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New comment by pooper in "Microsoft to force updates to Windows 11 25H2 for PCs with older OS versions"

pooper — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:50:18 +0000

I think that's because there is a period at the end

Here is the link with the comma and the period html encoded

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patagonia%2C_Inc%2E

New comment by pooper in "OpenTelemetry for Rust Developers"

pooper — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 01:17:46 +0000

Speaking of opentelemetry, I try to use open telemetry with my personal projects in an asp dotnet as well as with a dotnet console app. I don't have the required corporate background in opentelemetry. I had to write my own file log exporter. I didn't write it myself -- I used Claude to write it for me in jsonl format which seemed like a good way to have each row in json and for the console app, I get a file something like this

``` logs_2025-12-24_0003.jsonl ```

I asked Claude to keep it in an xdg folder and it chose

``` /home/{username}/.local/share/{applicationName}/telemetry/logs ```

I also have folders for metrics and traces but those are empty.

I have never had a need to look at the logs for the dotnet console app I have and the only reason I have looked at the logs on the asp dotnet app was to review errors when I ran into some error on my asp dotnet application, which frankly I don't need open telemetry for.

What am I missing here? Am I using it wrong?

If you use open telemetry, where do your logs, metrics, and traces go? Do you write your own custom classes to write them to a file on the disk? Do you pay for something like datadog (congratulations on winning the lottery I guess?)

I appreciate your reply. Thank you for helping me learn.

New comment by pooper in "Setting up phones is a nightmare"

pooper — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 22:59:34 +0000

For those on iPhones or respectable mobile network operators, not everyone has as good of an experience as you do.

For people who buy subsidized Android-based phones from some carriers such as Metro by T-Mobile USA, they either come with bloatware baked in or they download the bloatware when you first activate the device or something like that.

These things are fairly easy to disable if you know what you are doing but if you don't know what you are doing, I can imagine people will simply put up with ads showing up every time you pick up the phone. It can get annoying VERY quickly.

New comment by pooper in "Should your developer company go open source?"

pooper — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 23:19:27 +0000

To play the devil's advocate, more people are born every day and as long as there are more developers today than there were yesterday, lifetime licenses can bring in a trickle of money each month, especially if the marginal cost of each new customer is zero or near zero.

New comment by pooper in "Product and design are the new bottlenecks"

pooper — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:33:49 +0000

> Nothing worse than being famished and getting one measly slice of pizza.

I am not exactly a big guy but even I can easily eat two slices of pizza and I am talking about real slices of the Costco pizza which I love for its value for money. I can't imagine how you could feed a team of eight with a single pizza.

New comment by pooper in "The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein"

pooper — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 12:47:37 +0000

> Power corrupts, end of story.

Not all corruption is obvious though. Sometimes you think you are doing the right thing, "just need to bend the rules slightly over here". It is all for a "good cause". I feel like I am as much worried about people who are the righteous wrong, as much as people who are just out there trying to grift to make a buck.

New comment by pooper in "The RCE that AMD won't fix"

pooper — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 09:01:46 +0000

> The fact is allowing any type of unsigned update on HTTP is a security flaw in itself.

Reminds me about ten years or so ago when I was installing Debian or something and I noticed the URL for the apt install mirrors were http and not https. People helpfully pointed out this is a non issue because the updates are signed.

Ok I guess but then why did Debian switch to https?

New comment by pooper in "The RCE that AMD won't fix"

pooper — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 08:47:30 +0000

Yes, because you would only run such an updater software on Windows.

New comment by pooper in "Amazon is ending all inventory commingling as of March 31, 2026"

pooper — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 13:48:17 +0000

I see hundreds of tweets by @amazon that reply to people complaining how deliveries miss the dates that amazon dot com promised but then amazon dot com probably delivers so many packages every day that I think it is a bit of column A and a bit of column B here.

New comment by pooper in "Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux"

pooper — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 15:17:04 +0000

Congratulations on your release! Looks great. Runs great so far. I was able to log into HN just fine on Fedora.

What are your thoughts on upgrading gnome 48 to 49 as a dependency?

New comment by pooper in "Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy (2016)"

pooper — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 21:42:32 +0000

This 'sandwich fallacy' perfectly illustrates why I think sports should be removed from the university system. Universities are great 'bakeries' (centers of learning), but they’ve become bogged down trying to run massive 'sandwich shops' (commercial sports). It’s okay for these to exist, but they should be independent entities so the school can focus on being a school.

New comment by pooper in "Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams"

pooper — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 04:05:33 +0000

accuracy versus precision is something we learn in high school chemistry.

https://i.imgur.com/EshEhls.png

When someone at that level pretends to not understand it, there is no way to mince words.

This is malice.

New comment by pooper in "Privacy doesn't mean anything anymore, anonymity does"

pooper — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 09:30:16 +0000

Everybody says I should be ok having no privacy and yet frown upon me posting photos of the poop I take on Instagram.

New comment by pooper in "My payment agent is named George, not stripe-agent"

pooper — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 01:16:15 +0000

I appreciate the writer actually taking the time to explain why `george`. I have worked in some projects where some thing-a-majing or another is called `valhalla` or `thor` or something or another but there is no documentation as to why it is called that and the people who were responsible for naming them so have already ridden into the sunset. If I ever meet him, I "just want to talk" to this CTO who named US East region 2 as "eu2".

New comment by pooper in "Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration"

pooper — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 23:48:29 +0000

> You say that as if it isn’t the entire reason why these interactions should be avoided at all costs. Dynamic pricing should be a crime.

Does segmentation also count as dynamic pricing?

    The IT guy at Podunk Lutheran College has no money: Gratis.
    The IT guy at a medium-sized real estate agency has some money: $500.
    The IT guy at a Fortune 100 company has tons of money: $50,000.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/oh-you-wanted-awesome-edition/

New comment by pooper in "The MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge"

pooper — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 18:05:24 +0000

I am thinking about getting a completely different apple id when I get my next iPhone. I don't have a paid developer account. Or do they actively prohibit multiple accounts? I've never tried on Apple before but I have multiple goog.e accounts and it seems fine to have different accounts on different Android devices?

New comment by pooper in "Serverless Horrors"

pooper — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 14:39:12 +0000

Pooping at the job is one thing but pooping at the job and trying to sell it as a favor to the customer is a whole different game.

New comment by pooper in "Serverless Horrors"

pooper — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 13:51:08 +0000

> Seems an interesting oversight. I can just imagine the roundtable, uhh guys who do we charge for 403? Who can we charge? But what if people hit random buckets as an attack? Great!

It is amazing, isn't it? Something starts as an oversight but by the time it reaches down to customer support, it becomes an edict from above as it is "expected behavior".

> AWS was kind enough to cancel my S3 bill. However, they emphasized that this was done as an exception.

The stench of this bovine excrement is so strong that it transcends space time somehow.

New comment by pooper in "Whatever happened to cheap eReaders?"

pooper — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 12:24:51 +0000

> E-ink is already pretty expensive as a display technology

but why? is it because of patents? Shouldn't this technology get cheaper with time?

New comment by pooper in "The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state"

pooper — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 07:45:22 +0000

The big one to me is paid content should be clearly labeled as paid content and should be skippable programmatically and in bulk. Things like product placement.