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Comment · 1 day ago

  Nasdaq posts largest one-day percentage drop since early June

Oh no! Not since June!

This is like watching a hockey game: “it’s the first time any player has scored a goal in the history of the game!!! While wearing green socks on a Sunday when the outdoor temp is exactly 72.1643f”

Comment · 4 days ago
14M tokens is far less than I expected.

I've burned 14M tokens just having Claude build a Grafana dashboard.

Comment · 6 days ago

  Spain: https://www.euronews.com/2026/09/18/in-spain-football-matches-knock-thousands-of-websites-and-services-offline

  France: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_France
        : https://codekhabar.com/post/france-orders-isps-to-ready-dns-blocks-for-major-social-platforms-on-oct-24
I haven't been keeping up with Italy, so you can look that one up yourself.
Comment · 16 days ago
Hah! I learned this the hard way a few weeks ago... I updated my Wi-Fi password. Every-god-damn-"smart"-piece-of-crap in my house went offline (as expected).

Then I learned there was no way to give the new Wi-Fi password to any of these devices without manually re-pairing them in HomeKit and reconfiguring all scenes and everything else...

Like, that seems like basic functionality Apple should have included in the HomeKit design.

In the end, I gave up and just put the Wi-Fi password back.

Comment · 16 days ago
Nearly every product could "potentially kill people", including bottled water.

"Easy" is not subjective in this case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vAQNedIa0o

Pry and poke.

I think you missed my point on #4; it was sarcasm, which, to be fair, in our current world, sarcasm can't be discerned from truth, so that's my fault. To be clear, on #4: I do not want AI Slop. I do not want "apologies" as hidden advertisements. AI Slop would have been the lesser of two evils. Still evil.

Comment · 16 days ago
Comment · 16 days ago
Yes.

The goal isn't to hide that someone is tracking them after they stole my motorcycle.

The goal was to make it ungodly difficult to actually find the AirTag hidden on the motorcycle.

Comment · 17 days ago
1. This is so dumb. You can be tracked any number of ways. The AigTag with or without sound is the dumbest way to track someone.

2. Physically disabling the AirTag speaker is soooo easy. It took under 3 minutes to do it on the AirTag I hid on my motorcycle.

3. "An Apology" is more like a weird advertisement (I guess it worked, I read the stupid thing. But, in fairness, I've now blocked their site in a custom ublock filter, so hopefully I never stumble on it again).

4. They have expensive bikes... Why? Who cares? That's not relevant to anything!? Why did they put that in there? Was this written by a 4th grader? Fuck me. I wish I had just read more AI slop instead.

Comment · 18 days ago
Comment · 19 days ago
I have so many (two) mixed feelings about this....

1: Yandex is Good for Media freedom. I love Yandex. It's like the only "open" search engine that actively lets you search for pirate content without heavily filtering it.

2: Yandex is/supports the Russian Military. I hate Yandex.

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