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New comment by reisse in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"

reisse — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:26:45 +0000

Well, I live in a country with both huge distillation culture and significantly non-zero number of methanol poisonings, and they never happen from home brewing. It's really hard to homebrew/distill methanol in a quantity enough to poison you in an otherwise ethanol solution (which acts as an antidote).

It's so rare this thread is literally the first time I've heard about possibility of methanol poisoning from homebrewing.

Methanol poisonings happen from bootlegging, where someone in the chain of supply sells industrial methanol as an ethanol, because the first one is cheaper, easier to obtain and untaxed.

New comment by reisse in "AWS engineer reports PostgreSQL perf halved by Linux 7.0, fix may not be easy"

reisse — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:57:22 +0000

Not sure it is true anymore. I've encountered few userspace breaks in io_uring, at least.

New comment by reisse in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

reisse — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:29:05 +0000

Unless AliExpress has a local entity, like they do in some countries, yes.

New comment by reisse in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

reisse — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:27:59 +0000

Fun hypothetical question - will it be restricted to users in sanctioned locations (where it's most needed) because of, well, sanctions?

New comment by reisse in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

reisse — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:26:49 +0000

When U.S. Govt sponsors Tor, which does expose exactly what your describe, the reaction is usually positive.

New comment by reisse in "15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram"

reisse — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:26:49 +0000

> This excuse is hollow to me. In an organization of this size, it takes multiple people screwing up for a failure to reach the public, or at least it should.

Only if this is considered a failure.

Native English speakers may not know, but for a very long time (since before automatic translation tools became adequate) pretty much all MSFT docs were machine translated to the user agent language by default. Initially they were as useless as they were hilarious - a true slop before the term was invented.

New comment by reisse in "Bitcoin tumbles below $70K, heavy losses in cryptocurrencies in last three weeks"

reisse — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:19:43 +0000

It's expected for Tether to print when the crypto market cap is growing, because most crypto trades in USDT. So you cannot reliably say what is the cause and what is the consequence here.

Then, if the price was pumped and the liquidity didn't match it, it'd be a perfect target to squeeze (because the market is so highly leveraged), at least one trading firm should've attempted it.

New comment by reisse in "xAI joins SpaceX"

reisse — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:42:43 +0000

> If elon were working for me, I would have fired him for having never delivered on any of his projects.

Never? For the sheer amount of moonshot bets he's doing, his track record would make any VC jealous. Zip2, PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, Grok/xAI.

New comment by reisse in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

reisse — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 07:39:54 +0000

This is somewhat false? There were four other bombings, two in western countries (specifically EU->US flights). None of these two were successful in terms of "the plane was downed", but bombs were carried on a plane and exploded, and security didn't stop that.

22 December 2001, American Airlines Flight 63 7 May 2002, China Northern Flight 6136 25 December 2009, Northwest Airlines Flight 253 2 February 2016, Daallo Airlines Flight 159

New comment by reisse in "There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape"

reisse — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 12:13:40 +0000

Some of them (actually most of them where I live) are rechargeable, they're not refillable and you can't change the atomizer (wick and coil). And the most expensive part of the vape is the tax on nicotine liquid, so there is little sense to hassle with wicks and refills.

New comment by reisse in "Linux is good now"

reisse — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 20:20:02 +0000

VRR is necessary to avoid tearing or FPS caps (V-sync) when your hardware cannot stably output FPS count matching the screen refresh rate.

New comment by reisse in "I'm returning my Framework 16"

reisse — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 17:40:18 +0000

The thing about Macbooks is people tend to compare them with all of the regular laptops, of which 95% are in entirely another market segment. Even worse, some regular laptops can vary from "cheap shit" to "good machine" under one name, depending on the options selection (looking at you Lenovo). Hats off to Apple, having very narrow selection of models with very limited customization options helps them greatly.

There are models from Dell, Lenovo, and ASUS which have better screens than Macs, better design and build quality (subjectively), on-par performance and just slightly worse battery life. It just takes time and effort to find them.

(also, am I the only one who finds Apple trackpads _uncomfortable_ to touch?)

New comment by reisse in "How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips"

reisse — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:01:07 +0000

I think OP is about Wukong, not gachas.

New comment by reisse in "Cloudflare Radar 2025 Year in Review"

reisse — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 23:47:36 +0000

Hah, AS16509 beats every other AS in bot traffic by a huge margin. I wonder if at least half of it is due to the major crypto exchanges hosted in AWS Tokyo behind Cloudflare.

New comment by reisse in "EU Ban on RU War Propaganda Misfires: Blocks Social Media Giants and Pirate IPTV"

reisse — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:45:49 +0000

https://www.rfcafe.com/references/popular-electronics/russia...

Bizzare how the tables have turned.

New comment by reisse in "SoundCloud has banned VPN access"

reisse — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 09:16:06 +0000

Big part of the Internet blanket ban countries, why do you think VPNs are any different?

New comment by reisse in "He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over"

reisse — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 10:19:43 +0000

From Wiki:

> They were detained by Russian border troop officers while they were crossing the Russian border near the Chukotkan village of Uelen, for not entering Russia at a correct port of entry.

Illegal border crossing is absolutely not bureaucratic BS in any country.

New comment by reisse in "When a video codec wins an Emmy"

reisse — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:08:18 +0000

It's all about hardware support really. AV1 is pretty new (2018), give it some time. E. g. Nvidia supports decoding since 3xxx generation, and encoding only since 4xxx generation.

I still vividly remember what a clusterfk was H264 support on mobile devices just ten years ago, circa 2010-2015. AVC spec was published in 2003, High Profiles standardised in 2005, universally supported only since ~2015. I personally had a 2011 Tegra 2 tablet which did support H264, but didn't support high profiles.

New comment by reisse in "Testing shows automotive glassbreakers can't break modern automotive glass"

reisse — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 13:43:04 +0000

I think mock slide deployment could be made much cheaper than 30k - e. g. high-volume compressors can be used instead of gas canisters, the materials can be cheaper because there is no weight or temperature requirements, etc.

New comment by reisse in "Electric vehicle sales are booming in South America – without Tesla"

reisse — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 20:43:24 +0000

I thought Toyota is doing quite well in emerging markets? However they skipped a lot of EV craziness and just do cheap-and-reliable ICE cars.

I also never understood why established brands lobbied for EVs, and not against them. They clearly had no edge over Tesla and Chinese brands, why compete on rival's field?