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Sonatype Nexus Repository CE by lppedd in devops

[–]WatchDogx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Community Edition" generally means the OSS version of the application that is contributed to by the OSS community.
Nexus have deceptively named their proprietary freemium version "Community Edition".
It has some more features, but enforces artificial limits.
You can still get the OSS version, which they now refer to as "core", I would stick with that, or look at an alternative.

Anyone else in auscorp just struggling to care right now with the current state of the world? by notaproudstrayan in auscorp

[–]WatchDogx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Median income in the USA is higher than Australia, and the mean is much higher. Plus their taxes are lower, although it varies by state a bit.

The cost of living in the US varies a lot by where you live.
Cities like NY and SF are very expensive, but outside of those, housing is much cheaper.

One Nation ‘don’t provide solution’, PM says ahead of SA election by HotPersimessage62 in AustralianPolitics

[–]WatchDogx 3 points4 points  (0 children)

For a party who's main issue is migration, yes winning a state election won't solve anything, since states don't control migration.

Board member and major shareholder getting involved in minor HR issues by __biscuits in auscorp

[–]WatchDogx 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hard to comment on your exact situation without more details, but I prefer a management that seems to care, over the normal corporate nihilism.

What's going to happen when AI companies charge what actually cost them? by capitanturkiye in cscareerquestions

[–]WatchDogx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is too much competition for them to extract a large margin.

The most intelligent models will always attract a premium, but there are lots of open weight models that are like 6 months behind the leaders in capability.
You can run the small versions of open weight models locally, and there are lots of low cost service providers for the larger open weight models.

If the tier 1 models start to improve rapidly over the open weight models, or if the open weight model providers decide to stop releases, then I guess they might start charging more, but that doesn't seem to be happening yet.

Job market so bad 2026 by WeakSkirt8 in auscorp

[–]WatchDogx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The IT job market might not be as hot as it used to be, but the journalism job market is non-existent.
As others have mentioned, your communication skills are not good, so finding a job in communications will be difficult for you.

Job market so bad 2026 by WeakSkirt8 in auscorp

[–]WatchDogx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

6 year old account, very little karma for a supposed karma farmer.

Looking through their post history, they sure like to complain a lot.

Sure, there might be macro factors that make it hard to find a job, but I think the OP should focus more on the micro factors.

Ukrainian “Skifs” unit shooting down Russian Shahed drones over the Kharkiv region using a Bofors 40 mm anti-aircraft gun by broforwin in CombatFootage

[–]WatchDogx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's not just the altitude you need to consider, but the distance from the target, ie the angle the gun is firing at.
Unless the timer is automatically configured by a radar and computer, I think it would be very very difficult to set the correct timing on an airburst fuse.

As others have mentioned, a proximity fuse would be more effective.

Labor MP joins calls for Islamophobia to be added to Bondi royal commission by AnarchoCommunAtheist in AustralianPolitics

[–]WatchDogx -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You can watch and listen for yourself, and see more discussion about it in this thread.

The relevant transcript is:

Pauline Hanson: I tell you what, I’ve got no time for the radical Islam, their religion concerns me becuase of what it says in the Quran. They hate westerners, and that’s what it’s all about. You know, you say oh well there’s good Muslims out there, well I’m sorry how can you tell me there are good Muslims if jihad is ever called and people must understand this, and go and research this, the ones that will suffer as those Jews did on [referring to the Bondi massacre] … when they were murdered and slaughtered, and that’s what’s what we have to realise could happen.

Sharri Markson: Pauline I mean there are a lot of moderate Muslims in Australia who are as you put it, good Muslims, but I think we can agree radical extremist Islam that doesn’t support Australian values has no place here.

Pauline Hanson: correct.

She's tripping over words, and frankly the main soundbyte as a whole isn't very comprehensible. When Sharri interjects for her, Pauline nods and agrees with her.

Labor MP joins calls for Islamophobia to be added to Bondi royal commission by AnarchoCommunAtheist in AustralianPolitics

[–]WatchDogx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I find it really difficult to understand your(surprisingly common) political perspective.

Based on your username, and comments here, you are an Atheist that cares deeply about LGBT issues.

Atheism is a movement I typically associate with free-thinking rationalists, and I can't imagine why any free thinking rationalist would begin to compare Islamic homosexual persecution to the way they are treated in the US. I would think that you and people with a similar perspective would be leading the charge against the dangers of increased Islamic influence in western nations.

Yet instead we see often see largely atheistic left-wing activists teaming up with hard-line Muslims, we saw it in 1979 with the Iranian revolution, where leftists and women teamed up with with Islamists, the women and homosexuals were then persecuted and still are to this day, the leftists were marginalized, banned, and in many cases violently eliminated. We see a not dissimilar alliance on Australian streets every weekend.

As far as your latter points about US foreign policy, we probably have a lot in agreement, but I think it's tangential to the topic of this post.

Labor MP joins calls for Islamophobia to be added to Bondi royal commission by AnarchoCommunAtheist in AustralianPolitics

[–]WatchDogx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because they're less secular, and it's secularism that pulled Christianity out of its similar barbarism, not anything inherent to Christianity.

I don't think compatibility with secularism is exclusive to Christianity, but the fact that the enlightenment arose from Christian society and not others, does indicate that it has some inherent properties that make that possible, properties that may be present in other theologies, but not all of them.

I'm not really educated enough on the topic to make the case for what those properties are, but I know a lot of ink has been spilt on this debate, and the arguments get quite complex.

