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themafia 7 hours ago

The comment at the bottom of the article I believe is correct. I believe this because our neighborhood had the same problem. One day my neighbor, frustrated beyond his capacity, and seemingly very high on something, went outside and started ripping infrastructure out by hand and damaging everything else he could find with a hammer.

They came out and replaced a lot of the damaged equipment and did a few upgrades. After that the intermittent 2 minute drop problems disappeared.

mh- 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I was merely pretty sure that the comment was AI generated as I read it. After reading it, I became a lot more confident when I noticed the username above the comment: Gemini 3.

Is this a Wordpress plugin the blog author is using?

terminalshort 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Amazing that we now live in a world where AI can instantly an accurately diagnose a network infrastructure problem, but you are still forced to talk to CS drones who tell you again and again "have you tried unplugging it and plugging it back in?"

mh- 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm not so sure that's an accurate diagnosis. But I agree it's certainly better than one can get from phoning support.

Twirrim 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I can't speak to the accuracy of the diagnosis, but the claims about NTP are bizarre, and to the best of my knowledge, wrong. There's nothing specific about the times the incidents cluster around that would have anything to do with NTP. It doesn't work like that.

VBprogrammer 37 minutes ago | parent [-]

Though, if I was the author the speculation about the restart time would have me breaking out a timer.

szundi 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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vedmed 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

My brother ran the article through gemini and left that comment

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matt123456789 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think it was someone trying to help and being cheeky about it.

stingraycharles 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The article itself is also AI generated. Plenty of typical signs for AI.

“Every single outage lasted 124.8 ± 1.3 seconds. That’s not random hardware failure. That’s a timeout value hardcoded into something in Xfinity’s infrastructure.”

I’m getting really tired of the Internet these days.

yard2010 4 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

The internet was never here to stay, it's not getting better, enjoy the last days while you can.

bcraven 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think this is a lazy criticism that I am _also_ growing tired of.

If LLMs are trained on written information, that pattern of speech was present before they got there. It's a good way to add emphasis.

trueno 34 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I don't think anyone's here to debate the origin of speech patterns these things are using. Feels clear to me at least that the guy you're replying to is uninterested in reading stuff generated by AI, I can't say I disagree with him.

stingraycharles 19 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

I’m very much uninterested in reading AI generated content. Your assertions seems to be “AIs only write like that because people have been writing like that”, but that’s not a great argument.

It feels like AI has suddenly given a platform for people who previously were unable to properly write blog content. But it immediately feels unoriginal and generic.

I’m just not interested in that type of content and immediately put off by it.

The only reason I mentioned this is because of the comment about Gemini 3 being in the comments.

I’m just really, really tired of all the AI content everywhere nowadays and crave some authenticity.

It just feels like cheap remakes / imitations to of original content.

bryanrasmussen 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I have to admit I am also tired, and your quote sounds like a competent engineer doing a flex, and also being a bit bitter.

on edit: regarding the comment, yeah that sounds pretty AI.

NamlchakKhandro 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm also getting tired of the people getting tired of the people getting tired of AI

econ an hour ago | parent [-]

Marketing is very excited about the negative articles.

vedmed 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I used AI to analyze the log for patterns and to make the charts.

stingraycharles 14 minutes ago | parent [-]

You do you, but the least you can do is either not reply, or admit that you used AI to write the copy as well.

NamlchakKhandro 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

you've obviously never used AI much then, because I was able to instantly tell that it's a summarisation typical of claude/gemini/copilot

econ an hour ago | parent [-]

Damned if you do, more damned if you don't.

I do suggest using high voltage rather than a hammer.

razingeden 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>frustrated beyond his capacity, and seemingly very high on something, went outside and started ripping infrastructure out by hand and damaging everything else he could find with a hammer

hmmmm i think i just saw that guy at the motel 6 in palm springs.

GCUMstlyHarmls 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Did the neighbor get in trouble or was this a mom-stealing-baby-food-and-diapers kind of witnessing?

komali2 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Or was it "the neighbor" in the same way that "my friend" has a weed hookup?

esseph 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That's a felony in the US by the way, and most will prosecute if they have enough evidence of who it was.