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New comment by padjo in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

padjo — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:32:30 +0000

I don't really buy that there's a strong anti EU sentiment in Europe. I don't think its supported by facts. The UK was always an outlier in Europe and only joined when forced by Economic reality, which they will be again in 20 years.

New comment by padjo in "From Australia to Europe, countries move to curb children's social media access"

padjo — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:28:17 +0000

For 1. Can't the attestation result function as an identifier that the service uniquely associates with an account?

For 2. I have sufficient trust in my society that this would be the case or would have significant negative ramifications for the parties involved. Probably not true for all countries.

New comment by padjo in "From Australia to Europe, countries move to curb children's social media access"

padjo — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:36:54 +0000

Is that the only way? It seems conceivable to me that you could have some sort of publicly run infrastructure that asserts your age is above some threshold without sharing your identity. So long as that system recorded no log of who asked it for assertions about whom then I can't see an objection to age verification.

New comment by padjo in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

padjo — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 11:12:59 +0000

Even though it was those same governments who set the EU up in the first place because it was mutually beneficial.

New comment by padjo in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"

padjo — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:51:15 +0000

The VW app can't do remote unlock so that's not a problem. It allows you to turn on the aircon or start charging and that's about it. That only works 50% of the time anyway.

New comment by padjo in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"

padjo — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:43:24 +0000

Yep same thing on /e/os guess I'll never be buying another VW. Well done guys.

New comment by padjo in "A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown"

padjo — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:29:44 +0000

It took roughly 5 billion years to get where we are now. The sun will die in another 5 billion years. I don't think there's that many rolls of the dice left.

New comment by padjo in "A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown"

padjo — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:24:24 +0000

Has to be the dumbest common response to climate change. You're against one potential method of reducing carbon emissions, therefore the problem doesn't exist. Well done.

New comment by padjo in "A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown"

padjo — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:21:34 +0000

You see the words "suggest" and "may" in the subhead yeah?

New comment by padjo in "Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12"

padjo — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:59:42 +0000

If you only use npm to manage client side deps then it removes the ability to compromise a devs machine or the CI server. Seems like nice attack vectors to just eliminate entirely.

New comment by padjo in "AI is slowing down"

padjo — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:24:20 +0000

If I just continually predict that it will rain tomorrow I'll be right eventually. That doesn't mean that I know anything about the weather.

New comment by padjo in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

padjo — Fri, 22 May 2026 22:20:47 +0000

> Maybe vibe bun is just as good or better than old bun, but how would we know at this point?

By considering objective facts like efficiency, performance, error rates, security vulns etc. like we always do?

New comment by padjo in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

padjo — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:50:56 +0000

Will be interesting to see how this pans out. Some people will see minor issues as proof that AI is terrible, but honestly if this gets released and is relatively uneventful it just highlights how the art of building software had changed completely in the last few years.

New comment by padjo in "The AI Backlash Could Get Ugly"

padjo — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:47:13 +0000

I have tried not working and it's great.

New comment by padjo in "Intercom Becomes Fin"

padjo — Wed, 13 May 2026 11:09:01 +0000

Well that's confusing. The company Fin will now make the products Intercom and Fin rather than the company Intercom making the products Fin and Helpdesk. Hard to see how that's an improvement.

New comment by padjo in "Googlebook"

padjo — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:32:43 +0000

If you're touting widgets in your marketing its a sure sign that you have nothing useful to sell.

New comment by padjo in "Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise"

padjo — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:24:21 +0000

So in summary:

- a writable shared global cache is made available to PRs opened from forks by randomers.

- that cache is reused in the deploy pipeline

- deploys can be made with a single authentication factor, stored on the CI server

- the repository apparently does nothing to check for malicious deploys, delegating that to 3rd parties to do after the code is in the wild.

- by default the package manager runs random code when a package is updated

What a world we live in.

New comment by padjo in "The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)"

padjo — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:24:44 +0000

I love connections but holy crap can people just not spot an edit? It's a cool shot but the bit he had to time is short and pretty simple.

New comment by padjo in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

padjo — Mon, 11 May 2026 05:27:17 +0000

But that's not what this article is? The author is clearly a long time AWS user and former evangelist who has soured on it as it has become increasingly bloated.

New comment by padjo in "EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing""

padjo — Sat, 09 May 2026 10:44:01 +0000

So a research arm of the European parliament is "the EU" now?