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I am not on it. My son started driving recently and I evaluated it, but rejected it due to their customer hostile approach to api access and privacy. i found Dawarich when searching for alternatives a few months ago. I’ve installed it, contributed a couple of PRs, and am excited for it.

The missing feature is for “anxious moms” wanting an up to date alert for announcing movement for their kids. e.g. “Bobby has left the library”

It’s getting closer with every release, but the turn key approach without managing every poi for announcements is missing.

Now, all that said. I’m not mom and I have feelings over teen privacy and helicopter parenting, but I recognize the desire for that type of information sharing – as long as it’s my family’s data only.

I want to to replace life 360, but it’s not there yet. When it is, I’m all in.

Been using this one for quite a while now. Sometimes you need to share AI conversations for context. My rule of thumb is that I human summarize and contextualize like I would normally, then in a thread below it, fork off an ai;dr quoted reply. Makes it like optional reading.

Pagination of data out of a database is why you do it. Or rather, why I’ve done it in the past. Expanding on this, for the reporting of data so you can join that static data with non static data.

Why blur the shirt text? Show it for what it is!

This is a really great point. AI tokens are expensive for quality today, and that will continue. We’re already seeing a bit of a plateau, and this whole “let’s slow down so we don’t kill ourselves” is propaganda, I think. AI companies that leverage “price to value” are going to succeed. I see Google Gemini fitting this mold long term, GLM, Kimi did fit this mold but their later models seem to jump in price pretty fast chasing Opus capability. If you take “capable models” as the standard for price to value and then charge what it actually costs (not VC subsidized), then you’re going to see a world where Software Engineers are probably back in high demand. I think the article points out the hard part: how do you grow new Sr. Engineers if you’re replacing Jr’s with Claude. (I think the obvious answer is that we shouldn’t be replacing Jr’s with Claude)

I think saying “we are all product engineers” is not accurate, but this aligns with stuff I’ve been telling my teams for a while. Everyone needs to start becoming closer to product and moving away from programming as the thing they’re valued for. (e.g. I’m not valued because I know Java inheritance rules) To be honest, it always should have been this way (it’s how I’ve lived my career), but some organizations have created this weird “product does the thinking, engineering does the programming” dichotomy and it’s in those situations where this argument makes sense. At a small startup where every new hire understands the business problem and works to achieve that goal is not where this argument makes sense.

My first job was “Analyst/Programmer I” - somewhere along the line it turned into “Programmer” and then “Software Engineer” – pushing the role farther into a technical silo and farther away from the product “because the product managers know best and the nerds need to make it happen by next quarter /s”. The success of individuals on the product side are going to be with folks who can shift to leverage AI for technical chops, and vice versa for Engineers shifting to put on their “Product Hat” more often. With any career, there’s going to be a spectrum of what skills fit into the role (e.g. some positions may be more or less technical or more or less business analyst), but I see the shift happening as a way to preserve ones career in an ever changing world. Those that do not adapt will find themselves on the outside looking in and wondering why (or as an alpaca farmer in northern Idaho because they noped out).

This guy stole my brain and dumped out all the thoughts I have.

I wanted to like only office, but it’s just not as good. Better than libre, I think. O365 is still the best (as much as I hate it).

Should people use OSS? Yes. Should it be illegal to not to? Hell no.

The advertising caveat there I can get behind, but that’s not about paid vs unpaid.

Policy and legality are two wildly different things.

I bounced around a bit after Storj decided to hate consumers and institute massive minimums.

I’ve landed on Backblaze B2, S3 compatible. Add others have mentioned, doing a shared NAS 2 NAS hookup with a friend or family member is a nice ideal way to do it without monthly fees.

I use Borg backup from my PCs to a NAS (QNAP), and from there using the built in backup software to go off-site. My self hosted PCs will mount NAS drives directly (like immich and audiobookshelf) and those are also in the NAS off-site job.

Reolink stores to a SD card with the option to upload to FTP backups.

I suspect a big 128 gb card would be good enough without off-site storage.

I stopped using Google Maps the second this happened. Fuck that cowtow bullshit.

If you’re thinking of something like $1-2/month, also consider doing a 30 dollar 1 time thing (it saves on transaction fees) and you basically just paid for 2-3 years of donations.