roguelazer
@roguelazer@lemmy.world
Bay Area nerd/computer person. Found at www.roguelazer.com and primarily on the Fediverse at @roguelazer@hachyderm.io.
- Comment on Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company 2 weeks ago:
Webpass used to be great. The instant it became Google Fiber, it seemed to be totally abandoned; no rollout to new buildings/neighborhoods, no speed improvements (most locations still top out at 1Gbps and local favorite Sonic.net has rolled out 10Gbps fiber throughout the Bay Area), and prices are stubbornly high ($70/mo for 1Gbps versus $40 from competitors). Oh, and there’s still no IPv6.
I’m sure Astound will be even worse but Google has been an awful steward of this service.
- Comment on Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them 2 weeks ago:
(this is the same reason that big solar systems require an oversized busbar on your main panel)
- Comment on Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them 2 weeks ago:
I think the risk is more that someone has a 15A-rated outlet on a 15A circuit breaker, plugs a solar panel into one socket and then a power strip with 30A of space heaters into the other socket. Breaker doesn’t trip because the main panel is only providing 15A, but the outlet lights on fire.
Not sure why that isn’t a problem in places these are more common.
- Comment on Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source 2 months ago:
MySQL often has moderately higher performance (particularly for workloads where you want your data clustered by PK, which is how InnoDB is natively structured) and its replication system is much more flexible than either of PostgreSQL’s.
- Comment on My apartment building gives me free water but I pay for electricity. What if I run the faucet nonstop and rig up a hydro turbine in my bathtub to generate my power from it? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models 4 months ago:
Who would’ve thought those Arkady Martine books would be so prescient?
- Comment on Pocket shutting down 10 months ago:
Maybe Kobo will finally make an API for loading articles so we can send them from Instapaper/Raindrop/Pinboard/etc…
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 11 months ago:
Focusing on airbag-deployments and injuries ignores the obvious problem: these things are unbelievably unsafe for pedestrians and bicyclists. I curse SF for allowing AVs and always give them a wide berth because there’s no way to know if they see you and they’ll often behave erratically and unpredictably in crosswalks. I don’t give a shit how often the passengers are injured, I care a lot more how much they disrupt life for all the people who aren’t paying Waymo for the privilege.
- Comment on LLM crawlers continue to DDoS SourceHut. 1 year ago:
The companies that run these residential proxy networks are sketchy as shit and in a better world would be criminally prosecuted. They’re tricking random low-information users into installing VPNs and other software with backdoors that turn them into a veritable botnet.