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This morning I read your comment, got out of bed and went for a run with my kids. Thank you.

speereron Glubux's Powerwall (2016)

I enjoyed noticing that your percentage (1×10⁻¹³) was so precise that it excluded the man himself (he is 1 in 8×10⁹).

I don't want to detract from your point. I just wanted to appreciate the hyperbole.

Just like "the science says" (but unlike "the English say" ;) ).

speereron Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi

Thanks! I see why they may not consider this "marketing", even though it is obviously a sponsorship based on that information.

speereron Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi

Do we know that they spend money on this or is that inferred?

I asked because the search you've linked to only seems to list relatively niche chess videos on one creator's account. And the videos themselves are also ad-supported. It's (at least) not impossible that the sponsorship association is not budgeted in the way that (I think) you infer.

speereron FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/devs-say-ai-crawlers-domi...

links to this comment.

speereron Show HN: Fingernotes – handwritten notes which become their own preview image

Worked for me (firefox on Android, Samsung OneUI6.1)

speereron Legged Locomotion Meets Skateboarding

Me too. Visions of Terry Pratchett's luggage from Discworld.

speereron Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped

Nice one, thanks! Mine was for a more specific use case but this could be really helpful.

speereron Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped

I came here to type all of these thoughts, and found you'd already expressed them (and more). Even the bit about making my own command line tool.

Agree!

speereron Akira ransomware can be cracked with sixteen RTX 4090 GPUs in around ten hours

Actually, the result that's being announced is exactly this parallel property.From the article:

> "With an RTX 4090, the Tinyhack found they could crack the encrypted ransomware'd files in seven days, and with 16 GPUs, the process would take just over ten hours."

(and 160h ≈ 7 days)

speereron Binocular Shot

I just picked up some binoculars to test this out. They're pretty good quality yet it is very easy for me to see it through two overlapping circles without feeling that it's misaligned to my eyes. It 'helps' that I wear glasses, so they are not ever snug up against my face - But this really isn't feeling inaccurate to me.

speereron Dear Apple: Add "Disappearing Messages" to iMessage

I think a more useful way to analyze this is that a message, when it is sent to you, is not serving the purpose of a copyright work. So copyright should not really be the lens through which we analyze this.

speereron Gambler wins £1M payout from online game vendor in High Court case

It's here.

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/kb/2025/498

"The Defendant went on to plead that the game was subject to a mapping error affecting the animations so the images which the Claimant saw when playing the game were in error, but asserted that the error did not affect the RNGS outcome. The Defendant accepted that during her play the Claimant’s screen showed that she had won a Jackpot because three Jackpot symbols appeared on the slot reels. An animation was then presented to the Claimant with the Jackpot wheel. The Defendant asserted that, as a result of the mapping error, when the wheel spun the pointer came to rest on the Monster Jackpot segment but should instead have pointed to a Daily Jackpot segment. "

speereron Show HN: Knowledge graph of restaurants and chefs, built using LLMs

Worked for me (FF 135.0.1 on Ubuntu)

speereron Show HN: I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass

I wish you all success and hope that this catches on. I will make a fortune by selling little pots of turf to social media addicts.

speereron All Kindles can now be jailbroken

The actual experience of reading is quite good, but, it is not really fully-featured for EPUBs.I was trying to reflow text into a different font and size yesterday and it took forever. I ended up giving up. It is, however, quite hackable, and `rmapi` on GitHub allows you fine control of its (linux) system.

speereron Benchmarking vision-language models on OCR in dynamic video environments

I think it's useful to add the context that CNBC is correct and does appear at the top right of that picture. CNBC is not a mis-transcribing of MILK, and the letters M, I, L and K are not actually visible in the picture.

speereron Linux kernel cgroups writeback high CPU troubleshooting

I think this is a good thing to be writing on a blog site which is named after the author himself. The author doesn't want to give the impression that he's taking all the credit, but he also doesn't want to mix up his own blog with a corporate voice. The team he's talking about is easily identified elsewhere, at the bug tracker comment he links to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-oem-6.5/+bug...

speereron U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts

But this is true, right? The whole movement is based on their legal theory giving them rights to behave in a certian way, and the idea that everyone else wastes that 'right' through ignorance and state manipulation. It's dumb, but not dishonest.

speereron 21st Century C++

I know, but the blog itself doesn't seem oriented to post code snippets. I clicked a few articles which were much more general.

speereron Linux Running in a PDF

Insane ones, like hosting an OS.

speereron 21st Century C++

This doesn't seem to be a code blog, but a general science communication blog. The editors may not be familiar with code syntax, and may simply be using a content management system and copy-pasting from source material.

speereron One in four 2020 Tesla Model 3 failed the Danish periodic inspection in 2024

I'd love to know the answer to this. It sounds like a very complicated question. Do electric cars go harder on their brakes because of regenerative braking perhaps?

speereron One in four 2020 Tesla Model 3 failed the Danish periodic inspection in 2024

I couldn't be sure from my awkward autotranslation into English. But I would have thought that if the 9% includes cars from other years that makes it worse, not better for Tesla: The article is making the point that this is the first time Tesla has been included in the figures, so it would only be newer Teslas being compared to older, other electric cars.

speereron Wikenigma – an Encyclopedia of Unknowns

Mathematicians, meanwhile, have multiple answers: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ymF1bp-qrjU

speereron Turn any bicycle electric

This made me smile, but I looked it up anyway and it turns out it's a non-SI abbreviation for kilometres per hour.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/kmph

Not common in my country, the UK, but maybe in India? I know the Indian language numbering system has different number groupings, so why not.

speereron Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers?

Can confirm. I loved that bit.

speereron What Is the "Mffam" Policy?

That's funny, I made the same mistake on my first reading. I had to slow down and go back over it!

speereron What Is the "MFFAM" Policy?

I think a major part of this policy is that the hosting site does not want to (and does not want to be seen to) _profit_ from what they consider to be repugnant customers. It's not a bigotry offset policy: It's a self-modulation to preserve the integrity of their principles all the way to the end.