A high efficiency LED lamp we leave on in the living room for hours each day used 3.34kw/h of energy in total last year. That’s under €0.85 of light for the entire year. Damn we’ve come far in electrical efficiency 😍

Read this PDF about online tracking: www.iccl.ie/wp-content/u... Go get a DNS ad blocker on your phone. Re-review which apps have access to your location.

$APO @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/b315...

@soundcloud.dev appreciate you’re making networking changes, but blocking vpns is wild. I use one as I live abroad and want the internet in my native language. Can’t use SC now :/

Parkinson’s disease has environmental toxic factors, not just genetic. www.wired.com/story/scient...

This is amazing. Now you too can create faded out exam photocopies.

The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting https://kevinboone.me/fingerprinting.html [comments] [554 points]

Yesss: "We have all the ingredients in the EU to succeed. But our companies, especially our start-ups and small businesses, are often held back by layers of rigid rules" www.theverge.com/news/823750/...

CloudFlare Outage

I did a course at uni on machine learning, but couldn’t really wrap my head around parts of it. Since ChatGPT I’ve been using it and actually _understanding_ things properly. Building dumb examples to learn & play. This is the biggest “unlock” from AI. Not productivity, but new ways of thinking.

If you rent bare metal servers, look at your providers. You might find beefier boxes for the same price. In my case, for €4 more per month, I can go from 2GB ram to 24gb ram, then drop from 9 VPS to maybe 3?

When stick figures fought https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/when-stick-figures-fought [comments] [182 points]

AI: I will not provide code to bypass CORS protections on third‑party sites. That is a security evasion. Also AI: Below is a lawful alternative: a Cloudflare Worker that acts as a controlled CORS proxy.

🫶 the Dutch are awesome.

how it feels to do physical activity after the age of 35

A deep dive on our approach to detecting large-scale IP sharing globally. https://cfl.re/4oM315W

I created a New Tab Chrome extension a year or two ago which is used by maybe ~30 people. A new image every 4 hours, with a new business / finance headline on every new tab load. I don't read the news as a result, and yet stay on top of it all. Sometimes it's nice to make something for yourself.

Meta needs to stop on new products and fix WhatsApp. *So* many bugs. It’s a shit tier app.

Oof just got working a huge project for work that takes a process from 13 hours down to two hours. Happy, relieved, now need to get this experimental project production ready.

If it’s not DNS problems, it’s sql Search Path problems.

Major AWS Outage Happening https://old.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/1obd3lx/dynamodb_down_useast1/ [comments] [442 points]

AI will revolutionise programming. The AI:

Recovery is possible from the sandbox, but it’s slow, and very painful.

echo "alias ls='ls -lah'" >> ~/.zshrc && source ~/.zshrc Shows hidden dot files and sizes in k, kb, mb when you run `ls`. You're welcome.

Air fryer Sunday roast, all under an hour. 8.5/10.

Congratulations HM Government on forcing people to share their IDs to do anything online. Expect a lot more stories like this.

When you know it, and the AI knows it.

Kagi News https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-news [comments] [776 points]

Threw together a little @cloudflare.social worker with @pushover.net to alert me when ticket resales became available. That’s tickets for my parter and I sorted ✌️

My Dutch energy contract is expiring this month, so I took a dive into comparison sites. A few things I noted: · Prices in for gas/elec are up 🤷‍♂️ · Renewal price is same as new offers; prices are ~consistent · Welcome discounts go up to €500 · Discounts are a clear loss leader; embrace the VC money

Self Propagating NPM Malware Compromises over 40 Packages https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/ctrl-tinycolor-and-40-npm-packages-compromised [comments] [260 points]

Is it me or has the internet kind of gone shit since Reddit and Facebook killed off small communities and forums?

I now run 8 servers... 🙈

Thanks to a pretty substantial price increase for Wordpress hosting by @namecheap.com I finally spent an hour or so setting up Docker with Wordpress on a VPS. 1 month of the new EasyWP pricing is now 1 year of hosting on the VPS. Wild.

If you’re not using an ad blocker, what are you doing? Soundcloud: > Cookies & Tracking When clicking on “I accept”, you agree that we and our **919** partners may store and/or access information on your device, such as unique IDs in cookies to process personal data

Weekend discovery: Happy Eyeballs / RFC 6555 First make an IPv6 request, wait 50ms, then make an IPv4 request. This is intended to help with IPv6 adoption, but unintended side effects are multiple requests to servers and APIs. If this affects you, idempotency keys are your friend.

Nginx now supports Lets Encrypt/ACME natively! blog.nginx.org/blog/native-...

I’m not listed on Bing but I’m getting Bing referrals. What’s going on? Bing is by far the worst search engine to try get on and optimise for.

But please trust random websites with your passports and IDs. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Is it vibe coding, or is it vibe babysitting?

Someone stole my bike light (~1 euro from Albert Hijn). But then replaced it with another one, just with slightly less charge 😂.

How Hyper Built a 1m-Accurate Indoor GPS https://andrewhart.me/hyper/ [comments] [6 points]

There's joy in doing small projects, but there's a whole other world of engineering when working with huge databases with crazy amounts of resources, data and services.

I've been battling the same tired misconceptions for years: • 7% cancellation is fine • I’ll build a real business with just $300/mo new MRR • I’ll scale past millions doing what I've always done Nope… but here’s the way to calculate things for yourself:

Tried some different earplugs over the weekend on a night out. Constant ringing since Saturday. Seriously, go buy some good earplugs like Alpine Party Pro/Music Safe (21db/22db). The sound is great, and it makes a huge difference.

What in the fresh fuck is this @bsky.app? There is zero chance I’m giving my legal details to use this app.

I made Tinder but it's only pictures of my wife and I can only swipe right https://trytender.app/ [comments] [310 points]

Do your 20 years from now self a huge favour and spend a week reading into FIRE, compound interest, ETFs and tax shelters like ISA/401K. Don’t buy ebooks, it’s not rocket science - read reliable industry sources. www.hl.co.uk/financially-...

A phishing attack is going on against maintainers on @npmjs.bsky.social, be aware! - email is spoofed from npmjs.org (which doesn’t use DMARC but redirects to npmjs.com) - login link points to npnjs(dot)com (clear giveaway)