For someone who is able to design an end to end system by themselves these tools offer a big time saving, but they come with dangers too.

Yesterday I had a mid dev in my team proudly present a Web tool he "wrote" in python (to be run on local host) that runs kubectl in the background and presents things like versions of images running in various namespaces etc. It looked very slick, I can already imagine the product managers asking for it to be put on the network.

So what's the problem? For one, no threading whatsoever, no auth, all queries run in a single thread and on and on. A maintenance nightmare waiting to happen. That is a risk of a person that knows something, but not enough building tools by themselves.

If you wanted to run same workloads on Aws it would cost you few hundred euro a month.

I see a silver lining to all this. At least maybe the silly "throw more horizontal scaling at it" will stop being a default response to all performance problems and people that are able to squeeze more processing out of the same hardware will be sought after again.

Their size and the effect on the market they have

>×If 5 companies want to buy a quadrilion ram chips to build datacenters, why is this manipulation moreso than a million companies each wanting to buy 100 ram chips?

Because they are 5 companies, especially when it can be shown they work in unison (formed a cartel)

To be honest for anything more serious than a personal Minecraft server hetzner has been beaten by ovh for ages (on bandwidth - you get all you can eat data limited by speed from ovh - for example 500mbit, instead of 20tb from hetzner).

For this reason hetzner is always a "backup DC" in my eyes and never the primary.

Also I heard they are extremely sensitive regarding abuse allegations so don't even think of hosting something someone may not like seeing...

They get a lot of hype, but there are many competitors worth looking at.

They may have not noticed an improvement, but it doesn't mean there isn't any.

Would organising an armed resistance be more effective? The state dissappears people. Have them organise and dissappear the leaders of the revolutionary guard or at the very least help another state (like Israel) to target them.

Non violence works only in democracies and other systems where the rulers care about what people think.

Honestly, did the bot implementation have bugs or was it a proper implementation that crashed the network due to sheer numbers?

Also, how does changing the encryption standard affect anything if the bots tried to integrate correctly with the network?

Is the problem "fixed" or is it not? Elsewhere I found large number if botnet devs got pissed off with this botnet operator and 600k nodes went offline. Might this have much more to do with the situation getting better than simply changing encryption?

Also, was there any suggestion a quantum breaking attack was attempted? No. So why put the emphasis on "post quantum" in this article?

Bad. Very bad.

"Maximum download limit reached" - it's gone. Also, not present in the archive.org :-(

I only take 250iu twice a week. 6 months in I can't see any atrophy. Some people take it every other day.

This hormone HCG is very interesting. In fact it is what many urine pregnancy tests test for. I wonder if I did a pregnancy test it would cone out positive :-)

But, the reason why I'm talking about it is to explain that it works the same as another hormone called LH produced by the pituary gland that regulates natural testosterone production by testes

So when one takes external testosterone the mechanism through which body shuts its production down is by shutting down this LH hormone.

By taking HCG ones testes are told to make testosterone. Not a lot of it, but it seems to be enough to prevent atrophy so far.

> Particularly, that adding testosterone will cause changes throughout your entire body (including, for example, shortening life expectancy a bit), and that adding other hormones to the mix will likewise cause changes around the entire body and not just one single process or organ.

For sure. Many of these effects are very positive. For example I was a little pre-diabetic, this has improved a lot (but one may argue via exercise - then again I manage to be consistent with the exercise thanks to psych. changes caused by the testosterone).

Another is these psychological changes. I feel more "stable". I never was really unstable, at least I never noticed, but it feels better. Like, whatever happens I can most likely solve it kind of feeling, even when things go wrong.

Finally about the shortening of lifespan. I think I offset this by exercising, but another factor is getting regular blood tests. The doc monitors things like hematocrit etc. I'm told to drink a lot more water, to measure blood pressure even though I never had high pressure etc to keep it in check.

I think most problems happen with people that do not realise their blood gets "too thick", they get high blood pressure, miss it for years and end up with circulatory system issues.

It is a tradeoff. Not everything is ideal. One negative side effect I did get is worse skin until I found a procedure to exfoliate/moisturise and so on. It's a bit of a pain in the arse as before I'd just have quick showers. Now it takes longer. But so far it is worth it.

