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Bender · 2026-06-17T21:37:20 1781732240

What is the meaning of life? Why are we here?

George Carlin had a theory and I can't find any noteworthy flaws in it. [1] Our entire purpose could be to make plastic.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rld0KDcan_w

Bender · 2026-06-17T21:30:25 1781731825

Hidden dealer fees are adding thousands to the price of a new car... even AFTER the feds warned them to end the practice

Bender · 2026-06-17T20:55:40 1781729740

I tried to keep one windows machine around just in case I needed it but every 2nd time I boot it, I have to delete the edge webview binaries, delete that process tree, kill some services, stop some services if I disable them windows update will eat itself after so many updates which I am sure they did on purpose as a passive aggressive humiliation ritual. Then I have to run a powershell script to change affinity and priority of most windows services. If I set those in the registry it will bork the machine after so many updates. Fragile piece of bloated crap.

As I am not into BDSM and not a masochist I just can't keep that OS around. That will be one more CachyOS install. More governments and schools need to ditch windows or they will just keep getting funded.

Bender · 2026-06-17T20:24:43 1781727883

Also a good wake-up call for investors as these big players can be benched at any moment.

reje · 2026-06-17T20:34:31 1781728471

I can’t take anyone seriously who thought otherwise.

You think you can become more powerful so much so the govt questions its own power? Don’t be stupid. They will simply send in the army to first seize the assets and then nationalise.

It almost seems as if very few people actually understand how the world works. If the govt thinks this is the tech to end all future tech, you think future money flows for invesment matter? Hahaha. No

Bender · 2026-06-17T09:29:45 1781688585

Subtle changes to the chemistry can make Heroine legal just gets a different name. [1] No prescription required.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRZqHzDG_c8

Bender · 2026-06-17T02:50:17 1781664617

Not my area for armchair opinions but if the leaked documents are real and they are burning a lot of money then the negotiated purchase cost may be low enough that SpaceX could "pull an IBM" buying it to destroy competition and merge some of the tech into Grok or replace Grok. I doubt this would happen but it's not an uncommon practice. OpenAI is not public yet so a hostile takeover is not an option. OpenAI would have to want an exit but if that were the case then SpaceX would have to perceive a path to profitability that OpenAI has not realized or chosen not to take.

Bender · 2026-06-16T22:53:43 1781650423

Fear not, Roblox will not be subject to the policy for the older games within Roblox and as such young children allegedly may be able to get the latest news from their possibly maybe perhaps adult groomers. The newer games within Roblox are purportedly going through a 16+ check. [1]

[1] - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9824zvpz9po

Aeolun · 2026-06-16T23:41:48 1781653308

Jup, I can’t publish anything useful to Roblox any more unless 100+ 16 year olds first enjoy it. Of course none of this retroactively applies to the games already frequented by 10M U12’s every week, because why would they actually follow the spirit of their own rules if it harms them financially.

Bender · 2026-06-16T21:54:27 1781646867

For what it's worth curl can do very detailed timing [1] and it can also do this using a proxy

    export http_proxy=http://your.proxy.server:port/

    export HTTPS_PROXY=https://your.proxy.server:port/

    curl -x http://proxy_server:proxy_port --proxy-user username:password

    or  $socks-wrapper curl # [2]

[1] - https://dev.to/gbhorwood/curl-getting-performance-data-with-...

[2] - torsocks, tsocks, wireproxy, shadowsocks-rust, proxychains-ng, etc...

hnav · 2026-06-16T23:13:11 1781651591

what I meant was a proxy that implements HTTP/1.1 CONNECT

and a server behind it like

``` mkfifo /tmp/myfifo cat /tmp/myfifo | nc -l 12345 > /tmp/myfifo ```

so if you manually type out

  CONNECT host:12345 HTTP/1.1
  host: host:12345

you can see exactly what's happening. To be fair you can hack curl to support that via

  curl -x proxy:3333 telnet://host:12345

but that's not exactly what you want and requires curl to have been compiled with telnet support.

Bender · 2026-06-16T23:25:52 1781652352

Ah, I see what you mean. Aside from putting the proxy into debug logging one would have to use curl -vvv to get similar details but I suppose whatever works best with muscle memory is the right choice and one may not always have access to put the proxy into debug logging.

I need to try this with a Squid SSL Bump MitM proxy just dont have one up at the moment.

    curl -vvv -A Mozilla -H "Accept-Language: en_us" -H "Sec-Fetch-Mode: navigate" --url 'https://nochan.net/.env'

Bender · 2026-06-16T20:12:33 1781640753

I ran into this with an NVMO mobile provider. They did not like my personal email domains (assorted .net and .org) so I nagged their customer support until they manually added it. Their marketing team happily emails my personal domains once added. Some day this will probably cause a problem but my goal is to eventually get rid of my cell phone either way.

reaperducer · 2026-06-16T20:25:48 1781641548

I ran into this with an NVMO mobile provider.

As of about six months ago, AT&T's web site would not accept email addresses without a three-character TLD. I had to get a customer service person on the phone to manually change my address.

toast0 · 2026-06-16T21:02:40 1781643760

Even .us ??? Pretty sure I used my usual domain (enslaves.us) with them for wireless and california landline and u-verse.

Bender · 2026-06-16T21:44:00 1781646240

Just a guess but .us does not permit whois privacy and perhaps that may be a factor but I am entirely guessing as all my domains have whois privacy enabled and they would not say why their system rejected my domains.

inigyou · 2026-06-17T12:22:32 1781698952

MVNO fwiw. Mobile virtual network operator.

Bender · 2026-06-17T20:46:01 1781729161

It gets worse. The FFA keep nagging me to renew my drone registration.

badc0ffee · 2026-06-16T21:21:08 1781644868

Do you mean it was failing with a >3 character TLD?

abirch · 2026-06-16T21:37:55 1781645875

could be < 3

   .io
   .co
   .ai

throw0101c · 2026-06-17T15:17:34 1781709454

> could be < 3

Or any ccTLD: .ca, .fr, .se, etc.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain

badc0ffee · 2026-06-17T16:52:36 1781715156

But those have been around forever. The newer ones (.shop, .wiki, etc.) are >3 and it makes more sense to me they wouldn't be handled correctly.

abirch · 2026-06-17T21:40:13 1781732413

I don't know the specifics. I can imagine someone using a regex like

^[a-zA-Z0-9._%+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{3}$

it worked for the emails that the web dev tried and you have to have a valid email address to file a complaint.

Bender · 2026-06-16T16:36:46 1781627806

relying less and less on US tech

Not just US vs non-US, but any hard dependency on a 3rd party is a risk to any service level agreement. In my opinion any service reaching out to a 3rd party should at most be a value added service not a core part of a business and certainly not part of any contracts. If I had to choose a phrase for businesses that build dependencies on 3rd parties it would be "fragility as a disservice" or FaaD and investors need not risk investing into a fragile model.

The same must apply to individuals. One's career must not depend on a 3rd party service or their career stability and growth are at the whims of the wind of change.