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New comment by booi in "Exif Smuggling (2025)"

booi — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:38:56 +0000

Does this inadvertently reveal the location of your home? It's like a cloud of photos except in this one circle.

New comment by booi in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

booi — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:04:29 +0000

I think there's a pretty big difference here. It's not like Github prevents you from building a Github competitor. Or Linear is preventing you from using it to build a Linear competitor.

This is more akin to Windows somehow preventing you from building a new OS.

Or worse yet, sabotaging vs preventing.

New comment by booi in "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"

booi — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:31:23 +0000

Yeah I’ve had inconsistencies before with linear but jira is a garbage fire so…

New comment by booi in "pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution"

booi — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:26:13 +0000

it also feels strange to query for DB load before starting a job.. i'm not even sure how you would do it, how you would adjust a job given a load value, and what would you do if there's too much load.

New comment by booi in "Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 400Gb/S and Beyond (2022) [pdf]"

booi — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:33:54 +0000

wait till you hear about what smart tvs do..

New comment by booi in "Googlebook"

booi — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:44:41 +0000

IMO this makes the argument for ChromiumOS and downstreams stronger. Gemini wants to do everything in my browser and i can't turn it off please help

New comment by booi in "Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML"

booi — Sun, 03 May 2026 07:51:24 +0000

code

New comment by booi in "AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on"

booi — Fri, 01 May 2026 22:52:06 +0000

They can typically operate indefinitely on diesel generators and have hot supply contracts with multiple suppliers. Even our small rinky dink datacenter had that.

So, it would generally be more effective to hit the actual datacenter than try to cut the power.

New comment by booi in "Ubuntu website and repositories outage due to DDoS"

booi — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:47:28 +0000

to be fair, they probably published something about this... on their website.

New comment by booi in "LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions"

booi — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:38:21 +0000

That's big talk coming from someone who currently has a job. getting a job without a linkedin account isn't that straightforward.

New comment by booi in "Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?"

booi — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:19:24 +0000

didn't you get the memo? If you don't set up proper SSL certificates you can't give opinions on the features you want in a car...

New comment by booi in "Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?"

booi — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:15:41 +0000

sorry, I didn't find someone named "bob mary" in your contacts list

New comment by booi in "Europe has "maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left""

booi — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:09:17 +0000

That's called refining.

New comment by booi in "Durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and a cron scheduler – inside your SQLite file"

booi — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:37:34 +0000

i mean, technically this is once per millisecond, so this would happen 1000x more. In your case due to the kernel overhead you would likely not even be able to do it (300% CPU?).

Either way this does seem like a very large overhead due to the fact that there's just no other way to do it without a deeper kernel integration which might be outside the scope of what sqlite is trying to do.

New comment by booi in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

booi — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:41:55 +0000

$5.6B actually sounds like a good deal. It outputs 2GW+ of power. While solar is definitely cheaper for 2GW of power, you still need batteries for when the sun is down. So you probably need approximately 30GWh of batteries to just replace this one power plant. The batteries alone would cost nearly $7B of grid-scale batteries that must be replaced every 20 years.

Ignoring the fact that the nuclear plant already exists, this still seems like the right way to go mostly because it's impossible to build this nuclear power plant for $16B in the US anymore (or so it seems).

New comment by booi in "Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga"

booi — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:49:13 +0000

try 45 million sites including many absolutely critical to people's lives and health.

https://trends.builtwith.com/cdn/Cloudflare

New comment by booi in "Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga"

booi — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:46:55 +0000

This statement really makes no sense..

> Google, Cloudflare, VPN providers, and other entities facilitating piracy are responsible for the illegal activities they enable and profit from.

Why wouldn't ISPs be responsible too? or the cable modem providers? or the computer providers? or your eyes. Let's just blame all those things and not the person that made it or the person that consumes it.

New comment by booi in "Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga"

booi — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:39:59 +0000

To say that Telefonica offers even remotely the same services and features that Cloudflare does is a lie at best.

New comment by booi in "Europe has "maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left""

booi — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:43:24 +0000

I wonder if we could get into a situation where there's no bunker fuel to ship crude to refineries that are able to make bunker fuel. Like a cold start problem

New comment by booi in "KLM cancels 160 flights due to fuel shortage"

booi — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:32:47 +0000

maybe UN resolution?