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Deebster··on How a giant battery is transforming a town centre in Cannington, Ontario
While I agree that that's a mid-sized EV battery, that would be a large battery for a house. E.g a Powerwall 3 is only 13.5 kWh.
Deebster··on Don't use your phone while you poop
That's the third reason given in the article (hemorrhoids == piles).
Deebster··on This blog is written in en-GB
Roughly:

British "quite" means somewhat.

American "quite" means very.

A Brit saying a suggestion is "quite good" is actually saying it's not good enough, whereas a US listener will think they've been told the opposite.

Deebster··on To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks
Last year Wikipedia reported an 8% drop in humans traffic[1]. That's huge.

[1] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/10/17/new-user-trends-on-wik...

Deebster··on I bypassed AWS API Gateway auth with a trailing slash. Got $12K bounty
I have no idea why you think it's written by AI, unless you think that correct use of quote and dash characters means it must be AI.
Deebster··on Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge
Jeeves (the gentleman's personal gentleman) is a valet that would be pronounced VAL-et.
Deebster··on Lunar Flyby
There is EXIF available in the original version: https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009301/art002e00...

It's taken with an AF Nikkor 35mm f/2D on a NIKON Z 9.

Deebster··on Lunar Flyby
I think your first link should be to https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009566/art002e00...
Deebster··on Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains
CRUD = Create, Read, Update, Delete

Plenty of business apps don't really ask for much more than that, and those are the CRUD apps. They're not particularly challenging to write, nor is it very interesting to do so.

Deebster··on I built something that changed my friend group's social fabric
I play badminton, which has games that are about ten minutes long. I've noticed an uptick in the number of times I've had to stop and wait for someone I'm playing with to read a message on their smartwatch. I'm terminally online, but I can disconnect long enough for a game or a film - I seem to be increasingly in the minority.
Deebster··on The appeal of serving your web pages with a single process
Well, unless you're using threads.

Or did I miss the sarcasm?

Deebster··on Our Best Customers Are Now Robots
For better or worse, describing software this way is fairly standard usage - e.g. robots.txt.
Deebster··on eserde – a serde that just doesn't stop
That’s quite useful in the example given (passing errors back to clients), but I wonder if sometimes these others errors are artifacts from the first error - it would be more annoying to have these false negatives (and wasting time understanding that that’s what they are) than having to retry.
Deebster··on Why Linux developers do not fix reported issues or ignore bug reports
That user might be the one from that old XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1172/
Deebster··on API Shouldn't Redirect HTTP to HTTPS
As your screenshot says, you've enabled HTTPS-Only Mode - that's not the default, though, so most(?) Firefox users don't see that.
Deebster··on Firefox 115 can remotely disable any extension on any site
I read the release notes, and I still didn't see where this was mentioned.

This feature does seem like it's designed to help defend against bad plugins, but in other hands it could be a source of worry.

Deebster··on Half of curl’s vulnerabilities are C mistakes
There are different kinds of colourblindness. Deuteranopes are likely to confuse greens with yellows, which are consecutive here.
Deebster··on Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company
I'm not OP but there is him talking on his blog about cookies:

https://montulli.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-reasoning-behind-w...

https://montulli.blogspot.com/2013/05/why-blocking-3rd-party...

He doesn't come across as overly prescient there, but there's definitely some of the familiar juggling trade-offs in his design decisions.

Deebster··on Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company
> Firefox Containers are awful

Do you have any sources or reasons for this condemnation?

Deebster··on Thunderbird in 2019
I wonder how up-to-date that warning is, given that the feature was introduced in TB 38 and we're now on TB 60.

Edit: there's still 35 bugs tagged maildir (albeit all unconfirmed or new): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?classification=Clie...

Deebster··on The British Once Built a 1,100-Mile Hedge Through the Middle of India
Well done to the author for planting the word "hegemony" in there.