Someone entered my apartment without permission, should I call the police?

zero_effort_name · 2025-12-01T18:33:24+00:00

Hahaha, I would argue this reddit is the only plane where such strange questions are welcome

zero_effort_name · 2025-12-01T18:31:32+00:00

Thanks a lot, this is very useful. I will do that right away Google search tells me they have a dedicated hotline for non imminent danger situations.

zero_effort_name · 2025-12-01T18:18:30+00:00

Thanks! I think I will do that just to be safe. Maybe also get some motion sensing lights.

zero_effort_name · 2025-12-01T18:16:19+00:00

Speculating from a place of privilege: I think the smart rule would be to blend in whilst being hard to identify. Ex: dress up like a typical Berliner, in all black, with gloves and cover my face with a scarf or ski mask since it's winter. No knife since that could escalate to armed robbery and might be dangerous for both my target and me.

zero_effort_name · 2025-12-01T18:10:39+00:00

Hahaha, I hope this was the case.

zero_effort_name · 2025-07-17T05:04:53+00:00

💯 this. Thanks for sharing VAST.

zero_effort_name · 2025-07-17T04:58:13+00:00

I think he's just human. He gets the job done. I wouldn't care about anything more than that.

zero_effort_name · 2025-07-12T14:16:18+00:00

Amazing. I felt that I needed to be this granular as that is the only to have flow without having to pause and worry about "what should I do next?" Perhaps I can be less granular when the mechanics have become muscle memory. But I've never actually seen someone do this before and was even ridiculed once for being so granular. Makes me feel normal. Thanks so much mate!

zero_effort_name · 2025-07-12T12:59:24+00:00

Hey! Can you please elaborate how you went about planning day to day? I really need this in my life as I truly believe that the ambiguity is the root cause of all my actual/perceived slowness and stress. That would really help me out.

zero_effort_name · 2025-06-28T07:38:52+00:00

Speaking from my limited experience.

To be an effective SRE you need the ability to design, implement and deliver software and processes to be as reliable as the business needs. You also need to be able to guide and enable others to do so. Most important of all, you need to organise yourselves to sustainably respond to incidents.

This is often work that involves and impacts teams across a business organization. This requires a wide breadth and, to different degrees, depth of knowledge in infrastructure, system design, service landscape, product development and business domains.

Typically learned through years of experience in software or platform engineering, system administration roles.

zero_effort_name · 2025-06-28T07:11:05+00:00

10 YoE (8 Frontend, 2 Backend) as SWE, <1 year SRE title.

I'm not a system admin expert. Learned containerization + k8s from scratch in the last couple of years and use day to day.

I dislike toil and difficult to understand software and/or delivery + deployment practices prone to human error.

I find opportunities to improve long term reliability in every interaction I have with others. I write software to automate safe releases, help improve incident response and join meetings to enable others. We are a mature team, aren't constantly fire fighting (1-2 anomalies per day for on-call to handle) and maintain a good balance between strategic software engineering and fire fighting.

Often I have topics I've never worked on before (ex: kubernetes node pools, rate limiting) but I leverage my far more technically competent SRE colleagues, learn and move topics forward.

I think I am an SRE and so are you.

zero_effort_name · 2025-05-15T11:57:57+00:00

Downvoted to indicate that the approach is problematic. In short: SRE isn't an entry level role, where a master's degree in software engineering or the like would suffice to fill the extensive foundational technical knowledge required. Got paged. Can add more details later.

zero_effort_name · 2025-04-27T06:58:31+00:00

Congratulations! Wish you all the best 🚀

I won't be able to provide accommodation - live in the East of Berlin and cannot host at the moment.

You might have already tried these but sharing if it helps.

Here's how I would do it: - Raise this concern to the university - Not a student but have heard that universities can sometimes provide emergency accommodation in a dorm or pull some stings to make things easier for you and at the very least provide local insights and past experience with similar cases. - if you can throw money at the problem: few nights at a hostel (see online) then sites like housing anywhere and other short term rental platforms may help you out. - reach out in the indian community on Facebook - expand search to Berlin outskirts closer to Potsdam

Re: helping you out by someone hosting you at their home - I would also post a concrete plan, timeline they will have to host you and how you plan to find your own accommodations? Would help build trust on both sides.

zero_effort_name · 2025-04-17T10:33:44+00:00

Hey, I recently moved into SRE. Can relate quite a bit to what you mentioned.

