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New comment by randombits0 in "Washington State Bill Seeks to Add Firearms Detection to 3D Printers [pdf]"

randombits0 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:49:36 +0000

Vending machines? You’re going to make the poor little tots pay for their own machine guns? :)

New comment by randombits0 in "San Francisco coyote swims to Alcatraz"

randombits0 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:47:20 +0000

Super genius!

New comment by randombits0 in "Washington State Bill Seeks to Add Firearms Detection to 3D Printers [pdf]"

randombits0 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:18:01 +0000

You’ve stumbled into a stance by pro-2A folks: The government should not have a monopoly on violence.

New comment by randombits0 in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

randombits0 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 02:34:00 +0000

I was just hoping to get a new page with a refresh.

New comment by randombits0 in "IT consultant arrested after posing with gun on LinkedIn"

randombits0 — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 04:22:40 +0000

It looks pretty bad but I have a hunch that we don’t know the whole truth.

New comment by randombits0 in "Kodak says it might have to cease operations [updated]"

randombits0 — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 17:14:36 +0000

You are describing CraigsList. No ads, no salesmen, just a small staff.

New comment by randombits0 in "Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal"

randombits0 — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 19:18:51 +0000

Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

New comment by randombits0 in "Tin Can – The landline, reinvented for kids"

randombits0 — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 01:23:36 +0000

Set up a couple of ip phones to connect to the other every off-hook, no dialing. Think Batman Batphone!

New comment by randombits0 in "FaceTime in iOS 26 will freeze your call if someone starts undressing"

randombits0 — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 23:40:59 +0000

There goes my part time job.

New comment by randombits0 in "Microsoft reports several bootloader vulnerabilities"

randombits0 — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 20:03:57 +0000

It’s not an article about vulnerable boot loaders. It’s an ad for their AI offering. That they turned their AI loose on some boot loaders is not material to the intended affect of the ad.

New comment by randombits0 in "Rocky Linux from CIQ – Hardened"

randombits0 — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 01:37:16 +0000

It’s unthinkable that RedHat killed CentOS without the OK from IBM.

New comment by randombits0 in "The 8-Bit Era's Weird Uncle: The TI-99/4A"

randombits0 — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 02:28:00 +0000

Anybody with interest in the video chip, the TMS9918A, might like the Pico 9918 project, a drop-in replacement that uses a Raspberry Pi Pico.

New comment by randombits0 in "Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says"

randombits0 — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 21:12:46 +0000

Reddit only exists because of Digg 4.0. Let them find out the hard way.

New comment by randombits0 in "OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor"

randombits0 — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 04:11:09 +0000

Recipes, that is, lists of ingredients and preparation instructions, are specifically uncopyrightable. Perhaps that’s why they used it as an example.

Snowflake Data Warehouse Down

randombits0 — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 03:32:32 +0000

Article URL: https://status.snowflake.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42122625

Points: 1

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New comment by randombits0 in "Practical Jokes (2007)"

randombits0 — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 18:55:56 +0000

This is evil. I love it.

I once pranked my boss by renaming the internal DOS command “dir” to “duh” on his PC. I loved watching him type in “dir” and getting “Bad Command or Filename”.

New comment by randombits0 in "Man charged for selling forged license keys for network switches"

randombits0 — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 21:38:45 +0000

Likely selling the whole kit. Dude is 75. Anything he gets will be a life sentence.

New comment by randombits0 in "Mike Mageek is dead"

randombits0 — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 02:55:32 +0000

It lost the bite that bit the hands that feed IT. The Buzzard is bummed.

New comment by randombits0 in "CrowdStrike CEO Kurtz to testify on mass outage and halted flights and hospitals"

randombits0 — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 13:30:41 +0000

Since Kurtz was the CTO of McAfee when they did the same back in 2010, we now have two points in time. Those two points define what I propose we call the Kurtz Line.

New comment by randombits0 in "1989 Networking: NetWare 386"

randombits0 — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 15:08:55 +0000

Embrace, extend, extinguish. IBM invented vendor lock-in. Microsoft perfected it.