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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Status code 418 is the "sir this is wendy's" meme for tech people.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure that you can use it with a CloudFlare custom error page.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is Building an AI 'Rebel Alliance' To Take on Industry Heavweights OpenAI, Anthropic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So … a company that despite decades of effort, can’t make a competitive web browser with all the help in the world, is now going to distract itself with even more non-essential rubbish with absolutely zero chance of success … can’t wait to hear what the excuse is going to be when this CEO leaves to pursue other opportunities.

  Meanwhile the Assumed Intelligence Ponzi scheme will have collapsed, taking with it a significant portion of the economy, let alone the ICT industry.

  This timeline needs some tweaking…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the laziest way to create a website that looks really nice and is maintainable?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Build a website on your preferred platform, you’re already using WP.

  Create a static version of it. There’s plugins for exactly that purpose.

  Put the static files on a web host, I use s3, but you can use whichever you prefer.

  When you update the site on WP, run the static extraction again and update your actual site.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fellow computer geek here … also a radio amateur.

  No idea what the availability of circuit diagrams is for your gear. In amateur radio equipment the user manual regularly has them, sometimes as big foldout sheets. I’d be surprised if they didn’t exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d see if you can find a circuit diagram for the equipment, then compare it against what you actually have.

  It might be that there was a genuine issue with the equipment that was fixed, or it might be that the fix was actually something else entirely.

  There’s no way for us to know what you’re dealing with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help with understanding memory usage discrepancy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the job for the OS.

  You can run most Linux systems with stupid amounts of swap and the only thing you’ll notice is that stuff starts slowing down.

  In my experience, only in extremely rare cases are you smarter than the OS, and in 25+ years of using Linux daily I’ve seen it exactly once, where oomkiller killed running mysqld processes, which would have been fine if the developer had used transactions. Suffice to say, they did not.

  I used a 1 minute cron job to reprioritize the process, problem “solved” … for a system that hadn’t been updated for 12 years but was still live while we documented what it was doing and what was required to upgrade it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help with understanding memory usage discrepancy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Linux aggressively caches things.

  4 GB of RAM is not running out of memory.

  If you start using swap, you’re running into a situation where you might run out of memory.

  If oomkiller starts killing processes, then you’re running out of memory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, of the due and payable one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect that the house of cards will come tumbling down as soon as one of the companies in this massive Ponzi scheme fails to pay their bill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So the net of obligation, ownership and mutually assured destruction continues tighten?

  At some point this is going to explode … right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  AFAIK Google owns the vast majority of advertising online and is the one making all the money.

• University of Sydney suffers data breach exposing student and staff infowww.bleepingcomputer.com ↗
  Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨australia@aussie.zone⁩ | ⁨0⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  … and anyone else who should not have access to your data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And now you know why you should encrypt your data on any cloud provider.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fair's fair.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps we should treat our politicians like athletes and expect a top performance free of doping.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fair's fair.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How about drug testing all the politicians every week?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder … will it be another case of “Too Big To Fail” … or will it be … “Let The Market Decide”?

  I’m guessing the answer depends on how many medals the CEO of Oracle can bestow upon the Orange.

  Me … cynical … no … just been here for a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung smart fridges have started displaying ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m guessing that if you set your DNS to AdGuard a lot of this nonsense would go away.

  Another alternative is to remove the internet access from your fridge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll add it to the list:

  • AI is Assumed Intelligence.
  • AI is autocorrect on steroids.
  • AI is a Dunning-Kruger accelerator.
  • AI is a classic case of Gell-Mann amnesia.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What you’re describing is a general experience with LLM, not limited to the C-level.

  If an LLM sprouts rubbish you detect it because you have external knowledge, in other words, you’re the subject matter expert.

  What makes you think that those same errors are not happening at the same rate outside your direct personal sphere of knowledge?

  Now consider what this means for the people around you, including the C-level.

  Repeat after me, AI is Assumed Intelligence and should not be considered anything more than autocorrect on steroids.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare is down this morning ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, unless it came back in the last 25 minutes, it’s working fine in Western Australia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m guessing that the answer to that is … as soon as openai collapses … hopefully.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨220-ton flywheel generator in Germany⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The article explains precisely what it is and why … it’s even written in English.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming Laptop with Linux Preinstalled and 32GB+ RAM?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What is your budget?

  What size do you want?

  What screen resolution?

  Which GPU?

  And if you want warranty, which country are you in?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw your zodiac sign, tell me...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw your zodiac sign, tell me...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  None of the above.

  ARABIA POTTERY, Finland. 1960s RUSKA

  Absolutely indestructible. Drop it on the tiles, cracks the tiles.

  You can have it in any colour, as long as it’s Brown.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨haveibeenpwned alternatives / data?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s interesting, since my list of addresses contains numerous ones that don’t exist and nobody here has ever used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨haveibeenpwned alternatives / data?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting.

  I see a list of email addresses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨haveibeenpwned alternatives / data?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am not sure what you are talking about.

  I have a domain registered and can see exactly which addresses have been compromised by what, without payment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Billionaires are extremists⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  www.thecanary.co/…/billionaires-wealth-2025/