themark's comments

themark | 1 month ago | on: San Francisco Graffiti

I scrolled pretty far and didnt see Borf in there. Was that Web 2.0 ?

themark | 3 months ago | on: Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem

“…and the fluctuation stabilized in the failing state.”

Sounds like the ops team had one hell of a day.

themark | 11 months ago | on: Legged Locomotion Meets Skateboarding

Do a kickflip!

themark | 1 year ago | on: McDonald's gives its restaurants an AI makeover

“McDonald’s tapped Google Cloud in late 2023 to bring more computing power to each of its restaurants—giving them the ability to process and analyze data on-site. The setup, known as edge computing, can be a faster, cheaper option than sending data to the cloud“

What fresh hell is this?

themark | 1 year ago | on: An inside look at NSA tactics, techniques and procedures from China's lens

It seems like the lack of operations during US holidays would be a big oversight.

themark | 1 year ago | on: A crane with a CIA history helps with the Baltimore bridge cleanup

I wonder how many super yachts are actually destroyers.

themark | 2 years ago | on: How is a company that sells canned water worth $1.4B?

Because when you are at a rock concert and you want something light to drink, it is cooler to ask the bar tender for Liquid Death rather than a Perrier.

themark | 2 years ago | on: Homes need to be built for better internet

This. They wanted to drill a hole in my place to run a line from the pole. The line would go right past a window. It just seemed unprofessional.

themark | 2 years ago | on: US and UK Military Contractors Created Plan for Global Censorship in 2018

I agree. If true, this appears to represent an enormous hack against vulnerabilities in humans. It should not be suppressed.

themark | 2 years ago | on: I accidentally saved my company half a million dollars

Yeah. I went through a rigorous exercise with sales last year to try to get a good estimate on what it would cost to run the database for a year for our application. They said it would be around 150k.

I threw all of their configuration advice out the window and run all extra small at 1 minute idle. No issues for my use case and we paid 17k for the year.

I have to expect that snow will change their pricing model soon.

themark | 2 years ago | on: Thurston Moore Revisits His Sonic Youth

I had their Sonic Nurse facemask during covid. It was a kool thing.

themark | 2 years ago | on: Open Letter To Nature Medicine – Call to retract "Proximal Origin" paper

Technically it is Nature Medicine. Nature rejected the paper.

themark | 3 years ago | on: Ring Car Cam Requires OBD-II for Power

Seems like a good way to collect a lot of car data.

themark | 3 years ago | on: Automatic snow tires throw chains at your wheels [video]

These are already exciting, but the music really takes it to the next level.

themark | 3 years ago | on: California’s greenhouse gas reductions could be wiped out by 2020 wildfires

and a shit job of managing wildfires.

themark | 3 years ago | on: CISA: Election Security Rumor vs. Reality

It mentions system testing; i read here that testing could only be done according to criteria provided by the vendor.

https://www.scribd.com/document/596142725/Fulton-Pa-Sues-Dom...

themark | 3 years ago | on: The Nevada national security site pt 1

Fascinating. It seems we are keeping a site on standby so that it can “perform an underground nuclear test within 24 to 36 months.”

I hope that is a competitive timeline.

themark | 3 years ago | on: How to use an iPad as a secure calling and messaging device

Article says airplane mode just turns off access to baseband.

I thought the whole point of airplane mode was to prevent interference by eliminating radio signals.

themark | 3 years ago | on: Peer review reduces strength of claims of a wildlife market origin of Covid

The title of the study: "The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic"

Yet: "the observation that the preponderance of early cases were linked to the Huanan market does not establish that the pandemic originated there."

What was the purpose of the study?

themark | 3 years ago | on: Job switchers are earning a lot more than those who stay

Re: title

Was this ever not the case?