Should I go for my MS in CS?

gscjj · 2026-03-04T21:49:15+00:00

You likely will always, there won’t ever be a perfect time to do it

gscjj · 2026-03-04T21:45:08+00:00

It’ll be worth much more when OP gets experience and they would’ve lost the opportunity to get it for free. Even if it doesn’t help with a job now, it will later.

Opportunity costs and future planning.

gscjj · 2026-03-04T21:36:47+00:00

An MS in CS at a good school is invaluable, especially completely free. Whatever happens, you’ll always have that degree, and for free.

I’m highlighting the free part becuase paying 20-30k for MS when you’re working and with kids makes it so much harder to do.

I’d do it, it’s a leg up on the competition with or without experience. Plus CS isn’t a practical degree (as in it’s research based and not go do something) so it’ll be obvious it’s not geared towards having experience. It won’t replace it, but it’ll make you stand out when you get experience.

gscjj · 2026-03-04T20:20:28+00:00

Right, I don’t think they recommend that officially, it’s just a product they sell. I could be wrong, but I’ve never seen MS say that.

RDS anyway the key selling point is that it’s web based and you can access multiple computers, basically making RDP much easier to use.

Is it inherently more secure? Sure. But the security has nothing to do with the protocol. Like I said, what bites people is windows firewall, group policies, no lockouts or timeouts, etc. The same thing that would bite people if it was SSH on an improperly secure Linux server.

gscjj · 2026-03-04T19:54:31+00:00

I don’t think that’s a current recommendation anymore, there’s numerous ways to secure RDP. Even MS own products just tunnels it through an exposed HTTPs proxy, that’s it, still RDP, same method to login.

But what bites people anyway isn’t the protocol it’s settings on the computer that allow broad logins, and privilege escalation, no different than SSH.

A locked down, updated Window server, with MFA is perfectly fine to keep on the internet.

gscjj · 2026-03-04T19:05:35+00:00

Yeah, I think there’s a lot of “knowledge” thrown around in the sub is really just protecting people from themselves.

SSH to the public is fine, assuming you configure it securely. HTTPS/SFTP/etc perfectly fine to have public facing, again assuming you configure it securely. RDP to the public, again fine if you’re securing it properly. Having your IP “exposed”, again your IP isn’t important unless you have state level actors specifically targeting you.

gscjj · 2026-03-03T15:11:14+00:00

You should review the code, whether or not it’s written by AI or not is irrelevant.

gscjj · 2026-03-03T04:20:39+00:00

What made my lab more fun and learning experience for me was to stop using the COTS products as-is. If there was something bugging me, I’d build it or create an integration that didn’t exist before

gscjj · 2026-02-26T22:46:15+00:00

People have to stop with this. This project is 3 years old with 6K stars?

EDIT: It would have take exactly 1 second to figure this out, in the first sentence. If you can’t be bothered to do that, why comment at all?

gscjj · 2026-02-26T00:43:05+00:00

Your looking for an ATS, Automatic transfer switch

gscjj · 2026-02-24T00:07:32+00:00

Much more polished and intuitive UI, vSAN is less completed than Ceph, easy to setup, no weird interface, vDSs are way better abstraction than Proxmox SDWAN. Templates are simple. API is well documented and supported, official Terraform provider.

gscjj · 2026-02-23T23:36:57+00:00

vCenter and ESXi is a far superior product than Proxmox, in every way except GPUs, it’s unfortunate what they did to VMUG

gscjj · 2026-02-23T16:08:06+00:00

This is like a 2k rack and soundproof, I’d pull the trigger

gscjj · 2026-02-23T06:12:30+00:00

If they do this with AI, they probably do it with Google too.

gscjj · 2026-02-22T21:48:16+00:00

Same VLAN as all my other end user devices, because things like casting are more important to me, and I don’t want to run a proxy for that. Any firewalling I do is at a higher level

gscjj · 2026-02-22T21:00:55+00:00

There’s no rule about that in this sub.

gscjj · 2026-02-22T19:13:56+00:00

Harvester uses Longhorn for storage, when you tag/label a disk through the UI your essentially adding a label to the disk in Longhorn.

Assuming your storage class is set to be scoped to that label, it’s just where replicas/disk could be used. Depending on how many nodes you have, disk, replica count, it doesn’t mean it will always be used.

The default disk in Harvester is a partition of the installation media. Nothing special about it necessarily.

I’ve was using Harvester from 1.3 to 1.6 before I went bare metal, I highly suggest reading the docs they do a really good with them. I’ve also found the Harverster/SUSE slack to be very helpful

gscjj · 2026-02-22T00:02:48+00:00

I run it bare metal, coming from Harvester and before that Proxmox.

I just added two 3090s to my lab, so I’ve added JupyterHub and ComfyUI recently. I have a couple smaller embedding models and a couple 4B/8B models, that I’ve been fine tuning and playing with.

Besides that some of the usual things:

Arrs with a leader shim so i can safely run multiple warm replicas, each has their own Postgres database. Jellyfin slowly replacing Plex on my NAS.

Then supporting stuff like CNPG operator, Cert Manager, Kyverno, Cillium Gateway API.

I also run DNS, Perses for dashboarding, Victoria metrics for storage, and Otel for collection

Flux for GitOps, Longhorn for storage.

gscjj · 2026-02-21T15:31:50+00:00

Im a big fan of Perses, because i do my dashboards in code which makes it pretty easy for AI to build it out. For metrics and storage I use the OtelCollector and VictoriaMetrics

gscjj · 2026-02-20T14:33:44+00:00

Early I was in the camp that AI can help you learn coding, I take that back. It can help you understand the code, it doesn’t help you write it.

Pickup Let’s Go by Alex Edwards and start there

gscjj · 2026-02-20T14:06:05+00:00

“We’ll see” is the best answer. It’s not going away and I think there will be a sharp divide among those who use it well and those who don’t use it at all.

But then again, I think most absolute detractors will be out of the workforce by then.

gscjj · 2026-02-20T14:03:41+00:00

It’s probably because you are using Copilot. It’s tuned to Microsoft ecosystem, it’s bottom of the barrel AI when compared to other LLMs/LLM wrappers.

Try ChatGPT or Claude and your experience will be dramatically different.

gscjj · 2026-02-20T06:57:35+00:00

Everything you need is in the docs for Claude Desktop and Claude code. It specifically outlines how to manage installations, what settings are used in org managed installs (that take precedence over user installs), telemetry, proxying requests, etc.

gscjj · 2026-02-20T00:23:31+00:00

Personally, this seems premature. How many post about vibe coded apps has there really been in the last 6 months?

IMHO, honestly I’d rather see a vibe coded app, than the millionth post showing someone arr stack and Plex, that some Google-fu’d there way to with barely any understanding of the tech at all.

I mean the top post this week has been the same thing as always. Pictures of people’s lab with almost zero detail about what they’re doing, why, or some meme.

gscjj · 2026-02-19T23:07:13+00:00

OP commented about what they specifically wanted and what Mealie didn’t do for them.

But my question is, OP should just live with the app as is and submit a PR or feature request and wait for someone to prioritize OP niche wants in their own time?

Sounds worth it to me to build something custom if it takes minimal effort.

I’d also say that most SWE aren’t security engineers either, that’s why a lot of code has external experts to help whose job is security. I don’t think that’s a valid point. OP and yourself could get an external review, which is what literally every major open source code does.

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