andersrs

#internetofshit

I have a side project that I run in Kubernetes with a postgres database and a few Go/Nodejs apps. Recommend me a lightweight otel backend that isn't going to blow out my cloud costs.

PVC is mildly toxic.

Yet we use it in plumbing. Madness.

It seems to me Safari is the new IE6. It has so many bugs compared to every other browser.

Imagine if, in addition to income, you could also lookup the debt level and net worth of anyone you know. Are your neighbors driving a fancy car just because they're leveraged up to their eyeballs in mortgage debt? Would people change their buying habits if their net worth was public. Is there any point owning ostentatious possessions if everyone knows your debt level?

It's funny that Chrome does the same and nobody really cares. I've compared social media posts covering the equivalent anti-privacy features in each browser and Edge gets an order of magnitude more the hate than Chrome. Maybe because the expectation is that a build-in OS browser shouldn't be run for profit?

Capitalism is like a game of Fishy https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/81219

The big fish eat the small fish and the game becomes easier the bigger you get.

People are cheapskates when it comes to OSS. OP put in thousands of commits and only has 18 supporters. They are not exactly a software baron are they?

On the other hand you have some onlyfans girls flashing their ass for 10 seconds getting thousands or even millions.

Google is good when you know what you're looking for like a specific local business but it's awful when you're trying to find a recipe all you get are wordy life stories. ChatGPT can give me a concise recipe in my preferred units (metric) everything by weight, substitute x for y and tell me the calories. Phind.com is great for programming queries.

I run a fairly popular web game (Redactle https://redactle.net). Thousands of people play it and there are thousands of links on social media which Google doesn't seem to care about. When you search 'redactle' you should be getting my site or a clone of the original setup by a fan; This is how it works on Bing and DDG. But on Google the top results are ad-infested link-farm game sites, a domain squatter page at redactle .com and crap like that. They simply don't recognize the social proof that is out there. A thousand https://spammygames{1..N}.com sites linking to each other beats out all those people linking from reddit,fb,x etc.

79% of statistics are made up.

Yes it's a joke... just like Google's results in 2023.

And then they take that $2M and bribe someone at Google to ensure 59% of the image search results are from Pinterest.

Not everyone is the same as you. I use it around the house.

I have to congratulate the author for getting an advert on the front page of HN.

That's a couple salaries. Wow what a big deal.

How is macbook battery life with Podman? Docker really kills battery life.

Doubling the price seems reasonable to reduce squatting. $20 or $30 would be nothing to anyone starting a project but a much higher cost for someone squatting on thousands of domains.

> They'll just pull your foreskin out of cold storage.

It's fucked up how normalized circumcision is. Apparently some hospitals do it without even asking. Imagine your son's penis being mutilated so some person can have child-sacrfice skin cream.

How do you know it's not already happening? It's standard practice to do bunch of 'tests' done at birth.

There is always that one asshole in your family that thinks they're clever by uploading their DNA to one of the ancestry services. By doing that they've leaked a fair bit of information about their relatives who never consented.

Some of the examples in the blog have complex features like cantilevered spaces. The wall of glass look must be more expensive than plain concrete walls. It can't be all about cost.

Stainless steel pan + butter + a stainless spatula + chainmail or steel wool. I cook can egg on stainless everyday and it's easy to clean. Teflon pans are not inert. The fumes from a hot teflon pan can kill birds.

Don't call for the meme that saturated fats are bad. Butter is safer than unsaturated fats which change when heated.

> Why do we buy so much single-use packaging

It's designed to be that way by the PR guys that created the plastic recycling logo. This video is under 10mins and features a lot of the PR adverts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJnJ8mK3Q3g

Recycling is a meme created by corporations that benefit from filling the planet with junk. That little numbered recycling triangle on every plastic bottle - public relations stunt. They even made a TV advert featuring an Italian actor as American Indian shedding a tear.

Decades ago glass bottles used to be taken back to the factory, washed and reused. These days every package is a unique shape because of marketing ensuring each package is incompatible with other brands. We need a shipping container (docker) concept for packaging. Consumers are not going to solve this problem as we're easily tricked by greenwashing produced by PR and marketing teams.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJnJ8mK3Q3g

Because glyphosate is not that bad compared to other agrichemicals like pesticides, fungicides and weed killers containing Chrlorine (MCPA). When used with a surfactant these chemicals penetrate insects by orders of magnitude.

The paper you linked to is about pesticide is it not?

It's far more likely the bees are getting covered in chemicals when said chemicals are applied to the flowers of the plants which is often the case with fungicides. You're not going to spray glyphosate on your orchard trees because it would kill them. The fungicide powder used to coat seeds are is also a problem as it's dusty and gets airborne easily. Glyphosate might be a bit of a scapegoat when the other chemicals are far worse.

Perhaps companies within the economy have consolidated and thus become less competitive and more powerful. On the flip side reviewers would be reviewing products from fewer companies and become less independent. They wouldn't want to rock the boat and lose access. I have no real proof but most big YouTubers I see are in it for money (shilling VPNs) and seem to get access to products early.

Love it. Can you display the source when I view an icon. When I search for something a hundred icons show up and there isn't a way to know which icon set each belongs to.

Thanks HTMLRewriter actually fits my use case perfectly. I don't need canvas and complicated stuff like that. Just the ability to parse some html and strip out certain things.

Does Bun have a built-in DOM Parser? In Nodejs it's horrendously slow using JSDOM and Linkedom is a great effort but still about 20x slower than a browser. Keep up the good work Jarred.

> must be at least as cheap

It really doesn't need to be just as cheaper for a lot of applications if reuse is an option. What we need is reusable containers that are standard sizes. It used to be a thing several generations ago where glass milk and beer bottles would be returned, the consumer would be paid a small amount for each bottle and then they got washed and reused. The thing is we still have glass bottles for beer today but the marketing people have made it so they're all different shapes so it wouldn't be possible to reuse a bottle for a different brand. What we need is a shipping/docker container model for packaging. The marketing people keep ruining it. Every packet is made like a tiktok clip with shiny bright colors and weird shapes. With cigarettes at least where I live the govt had no problem taxing cigarettes and banning shiny packaging in favour of plain text labels. We can also get rid of the recycling meme, you know the American Indian with the single-tear, who was actually an Italian hired by the companies making all the waste. So much of the plastic shit is created by marketing people.

Some areas it would be difficult to replace plastic for instance powertools which need to be light and strong. But it would still help if they all used a standard battery interface.