I wanted to be clever and on theme (… something something Dax maybe?), but I decided to go with my first reaction.

This is a post that reminds me I’m not wearing my reading glasses.

If you can find something with an infrared remote you can control IR blasters via hass. I control an AC unit and a fan using an RM Mini3 (and my TV and soundbar) via Home Assistant.

We did ours in December and January so we were sure to miss tariffs, rebates ending, and things like that. Shouldn’t have any expected major purchases for at least a couple years.

Rom is more than a hero. He’s a union man.

All those years, and all Phil had to do was decompress his shuttle bay and it would have all been over.

This terrible chemical directly caused the pressure increase that lead to Chernobyl.

I never thought I’d have a 2nd chance to post this one

My experience is with systems that handle nearly 1000 pageviews per second. We did use a spread of haproxy servers to handle routing and SNI, but they were being fed offender lists by external analysis tools (built in-house).

I’ve used the Simple Tab Groups extension in FF for years. And I like its workflow better.

Most often because they don’t download any of the css of external js files from the pages they scrape. But there are a lot of other patterns you can detect once you have their traffic logs loaded in a time series database. I used an ELK stack back in the day.

When I was serving high volume sites (that were targeted by scrapers) I had a collection of files in CDN that contained nothing but the word “no” over and over. Scrapers who barely hit our detection thresholds saw all their requests go to the 50M version. Super aggressive scrapers got the 10G version. And the scripts that just wouldn’t stop got the 50G version.

It didn’t move the needle on budget, but hopefully it cost them.

I’m surprised E isn’t “Everyday kindle passion” and R isn’t “Really kindle that passion”

There are a handful of glues still made with animal collagen. Often ones used in antique restoration and repair.

We got very lucky and we’re able to buy in the 'teens when interest rates were still low after the 2008 collapse.

This summer a whole bunch of stuff we both want and need to do (but can’t/won’t DIY) are all happening at once, and in 3 months half my annual salary will have been spent. Spent to make things exactly like we want them, so still better than renting.

The production team had to save money. They had a lot of mannequins to flock for The Naked Now, and that’s not cheap.

Credits, eh? Sounds like someone is hedging their bets in case this “no money, socialist utopia thing turned out to be a fad.”

“Significantly better than ChatGPT” and “Good” aren’t the same. Like ipecac is significantly better to drink than sewage water.

I went long enough without using Google (probably a year-ish) that, when I accidentally made a Google search a few days ago, it was a jarring experience.

It felt wrong the same way other search engines did when I first deGoogled. It was kind of nice actually.