Hacker News: bigbuppo

New comment by bigbuppo in "Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers"

bigbuppo — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:01:59 +0000

Well historically it meant that's where poor black families lived, but since these days the lower end of the 1% have more in common with the poorest of the poor than the richest of the rich it's probably where mere millionaires live.

New comment by bigbuppo in "An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail"

bigbuppo — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:34:00 +0000

I love Fastmail. They're built on top of open source software, Cyrus IMAP, and they've more or less become the steward of that project.

New comment by bigbuppo in "Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers"

bigbuppo — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:05:38 +0000

Cool, I'll be putting big data ai machine learning data center in your back yard.

New comment by bigbuppo in "Deus Ex creator Warren Spector is retiring from game development"

bigbuppo — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:37:30 +0000

And then you have Jeff Vogel, who has spent roughly 2/3 of his career literally remaking the games he first released 30 years ago. And I've literally bought them all.

New comment by bigbuppo in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"

bigbuppo — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:22:59 +0000

Yeah, it really sucks I can't even afford a computer that can have two Chrome tabs open these days.

New comment by bigbuppo in "Marketers are Addicted to Bad Data (2020)"

bigbuppo — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:34:31 +0000

It leads to more tracking and higher marketing budgets. And sometimes it leads to more revenue, but since the marketing department is in charge of the statistics, well, did they really?

New comment by bigbuppo in "Marketers are Addicted to Bad Data (2020)"

bigbuppo — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:20:36 +0000

Yeah, but with one more piece of data they'll have solved personalized mattress sales forever. Nevermind that the entity collecting the marketing data is a convenience store chain and doesn't sell their data, allegedly.

New comment by bigbuppo in "Anthropic's War on open source AI"

bigbuppo — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:45:44 +0000

And specifically, a for-profit cult.

New comment by bigbuppo in "How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)"

bigbuppo — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:03:02 +0000

Mobster tactics from google. Nice.

Just remember that Google always kills its products, and they are an advertising company.

I'm joking, I hope, but Google ain't what it used to be.

New comment by bigbuppo in "Every Fucking Website (2020)"

bigbuppo — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:04:12 +0000

And if you scroll back up the content above is completely changed to something else.

New comment by bigbuppo in "Every Fucking Website (2020)"

bigbuppo — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:03:14 +0000

also didn't yell at me for using an ad blocker.

New comment by bigbuppo in "Every Fucking Website (2020)"

bigbuppo — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:00:07 +0000

I actually kind of like those, though I've always been suspicious that those events are fabricated because that's the sort of thing marketing people would do.

New comment by bigbuppo in "Every Fucking Website (2020)"

bigbuppo — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:57:14 +0000

In my experience, most people come in two camps: 1) they just click to make it go away because they click everything and would agree to sell their own mother to organ scrappers just to get past the annoyance, and 2) they understand what it's asking and are immediately suspicious.

New comment by bigbuppo in "Every Fucking Website (2020)"

bigbuppo — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:55:28 +0000

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New comment by bigbuppo in "Every Fucking Website (2020)"

bigbuppo — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:54:38 +0000

The interstitial popup needs to be delayed until about 750ms after the first scroll action for that extra insult.

New comment by bigbuppo in "Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot"

bigbuppo — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:12:20 +0000

Yeah... you have to remember to setup and fully secure the site before LE certs are issued or you're going to have a bad time. Learned that the hard way when I popped a couple dozen wordpress sites in one go.

New comment by bigbuppo in "How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story"

bigbuppo — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:58:47 +0000

It was coincidence.

New comment by bigbuppo in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

bigbuppo — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:30:36 +0000

LLMs are currently "Search in 1997".

That is to say, it can only get worse from here.

New comment by bigbuppo in "How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story"

bigbuppo — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:56:17 +0000

I showed up to a job interview wearing the exact same shirt and tie as the CEO who interviewed me. I got the job.

New comment by bigbuppo in "How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story"

bigbuppo — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:54:08 +0000

And then it disappeared once "Find out who called you only $50 or subscribe for $35 or we'll add you to our bad public records site" became a business model.