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master_crabon AI companies are shredding rare books

It can be the case that everyone in “a fight” is wrong.

master_crabon Judge halts Paramount's $111B purchase of Warner Bros. in win for US states

That’s not good either. It’s the same with poultry, many types of fruit, etc. This just makes the case further.

master_crabon Judge halts Paramount's $111B purchase of Warner Bros. in win for US states

They don't have a monopoly on any meaningful product category.

By that reasoning I could have a monopoly on peanuts and it’s alright because consumers can choose from hundreds of other foods.

master_crabon US gas prices hit an average of $4 a gallon again

I wonder what happens to that gas price once the SPR can no longer be drawn from?

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=W...

master_crabon TLS certificates for internal services done right

Apologies. Not trying to come across as a prick.

But at least we both agree private dns =/= split brain. :)

master_crabon TLS certificates for internal services done right

Bless your sweet heart if you think private DNS servers are split horizon. :)

master_crabon TLS certificates for internal services done right

Because I was responding to this comment you had made:

So what's your solution when you have a wholly private service that will never have a public v4 address, nor a publicly routable v6? How do clients get the address for a nice domain name without the addresses in public DNS?

Which, if you claim you use private DNS, you know you can indeed solve by only having the private records sit on your private DNS service that can only be hit by clients on the internal network. Without the architectural bad practice of implementing split horizon.

master_crabon Apple's rumored M7 Ultra targets 1.5TB and Blackwell-class AI performance

The M-series are ARM chips based on the A series from the iPhones. Therefore Apple had ten years of chip design (plus the prior decades of ARM history) to rely on. The GPUs and modems were a much more recent effort.

(My take. happy to be corrected by someone with chip design experience who can comment.)

master_crabon Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future

100%. Orchestrating multiple sub agents is a key requirement for many workflows. If only because it minimizes context sprawl (amongst multiple other reasons).

There is probably a middle ground though. Something like a main thread agent (say a local model for Hermes) orchestrating cloud based sub agents.

master_crabon TLS certificates for internal services done right

You don’t. You avoid split horizon because of the silent (usually failure) mechanics it introduces.

master_crabon GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude, and Muse Spark build the same 4 apps

A lot of these are visual-heavy tests that often require first person sight to confirm results. Considering GLM isn’t multimodal, that might explain why it did better on the calculator question and not much else.

master_crabon TLS certificates for internal services done right

Wait…what? You have a fully internal service and you dont have an internal DNS server? I guess those exist in theory, but not in practice. :)

If you have a heavy enough tech stack to run fully internal services, than you can also run an internal DNS service (even pihole is enough) and load internal only entries there.

Or add everything to your hosts file if you have a central config service.

master_crabon TLS certificates for internal services done right

Split brain =/= done right.

This introduces all sorts of aberrant behavior. Most notably that clients will get different responses depending on their query and route that you now have to test for. It also is a “silent” deviation for audiences that may not be aware of.

I’m not sure what problem that is trying to be solved here? That the OP wanted internal users seeing a different site than external users? Or using a different route in? In both those cases the correct user behavior is to use a different DNS record.

master_crabon Why American ambulance rides are so expensive

He’s a lightning rod only because some people get unnecessarily triggered by facts that don’t fit their world view.

master_crabon Meta Is Building a Cloud Business to Sell Excess AI Compute

So short meta?

master_crabon Historical memory prices 1960-2026

Containers is often the reason. You start a container and you are immediately pulling in a quarter to half a gig or more (often the latter).

master_crabon 2026 vs. 1996 Chevrolet Blazer IIHS crash test

Does the IIHS have a an Indiana Jones style warehouse where they keep 30 year old forgettable vehicles like the Blazer in storage for just this special occasion?

master_crabon Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot has died in a plane crash

“Doctor killer” for a reason.

It can be monotonous and degrading, but commercial air is the safe way to travel.

master_crabon 21 years and counting of 'eight fallacies of distributed computing' (2025)

There needs to be a distinction - because people are making an honest conflation - between distributed computing and cloud computing. The list in the article applies to both, but the limits and performance variability can apply quicker - and with more effect - in the cloud.

master_crabon US President says 'I love the inflation'

But it’s relevant whether we like it or not. This will affect the price of goods, salaries of workers, everything.

master_crabon Rising seas will swallow New Orleans. People need to start relocating now

What, do people not remember Katrina? That was the sign to move, and it was 20 years ago.

master_crabon Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house

Yeah it’s a sad state. But it’s also not worth putting oneself in harm’s way. Report it to the state authorities (not all of them are crooked). Or try another jurisdiction, like the local police.

master_crabon Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house

This was incredibly dangerous of the victim. In another version of events, the officer could have shot him and plausibly (unfortunately) claimed the victim had a vendetta against the cop for arresting him.

master_crabon AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved

IAM isn’t even really the most painful dependency. Route53 is. The control plane only runs out of use1.

Better make sure the only DNS operations you run during an outage are data plane queries and health check failovers.

master_crabon SingleRide: Longest route on NYC Subway without visiting the same station twice

Are you saying F/G AND any line serving less affluent areas? Because if not, the G (save for maybe 2-3 stops in Bed-Stuy) is all affluent neighborhoods.

master_crabon Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys

Why is this getting downvoted? How is this any less ridiculous sounding than the multitude of other, ever-shifting reasons Trump gave for starting the war.

master_crabon I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue

IPs are notoriously unreliable for identity pinning, particularly in this age of CGNAT.

If they can’t or don’t want cc numbers (makes sense considering how painful PCI guidelines are anyway) does that mean they need to rely on more tools from the processors or user accounts maintained by the merchant themselves?

master_crabon I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue

I always wondered about this. Do companies tie the credit card to an identity to block or do they just block the cc number?

If the latter, seems like a small friction point for a consumer. Given how often cc numbers change and how many an (American) consumer has, this won’t block anything unless you are charging back more than once every few months.

master_crabon US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire

Declaring someone an enemy does not automatically lead to war. America considered the USSR an enemy of democracy for 50 years. They never went directly to blows.

master_crabon AWS engineer reports PostgreSQL perf halved by Linux 7.0, fix may not be easy

For production Postgres, i would assume it’s close to almost no effect?

If someone is running postgres in a serious backend environment, i doubt they are using Ubuntu or even touching 7.x for months (or years). It’ll be some flavor of Debian or Red Hat still on 6.x (maybe even 5?). Those same users won’t touch 7.x until there has been months of testing by distros.