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Spunkie··on In restaurants, We need a new way to signal that we're ready to pay
Same for me, completely unrelatable.

I know this is a bit of a bubble but all my friends that have androids have them rooted, so paying with our phones isn't even an option.

Spunkie··on HDR‑Infused Emoji
Doesn't seem to work at all on linux in any browser I test. My laptop and distro support HDR and it's turned on.
Spunkie··on Cloudflare's premier user conference 2025, Las Vagas Oct 13-16
@jgrahamc Y'all should prob make the url not need the oddly placed www in the middle, so just events.cloudflare.com. Also, as of 10 minutes ago, the email address for the sponsor info does not seem to exist, connectevents@cloudfare.com.

Anyways, I would love to go but Vegas tends to be expensive. Looks like there are no plans to do a livestream/virtual event along side the event. Are y'all at least going to record your sessions and upload them on youtube later?

Spunkie··on Experimental release of GrapheneOS for Pixel 9a
I was never even notified for my 4a and when I try to check it's eligibility it simply says my pixel 4a "is not eligible for a repair, cash payment, or discount." without any additional information.

Does this mean my pixel 4a battery was unaffected for some reason... or simply that the lawyers managed to weasel out of paying 100% of active pixel 4a owners back and my phone is still dangerous or degraded? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Spunkie··on Journey to Optimize Cloudflare D1 Database Queries
You may be interested in this new CF announcement, D1 read replicas and D1 sessions: https://blog.cloudflare.com/d1-read-replication-beta/

It'll be interested to see where D1s performance falls after these reaches general availability.

Also I've had really good luck with the CF discord for support, certainly better than CF tickets or the forums. I tend to only go to support with really weird/novel scenarios, so on tickets I end up banging my head against the wall with a tier 1 support staff for a couple of weeks before I have any chance of a real answer. But on the discord I often get an answer from an actual expert within a day.

Spunkie··on Journey to Optimize Cloudflare D1 Database Queries
You may be interested in this new CF announcement, D1 read replicas and D1 sessions: https://blog.cloudflare.com/d1-read-replication-beta/
Spunkie··on Journey to Optimize Cloudflare D1 Database Queries
You may be interested in this new announcement about D1, https://blog.cloudflare.com/d1-read-replication-beta/

Read replicas for lower latency and sessions for partitions per user like you mention.

Spunkie··on Zoom bias: The social costs of having a 'tinny' sound during video conferences
IK Multimedia iRig Stream Mic USB, it sounds great, has a built in audio interface, pop filter, direct monitoring, mixing, light up mute button, and all for under $100.

Def use the mic with a pair of wired headphones/earbuds to use the live/direct monitoring feature.

My team used to have a lot of issues with people mics being too loud or too quiet without realizing. Getting everyone on that mic and specifically using direct monitoring has solved that issue.

Spunkie··on Two new PebbleOS watches
Yeah I just noticed that when going to preorder.

It muddies what would otherwise an easy upsell/upgrade.

Spunkie··on Pixel 4a battery update due to overheating risk, per Australian 'recall' notice
I was never even notified for my 4a and when I try to check it's eligibility it simply says my pixel 4a "is not eligible for a repair, cash payment, or discount." without any additional information.

Does this mean my pixel 4a battery was unaffected for some reason... or simply that the lawyers managed to weasel out of paying 100% of active pixel 4a owners back and my phone is still dangerous or degraded? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Spunkie··on 2600 Magazine's Twitter account locked for posting info of DOGE employees
What a braindead take/ask... Government employees names and gov emails are public information.

The reason they are banned on X is because they annoyed emperor Elon, nothing to do with TOS violations.

Spunkie··on 2600 Magazine's Twitter account locked for posting info of DOGE employees
Post a government employees name and work email does not a doxxing make. This information is supposed to be public in the first place.

As for the why, 2600 says: "Our very first issue in 1984 contained a list of govt employees. This is the kind of thing we do."

Ref: https://bsky.app/profile/2600.com/post/3ljw44pevf22o

Spunkie··on MacBook Air M4
It isn't depending on what "web browsing" someone is doing, which can be a pretty wide range now.

1 persons "web browsing" is no browser extensions, a couple of gmail tabs, some light blog reading, and maybe something as heavy as reddit.

While another persons "web browsing" is running multiple browser extensions like grammerly, adblocker, etc. Along with a bunch of gmail tabs, plus a bunch of heavy "web apps"(think: miro, monday.com, google workspace/office365, photoshop online) and then throw 10s-100s of tabs of "research" on top of that.

8gb is quickly becoming unworkable for people that fall closer to the latter group.

Spunkie··on MacBook Air M4
Everyone I know that got an M1 cheaped out on the 8gb model and are now struggling to use a browser with heavy sites and multitasking(zoom) at the same time.

But also apples upcharge on RAM is disgusting, so it's hard to blame them for picking the lowest spec model.

Spunkie··on MacBook Air M4
The point is that benchmark is pretty useless and likely does not line up to what a user that is still running a intel air would expect the word "faster" even means.

When normal users are thinking "faster" they are really thinking about snappiness/responsiveness, not number crunching.

Spunkie··on We Kind of Suck at That Right Now
The article is interesting, but the action points at the end can easily lead to disaster if they’re not implemented correctly.

I’ve gone through many of those same steps back when my company was in a rapid growth phase. I believed I was being helpful by stepping back and staying less opinionated, but after a year, I found that most new team members had no real opinion of me—or worse, they’d constructed misguided opinions out of thin air.

