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esseph··on Web Search API
Workers gives me a free static site, just dropped the .html file there (or connect to git).

CDN, DDoS protection, excellent DNS hosting features, web monitoring, web analytics, advanced web and service filtering and blocking, zerotrust networking / vpn options, a solid API that works great with terraform, tons of other stuff.

esseph··on Web Search API
Depending on what you do for work, you may be in that portal often (daily).
esseph··on Web Search API
AI firms sell hacking services

AI firms sell security services

esseph··on Web Search API
> Also, Cloudflare implicitly screws over everyone by leaking data to the NSA

I have always operated under the assumption that every cloud provider and telco does this, so this claim has always seemed very silly to me.

esseph··on Sales of sub-€25,000 electric car models set to rise sevenfold
I can't imagine a car selling for that price in the US. :(
esseph··on Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back
> Google is doing the same on Android - there's no native tool to search for large images and videos by date

This is completely untrue.

Android Files app.

I just went to the very top, selected images and videos, and set a custom date. (And then sorted by filesize)

esseph··on Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch
Every race is a different car, maybe a different engine, with different software, basically.
esseph··on Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx
While I do appreciate very much the "we already have the technology, let's just use it!" approach + the self hosting aspect, one of the downsides of self hosting without a proxy is having to expose your endpoint and likely having minimal defensive tools.
esseph··on ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf]
None of it, this has been common knowledge for decades.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6428430/

https://aifs.gov.au/resources/practice-guides/effect-trauma-...

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3968319/

Adding to this, trauma extends to multiple generations:

"Intergenerational influences of paternal combat-related trauma on offspring behavioral and brain function"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235228952...

"Exposure of Men to PTSD-Promoting Trauma Elevates Levels of Sperm miRNAs with Anxiety and Depression-Inducing Activities"

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.22.720211v1...

esseph··on ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf]
> If you find a bug in your code does it matter who is to blame?

If you want to fix the code, you need to go to the right line.

esseph··on ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf]
>Why is this complicated? If you can’t remember the trauma, how can you suffer from it?

Because trauma affixes neutal pathways. You don't have to remember it to be affected, at all.

esseph··on Cloudflare OHTTP gateway
> I've never seen an actual CGNAT IP addresses from a consumer ISPs being shared by a legitimate user and a persistent abusive one.

If you work for an ISP you'll see it all the time. It's a constant fight to keep your subnet reputations high, which is hard when the subscribers don't care unless you shut off their service, but then your IP block still has a reputation issue to clean.

esseph··on <input type="password" maxlength="20"> prevents me from logging into Vanguard
I would use hardware token for that use case
esseph··on The Escalation of War in Ethiopia
> were probably

Hmmmmm

esseph··on The Escalation of War in Ethiopia
So why were they fighting before Islam and Christianity?
esseph··on <input type="password" maxlength="20"> prevents me from logging into Vanguard
Huh? Do you not understand how this works?

So passkey is saved to my account. Account is logged in on multiple devices, secured with an additional pin.

It doesn't matter what device I'm on, I can either use the app on a mobile device or a browser.

Site goes to login, prompts me for passkey, I type in PIN and select the passkey from my password manager.

It's fast and easy to use.

If I am on a random device (which never happens, ever) I would just log in via browser, or use one of my hardware tokens if I were expecting to access something from an unusual device.

esseph··on <input type="password" maxlength="20"> prevents me from logging into Vanguard
My passkey is stored in my password manager and is available across devices with no hassle.
esseph··on macOS 27 is so buggy
snap is basically Ubuntu only.

Everything else moved to flatpak, which solves the distribution issue.

esseph··on Everyone's Packing Up
IP/subnet reputation. Either someone in your house has a hacked device, or someone in your neighborhood or IP subnet does, or maybe they were used as a residential proxy due to a router with a hardcoded password or something.
esseph··on Everyone's Packing Up
The problem for many sites and apps is that it's basically impossible to tell one from another now.
esseph··on US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban
> Why aren't Small Government and Free Market Republicans more outraged at the current administration's betrayals of these core components of American conservativism?

They were pushed out long ago, and mostly don't exist in any meaningful number. Even then, what could they do?

esseph··on macOS 27 is so buggy
Do you somehow not have that issue with Linux or Windows?
esseph··on Clef: Open-source decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform
You're putting a lot of trust in uncorrupted, untrusted, unknown models (potentially).
esseph··on Dots: Always-on agents
I have seen accounts on here registered 10+ yr that now have LLMs responding for them. And a lot of users on here with accounts that are months to years old? Often not their first account, they may use several to respond with or to try and break up their digital footprint.
esseph··on The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites (2025)
> I don't think the USA could keep mega-super-duper technology hidden from others in the long run.

The US has a history of keeping vehicles, weapons, and operations hidden for decades, even things in the past decade.

> What is the addiction to want to find life outside of the planet?

Knowledge. Trade. Technology. Weapons. Religion. Science. Sex (lol).

"to explore strange new worlds

to seek out new life and new civilizations

to boldly go where no one has gone before!"

esseph··on Gemini 4 Argon
> completely offtopic but is rolling with rocm worth it?

It's so fucking easy.

From AMD: https://lemonade-server.ai/

Then you can easily throw a openweb-ui container in front, and then connect to the openweb-ui via your mobile app of choice (if you want chat, otherwise you just point your harness of choice at the lemonade server api endpoint).

esseph··on Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available
> Debian

Release cycle extremely slow, unstable and testing don't really fix the problem, and insert their own issues. Still near and dear to my heart and if I need something pretty light, stable, but can get by with older software, it's still a solid choice for headless servers.

> Ubuntu

Ubuntu was for "noobs" probably 10-15yr after my Linux journey started. I watched them inject ads into the desktop and cli. I would use it from time to time on certain things and it would often break during upgrades. This was a consistent problem for over a decade, but it has gotten better. Now they're rewriting coreutils in rust and breaking compatibility along the way. And snap? Snap is an abomination. It is a limited ecosystem and the daemon itself is a damn attack vector.

> Fedora

Massive open source community and tons of money behind it, as it is the feeder distro of RHEL, which has been used at pretty much every company I've worked at. In fact if you use RHEL, you'll often be able to see many new features just be running Fedora somewhere else. Also one of the primary adopters and users of Gnome if you're okay with that, and I'd note of course they have a release for other WM/UI if you're into whatever. Also always seems to be a software release for it (Fedora and Debian/Ubuntu seem to be the most common big 3 for support). It uses flatpaks instead of snap, which gives you sandboxing and user-level package updates allowing your base OS to stay a bit cleaner if you want, or you can just use system packages (yum/dnf). Good on desktop and server.

> Arch

If the only person you have to support is you and you want the latest and greatest, and it has amazing community docs. Better than Debian by far, which wasn't always the case. The Debian handbooks were pretty legendary for a long time. Can be very fast and very light. Solid system.

> Alpine

You need/want MUSL and aren't using distroless container images for whatever reason.

This is just my opinion from an old grump that has a history of managing decent sized fleets of both pets and cattle and runs it at home on desktops and laptops.

esseph··on Show HN: JBR-001 – An open-source 3D printable desktop robot
Board or not, it's the chip here that is expensive.
esseph··on Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/09/29/congress/de...
esseph··on GPT-6.1 Sol replaces GPT-6 Sol after just 7 days, with near-Astra intelligence
I think there's going to be a brutal backlash against the entire technology sector.

Gov and Corp will throw their hands up and explain how it's not their fault.

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