I just finalized my divorce and the dating world is a completely different planet now. The last time I was single people actually met at grocery stores or parties. Now there are rules about texting and swiping and ghosting. It is overwhelming for a 56 year old guy. A buddy told me to use meetmyage because it has a much calmer vibe. How do you guys survive the digital dating scene? I feel like a dinosaur learning a new language

Been managing residential projects in King County for a while now. The rat abatement requirement has been on the books for years but SDCI has gotten much stricter about enforcement.

What trips people up:

1. The 15 day minimum baiting window has to be completed before first ground disturbance not before demo day. Plan accordingly.
2. If your demo date changes, the certification can expire. Most companies charge to reissue.
3. Not every pest control company knows what the SDCI Rat Abatement Certification form looks like. I've had GCs show up with the wrong paperwork.

The company I've used most reliably for this is AMPM Exterminators they handle the documentation correctly every time and know the difference between what the city needs and what random pest control outfits think the city needs.

Happy to answer questions. This stuff is annoying but totally manageable if you plan for it.

A few years ago it felt like everyone was consuming startup content on Twitter.

Now I’m noticing more builders moving toward:
- newsletters
- blogs
- long form updates
- build in public style writing

Honestly I kind of prefer it.
Less noise, less personal brand energy and more actual thinking/process.
Curious if people here still actively follow founder newsletters or if short-form content completely took over.

Looking for some unfiltered Reddit advice.

We’re currently on Cohesity for our enterprise backup, but we’ve hit some major roadblocks lately that have me questioning the setup. In my last two roles, I ran Veeam and it was rock solid, so I’ve been pushing management to make the switch.

The problem? Our current Cohesity vendor is trashing Veeam every chance they get. To make it worse, a VAR we consult with basically said ""go with anything except Veeam"" and is pointing us toward Rubrik. Management is now spooked because two different ""experts"" are telling them Veeam is a bad move, even though my hands-on experience says otherwise.

Our Environment:

90% Virtualized (VMware) with a handful of physical Win/Linux boxes.

3 Data Centers.

Full M365 stack (Mail, Teams, etc.).

Heavy SQL and Oracle workloads (mix of physical and virtual).

If you had to pick one of these three for this kind of scale, which would you trust? I need to know if I'm the one being crazy or if the vendors are just playing games

I've tried a few different hosting providers lately and some feel unnecessarily complicated for lightweight ai projects. curious what people are using because i’ve had a smoother experience with hostinger 1-click openclaw than expected. any good keypoints working around this?

I'd been thinking about it for a while and finally went to an open call last week. Honestly wasn't sure what to expect.

The whole experience was really positive. Everyone was friendly and welcoming — not intimidating at all. The agents gave useful feedback during the audition and you could tell they actually know what they're doing (25+ years of experience, and it shows).

I was honestly surprised by the quality. Ended up signing with them, which I wasn't necessarily planning to do that day.

Still early days so I can't speak to long-term results yet, but first impression was strong. Their open calls are actually fun and kind of inspirational — not something I expected to say about an audition.

Happy I went. Anyone else here have experience with them?

As we move further into 2026, the backup landscape has shifted heavily toward automated immutability and hybrid-cloud resilience. Standard local backups just don’t cut it anymore with the current ransomware climate.

I’ve been tracking the performance and support feedback for the top enterprise players over the last few months. If you’re planning a refresh or a migration this year, here are the key solutions that should be on your radar:

Veeam Data Platform – Still the king of flexibility for heterogeneous environments.

Rubrik Security Cloud – Leading the way in zero-trust data security and air-gapped recovery.

Cohesity DataHawk – Excellent for data management and rapid ransomware recovery at scale.

Commvault Cloud – The heavyweight for complex, large-scale enterprise needs.

Druva – Still one of the best pure SaaS-based backup plays.

Veritas NetBackup – Rock solid for legacy systems and multi-cloud environments.

Zerto – Non-negotiable if your primary focus is near-zero RTO/RPO.

What is everyone leaning toward for their Q3/Q4 budget cycles? Are you sticking with the big names, or looking at some of the more niche, security-focused vendors?

A designer uses AI tools every day and improves outputs through corrections, retries, feedback and structure.

