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- Comment on Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital 14 hours ago:
When Trump threatened tariffs I went ahead and bought 50 TB of storage. With my then expansion it would easily last me until the end of Trump’s turn and maybe a decade if I rationed.
Turns out that was one of my best calls of judgements to date, just not for the reason I thought.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
We’re currently using waste heat in Denmark from data centres (and other industry including power plants, CHP - Combined Heat & Power) in district heating. Heat up the water and pump it down pipes to people’s homes.
My home is for example heated up primarily by a cement factory, a CHP plant, and a waste incinerator.
- Comment on Use the garden hose like a civilized human being 4 days ago:
pebis
- Comment on Epstein details scrubbed from Mandelson’s Wikipedia page by shady paid editor— As the then-ambassador came under fire, an anonymous user tried to downplay his history of support for Jeffrey Epstein 5 days ago:
at least unless you look at the actual sources submitted
You can’t check the source for information that’s entirely been omitted. In any case, never assume Wikipedia provides the full story, or even a condensed and accurate one. What has been mentioned might be correct, but the devil is in what’s been left out.
- Comment on Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children 5 days ago:
Fun fact, Google was supposed to be named Googol, but the guy who were tasked with ordering the domain name misunderstood. As history would tell, they just decided to stick with Google.
- Comment on Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site 5 days ago:
“As quickly as possible” pulls a lot of weight in my statement. Just like when the EU is trying to cut our dependence with US payment providers, Wikipedia can’t do it overnight. The best time to plant a tree was 10 years ago, the next best time is right now.
Cutting ties with archive[.]today takes a long time, but the longer the decision to cut it takes, the longer to the ties are actually cut. It’s all about “make haste slowly”, ie. do a lot of planning on how to actually cut the ties with minimal impact so you can do it when forced to (for example if FBI were to take the servers one day) or when you decide that the independence from archive[.]today is more valuable than the remaining impact of cutting dependence. This could take half a year, a year, or more.
But indecision will at some point put you in a worse position: You are funneling your traffic to a malicious website that actively participates in DDoS attacks by using users’ traffic (including those coming from Wikipedia) to carry out the attack. Indecision can open you up to serious litigation and reputational damage by proximity. Given that archive[.]today crossed the line to malicious activity by misusing their traffic, what’s to stop them from malicious activity by misusing their content? IMO even if you think the integrity of your content and its sources are too valuable (and trust me, I think it’s very valuable) you need to consider this as a warning sign and realise that nothing’s stopping archive[.]today from losing the editorial integrity that you rely on.
So my suggestion, brainstorm ideas that would make you independent: Make agreements with IA to improve retention, roll your own archiver, make a deal with news orgs to show their articles as citations (this last one I actually like most the more I think about it. A good negotiator can call it advertising for the news org and you’ll at the same time not infringe on copyright like archive[.]today is). If you wait until point of no return, the choice has already been made for you whether you like it or not. And worst part is that you’d scramble to find a solution instead of the best solution.
- Comment on Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site 5 days ago:
I don’t really see it as a complicated issue. Archive[.]today is now an unreliable source that uses its user traffic to engage in malicious activities. By using it, Wikipedia will become unreliable by proxy.
The best course of action is to distance yourself from it as quickly as possible.
- Comment on Me after too long of a nap 1 week ago:
Hate to break it to you all, but she just woke up after a nap. The reason she’s that groggy-looking is that she was in the process of shedding her winter coat.
Oh, and I never knew white brown bears existed. That was primarily the reason for hunting down the story.
- Comment on ICE is 30 minutes late again. I'm really pissed about that. 1 week ago:
Let me tell you about the wonders of DSB. You expect a train and lo and behold, it’s a “train bus”!
If I have to take the “train” anywhere the next 4 months I need to take one of those infamous “train busses”
But hey, at least the trains are working and on time when there’s not construction work? Think again! That is the time for signaling errors, brakes that fall off the trains, or leaves on the track! And guess what that means? More train busses!!
- Comment on Games that have now or will be turned 40, 30, 20 and 10 years old as of 2026 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure it was yesteryear that all the kids were hazardously catching Pokémon outdoors while staring blindly into their phones.
- Comment on Hero shooter Highguard reportedly didn't even pay for the Game Awards slot that's earned it so much preemptive hate—the showrunners thought it deserved the spotlight 4 weeks ago:
Why the fuck does a game require boot protection!?
- Comment on Good luck 4 weeks ago:
Kitchen knifes are also infamously not dishwasher safe. Mine’s got wooden handles but they were slightly worn from not drying them immediately when handwashing. Ever since I got a dishwasher I chugged them in there and they have survived without any more damage.
- Comment on Mafs 5 weeks ago:
About 185. Why?
- Comment on Mafs 5 weeks ago:
And 40th of August.
Wait…
- Comment on 'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular 5 weeks ago:
So just like M365 Copilot (actual name for the office app).
- Comment on Sometimes it do be like that 1 month ago:
I’m currently hearing some doctors talking about “never have I ever seen!”, “this is highly improbable…”, “how are you not dead!?”
I mean, I don’t think it’s supposed to bleed down there. And definitely not in those volumes. But it was a good kind of pain.
- Comment on BentoPDF is a self hostable, privacy first PDF Toolkit 1 month ago:
It’s not important but I guess it doesn’t support auth? I’ve only got time to do a quick glance right now so I might have missed something.
I think a lot of people’s use cases might be to integrate with other tools in their self-host stack like Authentik (could be solved by adding proxy auth if nothing exists natively) and Nextcloud or other filesharing/storing solutions.
If there aren’t any capabilities like that then it could be food for thought for expansion. Otherwise great job! Right now it’s still an upgrade from various shady PDF tool websites where you still have to download the PDF from your server to upload and process the files.
- Comment on Sometimes it do be like that 1 month ago:
I would. Brb
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 1 month ago:
I still got a 4670k in my server. Thought of upgrading in Q1. I can forget all about that now… Unfortunately my mobo is slowly dying, so there’s a limit on how long I can push it.
- Comment on So how was your year in review? 1 month ago:
On the contrary. The data exists, they’re just not aggregating it into a graph. Otherwise your posts and comments would disappear the moment you submit them.
- Comment on Upstate NY creativity. 1 month ago:
Still looks better than a Cybertruck
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 2 months ago:
Oh, really? Can you tell me more about that?
- Comment on Usually, silicone nippled showerheads aren't replaced or cleaned regularly. 2 months ago:
I have no words how jealous I am. My shower head looks nothing like that after the first day. I almost have to do a deep clean the entire shower cabin to keep the limescale off.
- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 2 months ago:
100% of LinkedIn
- Comment on Thieves are starting to steal RAM now that it's as expensive as gold — a memory kit disappears in the snail mail at four in the morning with a bogus signature 2 months ago:
I hear native water cooling.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 2 months ago:
Yea, I come from Plex. Why do you ask?
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 2 months ago:
Have you checked out the Finamp app? It’s to Jellyfin what Plexamp is to Plex. It’s much better for music that Jellyfin proper.
- Comment on Downdetector is down 2 months ago:
Great idea, but who’s then monitoring the uptime of the Kuma instance?
- Comment on Downdetector is down 2 months ago:
UptimeRobot is down too. We need an uptime monitoring tool to monitor the uptime of uptime monitoring tools.
- Comment on Drug deal 2 months ago:
The author is James (theodd1sout.com). It’s a bit disingenuous to censor artist credits like that.