I don't like my job, but I don't hate it most days. I'm only there because I need the money and conditions are decent. I clock in, do my thing, clock out and try to enjoy my hobbies and eat decently.

I don't believe most people would disagree with what I just wrote.

Mine is a blue collar job, physically demanding. The last 2 weeks have been working non stop from the beginning till clocking out, sometimes doing overtime that my employer pays, but not at a different rate. Yesterday I didn't do my pause. Today I barely did it.

One younger coworker asked me if I enjoy doing my job and I asked him if he's here as a volunteer. Obviously he is not, but he kept pestering me about me liking my job. I told him I like my hobbies and I'm here to work because I need money.

His is an office position btw, he sits way longer than I do.

By the look of his face you could tell this wasn't an answer he was ready to accept. To me however, this younger coworker is naive (and stupid).

I plan to keep my conversations with this person to a minimum and not disclosing personal information around him, and I really hope he doesn't talk to me anymore.

How would you deal with such a character?

Now I wonder if my answer can be used to fire me for 'lacking motivation', which is something any employer would write to justify firing somebody they don't like.

This person is not a manager and is not a close friend of any manager afaik.

October 28, 2025
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The Category 5 storm’s slow pace could have devastating effects. Jamaican officials said many residents had refused to evacuate, and one minister warned, “This is not the time to be brave.”

Hi selfhosting community! At the moment I have my services set up with nix. They store their data on a btrfs subvolume which I can easily snapshot.

For backup I configured btrbk to send the snapshots to a target pc. However I feel uneasy not knowing if the backups succeeded or not. Right now I would need to check manually on the target machine every so often.

How are you guys handling this problem? Custom scripts for btrfs send/receive? Is there a function in btrbk I overlooked where I can verify the state and get notified of problems?

I was looking into ntfy-sh, which looks optimal, but how can I know if the send/receive was successful?

Hey nerds,

As the title says I'm looking for a good, robust ebook reader for Android. I dont need much, just something that can handle all kinds of file types with basic quality of life features, like page remembering and custom naming of files.

I currently use ePub Reader (Google Play link) which has been good but limited. Namely, I don't believe it handles color (or at least I cannot find a way to toggle it off of black and white).

Appreciate any recommendations but please no subscription services!

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the military to carry out “powerful” attacks in Gaza, his office says.

It comes after Netanyahu alleged Hamas committed a “clear violation” of the ceasefire deal. For its part, Gaza’s Government Media Office accused Israel of committing 125 violations of the ceasefire since it came into effect on October 10, including killing 94 Palestinians.

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With OpenAI hitting a $500B valuation, is there even any fair competition left for smaller AI companies?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the military to carry out “powerful” attacks in Gaza, his office says.

It comes after Netanyahu alleged Hamas committed a “clear violation” of the ceasefire deal. For its part, Gaza’s Government Media Office accused Israel of committing 125 violations of the ceasefire since it came into effect on October 10, including killing 94 Palestinians.

The moment the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) announced it had stormed the city of el-Fasher on Sunday morning, it was clear that 260,000 Sudanese trapped in the city were in serious and immediate danger.

Middle East Eye has reviewed dozens of video clips and images allegedly taken in el-Fasher since the RSF assault began.

Some were published by the RSF itself; others emerged on social media, particularly Sudanese Telegram groups.

RSF members filmed themselves with people they have captured fleeing. In one clip, scores of men are seen sat on the ground surrounded by fighters, who repeatedly call them “slaves”.

In another, fighters tell six detained men, who are in civilian clothes but identify themselves as soldiers, that they can flee. Once the men begin running, the gunmen open fire on them, downing at least three.

Platforms expect to monitor a range of signals, but age detection will be spotty.

A terrible time all round

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Restructuring paves way for ChatGPT maker to more easily raise capital and profit off its AI technology

PayPal is the first digital wallet to land on ChatGPT.

Developers can use multiple coding agents at the same time.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) now has licenses to use Zignal Labs, a platform used by the Pentagon and Israeli military to scan social media with AI.

Let me preface by saying I despise corpo llm use and slop creation. I hate it.

However, it does seem like it could be an interesting helpful tool if ran locally in the cli. I've seen quite a few people doing this. Again, it personally makes me feel like a lazy asshole when I use it, but its not much different from web searching commands every minute (other than that the data used in training it is obtained by pure theft).

Have any of you tried this out?

The International Federation of the Red Cross said up to 1.5 million people in Jamaica—roughly half the island’s population—are expected to be directly affected by Hurricane Melissa, one of the most powerful hurricanes ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin and the strongest storm on Earth this year.

“We are okay at the moment but bracing ourselves for the worst,” Jamaican climate activist Tracey Edwards said Tuesday. “I’ve grown weary of these threats, and I do not want to face the next hurricane.”

The International Organization for Migration warned that “the risk of flooding, landslides, and widespread damage is extremely high,” meaning that “many people are likely to be displaced from their homes and in urgent need of shelter and relief.”