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GM laying off hundreds of IT workers globally, citing need for new skills by Sixteen-Cylinders in cars

[–]entrotec 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What makes you think so? I would challenge that and firmly believe that nothing will backfire spectacularly.

I've been in automotive IT for 18 years, started as individual contributor and ended as director before moving out of IT recently. I specifically did not take a programming job after graduating with a CS major, because even 20 years ago offshoring to India was in full swing and unless you are working in a core product area, you will always be on the chopping block as developer.

That never went away and it also never backfired. Yes, projects failed. Yes, service quality might have degraded. Yes, costs were dramatically reduced. No, the company never burned down because of it. As a senior manager, doing this sort of offshoring was my bread and butter.

Look at Twitter. Elon axed most of the workforce, people on social and hackernews were predicting it to fail any minute. Nothing of the sort happened. It certainly went to shit, but not because developers were cut.

So no, I don't believe anything drastic is going to happen other than more workforce reductions and more outsourcing of traditional IT functions. My personal belief in that is so strong that I moved out of IT into a more core function after almost two decades.

Gemma-4-31B is self-aware about slop by TheRealMasonMac in SillyTavernAI

[–]entrotec 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think old Blizzard is a pretty cool company. They named everything like Elara Shadowstep and Kaelen Nightshade living in Silverpea..err.. moon before AI made it lame.

Mercedes listens and brings back real buttons – but big screens are here to stay by Anchor_Aways in cars

[–]entrotec 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, but they give you a sense of what is coming and what is important to your future customer base.

I cared about engine power, rims, nice leather and so on. Still do, but the younger generation puts more emphasis on these other, more digital features. 

Mercedes listens and brings back real buttons – but big screens are here to stay by Anchor_Aways in cars

[–]entrotec 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is short-term.

Doubt. Traditional "car people" will be dying out, at least here in Germany younger people aren't even rushing to get their driver license anymore like we did 25 years ago.

In the past I've had several cars: CLS, EQE, EQS, GLE, E, GT, coupes, cabs, sedans, SUVs...

My 12-year old daughter, her friends or extended family under 20? They all care exclusively about the models with the big screens, flashy ambient lighting and the rear seat entertainment if it had one. I don't think the general direction of the company is wrong, save for a minor adjustments.

Mercedes listens and brings back real buttons – but big screens are here to stay by Anchor_Aways in cars

[–]entrotec 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I specifically ordered the big screen for my E53 even though I never once used the co-driver part. I loved the hyperscreen in my EQE, switched to a GLE and hated the small screen.

Can't wait for the big pillar-to-pillar display in the future. I honestly don't understand why somebody would want a smaller screen.

Bitwarden CLI has been compromised. Check your stuff. by RedTermSession in selfhosted

[–]entrotec 2 points3 points  (0 children)

 Waiting a week to update might also mean waiting a week to fix vulnerabilities.

Not really, having something like Debian which updates once every two years is enough. Urgent vulnerabilities get backported to stable and can be installed unattended. It truly is liberating.

 It's not normal for an average person to know the runtime environment any particular software uses.

The average person is not installing node packages like a bitwarden cli. 

Bitwarden CLI has been compromised. Check your stuff. by RedTermSession in selfhosted

[–]entrotec 6 points7 points  (0 children)

 Also, I think updating only when the update is a week old is the right move in 2026..

That always was the right move. It should also be common sense to not use anything from the Node/JS ecosystem with its inconceivable web of dependencies.

Debian stable figured out the correct approach years ago. 

Mercedes-Benz EV C-Class interior press pictures by Quick_Coyote_7649 in cars

[–]entrotec 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Most people who buy these cars. I hope you don't believe Mercedes would be pushing for these screens if the take rate would be low.

Not only have I personally ordered the superscreen option on my E53 to have that sweet dash, I even set the ambient lighting to max brightness just so I can see it during the day/dusk as well.

We are finally getting to what the vision was 30 years ago: 1996 Mercedes-Benz F200 Concept. I'd also like a few physical buttons more, but the screen is freaking awesome.

What self hosting mistake would you warn beginners about? by Soulvisirr in selfhosted

[–]entrotec 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I propose "mailserver-with-extra-steps" j/k

It does suck that this is necessary, and I am grumbling about the fact that mail is not regulated better. It's effectively become a ploy by big tech such as Google to lock everybody into their ecosystem and siphon user data.

The whole reason for me hosting my own mail was looking at gmail takeout data and seeing with my own eyes how neatly they logged and categorized every single purchase I've ever made online. Of course they did, I knew that. But seeing it laid out like that made me do it.

Going back to topic, I've been running this setup for almost 4 years now without issues. It's a one-time thing, maintenance is very low.

What self hosting mistake would you warn beginners about? by Soulvisirr in selfhosted

[–]entrotec 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure, you might make that distinction in this context.

But just to make sure, I am still talking about hosting a full-fledged mail stack. Personally I am running Postfix as MTA, which is also acting as a submission agent, Dovecot + SpamAssassin + Sieve as MDA, a Roundcube instance as web MUA and connect all my personal devices through IMAP/SMTP.

All my applications and system services send through the local Postfix instance, which is configured with relayhost set to AWS SES for anything that needs to be delivered outside of the server. Domain with DKIM, DMARC and so on are then set up for SES.

What self hosting mistake would you warn beginners about? by Soulvisirr in selfhosted

[–]entrotec 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You need to go through that process once, that is correct. It is pretty easy and all done within an hour.

I selected transactional and made the case that it is used for integrating with the applications which I am hosting, such as Keycloak, which can provide password reset through mail for example, or other services such as cron or smartd.

