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- Comment on Cloudflare is down this morning 1 day ago:
I screw up my own system way more often than that lol
Same! But the ones I cause don’t count.
- Comment on Cloudflare is down this morning 1 day ago:
It does feel like the major outages are growing closer together.
I want to blame plugging AI where it doesn’t belong, but I suppose that putting everything into the same couple of server closets could be the primary root cause.
- Comment on Cloudflare is down this morning 1 day ago:
but I guess the actual cause of the outage was a config file generated in response exceeded the max size
So it was automation, but that automation might have been stupid the normal computer way, rather than the new LLM enhanced computer way.
- Comment on Cloudflare is down this morning 1 day ago:
I’m sure it was, and I’m sure they will not admit it.
So I’ll throw this into the “conspiracy theory, but probably true” pile; and I’ll try to remember to check snopes.com in 20 years to see if I was somehow wrong.
“Did Vibe coding really routinely break half the Internet is the 2020s?” …assuming the Internet and I are still both around by then…
- Comment on Cloudflare is down this morning 1 day ago:
It would be funny if it was because of some AI coding
It is. Sometimes the big secret turns out to just be what we all thought was happening.
- Comment on Cloudflare is down this morning 1 day ago:
Dang. I had to look it up, but CrowdStike taking down a huge percentage of Windows PCs was so last year, I guess.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Yes. You’ve shared the use case where Agentic AI makes sense.
Basically, if I need more randomness than a shell script can supply, it makes sense to mix a learning model in.
The use case I think we will continue to see significant use in is (low quality) advertising in contexts where only the product matters (not the brand). The cost for failure is lower, and the reward for creativity is higher.
Even in that nearly ideal use case, many companies leveraging it are going to discover that their brand image cannot afford to be associated with sociopathic AI slop. So I think even that trend is about to peak and reduce.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
“Hey siri create me an e-commerce site” isn’t likely to happen for a long while, because like you said it’s a complex thing that doesn’t have clear success measures.
One would hope so, but of course Someone is trying it, and it has gone as poorly as you might imagine.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
there are ways to turn down the randomness to get more consistent outputs for simple tasks.
Yes: shell scripting, which we have had for half a century.
- Comment on iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots." 3 days ago:
How did they squander being the name in autonomous vacuum devices…?
Letting a picture of a customer using the bathroom leak onto Facebook cannot have helped.
- Comment on would a underwater pool be filled with air or more water 5 days ago:
Air and then water: First a large air bubble. Wet fill the air bubble with deck chairs, changing rooms, and palm trees.
Then, as a final touch, we put in a nice temperature controlled filtered and chemically balanced pool.
- Comment on Is capitalism or consumerism at fault? 5 days ago:
I’m sorry but did a CEO write this?
I sure hope not. The CEOs should be leveraging their AI contracts to write things like this, to maximize synergy.
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 5 days ago:
Right. That’s why I gave grandma Linux Mint, rather than asking her to learn Windows.
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 5 days ago:
And sure as hell when she got some custom-software disc from hospital with embedded images from her x-ray or whatever it’s called, I wouldn’t want her to need to also deal with Linux possibly not being able to run it.
That’s a reasonable fear, but unmerited. Those discs open perfectly on modern Linux.
- Comment on Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading 6 days ago:
If the truth is theyre barely afloat theyre not going to change anything by delaying the report.
Sure. Long term.
But I can’t help but wonder how much a motivated executive could embezzle using some additional time…
- Comment on Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading 6 days ago:
The rabbit hole goes deep on this one.
I found it surreally hard to find new dance game - until I discovered that much of the player community had (I guess?) moved to an open source game engine called StepMania.
I play StepMania happily enough, now. It is nice how many different songs I can now add with community contributed step configurations.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 1 week ago:
but running SteamOS instead of Android sounds amazing.
I have put Android and carries flavors of Linux on a variety of weird hardware. I can go confirm, running a game on SteamOS rather than Android typically makes a big performance improvement.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 1 week ago:
For the rumored price, I’d need to see more commitment from Valve and latest news right now are saying they aren’t developing a VR title.
Agreed. I feel the same.
But then I start to think about an Indie friendly VR platform might give us in six months. It could be very nice.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 1 week ago:
I’ve been saying for years that VR can get off my lawn until I can buy Linux native hardware. I guess I’m interested in VR, now.
“I may never financially recover from this.”
is well said.
I need to buy all of these.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
As someone whose father probably had to do the same - it has meant so much to me, that he did. You have a lot to be proud of.
- Comment on A brain transplant is one of those rare cases where you’d rather be the donor than the recipient. 1 week ago:
Hell, I’d go into shock if your dropped me in my own body from 20-years back.
Hmmm. I think I would risk it.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 1 week ago:
Outside? I try not to go there.
- Comment on xkcd #3166: Big and Little Spoons 1 week ago:
This is such a perfect setup that I can’t decide if you are actually Randal Murnoe, but I will take the bait, and provide a link to the Relevant XKCD, as is tradition.
- Comment on How hard would it be to trap gated communities by crashing dozens of cars into the front of their gates blocking them from leaving ? 1 week ago:
Just be sure not to mess with any electronics boards. Sourcing replacement boards for old proprietary hardware can be a huge pain, and they would have to leave the gate open while they wait for a new board to arrive and get installed.
That sounds uncomfortable, to the kind of person who needs a gate between them and society to feel secure.
- Comment on Microsoft update breaks localhost in Windows 11 5 weeks ago:
Ouch. I’m in this picture, and I don’t like it. Haha.
- Comment on Microsoft update breaks localhost in Windows 11 5 weeks ago:
It felt risky upgrading my work PC to Linux, but I’m so thankful not to be dealing with this bullshit.
We did everything inside of WSL already, anyway.
- Comment on DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026 5 weeks ago:
Penis-face sure looks like he’s having a great time in that cold medicine ad!
- Comment on The Full Story of BOOX: How a Chinese Startup Revolutionized the Global E-Reader Market 5 weeks ago:
Yes. Boox is nice, if you want it for adding Android apps.
I side load on mine a great deal.
Fast things like games and movies don’t play nice with the slow eInk screen.
But board games, puzzle games, digital comics, and simple websites all work great.
I was surprised that background processes do fine, with some patience. I have something running to back up my notes to my NAS.
- Comment on The Full Story of BOOX: How a Chinese Startup Revolutionized the Global E-Reader Market 5 weeks ago:
Boox are great!
I don’t trust the services they default to, but they’re full unlocked Android, so they talk to my NAS and other services I choose.
If you don’t care for the battery life or screen refresh rate, be aware that there’s now a setting so you can pick your preference (faster refresh means shorter battery life).
- Comment on I've recently turned into a blocker. 5 weeks ago:
Just be aware of any filter bubble you might create.
That’s a great point. I block pretty easily, but for rudeness, not for disagreement.
I’ve blocked some assholes that I wholeheartedly agree with, but I just don’t want to read them abrasively support things I believe in.