My critique is less about this site and more about the state of Web in general.

Thank you for providing the rss feed.

Started in early 200x sysadmining Linux boxes. Moved to an MS gold partner that started with 6 employees and ended up with 45 by the time I left. So you can imagine the kind of work and solutions we did, started with mom and pop, ended up doing email systems for a 20k user system, also picked up vmware/sphere, perl scripting a big monitoring system for over a year and hacking old binary only legacy software to extract data, lots of extremely varied short term projects.

Then got onto the "Solutions Architect" career path. Did that for 6 years ending up in a big telco. I ended up being bored out of my mind just doing designs/tech sales/delegating all the "real work".

I decided to go into Devops and switch to contracting at the same time. I now realise that was over 10 years ago now.

I couldn't be happier with my job since then. It's 100% remote, It's hands on troubleshooting when things go horribly wrong, it's solving hard problems with automation and in last 2 years lots of AI when the clients decide to rip out a huge amount of integration and switch clouds/other software and so on every 2 years :-)

It pays a little less and definitely has less prestige than "Solutions" for a huge telco (and I no longer wear a suit at work), but I can definitely see myself being happy doing that for next 10 years (if the role still exists then).

I get:

blog.adafruit.com Verifying you are human. This may take a few seconds.

blog.adafruit.com needs to review the security of your connection before proceeding.

And this hangs forever. What difference does it make if I access this site using a browser (blocked anyway) or I asked my LLM to fetch the content? I bet my LLM coukd get it anyway as I'm using basic local scraping with firecrawl for backup. So my LLM if it fails to retrieve using my basic local crawl4ai will use my paid firecrawl api and those guys can scrape EVERYTHING.

I do not understand why do you (as a site owner) care? Are these bots generating so much traffic? Can you set it up to serve text only version to them then?

The law is such that a prosecutor that wants to prosecute them has to ask the parliament. Then there is a vote and the parliament decides if the immunity is taken off.

In a healthy democracy, where there are more than same two parties switching the rule to one or the other it is very likely the current opposition will be the majority next time and they will vote to strip immunity from those that try to use it as a shield for criminals.

I think the price we pay for this (delay in getting justice) is well worth paying so the justice system can't be used as a weapon against political opponents easily.

How would you know? Think about the collapse of the Soviet Union, or communism in other countries. 2-3 years before it was unthinkable.

There is no need for MitM, you can set Api base address to your own proxy in all the coding assistants (at least all I know - Claude Code, opencode, gemini, vc plugin).

The changes I made allow use of the models endpoint in litellm at the same base url as telemetry and passing through Claude Max auth. This is not about using your Max with another cli tool, but about recording everything that happens.

There is a tool that can send CC json logs to langfuse but the results are much inferior. You loose parts of the tool call results, timing info etc.

I'm quite happy with this. If anyone is interested I can post a github link.

There are ways to "hack it".

For example, ~6 months ago I started trt (testosterone replacement). It was the best decision health wise ever. I feel way better psychologically, first time in my life I managed to stick with cardio training for so long (before 3 months was the most). There are other benefits too.

So what about the "loose it" part? Well there is a hormone called HCG one can take a twice a week to trick one's balls into producing some natural testosterone. Its use prevents atrophy and infertility.

I did a blood test for vit D metabolites (oh 25 or something). It turned out I was deficient.

The doc gave me 8k units as a prescription drug. In theory weaker. After 2 months I was no longer defiecient (kinda borderline). After 4 months the doc decided to go down to 4k iu.

Now I wonder why some experts are telling people to take 10k iu? Is it because the supplements are crap and contain 10% of what they claim? (I've been taking vit K as well)

Do you think they are going to be quicker reacting to danger from the other side?

I highly doubt it. EU is like a huge steam ship. It takes a lot of effort to turn it. But once it gets going good luck stopping it. This will have consequences for the EU-Us relations for the rest of this century.

I fact it is exactly what a Russian agent if he managed to become a president of US would do. A Putin's wet dream basically. Be hostile enough towards Russia to preserve appearances - seize a tanker or two, while undermining long term US and EU interests (the interests of these two are naturally aligned very well, it takes much more than an idiot to drive a wedge between them).