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richardwhiukon The August 17 outage

Things like password scanning have to look per object uploaded

richardwhiukon Running local models is good now

There's no economic reason why running a model locally should be better than using a cloud hosted version.

richardwhiukon 1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse

Small businesses are equally vulnerable, and it's possibly to perform cyber attacks at scale - Gen AI makes this easier

richardwhiukon Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?

I have a high revenue business opportunity.

If you give me $100, I will give you back $101, funded by equity raises.

Very high growth, very high revenue, huge customer satisfaction.

We hope to be profitable one day, already foresee a mechanism to double profitability per transaction and also double the number of transactions our customers perform.

Please let me know if you are keen to invest.

richardwhiukon Bankruptcies increase 11.9 percent

Steadily increasing for five years

richardwhiukon Cloudflare acquires Astro

https://www.tumblr.com/ourincrediblejourney

This is probably just an acquihire.

richardwhiukon Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system

It’s not clear that’s true. States which don’t fear being attacked are more likely to attack other states

richardwhiukon Windows 11 Outperforming Linux on an Intel Arrow Lake H Laptop

It’s easy to be better when you only implement the mainline of the API

richardwhiukon Toro: Deploy Applications as Unikernels

I wonder how it compares to https://mirage.io/

richardwhiukon Nvidia just paid $20B for a company that missed its revenue target by 75%

In private companies, it's much more caveat emptor, than in the public markets.

richardwhiukon Exe.dev

It's not actually a VM - it's a container, and they are fundamentally different. This feels like false advertising.

richardwhiukon Days since last GitHub incident

Is the uptime any better?

richardwhiukon The Death of Arduino?

You can’t sign the CLA if you are contributing code which you don’t have the right to relicense and isn’t appear under the CLA

richardwhiukon Helping Valve to power up Steam devices

You can’t buy an M3 chip on its own

richardwhiukon Loose wire leads to blackout, contact with Francis Scott Key bridge

It’s not realistically plausible to build bridges that won’t be brought down by that size of ship

richardwhiukon Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem

Get a key from a map and forget to check the error.

richardwhiukon The Death of Arduino?

CLA allows them to relicense your contributions under their own license - e.g. proprietary

A DCO would be the more friendly option.

richardwhiukon Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem

Because Go silently gives you zero/null instead

richardwhiukon Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

They are aware. They don't want to pay the cost benefit tradeoff. Education won't help - this is a very heavily argued tradeoff in every large software company.

richardwhiukon Incus-OS: Immutable Linux OS to run Incus as a hypervisor

What hypervisior environments don't have this?

richardwhiukon What we talk about when we talk about sideloading

Move to the UK

richardwhiukon Docker Systems Status: Full Service Disruption

Almost all cloud providers help here by having inter-region failures as well.

There are multiple AWS services which are "global" in the sense that they are entirely hosted out of AWS East 1

richardwhiukon The product of the railways is the timetable

If trains are frequent enough, passengers do ignore schedules and just turn up. This is common on metro/subway/underground services.

richardwhiukon She Sent Her iPhone to Apple. Repair Techs Uploaded Her Nudes to Facebook (2021)

They did. 10 years ago.

richardwhiukon She Sent Her iPhone to Apple. Repair Techs Uploaded Her Nudes to Facebook (2021)

Apple has had that for 10 years.

richardwhiukon Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo

They can, it’s just this administration isn’t interested in doing so.

richardwhiukon %CPU utilization is a lie

Basically it comes down to how much shared vs dedicated resources each core has.

richardwhiukon Is it possible to allow sideloading and keep users safe?

It's unreasonable to ask them to do a job, and then tie both their hands behind their back and tell them they have to accept being punched in the stomach and that they should be happy about this.

If you want to tax banks and pay the money directly to fraudsters, I guess that's a model you can aim for.

richardwhiukon Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me

In these days of CGNAT, a residential IP is shared by multiple customers.

richardwhiukon Spending too much time at airports

Airports usually are privately owned I think?