Back to the articles point, ultimately people who feel personally offended or “attacked” by a simple statement like “We suck at that” will inevitably create problems. Our company decided that wasn’t the kind of culture we wanted to build, so we chose to move away from (or avoid hiring) those who couldn’t handle that straightforward level of honesty.

Spunkie··on Framework's first desktop is a strange–but unique–mini ITX gaming PC
Honestly to me these announcements read as an outright abandonment of frameworks supposed mission.

Feels like a stab in the back.

Spunkie··on 'Impossible-to-hack' security turns out to be no security
Your comment is unprofessional, the CEO in question deserves a lot more vitriol frankly.
Spunkie··on Hands-On with Vescin: MINI's New Vegan Friendly Interior That Replaces Leather
I really hate that the industry managed to pull off the pleather to "vegan leather" rebranding.

Everyone back in the day was clearly aware that pleather meant it was gonna be some shitty inferior product. While the exact same stuff called "vegan leather" manages to be marketed as a premium product and successfully tricks people.

We are starting to pay the price for basic entry level cars that was what a luxury car went for just a decade ago. Yet somehow the materials the car is made out of is universally worse.

Spunkie··on F-Droid's Progress and What's Coming in 2025
> Supported iOS apps and progressive web apps (PWA) as packages that can be shipped via repositories.

iOS apps on f-droid, huh?

Spunkie··on Reverse Engineering Bambu Connect
Their "update" is a bunch of hand wavy corporate PR bullshit.

Their idea of "working with" the people impacted by this change is just give them a couple of days notice that they are about to be fucked over.

Also the whole "it's just a beta" is such a stupid point I don't even want to respond to it. Truly idiotic.

They are positioning themselves to build a proper walled garden.

That entire blog post could be sumed up as "We know we are doing a shit thing but We. Don't. Care. So it would be great if y'all could just shut up about it until it's more ready."

Spunkie··on Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline
This is an especially superficial take, sure the Constitution says nothing about national security but reality sure does...

Any person that has ever gotten a security clearance has given up some of their first amendment rights to do it and if they talk about the wrong thing to the wrong person they will absolutely go to jail.

And as always the classic example of free speech being limited still stands. Go yell FIRE in a crowded movie and see how your dumbass 1st amendment argument keeps you out of jail.

Spunkie··on Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline
I've honestly never seen so many stupid people making stupid arguments on HN before.

Nothing but lazy disingenuous arguments who's only purpose is to bait conversations for replying with even lazier whataboutisms.

Either the brainrot has really set in for these people or we are being flooded with ai/bots.

Spunkie··on Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline
Unless you work directly for the US government in some way, you are perfectly free to get on a VPN and continue using tiktok. And unlike your chinese friends, you don't even need to break the law to do it.
Spunkie··on Making an intersection unsafe for pedestrians to save seconds for drivers
I don't understand how anyone that actually walks and/or drives in north america can come to that conclusion.

When a driver is speeding up to "make" a yellow light their attention turns to nothing but the yellow light or even worse the state of the next intersection/light beyond the one they are speeding through. The existence of the green/yellow light gives drivers carte blanche to not need to think about the current state of the crossing because "the light tells me there should be nothing there anyways".

Where as a driver slowing down to "roll" a stop sign has their attention set to basically the opposite. They are generally focused on things like, is there a car I'm going to hit? is there a pedestrian crossing? is there a cop down the street waiting to give me a ticket?

Spunkie··on WordPress Is in Trouble
Crazy how hosting wordpress, between 2003-2024, your main concern was Chinese/Russian hackers. And in 2025 you main concern should be if Mullenweg will hijack your website for his pissing match.

Also he didn't shut down the sustainability team because he "didn't know about it". He shut it down because their stated goals are a threat to Mullenwegs dictatorship hold over wordpress.

Spunkie··on Serverless VPN Self-hosted
This is only somewhat related but this post got me wondering.

Can wireguard be used for a multi-wan setup/speed aggregation?

Spunkie··on DMARCbis is around the corner: what's changing
> nobody will listen to us anyway

And they are right because their recommendations about handling a reject policy are idiotic.

Orgs want a real reject policy, full stop. If we wanted our email to be quarantined... We would fucking set it a quarantine.

This is seriously one of the stupidest things I've read, in a spec, in a long time. It's right up there with whatever dumbass decided BIMI VMCs must not be used for reputation.

VMCs require a verification of personhood, trademark, and a non trivial momentary investment. But why use this reputation being served up on a silver platter to email providers when we can instead keep using our blackbox of IP reputation that already hasn't been working well for a decade.

Spunkie··on DMARCbis is around the corner: what's changing
This had to be one of the most useless updates on an internet standard I've seen.

It seems like changes for changes sake and solves practically nothing DMARC actually needs fixed.

> Since most organisations are going to use p=reject anyway, a provision for receiving mail servers was added, so that an email isn’t rejected and instead only quarantined if there are signs that the message was forwarded or is coming from a mailing list.

Are you fucking kidding me?

Spunkie··on Apex Legends is taking away its support for the Steam Deck and Linux
The increase in bots and cheaters got progressively worse as matchmaking took over and ate away at the ability of private servers to maintain a community. And before that, TF2 becoming a giant microtransaction experiment certainly didn't help.

Also the mailing list I spoke of are basically dead at this point as the number of invested server admins has dwindled.

Still though even today I can open up TF2 and still have a few favorited servers that have been going for a decade+. I can join those servers and play bot and cheater free for the most part.

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