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New comment by flumpcakes in "The peril of laziness lost"

flumpcakes — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:12:09 +0000

The more people boast about AI while delivering absolute garbage like in the example here, the more I feel happier toiling around in Nginx configurations and sysadmin busy work. Why worry about AI when it's the same old idiots using it as a crutch, like any new fad.

New comment by flumpcakes in "IPv6 is the only way forward"

flumpcakes — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:02:19 +0000

One of the biggest, I would assume in the current year, blockers to an IPv6 only world would be the fact that the major "cloud" vendors do not support it.

New comment by flumpcakes in "Cursor 3"

flumpcakes — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:53:50 +0000

I don't understand how this product can be productively useful. It looks like any other AI chat bot, but I remember hearing people speak very positive things about it. What am I missing?

New comment by flumpcakes in "Building a Mostly IPv6 Only Home Network"

flumpcakes — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:31:54 +0000

In IPv6 the smallest 'subnet' is /64 if I recall correctly.

It's weird having a subnet size equal to a complete IPv4 Internet worth of IPv6 Internets but I believe the rationale was that you would never in practise run of out IPs in your subnet. A lot of Enterprise IPv4 headaches are managing subnets that are not correctly sized (organic growth, etc.). IPv6 is always routable for the same reason (companies reusing RFC1918 making connecting networks a pain).

There are different headaches with IPv6 - such as re-IPing devices if they move subnet - i.e. move physical location, or during a failover etc.

I'm not sure what the best practise there is as many enterprises don't use IPv6 internally. In my experience anyway.

New comment by flumpcakes in "LibreOffice and the art of overreacting"

flumpcakes — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:02:15 +0000

I donated and don't receive any spam - you could perhaps try reviewing mail list settings / unsubcribe.

New comment by flumpcakes in "LibreOffice and the art of overreacting"

flumpcakes — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:01:03 +0000

Why is that disgusting? That's an extremely common revenue stream for charities. I know some charities where the majority of their income is derived from wills.

New comment by flumpcakes in "Tinybox- offline AI device 120B parameters"

flumpcakes — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:36:43 +0000

These specs look enormously cheaper than doing it with dell servers. The last quote I had for a bog standard dell server was $50k and only if bought in the next few days or so. The prices are going up weekly.

New comment by flumpcakes in "Office.eu launches as Europe's sovereign office platform"

flumpcakes — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:58:32 +0000

I think it's a factor of things, but Excel isn't as stable as it once was. My friends spreadsheets include:

- Row count ~100k - Column count ~1k - The usual vlookup, etc. formulae. - Oracle extensions that sync tables to databases in the cloud.

New comment by flumpcakes in "Office.eu launches as Europe's sovereign office platform"

flumpcakes — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:02:36 +0000

Care to expand further?

New comment by flumpcakes in "Office.eu launches as Europe's sovereign office platform"

flumpcakes — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:00:44 +0000

In 25 years I have never seen anyone use Microsoft Access in earnest. For the overwhelming majority of users I do not think this is an issue. The last time I used it was when studying for CLAiT Plus.

New comment by flumpcakes in "Office.eu launches as Europe's sovereign office platform"

flumpcakes — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:57:55 +0000

The vast majority of office use at my work is in the browsers because the files are stored in Sharepoint. It seems to work well enough for basic needs (no macros and fairly simple formulas in excel etc.)

I have a non-technical friend in finance who uses the Desktop versions of Excel for most of their work and they say it crashes nearly every day losing work.

New comment by flumpcakes in "Lazy JWT Key Rotation in .NET: Redis-Powered JWKS That Just Works"

flumpcakes — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:05:39 +0000

How far do you go, how do you use the private key to sign something if you can't keep it anywhere?

New comment by flumpcakes in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

flumpcakes — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 17:07:04 +0000

Not at all. It's a depressing read because the US Government is doing such things that would have been considered insane before 2016.

New comment by flumpcakes in "The Pentagon is making a mistake by threatening Anthropic"

flumpcakes — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 17:04:32 +0000

Are you saying intelligence is inherently unsafe? That seems like a pretty wild conclusion and I can't see any logical way to jump to your opinions.

New comment by flumpcakes in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

flumpcakes — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:04:27 +0000

This is such a depressing read. What is becoming of the USA? Let's hope sanity prevails and the next election cycle can bring in some competent non-grievance based leadership.

New comment by flumpcakes in "Layoffs at Block"

flumpcakes — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:51:17 +0000

Imagine receiving this message and the author couldn't even be bothered to capitalise letters properly. How insulting. It's like being fired by a five year old child.

New comment by flumpcakes in "How will OpenAI compete?"

flumpcakes — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 10:41:17 +0000

I suspect I am one of those 1bn users by their metric. I have an account, and I sometimes query it. I also query Claude and Gemini. I have zero loyalty, if I run out of tokens on one, I will just pick up the conversation on another provider. Perhaps I am using them wrong, but the amount of babysitting I have to do anyway, I don't find it that tedious to stay on the same topic during a swap.

There's no way I would spend $200 a month on any of them, not even $20 considering how few 'tokens' you get. I can see how these tools would be useful to my workflow, but I cannot use them as they are priced 100x too high for me to be reliable.

I have a feeling that would be true for the vast majority of these AI tool users. I really am not sure how these companies are supposed to become profitable. But SV is a bit insane that way.

New comment by flumpcakes in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"

flumpcakes — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:23:45 +0000

The woman in the pink smock-like clothing:

In the video there are Chinese characters on the clothing above the front pocket area. In a picture of her later on in the news article the Chinese writing is gone.

Has it been photoshopped out for the press release images?

New comment by flumpcakes in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

flumpcakes — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 19:04:31 +0000

I am about to talk about "vibes" and "feelings" so please take this with a grain of salt:

Does anyone else get the impression that they feel like the nefarious surveillance state is now real and definitely not for their benefit?

It's been a long running trope of the men in black, and the state listening to your phone calls, etc. Even after Snowdon's leaks, where we learned that there are these massive dragnets scooping up personal information, it didn't feel real. It felt distant and possibly could have been a "probably good thing" that is it was needed to catch "the real bad guys".

It feels different now. Since last year, it feels like the walls are closing in a bit and that now the US is becoming... well, I can't find the words, but it's not good.

New comment by flumpcakes in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

flumpcakes — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 18:58:18 +0000

What does the (I assume) acronym KYC mean?