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New comment by pigbearpig in "'Mad honey' that can stop your heart is being sold online"

pigbearpig — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:52:43 +0000

This is the original article and has better images IMHO.

https://theconversation.com/mad-honey-that-can-stop-your-hea...

New comment by pigbearpig in "'Mad honey' that can stop your heart is being sold online"

pigbearpig — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:51:42 +0000

What makes you say it's LLM?

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New comment by pigbearpig in "Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)"

pigbearpig — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:14:40 +0000

I was under the impression Google engineers went through a rigorous hiring process, yet this is the sort of thing you get from lowest bidder consultants who have inexperienced devs.

New comment by pigbearpig in "Incident with Github.com [resolved]"

pigbearpig — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:51:32 +0000

Are you paying for GitHub? Are you complaining about an outage from a product you aren't even paying for? You know the whole point of git is you don't _need_ a central server.

I don't understand the entitlement in your post here.

New comment by pigbearpig in "CEO who fired 900 people on Zoom just before Christmas wants his job back"

pigbearpig — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:46:44 +0000

He was fired 5 years after the zoom layoffs. That information is from the linked article.

New comment by pigbearpig in "Fastmail offers EU data region"

pigbearpig — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:33:41 +0000

Interesting take considering Fastmail is very clearly not an American company.

New comment by pigbearpig in "Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief"

pigbearpig — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:06:38 +0000

How is it NSA/DHS negligence? Neither is responsible for securing the infrastructure of state and local governments nor private companies.

They should provide guidance, but I’m not sure we really want the NSA inside of networks more than they already are.

If voters and CEOs don’t want to spend the money required to secure their infrastructure, that’s on them.

New comment by pigbearpig in "My domain got abused on GitHub Pages"

pigbearpig — Tue, 19 May 2026 08:59:46 +0000

You wildcarded any traffic to github.com and thought, "eh, they probably check" and are wondering who is at fault? It's you.

You didn't think through the consequences, and you could learn a bit more about DNS.

New comment by pigbearpig in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

pigbearpig — Sun, 03 May 2026 19:14:25 +0000

Yeah, where are they getting the customers that want the big screen?

Are these people stupid? These product people have lost touch with reality. I'm driving, I want to focus on the road, not a 39 x 6" touch screen.

New comment by pigbearpig in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

pigbearpig — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:23:09 +0000

Yeah, /plan is the only way I can work with them now. Too much "helpful" crap I didn't ask for. Having nightmares of former coworkers who would want to refactor 80% of the code base for a 3 line change. AI doesn't subscribe to "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."

New comment by pigbearpig in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

pigbearpig — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:20:45 +0000

It's situational.

The blame on how the tool was used and whether this was negligence. If I hit someone with my car because I was looking at my phone, it's not the tools fault. If I hit someone because my brakes failed due to a manufacturing defect, sure blame the tool.

In this situation, the author didn't understand the API key they created. They also likely told the AI it could do a bunch of things (I have claude code ask me before doing anything except read/plan). So I'm sure he turned off some guardrails.

He expects an API to offer an "are you sure?" - it's an API.

He's blaming everyone but himself.

New comment by pigbearpig in "Waymo blocking ambulance during deadly Austin shooting"

pigbearpig — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 23:04:25 +0000

Give me a break. The problem is the Waymo that is blocking a lane sideways and is not pulling forward out of the way of the ambulance, a move that even the worst human drivers would likely know to do.

It does no good to pretend there aren't problems with self-driving cars or make excuses.

It's not about the other entities.

New comment by pigbearpig in "Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport"

pigbearpig — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:17:48 +0000

"Maybe, or maybe FL180 is a nice clean line for class A airspace. No need to bother transcontinental flights for a local issue."

Way more plauible

New comment by pigbearpig in "An Update on Heroku"

pigbearpig — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:41:21 +0000

It was 16 years...

New comment by pigbearpig in "An Update on Heroku"

pigbearpig — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:40:51 +0000

Huh? I'm no fan of Salesforce, but they bought Heroku in 2010. That's not "just letting it die."

New comment by pigbearpig in "It's 2026, Just Use Postgres"

pigbearpig — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 03:07:08 +0000

Even blog post is generous. This is an ad.

New comment by pigbearpig in "I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero"

pigbearpig — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 22:55:47 +0000

You might want to harden that those outbound firewall rules as another step. Did the Umami container need the ability to initiate connections? If not, that would eliminate the ability to do the outbound scans.

Also could prevent something to exfiltrate sensitive data.

New comment by pigbearpig in "We should all be using dependency cooldowns"

pigbearpig — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:56:22 +0000

Probably, because researchers/vendors/maintainers aren't going to catch everything, but you have less exposure too.

New comment by pigbearpig in "Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k"

pigbearpig — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 11:50:22 +0000

Perhaps they don't have the funds to implement that feature.

New comment by pigbearpig in "U.S. Army confirms Tesla Cybertruck can't be imported in Europe"

pigbearpig — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 22:56:49 +0000

Yes, that's likely much cheaper than loading up an aircraft carrier with a bunch of Mustangs and Silverados. They're still likely bound to some sort of lowest bidder for contracts. It's also likely to be more economical than having the person find their own transport and reimbursing them.