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antonkochubey··on Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC
rootless docker's networking (slirp4netns) is still terribly buggy and in edge cases often locks up using 100% CPU until you discover that your laptop is a lapwarmer and kill it
antonkochubey··on Chuwi Minibook X
If it was running Windows - no wonder, Windows is horrible at constantly writing … something to disk, and eMMC's are not high endurance devices. The flash itself had nothing to do with Chuwi and was most likely manufactured by either SanDisk or Kingston, it would have failed likewise in ASUS/Lenovo/whoever else made those crap Intel Atom + 4 GB RAM + 64 GB eMMC devices.
antonkochubey··on OpenRouter raises $113M Series B
Enterprises are paying 500% - 20000% markup for AWS services so why do you think 5% will be a problem?
antonkochubey··on Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment
not really, the redirect itself is happening at EMV DS level, not by the merchant himself. Merchant has no idea what bank your card belongs to, so he does not know which bank to redirect you to.
antonkochubey··on Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment
non-3DS payments are trivial to chargeback, at least in the EU
antonkochubey··on Halt and Catch Fire
It’s not like that proposal offers a solution for any of those problems.
antonkochubey··on Citroën metropolis concept car (2010)
Renault is not a part of Stellantis.
antonkochubey··on More than sixty percent of the United States is experiencing drought conditions
Does amount of land usable for farming have to be halved in a decade for you to be concerned?
antonkochubey··on The Surprisingly Long Life of the Vacuum Tube
Are they perhaps “what the amp repair guys know how to work on” for the reason that they require repairs much more often? :)
antonkochubey··on Managing the Unmanaged Switch
1 Gbps is perfectly adequate for things such as Apple TV's, smart home controllers/gateways (heck even 10 Mbps is fine for them), networked printers, UPSes (also would be fine with as low as 10 Mbps), KVMs, etc etc etc
antonkochubey··on Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal
They forgot the "hey ChatGPT, rewrite this to have better impact on the company stock" before submitting it
antonkochubey··on Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases
Doesn’t Obsidian already do pretty much the same?
antonkochubey··on CATL's new LFP battery can charge from 10 to 98% in less than 7 minutes
That's a theoretical / marketing number. In real life I am yet to see meet an EV owner who reports >80% of range after 5 years / 100 000 km of mostly-at-home charging. I see those on internet forums, but on internet forums, anyone can write anything, so I do not take those reports too seriously.

From my personal family anecdotes: my mothers' 4 year old Hyundai Ioniq 5 had complete battery failure. Thankfully under warranty. And my fathers' 5 year old Audi e-tron 50 already has <80% range remaining, with very rare fast charging.

antonkochubey··on CATL's new LFP battery can charge from 10 to 98% in less than 7 minutes
No car manufacturer actually sells battery packs for $80-90/kWh or anywhere near that. That's what it costs THEM, not service customers.
antonkochubey··on CATL's new LFP battery can charge from 10 to 98% in less than 7 minutes
First, with range decreasing, number of charge cycles per mile, and therefore rate of wear, will increase.

Second, average age of car on the road is above 10 years in most countries; and those that drive old cars definitely do not have €26,500* spare to swap their EV's battery for a new one.

*That's what Audi charges here for e-tron 50 battery replacement, which are already starting to fail for many owners

antonkochubey··on Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?
That's on app developers (I suspect mobile game developers are not the most competent of the bunch). My entire iPhone's backup is 4.6 GB, and my YouTube downloaded videos alone are way more than that.
antonkochubey··on Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?
rclone usually works much better for all those cloud storages with terrible UIs/native clients
antonkochubey··on Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany?
Ecoflow is overpriced crap for people who have no idea what ESS systems are like and so just buy a terrible product from a powerbank manufacturer.
antonkochubey··on Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)
In my country it is 8y/160k km for batteries and 5-10y/150-200k km for ICE cars.

That being said, when a battery fails, it’s a €20,000+ whole unit replacement (e.g. for Audi e-tron 55 it is €26,500 in my country), while ICE failures very rarely need a whole unit replacement, usually it’s a €1700 turbocharger or a €400 injector or something of that caliber. Personal anecdote: my 12 year old 262k km BMW did not need any engine repairs until now, except for free manufacturer recall on the EGR cooling system. And it still has 1000 km highway range in the winter.

antonkochubey··on Migrating to the EU
>great

>like you’ve never left Azure

hmmmmmm

antonkochubey··on Our commitment to Windows quality
Limiting it to a browser tab is sufficient :)
antonkochubey··on Aliens.gov ~ domain registered 17MAR2026
>A commercial plane ticket anywhere" != the legal right to go anywhere Pretty much you go back to your country of origin

Most passports grant at least a medium term admission to dozens of countries, and long term to a few.

antonkochubey··on Starlink Mini as a failover
>A generic $20 4G dongle won't be as easy to integrate nor report as many shiny metrics as a UniFi component.

Neither will Starlink.

antonkochubey··on Starlink Mini as a failover
Sounds way too high to me, I am paying €8.80/month for unlimited 5G, calls and texting
antonkochubey··on An experiment to use GitHub Actions as a control plane for a PaaS
Except for when GHA is down, which is (from my own experience) waaaaay more often than our self-hosted GitLab, with it's much better CI system, ever was :)
antonkochubey··on Wired headphone sales are exploding
Picnic date with a Bluetooth speaker for some background music, perhaps? I often see that in parks/beaches/etc, and as long as volume is reasonable I don’t think anyone minds.
antonkochubey··on 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips
>The CAS latency for ECC is about double what gaming RAM offers

Ironically, overclocking ECC memory is much easier than overclocking non-ECC DIMMs, because you know exactly at which point you start encountering instability and need to dial back, instead of relying on.. application crashes and BSOD's to know that you're running way too optimistic clocks/timings.

Meanwhile I overclocked 'low clock / loose timing' ECC DIMMs on Ryzen 7 platform with no issues at all – kept increasing clocks and lowering timings until ECC started reporting errors, then dialed it back a couple notches, and now it is not just stable, but I also have exact reporting of it being stable.

antonkochubey··on Iran War Cost Tracker
I wonder if perhaps something has happened to European Jews in the 1930s that made them look for a place to re-settle
antonkochubey··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
Yes, because if it stops flowing, demand on the public market will increase, and prices will rise.
antonkochubey··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
Majority of that is since 2014, gains since 2022 are way lower
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