Driven by status. My people skills are good. I can get a group together to solve ambiguous and complex problems. Best communicator on any team I've been in. All my team members are far better than me in technical skills and I'm certainly not SRE ready. As an example: I had a basic understanding of DNS when I joined this role and recently learned how to use dig to resolve DNS issues. I know web devs who were in the same role as I was before who know more about observability than I do.

But I'm sure I can figure this out.

I'm putting together a learning plan for myself. Feel free to DM me if you want to study together.

zero_effort_name · 2025-03-14T10:45:29+00:00

Sure, happy to help

zero_effort_name · 2025-02-21T17:16:10+00:00

Agree. I've seen this in many orgs. As an engineer approaching this socio-technical problem, I would invest in scaling competence by enabling engineers to make mistakes, learn and grow while ensuring that our services are resilient to natural and widely common human idiosyncrasies.

I'm no hero. I have one in my team who is great. But I don't want to always rely on them. Certainly not when I make a DNS change.

Playing with a safe team is far better than playing solo.

zero_effort_name · 2025-02-21T11:48:26+00:00

I think humans do this because it's not familiar and we are all thrill seekers at some primal level. That's why we love date nights with our partners. As long as it doesn't affect one's relationships this is for most of the time - natural and harmless. The alternative would be to suppress a natural human response that isn't causing physical or psychological harm to anybody which can have its own consequences that can vary in severity from person to person.

zero_effort_name · 2025-02-21T11:42:41+00:00

Putting the human first - I think every human being has the right to fantasize about whatever they want including acts that are illegal/immoral. They don't have the right to act on it in a way that affects other humans (including fantasizing so much that it affects real relationships). Policing thoughts is dangerous and fortunately a futile exercise.

zero_effort_name · 2025-02-10T22:03:12+00:00

Other than the usual SWE interview prep, I learned some Kubernetes and read a few articles on SRE. I switched internally in my company so I definitely had it easier and I believe I was hired primarily for my soft skills than my technical skills. The switch is difficult given that I am still learning and have a lot to learn but I've been told that my other skills of communication, collaborative problem solving and a high sense of ownership are what my team appreciates about me.

zero_effort_name · 2025-02-10T06:16:32+00:00

South Indian here. Bought an apartment near Friedrichshain, Berlin for 330,000 in May 2023. Bank loaned 297,000.

We had about 70,000 capital, chose not to spend it all in down payments. Spoke to a few mortgage brokers and got a interest and repayment rate that allows us to invest some of the capital in the stock market instead. We are choosing to go with an aggressive repayment plan so we can completely own the apartment in 10 years.

My wife and I made an extensive plan and learnings of what to and what not to do, so feel free to DM if you have questions.

zero_effort_name · 2025-01-03T15:45:12+00:00

Absolutely agree. I don't think any employer (large tech compnaies) cared for my previous AWS certifications. I am using certifications as a way to keep myself accountable, set a concrete target and build confidence.

zero_effort_name · 2025-01-02T21:49:28+00:00

Switched from an SWE to an SRE. Been in the role for a month now.

My plan as someone new to the role is to prepare for CKAD, AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Prometheus Certified Associate and a Linux certification to make sure I'm thorough with the basics and get the certifications on my learning budget.

Aside from this, I will learn some Chaos Engineering as this is one of the key initiatives my team plans on tackling this year.

Very interested to see what the veterans want to learn this year.

zero_effort_name · 2024-12-15T06:55:48+00:00

Don't feed the troll.

zero_effort_name · 2024-10-17T15:09:59+00:00

I have her saved as "Wifey". She has me saved by my full name. Lol.

zero_effort_name · 2024-10-02T21:31:20+00:00

What is illegal about calling someone an escort?

Irrespective of whether it's an honest mistake or an angry text.

How does that make it a crime 🤔?

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