reconnecting

Actually, the subject is ‘After 28 years walking across the globe, he’s almost home’. I found it curious that someone else would walk for as long as 38 years, and I don’t see any conflict with the subject.

Arthur Blessitt

38 years, 5 months, 20 days

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Blessitt

I think the only way out is to go back to on-prem for everything, like in the 00s.

LAN cables will go up in price soon.

Thanks for the post, Nick.

I'm familiar with some issues related to bot behaviours (1) on Google Ads, and as far as I know, Google doesn't try very hard to filter or detect such bots — on some verticals they might be half of the traffic, and Google still earns from it.

But I found a potential solution in Google itself, since they provide a tool to select your demographics. If you select all available options and skip Unknown, it won't show the ads to some part of the bots. There will still be some percentage, but this cuts out the largest part, since most click bots have no Google history and therefore fall outside the demographic buckets.

1. https://www.tirreno.com/bat/2025-12-27

Perhaps I read it wrong, but to me this means "does not collect ... data". In fact, the site uses a third-party service, which obviously sends the IP address.

Finally, the `id` and `unique` string parameters look like something specifically designed to track people.

Not 100% EU. Status page sends data to Google, Doubleclick, etc (1)

"In Brief: statichost.eu does not collect or share any personal information or data. " (2)

Lie.

Every page contains a hidden 1px pixel img that collects 15+ parameters: https://queue.simpleanalyticscdn.com/simple.gif?version=cdn_......

1. https://status.statichost.eu

2. https://www.statichost.eu/privacy/

This is the funny part, because I have nothing to twist.

You work in the extreme opposite setup to mine. VC vs bootstrapped. LLMs vs hand-coded. High margins vs open-source. If you ever look at our codebase, you will see that there are very few code dependencies, and of course bringing in another as large as LLMs is not in scope.

If you wish, we can always continue our exchange by email (mine is in hn profile).

What you're telling me now is that in the short period of 4 months, an American corporation took an employee of a company the EU relies on for critical matters from "wouldn't touch it if you paid me" to outsourcing thinking.

Well, I'm speechless.

> Quothling 6 months ago [1] I work in a NIS2 regulated sector and I'm not sure we can ever let any AI agent run in anything we do.

> We're in the European economic area and are completely NIS2 compliant and we use LLM's to aid in our software development for high risk systems.

Please pick one. Either way this is a nightmare level of threat to sovereignty.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47063153

By coincidence, we've been building software for five years that other plant managers are now considering using to keep track of some operational metrics. And I don't think we should put LLMs into our development cycle, simply because the data our software is built for can have critical meaning in some situations.

The insecurity in a vibe-coded web portal isn't that someone hacks it with XSS, it's that after the next vibe-coded release, some X quietly becomes −Y somewhere no one expects.

From this perspective, having no software at all might be better, or as in your case, safer.

I'm sure DeepSeek isn't the point here. You can change the name to whatever you prefer and the article still holds.

Actually, I think the author put DeepSeek on purpose to avoid the obvious ChatGPT/Claude comparison — because whatever he chose, there would be a question of why model A and not B, while the point of the article isn't about models comparison at all.

'Or else admit this is a dopamine game that makes you feel like The Universe's Most Special Programmer™ when it's really just gamified mass-scale intellectual dependency.'

Disesdi Shoshana Cox

Also, Kusama installation in Louisiana (DK)

https://louisiana.dk/en/exhibition/kusama-installation/

What is the difference?

https://securitytxt.org/

Email.

IDEs and static linters are tools that produce deterministic results, and AI does not. You simply can't compare them.

Sign in with Google or Github only? No, thank you.

tirreno - security framework

https://www.tirreno.com

Thanks! Very useful information. I will never play for Bowser again.