don't think CEO personality types have changed all that much. I work IT in manufacturing, and have consistently seen this "macho masculinity alpha" type before. He was quickly let go by the board, thankfully.

We live in a world where CEOs typically have gotten their position through nepotism, or fucking over many people to get to the top. It's just who they are.

New comment by 0x1ch in "We won't "just hang out""

0x1ch — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:51:30 +0000

To a lesser extent, myself and others already are in the 'simulation'. I go to work, go home, play some games or muck around in my lab, repeat. I don't really have aspirations or an outside presence, just focused on ignoring every manmade horror that has been shown to us over the past four years.

New comment by 0x1ch in "Apple Music 404 Not Found"

0x1ch — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 18:38:14 +0000

Also for the troops. Have some friends that cannot bring devices that emit RF / BT on base or ships during certain operations and exercises.

It's extremely hard to find a new production MP3/FLAC player with upgradable storage that don't suck for one reason or another. Plenty of perfect new ones, but they will have onboard BT or Wifi still.

New comment by 0x1ch in "Plex laid off the whole player team"

0x1ch — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 20:39:55 +0000

Are the shows foreign or rare media? I almost exclusively use Jellyfin for TV and generally the only media that breaks from weird metadata tagging is asian stuff like Animes. Naming convention of the episode titles usually has very little to do with how Jellyfin shows them, unless that's the only data it can see.

New comment by 0x1ch in "Plex laid off the whole player team"

0x1ch — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 20:38:15 +0000

It's pretty easy and straight forward, the login UI is similar to netflix where you can have profiles per user and have them shown on the login screen, etc. They get placed straight into the view of your library, from there they can simply click play.

I'm not up to speed on transcoding, but I do notice my web users always have to transcode, assuming due to their native browser playback support for codecs. Local installs of the Jellyfin player seem to avoid this on most systems.

New comment by 0x1ch in "eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear"

0x1ch — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:05:27 +0000

Why is eBay acting as the FCC? I can still buy lasers that will rip through your retina in the blink of a eye from eBay (lol). The equipment is completely legal to own and operate, and transmit with the proper licensing (which is not required to purchase said equipment).

New comment by 0x1ch in "Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years"

0x1ch — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:00:07 +0000

Not really satisfied, but the alternatives seem like an uphill battle for myself. Most of my friends have moved on to their marriages, kids, etc. Certainly entering childless uncle phase of my life.

New comment by 0x1ch in "Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years"

0x1ch — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:27:06 +0000

I'm 25. I go to work and then I go home. Same schedule since I got out of university. I do networking / IT. I usually buy a six pack of beer and then go to bed when I'm off, sometimes I'll stay up on my lab but I usually regret it because lack of sleep.

No bars, no dinners with anyone. I think the only blessing this lifestyle has given me is minimized impact from the failing economy we're in, at the cost of not seeing anyone or doing anything. I still have outside hobbies, but it's all too expensive to keep up with now, or being heavily regulated.

New comment by 0x1ch in "YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops"

0x1ch — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 22:58:07 +0000

I see no issue with tracking and monitoring public servants, just how public servants see no issue with tracking and monitoring the public.

New comment by 0x1ch in "ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos into a Palantir Database"

0x1ch — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 21:49:19 +0000

Hey guys, if you have a dashcam that can record at any time, start hitting that button when you think there might even be an inkling of an unmarked vehicle by you. Back up that footage and save it.

New comment by 0x1ch in "I could've accessed 17T Microsoft records"

0x1ch — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 23:20:44 +0000

Well yeah. Why else would you tell off a massive company in the FANG circle as a budding security researcher in their teens.

New comment by 0x1ch in "I could've accessed 17T Microsoft records"

0x1ch — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:58:06 +0000

At that age in the mid 2000s, I would be foaming at the mouth to tell a FANG company to eat dirt over something like a disclosure + unpaid bounty. But if he got the money and didn't negotiate... You live and you learn.

New comment by 0x1ch in "Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over"

0x1ch — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 23:29:22 +0000

I got peered out of my friend group in college which scarred me getting out of school. I really just haven't tried to fix or amend anything since then. Maybe other young men feel the same, but it's like moving a boulder uphill my brain to convince myself to go out and visit anyone these days. That with all the other social / tech factors, I can agree with the general sentiment of the article.

New comment by 0x1ch in "MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta"

0x1ch — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:22:11 +0000

CEOs manage to fail upwards their entire career, I don't suspect this will be any different. Just some "nerds on a forum" who got annoyed with his personal decisions.

New comment by 0x1ch in "I switched to Brave"

0x1ch — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:19:40 +0000

Firefox works on 99% of websites I use. In fact, it's always some weird AI product or SaaS product when something complains about user agents, so low quality and not worth looking at.

New comment by 0x1ch in "I said no and Apple said yes"

0x1ch — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:47:12 +0000

There's definitely some rough edges still. I wasn't ever able to get CUPS to work with the specific model of Canon imageRunner printers we had in the office. I also never need to print, so I stopped trying after it wouldn't take a few test prints.

LLMs are great though. I had a physical RAM issue that resulted in a bad pacman upgrade, failing the mkinitcpio process and corrupting that kernel upgrade. I had never ran into this before and it was complicated by LUKS being enabled. Claude was able to get me the right steps to remount the LUKS drives while I was chrooted in on a live USB, from there I was able to reupgrade and all was well.

New comment by 0x1ch in "UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told"

0x1ch — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:59:39 +0000

I should start calling my jar of quarters the "laundry tokens" haha.

New comment by 0x1ch in "UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told"

0x1ch — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:41:05 +0000

It's not and it's also not uniquely a British thing either. Most of my friends and myself use our phones as wallets, in the US. The only time I use my physical cards is to pull cash from the ATM, ha.

New comment by 0x1ch in "I said no and Apple said yes"

0x1ch — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:38:45 +0000

Inversely, I've ran KDE on bleeding edge for three years now and have only ran into a handful of bugs, and nothing critical that required me to drop to a terminal to fix. The networking issue seems particularly specific and I have never seen this occur across any of my desktop or laptops.

New comment by 0x1ch in "Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP"

0x1ch — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 20:52:15 +0000

I think OP misspoke. He probably meant that they're not able to be unlocked by the consumers, usually.