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New comment by sofixa in "Wellington second-hand bookstore's mysterious orders"

sofixa — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 06:19:41 +0000

> I can morn paper but it's not like the contents are being lost

Unless they're sharing the scans publicly or with the Internet Archive or equivalent, they are being lost.

New comment by sofixa in "Software Giant SAP Stops Most Travel and Hiring Because of AI's Soaring Cost"

sofixa — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:53:23 +0000

> It will be interesting to see if SAP can turn into the basis for companies that use AI heavily or if companies that use AI heavily will prefer to replace SAP.

Considering the human and institutional complexity of implementing ERP, CRM, whatever the hell Concur is supposed to be, etc. I'd bet on most organisations implementing AI around and with those systems instead of replacing them with something vibecoded / "AI native" vendors.

New comment by sofixa in "AI companies are shredding rare books"

sofixa — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:31:16 +0000

No, courts so far in the jurisdictions which have heard such cases, have ruled it's fair use. There is plenty of ongoing litigation in many jurisdictions, so it's way too early to just decree "it's been determined". It likely won't be for years to come.

New comment by sofixa in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

sofixa — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:18:39 +0000

You sure about that? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-f...

New comment by sofixa in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

sofixa — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:17:48 +0000

Xiaomi phones have/had a feature where depending on which finger you unlock the phone with, it can hide certain applications/folders on the filesystem.

New comment by sofixa in "Hetzner is working on LLM Inference"

sofixa — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:44:22 +0000

Scaleway have two separate (one fully managed one a bit less) services for that:

https://www.scaleway.com/en/generative-apis/

https://www.scaleway.com/en/inference/

New comment by sofixa in "Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25"

sofixa — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:50:30 +0000

> But with AI you kinda sorta should just build your own blog

Please don't. There is absolutely no reason not to use the extremely simple and powerful combination of:

* a headless CMS / static website generated, of which there are a bunch so pick the one you like the most. My go-to is Hugo but it is somewhat complex

* a static hosting service with a generous free tier like CloudFlare Pages/Workers, Netlify, Firebase Hosting, etc.

Your blog costs nothing, has zero attack surface and zero maintenance.

New comment by sofixa in "Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25"

sofixa — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:48:19 +0000

Ecosystem? The JS/TS ecosystem approach is to use as many libraries as possible for the sake of it, exposing you to a massive supply chain risk. PHP doesn't suffer from that because there are barely any libraries for it.

New comment by sofixa in "StubHub, CEO hit with ‘deceptive practices’ class action over mass scalping"

sofixa — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:17:43 +0000

Adding ID checks would make venue entry a slower and more tedious process.

New comment by sofixa in "Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Left"

sofixa — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:14:46 +0000

> Really unfortunate. I don't understand why there's such a lack of response on the Cursor side.

It's hard to vibe code security.

New comment by sofixa in "S&P Global has lowered Oracle’s creditworthiness from BBB to BBB-"

sofixa — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:25:42 +0000

> Yet, even now, Fable is able to do the work of 4-5 engineers when used by a single senior engineer. Teams can and will shrink.

If that's true or not, it's a bit irrelevant. Maybe teams won't shrink because of Jevon's paradox, or maybe tech debt will catch up.

But it doesn't matter because the people calling this a bubble mostly believe that the companies burning money cannot have the return on investment needed. This can be for a variety of reasons, but my favourite one is just that open source AI models are good enough, cost a fraction of what the frontier ones do (with predictable costs), can be fine tuned, and can be relied upon (no orange tweet banning your acces to the model you've been using). So for me OpenAI and Anthropic will really struggle to merit their valuations.

And then companies like Oracle are just a dumpster on fire. GPU hosting is a commodity business; expensive one, for sure, but there's no way in hell they'll make actual returns on the money burned with zero moat. And things are even worse when you consider the political involvement of the CEO and his nepo baby, which can easily burn good will.

New comment by sofixa in "[dead]"

sofixa — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:40:21 +0000

It's pretty wild how anyone thought they have standing to fire / reprimand people for this. It's pretty clear cut free speech.

Especially from, supposedly, the people crying about cancel culture and lack of free speech.

New comment by sofixa in "US residents angry datacenters 'shoved down our throats' are recalling officials"

sofixa — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 20:20:21 +0000

A decade to realise that a military base has been resized and there is an obvious school on what used to be a part of the same property isn't fast.

New comment by sofixa in "US residents angry datacenters 'shoved down our throats' are recalling officials"

sofixa — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:19:04 +0000

And a wall between the two was built a decade ago. Considering it was hit on day one, obviously it was considered an important target, which makes it inexcusable that nobody checked it in a decade.

https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/4314de...

New comment by sofixa in "US residents angry datacenters 'shoved down our throats' are recalling officials"

sofixa — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:13:29 +0000

Don't forget the US government openly bragging about using AI for targeting in the Iran war, while also trying to pretend it didn't strike a school and kill a few hundred schoolchildren. (No we don't know if it was AI that made the mistake, and it's not like we're likely to get a proper investigation into it)

New comment by sofixa in "Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says"

sofixa — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:02:34 +0000

No, they run GitLab because GitHub Enterprise is a horrible thing nobody has ever said a good thing about.

GitLab even has a free self-hosted version, and it has a number of advantages (like being able to actually have a structure with inherited secrets and accesses, and no, GitHub Organisations do not count and suck). And for years thanks to GitLab-CI it was clearly ahead.

New comment by sofixa in "Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says"

sofixa — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:44:51 +0000

That's why self-hosted GitLab is so popular in Europe.

New comment by sofixa in "Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402"

sofixa — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:51:04 +0000

Not really because the transaction occurs in a specific place with specific tax rules, regardless of where the purchaser is from.

New comment by sofixa in "Meta is adding rate limits and soft paywall to smart glasses"

sofixa — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:42:21 +0000

> their AI is not as good as their competitors

That's irrelevant because their AI was never a product they sold.

New comment by sofixa in "The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level"

sofixa — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:04:35 +0000

Removing a useless middleman party that needs a profit margin, and removing the perverse incentives of them having to prove their value thus having inflated prices with fake discounts, and centralising all healthcare purchasing power in a single entity, is absolutely going to solve a lot of challenges US healthcare faces