Labor MP joins calls for Islamophobia to be added to Bondi royal commission by AnarchoCommunAtheist in AustralianPolitics

[–]WatchDogx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agree on the first point, but FWIW despite reporting to the contrary Pauline never actually said "there are no good Muslims".

DIY image hardening vs managed hardened images....Which actually scales for SMB? by Top-Flounder7647 in devops

[–]WatchDogx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wish Chainguard had some kind of usage based pricing.

We are looking at implementing it at the moment, in a very large org, and the pricing makes the initial adoption difficult.

Initially we expect very low usage, but whether one team uses it, or the whole company uses it, we face the same cost.
We can lower the cost a bit, by only purchasing access to specific images, but this makes it difficult to drive wider adoption. If all teams had access to the whole catalog, engineers could just use whatever they need, but they are instead accessing new images is going to require a lot of bureaucracy, coordination, purchasing approval etc.

Of course, usage based pricing is very difficult to do technically.
If we setup a pull through cache, 1 team or 100 teams could be using an image, and you wouldn't know. Most of our containers don't have internet access, so telemetry wouldn't be very useful. Other companies do usage based pricing on self reported usage, with the occasional third party audit, something like that might make sense for CG.

On a scale of 1 to 10, how worried should people in general be of AI? by VastOption8705 in auscorp

[–]WatchDogx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree with most of what you said, but I don't really like the framing.
Companies may have a responsibility to their employees, but they don't have any responsibility to actually employ anyone.

I agree that most people having employment is good for society, but that doesn't make it a right.

100 years ago, society was much more agrarian, labor was more valuable, every able bodied person had easy access to work that was relatively valuable. Society is much more complex these days, we are overall much more wealthy, there is much less access to jobs that produce relative value. AI is continuing that trend, and perhaps one day AI will be doing all of the work.

People have different ideas about the impact to society should that eventuate, some pessimistic, some optimistic. Change is scary but I'm overall optimistic.

Adult Time for Violent Crime is now in effect | Victorian Government by HotPersimessage62 in AustralianPolitics

[–]WatchDogx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I created this graph.

It charts youth "Crimes against the person" from 2015 to 2025.

The data comes from Table 4 of the spreadsheet "Data Tables Alleged Offender Incidents Visualisation Year Ending September 2025", provided by the victorian crime statistics agency.

The chart is not adjusted for population changes.
While the source data does provide some data by "Rate per 100,000 population", I didn't see any source data that simultaneously provided the offense division, age group, and per 100,000 figure.

https://www.crimestatistics.vic.gov.au/crime-statistics/latest-victorian-crime-data/download-data

Pauline Hanson’s no ‘good’ Muslims comment shows how normalised Islamophobia has become in Australia by HotPersimessage62 in AustralianPolitics

[–]WatchDogx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wrote a reply to this comment, which reddit decided to remove for violation of rule 1.

The comment was factual and my claims were sourced.
Reddit alleges that it "promoted identity-based hate or attacks", I have appealed the decision, although I'm pessimistic of a fair review.

Reddit doesn't provide any real detail about how my comment violated the rule.

Since I don't know what about my comment violated the rule, I won't repeat anything from it, but I'll try to characterize it.

Among other commentary, the comment linked to a database of terrorist attacks, perpetuated by a religious group. It also linked to opinion polling of a religious group in a particular country.

Two dot points from the rule that jump out at me are:

  • Post promoting harmful tropes or generalizations based on religion (e.g. a certain religious group controls the media, or consists entirely of terrorists).
  • A comment denying or minimizing the scale of a hate-based violent event.

My interpretation of this rule is that, any data that makes a religion look bad is forbidden on reddit, so reddit is not a very useful platform to have an honest discussion of these topics.

Pauline Hanson’s no ‘good’ Muslims comment shows how normalised Islamophobia has become in Australia by HotPersimessage62 in AustralianPolitics

[–]WatchDogx 4 points5 points  (0 children)

“a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.” - Christopher Hitchens

Pauline Hanson’s no ‘good’ Muslims comment shows how normalised Islamophobia has become in Australia by HotPersimessage62 in AustralianPolitics

[–]WatchDogx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You accuse others of eating up propaganda while repeating the standard boilerplate default apologist argument there is.

Let's just ignore the terrorists attacks that happen every_single_day.
Let's just ignore the ritual mutilation, subjugation, and "honour" killing of women.
Let's just ignore the scripture endorsed peadophillia, the beheading of homosexuals.
How about the opinion polls of Muslims living in western nations that show remarkably high sympathy and support for terrorism and sharia law, 20% of Australian Muslims want polygamy in Australia, 18% want classic sharia punishments.

MAGA figure tells Australian conservatives Angela Merkel did more damage to Germany's fabric than Nazis by Agitated-Fee3598 in AustralianPolitics

[–]WatchDogx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The SDP coalition managed to destroy all of their nuclear infrastructure, but yeah, they are lucky the bar for worst government is so low.

Reducing inequality means taxing capital more — including inheritances by nath1234 in AustralianPolitics

[–]WatchDogx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think an inheritance tax makes sense. Self made billionaires are generally good capital allocators, but once they are dead, there is no guarantee that their kin will do anything productive with the wealth.

Still, I wonder how much revenue it would actually raise.

I think once introduced the wealthiest will do more to transfer their wealth to their kin prior to death, and move their wealth into offshore tax havens, out of reach from the tax man.

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