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kingnothing··on Roc Camera
This page cannot be scrolled in Safari or Firefox.

Devs -- stop hijacking native scrolling functionality. Why? You had one shot to sell me on this product. I can't see the page, so I can't consider it for purchase. That's a lost sale.

kingnothing··on Ruby core team takes ownership of RubyGems and Bundler
I've used Ruby off and on since the hype train started with DHH's early videos showing how easily you can make a blog in Rails. Oof, that was published 20 years ago! I wouldn't use it for anything beyond simple shell scripts these days. You're better off with Go for back-end work.
kingnothing··on A mechanic offered a reason why no one wants to work in the industry
Police officers in SF make $103k per year.

Making less than $105k per year in SF is considered low income.

kingnothing··on Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
Why not? You can easily encrypt your data before sending it for storage on on S3, for example.
kingnothing··on Ford locking basic navigation behind a subscription
You won't even need to own the car. Just pay $800 / mo indefinitely.
kingnothing··on White House Announces ‘TrumpRx’ Drug-Buying Site, and Pricing Deal With Pfizer
Or, and here's a wild idea, we could use Medicare for that.
kingnothing··on Ollama Web Search
You can say you're training an AI model and do whatever you want with it.
kingnothing··on Amazon fined $2.5B for using deceptive methods to sign up consumers for Prime
Amazon's 2024 net income (profit) was $59B on $638B revenue.

The median US household income is $80k and has a savings rate (profit) of 3.6%, or $2880.

This $2.5B fine is equivalent to the average US household being fined $115 or, basically, a traffic ticket.

kingnothing··on Health Insurance Costs for Businesses to Rise by Most in 15 Years
What do you think is so unique about the US that it is incapable of having similar pricing and quality of care compared to the rest of the developed world?
kingnothing··on Health Insurance Costs for Businesses to Rise by Most in 15 Years
Yes, exactly. We spend more far more and get less because we do not have a single payer system like the rest of the world. We are lining the pockets of healthcare execs and unnecessarily employing hundreds of thousands of people at insurance companies and private companies to manage employee benefits.
kingnothing··on Health Insurance Costs for Businesses to Rise by Most in 15 Years
If Congress could decide to agree on something, they announce taxes are being raised by X% to provide Medicare for all next year. Next year, employers stop providing healthcare via insurance companies and everyone signs up for medicare. Done.
kingnothing··on Health Insurance Costs for Businesses to Rise by Most in 15 Years
Single payer is cheaper. The US spends more per capita than any other developed nation and is not even capable of providing health care to all of its citizens.

Move to single payer, kill the medical insurance industry, and save these costs:

The health insurance industry employs approximately 605,000-912,000 people directly. The top 10 companies generate over $1.5 trillion in combined revenue annually. Conservative estimates suggest these companies spend $45-90 billion annually on employee salaries.

kingnothing··on Health Insurance Costs for Businesses to Rise by Most in 15 Years
The US pays more per capita for healthcare than any developed nation. We should redirect those funds to more taxes to pay for Medicare for all. Costs will go down and your healthcare will no longer be tied to your employment. As a bonus, everyone gets healthcare.
kingnothing··on Plex Security Incident
It's easy to imagine Plex has some db sharding going on at their scale, or that they host in multiple geographic regions for regional compliance, or on multiple cloud providers.
kingnothing··on Show HN: Amber – better Beeper, a modern all-in-one messenger
Not what I want to see from the homepage for an app that wants to read all of my messages.

> Secure Connection Failed

> An error occurred during a connection to useamber.app. PR_CONNECT_RESET_ERROR

kingnothing··on Agentic commerce is here; add shopping to your agent
Hey AI, I'm looking for a Halloween costume for $100. I need a period appropriate wig, ratty looking pants, an 1800s style blouse, a tricorne hat, and an eye patch. Show me pics of your choices, ensure the price is within budget, then buy it and have it shipped to arrive to me by October 15th.
kingnothing··on Claude Opus 4.1
Cursor is built on VSCode.
kingnothing··on Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting
I took a hybrid approach -- Unifi for everything except the firewall, and a Firewalla for that. I'm overall quite happy with it, although you won't get a single pane of glass for management.
kingnothing··on Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption
Try Kagi. You can filter out the shit sites. It's great!
kingnothing··on The Great Unracking: Saying goodbye to the servers at our physical datacenter
I believe the place I worked at sold it as scrap metal.
kingnothing··on I drank every cocktail
The nice thing is Chopin is only $20 these days, too. There was a massive price drop a few years back that has fortunately stuck.
kingnothing··on I drank every cocktail
I'm not advocating to use limited release bourbons, but when 90% of your drink is the base spirit, you'll get a lot of value out of using a traditional top shelf bourbon vs well like Jim. Try a $40 bottle like Eagle Rare or Angel's Envy. There's not much syrup in a good old fashioned -- go with 2oz bourbon, a teaspoon of simple or good maple syrup, and a couple dashes of Angostura. Maybe a dash of black walnut bitters, too. The higher quality whiskey should be apparent.
kingnothing··on We built an air-gapped Jira alternative for regulated industries
There's the self-hosted Atlassian Data Center product.

https://www.atlassian.com/enterprise/data-center

They also offer Government Cloud.

https://www.atlassian.com/government

kingnothing··on The Great Unracking: Saying goodbye to the servers at our physical datacenter
This is correct. Once upon a time, I worked for a company doing this type of disposal. They had 18 wheelers full of equipment show up a couple of times per week. Drives were pulled and put in a pile to be shredded. Everything else was tested and either restored to working order and sold in bulk to organizations in need of cheaper computers, parted out on eBay, or scrapped.
kingnothing··on UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US
It's called Pegasus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)

kingnothing··on Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models Tech Report 2025
> The new Foundation Models framework gives access to developers to start creating their own reliable, production-quality generative AI features with the approximately 3B parameter on-device language model. The ∼3B language foundation model at the core of Apple Intelligence excels at a diverse range of text tasks like summarization, entity extraction, text understanding, refinement, short dialog, generating creative content, and more. While we have specialized our on-device model for these tasks, it is not designed to be a chatbot for general world knowledge. We encourage app developers to use this framework to design helpful features tailored to their apps
kingnothing··on ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action
95% of people doing his job will lose them. 1 person will figure out the 2% that requires a human in the loop.
kingnothing··on Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025
My clients use DHCP for everything and are always connected to my home VPN. If I'm away from home and need to connect to a captive network, I'll turn off the VPN, connect, then re-enable the VPN. I run unbound at home for DNS.
kingnothing··on Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025
A better recommendation is to use Cloudflare for one of your DNS servers and a completely different company for the other.
kingnothing··on Couchers is officially out of beta
It's in bold in the 3rd paragraph, but that requires you to know what couch surfing is in the first place.
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