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New comment by boredpudding in "Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables"

boredpudding — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:41:13 +0000

I have a roll of velcro for this. Massive roll, and I cut off small 7-8cm pieces.

New comment by boredpudding in "Google kills Earth AI generator after one day"

boredpudding — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:28:52 +0000

You could take an area of Google Earth and let it be 'improved' by AI. So you could add a playground instead of a parking lot, or add migrants near a border post.

Due to consequences unforeseen by Google, it was used more for the latter.

New comment by boredpudding in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

boredpudding — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 07:38:03 +0000

I'm not sure how statistics track it, but when you're moderator on a subreddit you can see how many visitors use old reddit.

Last month for mine it was 1%. Now. This could be more due to their tracking not working for most old reddit users (I assume most have adblock), but it's unlikely to be a lot more.

The large majority of Reddit users are on the app. I'm honestly surprised they haven't killed old reddit off yet, and yes, I've used it myself for the longest time until I started missing some features.

New comment by boredpudding in "I also filed the corners off my MacBook"

boredpudding — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:51:28 +0000

Bosch is one of those companies that makes a lot of different things. I own powertools, kitchen appliances and car parts from them.

New comment by boredpudding in "€54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs"

boredpudding — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:47:55 +0000

Google API keys have been used for ages on the frontend. For example on Google Maps embeds. Those are not possible without exposing a key to the frontend. They weren't secret, until Gemini arrived.

https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/google-api-keys-werent-secr...

https://medium.com/@ahhyesic/your-google-maps-api-key-now-ha...

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/02/public-google...

New comment by boredpudding in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

boredpudding — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:17:40 +0000

Confirmation seems to be here: https://github.com/search?q=%22%E2%9A%A1+Quickly+spin+up+cop...

New comment by boredpudding in "Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver"

boredpudding — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:25:59 +0000

Maybe even have multiple people in each pod, and on the set track, have common stops where people are likely to get on/off.

New comment by boredpudding in "Firefox Getting New Controls to Turn Off AI Features"

boredpudding — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:23:54 +0000

It's automatic. So if you open Facebook, or any Meta site, it automatically puts it in it's own container.

Together with Privacy Badger, Meta has no clue what you're doing on the rest of the web.

New comment by boredpudding in "Microsoft won't let me pay a $24 bill, blocking thousands in Azure spending"

boredpudding — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:38:30 +0000

What points to this being written by an LLM?

New comment by boredpudding in "250MWh 'Sand Battery' to start construction in Finland"

boredpudding — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 12:05:12 +0000

I'm not sure if the 1800kWh is correct here. I'm guessing it's one of these two:

- You're talking about what heat pumps use in electricity. However, the system would store heat. If a heat pump uses 1 kWh to get 3 kWh of heat into the house, a heat based storage system needs to store the 3 kWh.

- You're confusing gas & electricity. 1800 m3 in gas would be about correct. However, that's about 9,5 kwh per m3 in heat.

There are interesting heat storage methods though, there is a long term basalt heat storage system in 'Ecodorp Boekel' in The Netherlands. It uses solar to heat during the summer and heats the homes with that in winter.

Due to size though, it only really works in 'collective' communities. The bigger the size, the more heat it can store per size.

New comment by boredpudding in "Glasses-free 3D using webcam head tracking"

boredpudding — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 08:33:30 +0000

It's YouTube. This is super common, just worded in a weird way.

New comment by boredpudding in "How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?"

boredpudding — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 20:39:25 +0000

It's possible to store energy for full seasons, just not electricity.

It's been done with heat. Using cheap electricity in the summer to generate heat and store it in basalt. There's a small block of houses in The Netherlands that gets their heat that way: https://www.ecodorpboekel.nl/basaltaccu-is-opgebouwd-uit-duu...

There's more systems like this around the world, although they use different storage methods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_thermal_energy_storag...

New comment by boredpudding in "I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf"

boredpudding — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 20:43:55 +0000

What range are you getting in winter at 85km/h?

Currently trying to get rid of our petrol car but knowing realistic range up front is rough. I'm fine with driving slower.

New comment by boredpudding in "UK's largest battery storage facility at Tilbury substation"

boredpudding — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 11:09:06 +0000

Does the UK not have an option for hourly-pricing? That's usually where as a consumer you can have the most gains. In the summer, with solar panels, my energy bill is negative (in The Netherlands)

New comment by boredpudding in "The Minecraft Code (2024) [video]"

boredpudding — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 13:14:05 +0000

I agree it's not the equivalent, but the file could've contained things like Minecon attendees. That would still mean it's badly secured of course, but putting a huge community effort behind it and youtubers making 'Biggest Secret in Minecraft' videos about it would suddenly turn into very bad taste.

New comment by boredpudding in "The Minecraft Code (2024) [video]"

boredpudding — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 13:12:40 +0000

The cracking basically started the moment youtubers presented it as 'a mystery'.

New comment by boredpudding in "The Minecraft Code (2024) [video]"

boredpudding — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 08:45:42 +0000

It's solved, full write-up here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MinecraftUnlimited/comments/1cvo5py...

Tl:dr; It was a release file for their Minecon event. It was never meant to be public. Obsessing over a password protected in a company's S3 bucket is weird and crosses many limits.

New comment by boredpudding in "The Factory Timezone"

boredpudding — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 13:39:48 +0000

That's turning locations into coordinates (ip geolocation). It's to be expected that the gps log only bases their logs on the coordinates from the GPS from the phone.

New comment by boredpudding in "Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display"

boredpudding — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 17:58:49 +0000

That's a very good one, but in my case it was a huge billboard that was advertising movies and stuff.

It had cubes in different colors so from further away it would look like an image.

New comment by boredpudding in "Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display"

boredpudding — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 17:29:46 +0000

This used to exist! I remember a video about this large analog billboard in Amsterdam (?).

Unfortunately I can't find the video. Will edit if I do (or anybody else finds it first).