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New comment by wiredfool in "Cloudflare CEO is lying to you about the bot traffic jump"

wiredfool — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:14:27 +0000

I run some moderate profile gov and ngo opendata sites, and I’d say that bot like traffic is 99% of the requests we’re seeing on some sites.

Mostly current valid user agents, lots of ip addresses, but the traffic patterns are not organic. I’m not clear if it’s bad ai scraping or dos, but at some level it’s indistinguishable.

New comment by wiredfool in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

wiredfool — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:20:51 +0000

Unschooling works for a fraction of kids, and at some stages of their life.

How big is that fraction? In my experience being around a bunch of home schoolers (and adjacent, and school system), some of whom were more in or out of unschooling, I think it's small enough that it should be a rarely considered option.

There are some kids where it will work _really_ well. I've interacted with a couple. There are a lot of kids where it really doesn't work, especially in a distraction rich environment.

New comment by wiredfool in "Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (2006)"

wiredfool — Mon, 25 May 2026 09:19:33 +0000

Unfortunately, digeridoo playing is just as disruptive to partner's sleep as snoring is. Perhaps they should try bagpipes?

New comment by wiredfool in "Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart"

wiredfool — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:06:22 +0000

Apple 2 was often az/,. .

New comment by wiredfool in "New Nginx Exploit"

wiredfool — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:42:51 +0000

Ubuntu has patched as of this morning. Debian doesn't look like they've patched trixie yet.

New comment by wiredfool in "California leaders report four to six weeks worth of gasoline and diesel supply"

wiredfool — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:50:34 +0000

I paid the equivalent of $12.50 a gallon for diesel at the peak price a month or so ago.

New comment by wiredfool in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

wiredfool — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:54:08 +0000

Personally I’d look for the coveted 5 eights uptime.

New comment by wiredfool in "Troubleshooting Email Delivery to Microsoft Users"

wiredfool — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:15:15 +0000

I've seen issues last week onboarding a new employee, where emails from Jira and Slack and lastpass just weren't getting through.

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

wiredfool — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:17:38 +0000

I doubt it. The spanish (really tetra pack) wine was dry, and after double distilling it was basically moonshine. The Hungarian one was more in the mixing back into the undistilled wine -- making something akin to port+ strength that drinks like wine. It's the same idea behind pineau, first distilling + the cheap young white wine of the region.

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

wiredfool — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:14:49 +0000

The best I’ve ever done was a double distilled Spanish box wine we picked up for 1eur/l. The wine was undrinkable, but the brandy was sooooo smooth.

Next best was cheap tokaij furmint, distilled once and then mixed back into some of the undistilled wine. Basically the same thing as pineau de charante, but Hungarian and on the kitchen table.

New comment by wiredfool in "A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it"

wiredfool — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:20:31 +0000

  It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
  The minor falls, the major lifts

New comment by wiredfool in "Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real"

wiredfool — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:33:52 +0000

This is a strong contender for an Ignobel.

New comment by wiredfool in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

wiredfool — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:13:17 +0000

I get that feeling in Lidl. Their ambient music used to be somewhat identifiable, now it just seems a bit off.

New comment by wiredfool in "Rank the 50 best Apple products"

wiredfool — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:05:02 +0000

Damn, the number of these that I've had.

Hardest choice for me:

Apple Extended Keyboard 2 vs TiBook.

Had both, Used AEK2s for a decade or more, still have the TiBook with Myst on it.

New comment by wiredfool in "UK total wind generation record beaten today"

wiredfool — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:19:21 +0000

In Ireland, we’re running at about 75% renewables for the day, with most of that being wind. The absolute numbers are smaller, but that’s a peak of about 500 MW of solar and 3.6GW of wind, against something like 5-6Gw of demand.

New comment by wiredfool in "Antimatter has been transported for the first time"

wiredfool — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:45:49 +0000

When I visited CERN, they mentioned that there were some large number of protons in the ring at a time, and the runs would last a significant amount of wall clock time. (Don’t remember the exact numbers, but I think it was like 10^19 atoms of H, and days of wall clock)

The upshot was, it was likely that less than a mol of hydrogen had been run through the ring.

New comment by wiredfool in "The Hunt for Dark Breakfast"

wiredfool — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:53:50 +0000

Dutch Baby or German Pancake is probably right in that abyss.

Very eggy, with some flour/milk. It's essentially a souffle, puffs up to like 6" high in the oven. Tasty with maple syrup, powdered sugar/lemon, or just butter.

6 Eggs, 1 C flour, 1C milk.

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/36900/german-pancakes-ii/

New comment by wiredfool in "Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed"

wiredfool — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:27:07 +0000

I just type -- and jira fixes it.

New comment by wiredfool in "Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk"

wiredfool — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 13:06:47 +0000

I wish.

Seems like this is the only place where the verge is in the inside.

New comment by wiredfool in "Where did all the starships go?"

wiredfool — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 17:39:42 +0000

And then there’s Cloud Cuckoo Land. (Anthony Doerr)