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Palomides··on Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, reduced the number of cars
france has a really strong tradition of comics, it's not just manga
Palomides··on Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act
this position assumes the surveillance state or megacorps would be satisfied with a zero knowledge proof based ID/age verification system, which is not at all obvious to me

meta could spend their billions lobbying for that, if they wanted to

edit: to be clear, I do think a government developed and maintained ZKP ID/age system is the best possible compromise, I just don't think we have any chance of getting it

Palomides··on Universal vaccine against respiratory infections and allergens
calling the immune system simple and mechanical is completely wild, like half of americans have some kind of medically diagnosable immune dysfunction
Palomides··on No leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2026
you can use TAI (international atomic time, basically UTC without leap seconds) if you want to be serious about it

I'm a fan but it's rare for anyone else to agree!

Palomides··on Every single board computer I tested in 2025
not GP but I've found the install and upgrade experience for OpenWRT on larger machines is not great compared to the alternatives and normal Linux distros, everything is biased towards the use case of occasionally flashing/configuring little systems

I still use it though, can't complain in terms of actual routing/switching

Palomides··on Greg Kroah-Hartman Stretches Support Periods for Key Linux LTS Kernels
there's basically zero intersection between mainline linux version support timelines and android kernels as deployed on phones
Palomides··on Raspberry Pi Pico 2 at 873.5MHz with 3.05V Core Abuse
it might actually be better to cool from the bottom, since the pads probably conduct heat better than the chip package material

I bet if you designed a custom board it could do a little better

Palomides··on Stoat removes all LLM-generated code following user criticism
why? I think having a stated policy on LLM use is increasingly unavoidable for FOSS projects
Palomides··on Stoat removes all LLM-generated code following user criticism
maybe? devs should weigh the feedback and decide what they think will best serve the project. open source is, especially, always in conversation with the community of both users and developers.
Palomides··on Stoat removes all LLM-generated code following user criticism
what if the users legitimately don't want AI written software?
Palomides··on Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt
you can get a 100Gb normal pcie card like a MCX416A for less than $100 if you're willing to flash them
Palomides··on Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants
you could make a decision informed by actual information, i.e. your blood levels
Palomides··on Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude Code in a month
I'm very skeptical, but this is also something that's easy to compare using the original as a reference implementation, right? providing lots of random input and fixing any disparities is a classic approach for rewriting/porting a system
Palomides··on Linux kernel framework for PCIe device emulation, in userspace
some ARM chips can do PCIe endpoint mode, and the kernel has support for pretending to be an nvme ssd https://docs.kernel.org/nvme/nvme-pci-endpoint-target.html
Palomides··on Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars
probably worth mentioning they discontinued the ICE Macan (and 718 Cayman/Boxster) in Europe?

also they put a dinky 2KWh battery in some 911s

Palomides··on "Anyone else out there vibe circuit-building?"
I think it's also that hardware costs are so easy to quantify compared to engineering labor and software dependency maintenance etc
Palomides··on Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy
mad men is fiction
Palomides··on The recurring dream of replacing developers
>every "no-code will replace developers" wave actually creates more developer jobs, not fewer

you mean "created", past tense. You're basically arguing it's impossible for technical improvements to reduce the number of programmers in the world, ever. The idea that only humans will ever be able to debug code or interpret non-technical user needs seems questionable to me.

Palomides··on The recurring dream of replacing developers
the infinite-fountain-of-software machine seems more likely to replace developers than previous innovations, and the people pushing the button will not be, in any current sense of the word, programming
Palomides··on Drone Hacking Part 1: Dumping Firmware and Bruteforcing ECC
you could compare with apple locking down iphones and parts, which I understand significantly reduced theft
Palomides··on I Built a 1 Petabyte Server from Scratch [video]
as an aside, backblaze has since switched to off the shelf supermicro systems
Palomides··on AI generated music barred from Bandcamp
why do you think a majority of bandcamp users want AI music?
Palomides··on Building a 25 Gbit/s workstation for the SCION Association
they aren't cheap, but noctua's latest 120mm fans are arguably as good as it gets, in quantifiable ways: https://www.hwcooling.net/en/noctua-nf-a12x25-g2-pwm-the-kin...
Palomides··on Sergey Brin's Unretirement
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Palomides··on Web development is fun again
isn't it exactly the opposite? LLMs have killed the generalist, only specialists with very targeted skills have anything marketable
Palomides··on Alzheimer’s disease can be reversed in animal models? Study
>expect it to be everywhere within just a couple of years.

there are studies about this compound from a decade ago, kinda doubt it's going to be a breakthrough at this point

Palomides··on Adobe Photoshop 1.0 Source Code (1990)
unlike most FOSS, blender gets millions of dollars a year to support development
Palomides··on Autoland saves King Air, everyone reported safe
it kinda sucks, but with the constraints it's at least understandable. they wanted an extremely lightweight language with a bytecode VM which could be ported to whatever MCUs in 2015, while also strictly limiting the functionality for battery usage reasons (and, uh, product segmentation/limiting third party access).
Palomides··on What Does a Database for SSDs Look Like?
nope, linux python script that writes a little data and calls os.fsync
Palomides··on What Does a Database for SSDs Look Like?
I just tested the mediocre enterprise nvme I have sitting on my desk (micron 7400 pro), it does over 30000 fsyncs per second (over a thunderbolt adapter to my laptop, even)
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