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ahokaon Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation

I'm waiting for someone to actually name something "Torment Nexus", which is the name of this phenomena.

ahokaon Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data

I think this is the worst part about it. Some company making a profit selling my data should be illegal.

ahokaon CHOMPI portable sampler instrument is now open-source (hardware and software)

But 700 euros almost gets you a microfreak and an sp404.

ahokaon LinkedIn Larpmaxxing

Maybe check their employees linkedin feed?

ahokaon Footguns with Postgres “at time zone 'UTC'”

Daylight saving changed the UTC time, because opening hours were always in local time.

ahokaon Footguns with Postgres "at time zone 'UTC'"

I've seen a product where they used UTC to store opening hours. They had to rewrite all dates via a script twice a year.

ahokaon How Uber Protects Against Retry Storms

Ah, the classic tyranny of structurelessness.

ahokaon OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability

I'm pretty sure it's already illegal to hack others.

ahokaon Neki – Sharded Postgres

I scrolled through the landing page and even the "Get started" page and I have still no idea what is this. Is this a managed db? Something I can run myself? No idea.

ahokaon Splash-free urinals (2025)

I really like the inverted version, where it's almost guaranteed to splash yourself as a deterrent.

ahokaon Learn Programming with OCaml

Why learn an instrument when you can just press play?

ahokaon IBM Bob

It's Nokia again now, bought out Siemens' share more than a decade ago.

ahokaon Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

It's distributing malware, do not use any of the "TPB" sites.

ahokaon Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems

This is not true. For example not every citizen can vote (people under guardianship or criminals) and not citizens can vote in local elections in the EU, if they came from another EU country.

ahokaon True Rate of Unemployment

People could use the fifth day to go to school.

ahokaon Dimethyl Mercury Exposure Incident at MIT

Oh fun, we have used it in school to etch PCBs. Right outside of the class room with no protective equipment of course. It was in a bucket.

ahokaon Microduck

Finally an AI slop I can keep as a pet. I hate this dystopia.

ahokaon Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

It's called a private equity. :-)

ahokaon Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra

It's the property of the display refresh rate.

ahokaon AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late

I guess they just cut the spines to speed scan the pages with a machine and then the resulting pile of papers is no longer worth anything, so they just dispose of it.

ahokaon Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code

The intent is obviously to make it hard to get the source code, which violates the license.

ahokaon OpenRouter is joining Stripe

xAI just not in the game, never was.

ahokaon How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

This technique would be devious if applied to a QR code.

ahokaon Applying a photosynthetic process to treat “dry eye”

I don't think you should give medical advice over the internet to strangers.

ahokaon Choose Boring Technology (2015)

Can you name a major Java framework or library (that's not abandonware)?

ahokaon Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub

I think it's a very Microsoft thing. It's a parallel evolution of software branching from the microcomputer era.

ahokaon Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up

Einstein wanted to measure how fast Earth moves through ether as his research thesis.