The answer isn’t finding a nicer billionaire. It’s making sure none of them can wield this kind of power.

Well, let’s tell that to the millions of Americans who wanted to “drain the swamp of corruption in Washington” - and sent the billionaire swamp monster to do it.

I want to say “I’m happy to help”, but I’m not, and I haven’t. So let’s just sit here together in silence that is still orders of magnitude less socially awkward than… <gestures> this.

Easily one of the cringest moments in 2025. Video linked for anyone who still needs proof that money can buy a great many things, but coolness and authenticity are not among them.

Most of the code is written with Claude Code

With or by? Please add full AI disclosure as per the AI & Promotional Post Expanded Rules.

Idiots of the world - unite!

Oh, but Zuck, Thiel and Musk certainly do. Totally no awkwardness with these shining beacons of social competence!

NO, NOT LIKE THAT!

My attempts with nexcloud were awful.

Please elaborate. I keep hearing this take and can’t make heads or tails of it. For me, Nextcloud has been rock-solid, and I’ve been using / running it for many years now.

Just separate the two, e-mail and cloud storage, and you’ll be a lot more flexible.

Posteo e-mail costs 1 EUR/month.

As for cloud storage, either self-host or use a managed Nextcloud instance. IONOS’ offering (500GB) comes in at 6 EUR/month.

In total, that gets you to 7 EUR/month, which is still cheaper than Proton’s unlimited package (clocking in at 10 EUR/month). On the downside, you still haven’t got a VPN at that pricing. But I’d keep that separate from mail and file storage anyway.

Fuck /u/spez

I suppose a 27-year-old is about to find that out the hard way - along with Cisco’s entire customer base. 🤷‍♂️

Tried to get it running with NginxProxyManager. Didn’t work. I’m probably part of “team idiot”.

Just looked into their AI policy. Looks reasonable to me, so I don’t think the blanket characterisation as “slop” is fair, but you do you.

Word! LLMs can be a useful tool, but every tool has its purpose. A hammer is great for - well, hammering stuff. What corporate “leadership” has done - drunk on the koolaid given to them by hammer salesmen - was to mandate that everyone must do their work with a hammer now. And now they’re bamboozled why so many people are getting hurt and inventory, somehow, always looks like it was smashed to bits. (Maybe we need to do just a smidge more hammering to get there?)

The optimum CEO (symbolic image):

He’s just idly hanging around until it’s time to suck up some punches.

Here’s the updated scoreboard of AI-pilled promises - and what became of them:

1. AI is going to make cost big money for AI-first companies.
2. AI is going to make employees more productive wade through tons of generated slop instead of doing actual work.
3. AI is going to solve all of humanity’s problems - cancer, global warming, all that jazz! exacerbate humanity’s problems by gobbling up resources on an unprecedented scale.

Define “slop-coded” with regard to Nextcloud. The self-hosted sub has presented a useful terminological framework to pin down what software “made with AI” can entail:

Hint - AI suggested solution, human does the task. Assisted - AI acts on part of a task, but a human handled the bulk. Pair - About a 50/50 split of human made and generated. Generated - Human prompted, AI generated.

Where on this scale do you see Nextcloud?

Didn’t you listen to the man? Security and privacy are for losers!

I’m currently in the market for a new VPN provider. I’d like to thank Andy for pointing me towards IVPN.