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New comment by fxd123 in "Cloudflare was down"

fxd123 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 08:59:03 +0000

> Investigating - Cloudflare is investigating issues with Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs.

They seem to now, a few min after your comment

New comment by fxd123 in "The latest Hunger Games novel may have been co-authored by AI"

fxd123 — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 15:29:16 +0000

I've read plenty of dumb things in pre-AI books.

New comment by fxd123 in "The UI Future Is Colourful and Dimensional"

fxd123 — Tue, 27 May 2025 03:23:16 +0000

...except Airbnb's redesign is still extremely flat. Three icons that have 3-D shadows is not groundbreaking

New comment by fxd123 in "Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’"

fxd123 — Mon, 05 May 2025 22:25:55 +0000

> leftist tarrifs

huh?

New comment by fxd123 in "Backblaze responds to claims of "sham accounting", "customer backups at risk""

fxd123 — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 05:28:33 +0000

> Most people probably don't have 2.5 TB worth of stuff.

But Backblaze is marketing itself towards people who do. The average person is not a backblaze customer

New comment by fxd123 in "Backblaze responds to claims of "sham accounting", "customer backups at risk""

fxd123 — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 05:26:33 +0000

The "Personal backup" pricing plan is $99 USD / year and includes "Unlimited data backup" and "one year version history" which implies they are storing much more than just your data at a given time.

$99 would give you 5-6TB of data for consumer HDD costs. And then factor in that they are likely doing some type of additional backup/RAID it would be even less data per dollar. And that's not including maintenance, rent, and employees.

Honestly I'm surprised they exist

New comment by fxd123 in "Unauthorised AI Bots on Reddit Are Eroding Sociality"

fxd123 — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 05:20:00 +0000

I also find Reddit good- but given I mainly follow subreddits focused on PC hardware, I'm less concerned. I would never go to Reddit for discussion about political or controversial topics where botting would be a target.

But not just due to astroturfing, but their users are also just pretty crazy and exist in a extremely narrow bubble.

New comment by fxd123 in "Unauthorised AI Bots on Reddit Are Eroding Sociality"

fxd123 — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 05:17:05 +0000

> or political ideas

Judging by some of the examples listed by Reddit mods, it seems political astroturfing is a serious goal:

"(This is one of the AI comments used in the experiment.)

As a Palestinian, I hate Israel and want the state of Israel to end. I consider them to be the worst people on earth. I will take ANY ally in this fight."

New comment by fxd123 in "The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago, but the battle with Agent Orange continues"

fxd123 — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 20:00:46 +0000

> No - most Asian nations did not recognize the South Vietnam govt

I would not say "most". Thailand, Laos, SK, Philippines, Singapore did.

>US vetoed Vietnamese membership to the UN in 1975 - after losing the War.

Because the war was still ongoing, between North and South at that time. They merged in 1976 and US voted in favor of membership in 1977.

New comment by fxd123 in "The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago, but the battle with Agent Orange continues"

fxd123 — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 16:23:52 +0000

Genocidal serbia got off too easy

New comment by fxd123 in "The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago, but the battle with Agent Orange continues"

fxd123 — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 16:19:20 +0000

> It was never part of the UN and its membership was explicitly denied.

Solely due to a soviet veto. Most countries recognized it anyway.

New comment by fxd123 in "The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago, but the battle with Agent Orange continues"

fxd123 — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 06:24:41 +0000

But yet, no imperialism occurred?

New comment by fxd123 in "The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago, but the battle with Agent Orange continues"

fxd123 — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 05:52:48 +0000

How is it imperialism? The internationally-recognized government of South Vietnam asked the US for military intervention.

The US signed peace accords in 1973 and removed all troops. North Vietnam broke the accords and invaded South Vietnam in 1975.

New comment by fxd123 in "The University of Michigan Doubled Down on DEI What Went Wrong?"

fxd123 — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 00:29:48 +0000

> In the fever of the 2024 campaign, Republican influencers and politicians have recast D.E.I. as an all-purpose boogeyman

Republicans seem correct. It's clear that DEI has gone way too far and is regressive rather than progressive.

New comment by fxd123 in "Call of Duty: Warzone Caldera Data Set for Academic Use"

fxd123 — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 03:08:54 +0000

The repo contains some source code, so therefore it's open source

New comment by fxd123 in "Low-income homes drop Internet service after Congress kills discount program"

fxd123 — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 00:32:53 +0000

> If someone can't afford $30-50/mo for Internet

But that's the thing- they CAN afford it. They afforded it just fine before 2021 when the program started.

New comment by fxd123 in "Low-income homes drop Internet service after Congress kills discount program"

fxd123 — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 00:31:45 +0000

This is just a subsidy for big ISPs. Good riddance

New comment by fxd123 in "Oracle's Java pricing brews bitter taste, subscribers spill over to OpenJDK"

fxd123 — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 22:16:52 +0000

Zulu JDK

New comment by fxd123 in "DOJ to offer Boeing "sweetheart" plea deal in pursuit of criminal charges"

fxd123 — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 05:24:48 +0000

Your representatives are not part of the DOJ...

New comment by fxd123 in "Harvard's largest faculty eliminates requirement for DEI statements in hiring"

fxd123 — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 03:10:59 +0000

Good. DEI, at its very core, is a racist and shallow ideology