crypto is a public ledger. If someone wanted to find you, that's pretty easy target.
They accept Monero too
Readit Newsruuda commented on VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits ipinfo.io/blog/vpn-locati... · Posted by u/mmaia
ruuda commented on Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines? · Posted by u/embedding-shape
Related: Comments saying "this feels like AI". It's this generation's "Looks shopped" and of zero value, IMO.
I find them helpful. It happens semi-regularly now that I read something that was upvoted, but after a few sentences I think "hmm, something feels off", and after the first two paragraphs I suspect it's AI slop. Then I go to the comments, and it turns out others noticed too. Sometimes I worry that I'm becoming too paranoid in a world where human-written content feels increasingly rare, and it's good to know it's not me going crazy.
In one recent case (the slop article about adenosine signalling) a commenter had a link to the original paper that the slop was engagement-farming about. I found that comment very helpful.
ruuda commented on Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop geohot.github.io//blog/je... · Posted by u/cspags
Dell XPS used to be like this, but unfortunately Dell discontinued them :'(
ruuda commented on Synadia and TigerBeetle Pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025... · Posted by u/cratermoon
> We did have three bugs that would have been prevented by the borrow checker, but these were caught by our fuzzers and online verification. We run a fuzzing fleet of 1,000 dedicated CPU cores 24/7.
Remember people, 10,000 CPU hours of fuzzing can save you 5ms of borrow checking!
(I’m joking, I’m joking, Zig and Rust are both great languages, fuzzing does more than just borrow checking, and I do think TigerBeetle’s choices make sense, I just couldn’t help noticing the irony of those two sentences.)
ruuda commented on We're losing our voice to LLMs tonyalicea.dev/blog/were-... · Posted by u/TonyAlicea10
I wholeheartedly agree, I wrote about this at https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2025/llm-interactions.
ruuda commented on Cloudflare outage should not have happened ebellani.github.io/blog/2... · Posted by u/b-man
Sure, a different database schema may have helped, but there are going to be bugs either way. In my view a more productive approach is to think about how to limit the blast radius when things inevitably do go wrong.
ruuda commented on GitHub: Git operation failures githubstatus.com/incident... · Posted by u/wilhelmklopp
FYI in an emergency you can edit files directly on Github without the need to use git.
Edit: ugh... if you rely on GH Actions for workflows though actions/checkout@v4 is also currently experiencing the git issues, so no dice if you depend on that.
FYI in an emergency you can `git push` to and `git pull` from any SSH-capable host without the need to use GitHub.
Can someone educate me on the solution to this?
I assume most organizations, both small and large, just host on whatever provider they know or that costs them the least. If you have budget maybe you deploy to multiple providers for redundancy? But that increases cost and complexity.
Who’s going to bother with colo given the cost / complexity? Who’s going to run a server from their office given ISP restrictions and downtime fears?
What is the realistic antidote here?
Rent servers from a local provider. It's cheaper, you get more control over the hardware, but most of all, it avoids correlated failures.