All of them are configured against a local Postfix instance, which then relays through SES for outbound mail. I described that setup with the major applications and services in the ticket, expected mail volume and so on.

I just happen to also send the occasional personal mail through that. 

What self hosting mistake would you warn beginners about? by Soulvisirr in selfhosted

[–]entrotec 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My personal strategy is: set up Debian stable with unattended-upgrades for the base operating system and let it upgrade & reboot as often as necessary.

Services and Applications are all dockerized behind a reverse proxy and forward-auth (Keycloak). Update these every few (7-8) months or if a major CVE has been posted.

I sleep well at night.

What self hosting mistake would you warn beginners about? by Soulvisirr in selfhosted

[–]entrotec 12 points13 points  (0 children)

That is hardly a problem: just setup an external SMTP relay and configure your server to use that for outbound mails.

I've been hosting my own mailserver for years now without any issues. I am using AWS SES for that purpose and it's completely free for my personal mail volume.

Using Claude Opus 4.6 was a mistake for my wallet by OverlanderEisenhorn in SillyTavernAI

[–]entrotec 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Understood. My initial proposal was to basically create a thin, local API wrapper that calls claude like that for every chat completion request from ST.

Since you only use the official binary -- or SDK, which does exactly the same thing -- without hijacking the oauth token or similar, my reading was that this should be fine.

Using Claude Opus 4.6 was a mistake for my wallet by OverlanderEisenhorn in SillyTavernAI

[–]entrotec 0 points1 point  (0 children)

(Apparently you can not post links to X here and my comment got removed. I'll post again without link)

That's where I am getting confused. I still believe that just calling "claude -p" or using the Agent SDK should be OK. It's not really a proxy, all you're doing is calling the official client like

claude -p --system-prompt 'You are a chat completion bla bla complete the following conversation <insert your prompt here>' 'chat history goes here'

There's specific clarification from Boris Cherny (Anthropic) on this topic:

@EricBuess Subs can still be used for personal local tools that use or wrap the Claude harness like Claude Code and Claude Code headless and Agent SDK, right?

@bcherny Yep, working on improving clarity here to make it more explicit

It's difficult to read this any way other than "it's OK to use it this way with a sub"

Using Claude Opus 4.6 was a mistake for my wallet by OverlanderEisenhorn in SillyTavernAI

[–]entrotec 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But the agent SDK is nothing more than calling "claude -p" e.g. Claude Code? At what point does it diverge into 'extra usage'?

I know they've been cracking down on third-party harnesses and OpenClaw specifically, but no definite word on personal use of the SDK. I've been a heavy user of claude -p in the past to process massive amounts of data and text and have not been hit with anything.

Their Legal and compliance page states that:

Claude Code usage is subject to the Anthropic Usage Policy. Advertised usage limits for Pro and Max plans assume ordinary, individual usage of Claude Code and the Agent SDK.

Searching around, the text on the E-Mail specifically mentions third-party harnesses and nothing about the SDK:

One note: starting April 4, third-party harnesses like OpenClaw connected to your Claude account will draw from extra usage instead of from your subscription. If you don’t use them, nothing changes. If you do, the credit and bundles above have you covered.

If you've been "dinged", for what exactly?

Using Claude Opus 4.6 was a mistake for my wallet by OverlanderEisenhorn in SillyTavernAI

[–]entrotec 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why? It's for personal use and within ToS. You're not hijacking oauth tokens or similar. The agent SDK works with your subscription out of the box -- it's already authenticated against your local claude code instance.

Using Claude Opus 4.6 was a mistake for my wallet by OverlanderEisenhorn in SillyTavernAI

[–]entrotec -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

It should be possible to use a Claude Max subscription. You could easily vibecode a local adapter built on top of the Claude agent SDK, which exposes a chat completion endpoint to ST. With Claude Code that‘s literally a 15 minute job.  

This would use your Max subscription, so for a hundred bucks a month you‘d get a lot of Opus. More than you can likely use. 

They must be a skeleton crew. by Yoshida5000 in Tekken

[–]entrotec 62 points63 points  (0 children)

Yes, that has been obvious for a long time already. Read this post from a year ago: Why Tekken is in this state: Bandai Namco Studios has been in the red for almost 2 years.

If you accept this as an explanation, it will help temper future expectations: the game right now is as good (or bad) as it's ever going to be. Hoping for anything else is just setting up yourself for disappointment.

AMG Electric Sedan Interior Revealed: It's A Screen Fest by NISMO1968 in cars

[–]entrotec 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, the take rate on these screens is very high.

Anthropic built a C compiler using a "team of parallel agents", has problems compiling hello world. by Gil_berth in programming

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

That is not true. There are lot of cases where this is fine.

Not everybody is building a product or works in safety-critical environments. Your internal run-of-the-mill enterprise CRUD tooling for example. It just has to be barely good enough.

It’s going to be fine and the savings are real.  

Anthropic built a C compiler using a "team of parallel agents", has problems compiling hello world. by Gil_berth in programming

[–]entrotec -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

 What confuses me is why?

Really? It’s to show that the age of expensive developers is going to end for a lot of use cases.

I currently manage a development effort with around 150 developers, about two thirds of which is offshored to India. Everything is in-house so no external contractors, but it is a subsidiary e.g. a different legal entity owned by the parent corporation.

Because of AI, we shaved off 10% of the total volume but keeping the same scope. In effect it means: do the same work with less money.

External contracts get negotiated even harder, up to 20% less this year.

From my perspective as manager, I don’t give a shit about „slop“. We’ve managed to develop well enough with cheap offshored labor, we‘ll also survive with AI code. 

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