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vizzieron Head of FCC threatens broadcaster licenses over critical coverage of Iran war

Youtube is also a problem of unverified non-journalistic information. Presents a very double edged sword.

vizzieron Does Where You're Born Matter More Than How Hard You Work?

No it wouldn't, the globe isn't a uniform flat land where we're all equally distributed.

vizzieron Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US

The issue often manifests in victim blaming. They assume that because something bad has happened to someone then the someone must be guilty of some transgression. Its often done on an unconscious level and we have to check ourselves that we're not doing it.

vizzieron YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they'll be unskippable

Alas, tubers feel the need to add sponsorships these days through either greed or reduced google revenue. Premiums "skip frequently skipped section" is about as easy as it can be to skip over them without blocking them entirely, short of using sponsorblock.

I'm not sure where the legality lies with them being able to skip it automatically if you're a premium user, I'd imagine their uploaders wouldn't be happy though.

vizzieron 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips

https://www.memtest86.com/

Errors may be caused by bad seating/contact in the slots or failing memory controllers (generally on the CPU nowadays) but if you have bad sticks they're generally done for.

vizzieron 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips

For my part I'm not sure I recall a crash having daily driven firefox in quite some time. I'd suspect that the large number of bit errors might be driven by a small number of poor hardware clients.

vizzieron AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data

I've thought of them for a while as just a really complicated indexing strategy.

vizzieron The true story behind the Toronto mystery tunnel (2015)

I feel like it would be remiss not to mention there are some people who go ahead and broadcast this instinct: https://www.instagram.com/engineerkala/?hl=en

vizzieron Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available

> Also, sometimes it seems like I get rate limited on Tailscale.

As I understand it if everything is working properly you should end up with a peer to peer wireguard connection after initial connection using tailscales infrastructure. ie, there should be nothing to rate limit. There are exceptions depending on your network environment where you need one of the relays noted in this post.

As for opensource alternatives:

https://github.com/juanfont/headscale can replace tailscales initial coordination servers

and https://netbird.io/ seemed to be a rapidly developing full stack alternative.

vizzieron Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit: Tools for Thinking Critically (2025)

Actually, in this world of technology, we 100% can.

vizzieron Apple, fix the iOS keyboard before the timer ends or I'm switching to Android

> I caved to the blue bubble pressure

Are we still green even with RCS?

vizzieron The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in USA

Look again at the insurmountable hill that is the US's potential transition to a fully public healthcare system, and consider that celebrating having done that elsewhere might be valid.

vizzieron Yawning has an unexpected influence on the fluid inside your brain

Natural selection doesn't require 100% disqualifying, it just needs a slight preference and a shit load of time.

vizzieron Was Vibe Coding a Ruse?

James Micken's talk from almost a decade ago now covers this stuff perfectly...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajGX7odA87k

I re-watch it fairly often, and we just keep getting worse.

vizzieron iPhone 16 Best-Selling Smartphone in 2025; Apple Takes 7 Spots in Top Models

I managed to purge myself of Apple as of a couple of years back by getting an s24 ultra.

Main things that stand out over apple:

- Much higher resolution camera w/ pretty incredible zoom. Though overall picture quality is a far closer comparison.

- S-pen, mostly used for its remote capability, shame they dropped that for the s25...

- Samsung Dex. I use my phone as my laptop daily, I've also used it as a dumb terminal for remote gaming while travelling which works exceptionally well

- Access to alternative browsers, ad blocking, alternate stores, side loading apps etc

While Google is no angel Apple actively works against open systems and control of your own devices, I'm glad to be out of that ecosystem.

vizzieron Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"

For season 1 it very much satirises the early morning open university tv educational media format from the 70s through the early 2000s [1]. I'm not sure it'd land quite the same way for other countries or even for gen-z onwards.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/anniversaries/january/op...

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I don't think its possible to legally arrest someone outside of your jurisdiction let alone another world leader. So no, kidnapped.

vizzieron Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence

> but does suggest that deleting failing tests, like many behaviors, is not LLM-specific.

True, but it is shocking how often claude suggests just disabling or removing tests.

vizzieron Covid-19 leaves a lasting mark on the human brain

Still fairly non specific, as science probably should be (the question was if there visible MRI detectable changes, not what specific downstream changes were apparent)

Interesting that if we can detect some of these changes with covid what other viruses might be doing to us up there.

vizzieron Is 2026 next year?

> Me: What is your knowledge cut off date?

> ChatGPT: My knowledge cutoff is *June 2024*. I can also use live browsing to fetch more recent information when needed.

It is unsurprising that it thinks next year would be 2025, given that this token generator lives in June 2024.

vizzieron Common yeast can survive Martian conditions

hard to know with so few data points

vizzieron Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout

and a south park episode for ones from the future :D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goobacks

vizzieron DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix

A good sabot system could turn many other meals effectively into burritos.

vizzieron Apple M5 chip

Might have to be more specific than Android and Windows. Tried them on my devices (S24, windows 11) and they're practically instantaneous.

vizzieron Kairos: Immutable Distro for K8s at the Edge

This does sound like it could be solved with better installDiskSelectors[0]. Talos has done a fair bit of work in improving this and UserVolumeConfigs in the last couple of 1.x revisions.

Alternatively, network booting in some fashion is an option. [1]

[0] https://www.talos.dev/v1.11/reference/configuration/v1alpha1...

[1] https://www.talos.dev/v1.11/talos-guides/install/bare-metal-...

vizzieron Top US researchers rush to relocate to Europe

I think you're on the surface correct. But below the surface it can't be denied that in most of the western nations there is an increasing far right party on the knife edge of gaining power in each (Afd, RN, Reform UK, etc). We can hope that they remain out of power, but its hard to say that we won't see a bunch of Trumpist policy repeated in any one of those nations if they do take power.

vizzieron Why Is Python So Popular in 2025?

I've been working with python professionally for just over a year now and the main difference from having come from a .net background seems to be that tests are far easier to write and more prevalent in our codebase. I'm sure some of that is cultural, but "runtime" errors are quickly found by any reasonable test suite.

That said, it always saddens me that ML (as in oCaml and F#) don't get more love. They basically can hit all the same bases with ease of readability, multi paradigm, module first programming that python can but just never got the same love.

vizzieron US government shuts down after Senate fails to pass last-ditch funding plan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmOCsiZgAbg

vizzieron Google deletes net-zero pledge from sustainability website

The mind boggles at how many little bits of information like this keep our world running smoothly...