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New comment by phillipseamore in "Regent's Ground-Effect Vehicle Reimagines Coastal Travel"

phillipseamore — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 01:45:40 +0000

"The Seaglider is designed to handle ocean swells up to a meter and a half high" - that severely limits where it can be used or during which seasons.

New comment by phillipseamore in "Iceye and Nokia partner with Ukraine to develop satcom capability"

phillipseamore — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 08:50:00 +0000

"Ice eye" - it started as project to see if SAR could be used to monitor ice features in the artic

New comment by phillipseamore in "StreetComplete v64.0 with iOS Support Released"

phillipseamore — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 22:50:02 +0000

Huh? Not found https://apps.apple.com/app/id6808344816

New comment by phillipseamore in "The math that OpenAI keeps for itself"

phillipseamore — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:17:05 +0000

Stupid me thinking they only spent time on brute force-able problems with pure compute, not sure there's much intelligence here. What could a mathematician do with $20M worth of compute to try to brute force one single problem?

New comment by phillipseamore in "Which Programming Language Can Handle the Most Users on a $12 Server? [video]"

phillipseamore — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:40:55 +0000

I just took an old PHP site I used to run (no framework or libraries) and had codex transpile it to rust. Ran it behind identical nginx config, just switching out php-fpm's socket for the rust/tokio one. Rust was way worse, so I let codex time the performance resulting in it opting for micro-caching everything and then we got about comparable rps and latency - but those improvements would all help in PHP as well.

New comment by phillipseamore in "AWS European Sovereign Cloud: Demonstrating an Independent Operation"

phillipseamore — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:34:52 +0000

"During the exercise, this traffic will securely reroute over the public internet."

So disconnecting the private backbone and moving traffic over the internet instead does what exactly for sovereignty?

New comment by phillipseamore in "Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet"

phillipseamore — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 08:56:35 +0000

No, I'm proposing that TLD can handle issuance themselves since they technically have 100% control over domains under their TLDs anyways. I think this might be important when we look at a combination of short (and getting shorter) lifetimes for end-user certificates and increasing volatility of the world (cyberattacks, sabotage and war). It would be desirable for ccTLD's specifically to be able to maintain certificate issuance even though the country was virtually or physically isolated from the rest of the world. (Which DANTE could/would have mitigated but is not my proposal here)

New comment by phillipseamore in "Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet"

phillipseamore — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:43:25 +0000

Would like to see them working more with TLD operators here, I'd like to see a CA partner with TLD ops to offer distributed and resilient issuance (especially with shorter cert lifetimes) with intermediate certificates locked to their TLDs, TLD operators are already a significant part of the chain of trust since it's all based on DNS today.

New comment by phillipseamore in "Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet"

phillipseamore — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:40:56 +0000

Not a huge difference between buying the root cert itself and getting a cross-sign. LE started out with cross-signs from Identrust.

"On October 19, 2015, the intermediate certificates became cross-signed by IdenTrust, causing all certificates issued by Let's Encrypt to be trusted by all major browsers."

New comment by phillipseamore in "Xcode 27.1 Beta Release Notes"

phillipseamore — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 06:42:17 +0000

Certainly, these aren't new standards and have been available on Android. We like to offer a split page when a foldable is used in a book pose and avoid having anything (especially interactive elements) in the middle.

New comment by phillipseamore in "Xcode 27.1 Beta Release Notes"

phillipseamore — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 06:20:23 +0000

Looks like Safari 27.1 on Duo ships without support for CSS viewport segments and any other CSS or JS to handle foldables.

New comment by phillipseamore in "Why and How Cloudflare Built Pingora"

phillipseamore — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 23:27:44 +0000

Would have appreciated a bit more love for nginx in that post, it was the free foundation of the company for a decade and a half.

New comment by phillipseamore in "Your Open Source Model Could Have a Hidden Time-Release Backdoor"

phillipseamore — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 13:41:52 +0000

The synthetics used for the training seem to be not just based on the same format time, but also the same user prompt "how does redis pub/sub work"

New comment by phillipseamore in "Comparing Qwen3.8 Max and Fable 5 on UI"

phillipseamore — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:43:47 +0000

Without the prompts or knowing how specific they are I think it's rather disastrous how similar they all are. But that's probably why many can catch an AI generated/designed page in an heartbeat. If the prompts weren't very specific and you get similar results from different models... then I think we are looking at a rather bleak and boring web.

New comment by phillipseamore in "Passage AI: an AI trip planner that turns into a live guide when you land"

phillipseamore — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:36:07 +0000

These popup weekly now. Like all the other "AI travel" things it's useless. I used to work in the travel space and still have interest in it so I've seen them all, the vibe coded to the hundred million dollar incumbent solutions like the soon to be released Expedia updates. They all suck, lacking domain knowledge and understanding of what travelers want, need and enjoy.

New comment by phillipseamore in "[dead]"

phillipseamore — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:06:08 +0000

Domain resellers I know are split into two camps at the moment, those that are all in on AI taking over the world and think domains are basically worthless and the others think they are likely half as valuable as 3-4 years ago.

New comment by phillipseamore in "Why packaging is moving from 1D to 2D barcodes"

phillipseamore — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 01:27:00 +0000

It does not require internet for POS scanning as the information is kept in the URL. However a customer scanning the code could be sent to a webpage with further information about the product.

New comment by phillipseamore in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"

phillipseamore — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:20:46 +0000

If not for the function being named "GrowthHack" I would have thought that hiding following status for screenshots to be a good privacy measure. They don't use it to hide anything else and since I'm not a user of the app I don't know if there is more extraneous information that could be used to infer or track down who screenshotted and they don't hide.

New comment by phillipseamore in "Ubuntu is growing faster on Windows 11 than on native Linux PCs, says Canonical"

phillipseamore — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:05:53 +0000

In this context it is Linux booting on hardware and not in virtualization.

New comment by phillipseamore in "Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data"

phillipseamore — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:11:11 +0000

It's not PBS, PBS - but an affiliate, Nine PBS (https://www.ninepbs.org/)