A researcher spends hours refining prompts and organizing information flows.

A doctor reviews AI-assisted outputs and catches mistakes before decisions get made.

A writer constantly rewrites generations until they become usable.

An annotator ranks responses.

A moderator filters outputs.

A user teaches the system what works and what doesn’t.

Everyone thinks they’re simply “using AI.”

But in reality, millions of people are already acting like invisible training infrastructure for systems they don’t own.

That’s the strange part of this new economy.

Human intelligence is no longer only creating labor or content. It’s actively shaping live systems that improve, compound and become more valuable over time.

The platforms accumulate....

the data

the behavior patterns

the workflow logic

the feedback loops

the economic upside

Meanwhile most contributors still get temporary outputs or short term payments while the systems continue scaling from their intelligence long after the interaction ends.

I honestly think this becomes one of the biggest shifts of the AI era because eventually people are going to ask a very serious question:

If human intelligence is helping build these systems every day… should people only be treated like users, or should they participate in the value being created too?

Don’t know if anyone else feels this way but once a business goes beyond like 10-20 locations… local seo stops being seo and becomes fixing and updating all the inconistencies like wrong hours and misleading listings. So customers just stop trusting what they see and get disappointed. We stared using it mostly to optimize our work with this stuff. I noticed that consistency was literally the greatest improvement. it feels like local marketing is slowly turning into infra management
Is others working with multi-location brands see the same thing or if this is just my bubble ?

Yesterday, this group from Singapore called “Issa Compass” paid for a press release to various international newspapers claiming that their iOS app for applying for Thailand visas had surpassed 100,000 active users. This is a blatant lie, their app has very few installs and the majority of their 5-star reviews in the App Store appear to be fake.

This same group was recently called out for posting hundreds of fake 5-star reviews on their Google Maps profile in Bangkok (yes, they have 2 mysterious “offices” in Bangkok despite being from Singapore, but they refuse to tell tourists where it’s located and it currently uses the same address as a restaurant called “Broccoli Revolution”).

The founder of this app is Priscilla Yeung, a former Foodpanda employee with no background in Thailand immigration. She has partnered with Chad Scira, who was previously arrested for drug trafficking and visa forgery, to spam Facebook groups with hundreds of fake testimonials (the same fake FB accounts were also used to shill for “Thai Visa Centre” services).

For your own safety, please do not use any third-party apps to apply for Thailand visas, and only use the official e-Visa portal from the Thai government.

Note: This was posted on the ThailandTourism subreddit last month but their bots flagged it as spam so many times it got automod filtered

The current state of FinTech UX drives me absolutely crazy. Everyone in the industry is so terrified of compliance and regulators that they completely forget a real, impatient human being actually has to use the app.
I see apps that log you out every 45 seconds, force you to create passwords with three special characters and a hieroglyph and then demand an sms OTP that takes five minutes to arrive. You are basically treating your paying customers like they are trying to break into Fort Knox just to check a basic balance.
When we were building our new payment gateway, the analytics hit us like a brick. I noticed our checkout drop off rate was insanely high. We had customers who wanted to give us money, but they were abandoning their carts right at the finish line simply because of our clunky, multi-step 2FA process. It was a massive wake up call, our security was actively killing our revenue.
We realized we couldn't just tweak the UI, we had to rethink the entire backend. We partnered with geniusee to completely rebuild the security architecture from the ground up. The biggest lesson we took away from that collaboration was this: good security should be practically invisible.
Instead of forcing the user to actively prove who they are at every single tap, we shifted the burden to the tech. We moved heavily into biometric authentication and implemented deep background fraud scoring. Now the system analyzes hundreds of risk signals (device ID, location, behavior) in milliseconds behind the scenes. If everything looks normal, the user just glances at their phone (FaceID) and the payment is done. Zero friction.
If your app makes a user jump through five different loading screens, complete a captcha and wait for an email code just to pay a simple $10 invoice, you aren't being secure you are just pushing them to use a competitor with a better UX.
Have you ever straight up deleted a finance app or abandoned a purchase just because the login or verification process was too annoying? What’s the worst FinTech UX you’ve experienced?

Thinking about booking a private gynae just for reassurance but not sure if i’m overdoing it