On Safari I use Wipr and Sponsorblock. Afterwards I use web version of everything instead of apps, including youtube.
Readit Newswhazor commented on Cloudflare outage should not have happened ebellani.github.io/blog/2... · Posted by u/b-man
* The unwrap() in production code should have never passed code review. Damn, it should have been flagged by a linter.
* The deployment should have followed the blue/green pattern, limiting the blast radius of a bad change to a subset of nodes.
* In general, a company so much at the foundational level of internet connectivity should not follow the "move fast, break things" pattern. They did not have an overwhelming reason to hurry and take risks. This has burned a lot of trust, no matter the nature of the actual bug.
The scale of the outage was so big and global, that the biggest failure was indeed the blast radius.
> Most people switch browsers for one reason: speed.
Is that true? Maybe it is and I'm out of the loop but I can't remember the last time someone complained about browser speed. The bottleneck seems to be website bloat more than anything else. Would love to see this argument quantified.
Website bloat also slows you down cognitively, not just in load time.
whazor commented on Why don't people return their shopping carts? behavioralscientist.org/w... · Posted by u/ohjeez
Is this a US phenomenon? Here in Germany, people always return their shopping carts. Yes, the carts take a coin as a deposit, which can be removed when the cart is returned, but many people have shopping cart openers (for want of a better word) on their keyrings, that circumvent the deposit, yet I haven't EVER seen anyone leaving their shopping cart. I'd go so far as to say that'd be even less socially adequate than urinating in public.
I've been around Europe a fair bit and from Bulgaria to Portugal, people just return their carts. It's a no-brainer.
Recently in NL many supermarkets have dropped the coin completely. But people have been conditioned for years to return the cart. Though there are cart thieves.
whazor commented on Run Nix Based Environments in Kubernetes flox.dev/kubernetes/... · Posted by u/kelseyhightower
When I worked on an enterprise data analytics platform, a big problem was docker image growth. People were using different python versions, different cuda versions, all kinds of libraries. With Cuda being over a gigabyte, this all explodes.
The solution is to decompose the docker images and make sure that every layer is hash equivalent. So if people update their Cuda version, it result in a change within the Python layers.
But it looks like Flox now simplifies this via Nix. Every Nix package already has a hash and you can combine packages however you would like.
whazor commented on Valve is about to win the console generation xeiaso.net/blog/2025/valv... · Posted by u/moonleay
My main game console right now is one of those little gaming boxes you can buy on Amazon for about $400, where I have installed NixOS + Jovian to get the "SteamOS" interface.
I really like it. It really does feel like a "game console"; usually when I've made my own console using Linux, it always feels kind of janky. For example, RetroPie on the Raspberry Pi is pretty cool, but it doesn't feel like a proper commercial product, it feels like a developer made a GUI to launch games.
I have like 750 games on Steam that I have hoarded over the years, in addition to the Epic Games Store and GOG, which can be installed with Heroic, and the fact that I can play them on a "console" instead of a computer makes it much easier to play in my living room or bedroom. It even works fine with the Xbox One controllers; I use the official Microsoft USB dongle to minimize latency, it works great.
I think there actually is a chance that Valve could really be a real competitor, if not a winner.
I installed NixOS + Jovian on my Steamdeck and it works great as well.
> “We are committed to operating like the world’s largest startup, and … that means removing layers.”
I learned a long time ago that behaving like a startup is not a good thing, and I've specifically oriented my career towards working at companies that don't even want to pretend to imitate startup culture. I'm very happy in enterprise-land.
I joined an actual startup and am also very happy. We are just focused on making the product work. Not on promo docs or headcount fighting.
whazor commented on EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages eurollm.io/... · Posted by u/NotInOurNames
Aren't all frontier models already able to use all these languages? Support for specific languages doesn't need to be built in, LLMs support all languages because they are trained on multilingual data.
European governments have huge collections of digitalised books, research, public data.
But also European culture could maybe make a difference? You can already see big differences between Grok and ChatGPT in terms of values.
In contrast, chatgpt has built their own search engine that performs better in my experience. Except for coding, then I opt for Claude opus 4.5.