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IphtashuFitz

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  • Tech bros having their production environments nuked by AI is never gonna get old

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  • None of that helps if you grant the LLM access to the production database and it decides to drop table user; to free up some space. That’s when you find out if your database recovery process actually works. You do have database backups, right? Or is that not a thing when vibe coding?

  • Cloudflare Precursor watches your mouse and keyboard to decide if you are human

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  • Akamai has been doing this for years now. Cloudflare is just playing catch-up. I first saw an Akamai demonstration of this at one of their developer conferences about 10 years ago.

  • What kind of things do you think movies are most dishonest about?

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  • Guy gets shot and the impact sends him flying across the room, out the window, etc. Physics says “oh hell no”. The guy who fired that shot would have likely had his arm dislocated from the recoil if he was able to even hold onto it.

  • Are there natural fertilizers that do not come from animal poop?

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  • I’d be very careful about using copper this way. While ingesting small amounts of copper is ok, and in fact a good part of a diet, Ingesting too much copper is not a good thing, and can be toxic.

    Having copper piping, etc. in close proximity to a garden risks having it leach into the plants, which might then be ingested. Since copper is a fairly soft metal then rain could slowly corrode it and introduce it to the plants.

    A bit more on copper toxicology here.

  • CEO Says He’ll Fire Any Employee Who Sends Him More AI Slop

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  • Probably written by AI…

  • Canada just cut a hole in the roof of a working nuclear reactor, hauled out eight steam generators weighing 100 tons each, and lowered new ones into the same hole, bringing the reactor back online se…

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  • A decade or so ago National Geographic had a reality TV show called Worlds Toughest Fixes, where they went around and documented all sorts of major repair & other big construction jobs. One episode had them replacing the steam turbine in a nuclear power plant. I really enjoyed that series.

    Some other fixes they documented included a valve on the Alaska oil pipeline, replacing an antenna on a 2000 foot tall tower, and launching a rocket in French Guiana. It’s a fun series if you’re into this kind of stuff.

  • Ford had to hire back former engineers to fix mistakes made by its automated systems

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  • Yeah, I use it for some programming tasks as well. I’m sick and tired of telling it that it did something wrong or simply omitted something, only to have it apologize and offer to fix its own mistakes.

  • Are ISPs responsible for bots having residential IPs or is this a user problem?

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  • I worked in IT at a university about 15 years ago. As part of a research project I helped set up a Tor exit node. Within a few hours of it taking on traffic I was contacted by the universities IT security team. They were seeing all sorts of malicious traffic originating from that system and wanted to know what was going on. They had the system shut down immediately.

  • American Workers Harvest Brawndo - circa June 2026

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  • Iran announces plans to bring in maritime fees for strait of Hormuz

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  • Saudi Arabia should build a pipeline similar to the Alaska Pipeline that lets them transport oil from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea. There’s already the Sumed pipeline that gets around the physical size limitations of the Suez Canal. A cross-Saudi one would completely neuter this power grab by Iran…

  • Google Chrome's next update will mark the end of popular ad blockers

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  • Same. I have Firefox with ublock Origin on it right next to Chrome. If I need to visit some third party site I use Firefox. Occasionally I forget I’m in chrome and visit a third party site that’s chock full of ads. When that happens I immediately close the page in Chrome and jump to Firefox for a more reasonable experience.

  • Tech Workers Maxed Out Their A.I. Use. Now They’re Trying to Minimize It.

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  • My employer has been pushing AI as well so I’ve been using Claude to help me when it makes sense. I’ve had it write python scripts to interact with various API’s, had it analyze log files, etc. I might use it two or three times every other day for between 10 to 30 minutes at a time. So while I’m not using it excessively, I’m still using it what I consider to be a reasonable amount.

    I checked my Claude account the other day and it said I have used a whopping 1% of my quota for the past month. That really makes me wonder how all these companies are burning through their usage the way they are reporting. Do they have teams of employees now that are doing nothing but interacting with AIs for 8 hours a day? It seems like that would be the only way for me to put a dent in my monthly quota with Claude…

  • Hyundai takes full control of Boston Dynamics as SoftBank exits for $325 million

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  • I used to work across the street from Boston Dynamics and would regularly see them testing robots in their parking lot & surrounding grassy/hilly areas. At one point they actually gave a bunch of folks in my company a tour of their labs. I still keep tabs on them from time to time because I find what they do absolutely amazing.

    From what I’ve seen of the past 15 years or so of watching them I believe that Boston Dynamics is well in front of Tesla when it comes to robotics. Especially when you see gaffes by Tesla like that video that seems to show their robot was actually being controlled by a person wearing a VR headset.

  • Americans to be hit with record-high electricity bills this summer

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  • Our solar panels are probably the best investment we ever made. Year to year our electric bill averages out to zero, even with charging our EV. Over the summer our batteries participate in our electric utilities virtual power plant program, which pays us around $2000 each year for the excess electricity we provide. And our state has a renewable energy program that pays us for every megawatt our panels generate, no matter what it’s used for.

  • Google will now verify if you're a human by turning on your webcam and asking you to wave your hand

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  • We made 75 private repos public on a timer. The internet noticed in 6 minutes.

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  • Hell, there are nation states that have been doing this sort of thing for decades. 15 or so years ago I worked in IT at a university. They bought some servers from IBM and had IBM install them on public IP addresses. It is extremely well known that IBM regularly uses default passwords (or at least used to) like “PASSW0RD” with a zero for the O. I had access to one of these servers about 15 minutes after it was set up, and the first thing I did after changing the password was to check the logs. Sure enough an IP address from China had already logged in as root. I immediately wiped the entire server clean and reinstalled everything.

  • Software Update Automatically Turns off Amazon Delivery Drivers’ AC During Dangerous Summer Heat

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  • I see plenty of Amazon vans driving around neighborhoods with the side door wide open…

  • Meta putting up tents across the US to house AI servers, like ‘a scene out of the movie Mad Max’ — structures take three months to build and use jet engines for power

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  • First time I ever hoped for a tornado to strike a specific location.

  • Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated

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  • Time to start with one PR per line of code…