KoftaBob

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by KoftaBob 4y ago
And piraters will happily play that cat and mouse game and find ways to keep sharing content under the radar. I have zero sympathy for the parasite executives pushing this stuff when pirating hits their bottom line.
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Our Greedy Colleges (1987)(nytimes.com)
1 points by KoftaBob 4y ago|0 comments
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Hawaiian Airlines to Offer Free Starlink Internet Connectivity(newsroom.hawaiianairlines.com)
2 points by KoftaBob 4y ago|0 comments
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
Adobe's data tracking/ad business is pretty significant: https://business.adobe.com/solutions/data-insights-audiences... Check your ublock on any given website, and there's a good chance one of the track
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Slack having issues with Login/SSO service(status.slack.com)
1 points by KoftaBob 5y ago|0 comments
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Micro Front Ends(martinfowler.com)
2 points by KoftaBob 5y ago|0 comments
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Razer Tensorbook – The Deep Learning Laptop(lambdalabs.com)
2 points by KoftaBob 5y ago|0 comments
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
Interesting, you make a good point there. Out of curiosity, do you see other areas where P2P on the client side can have a significant benefit?
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
In other words, you're making a claim that's impossible to verify?
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
I wonder if DDoS could be solved (for static websites at least) by using P2P as a supplementary load balancer. This could be set to only be enabled if load is approaching a certain percent of capacity that the servers/CDN are able to h
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
Not a bad idea, or make it so a tweet isn't quotable/retweetable until the 5 minute edit grace period ends.
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
Well said. I would've rather seen Netflix continue their revenue growth by expanding into other verticals, rather than by continuously increasing their monthly price, which in my opinion is a very uninspired/lazy way of increasing
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
Not to nitpick, but I think the term you're looking for is "Doxxing".
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
> Many US cities have large stocks of older housing in moderate condition and which is already occupied. In order for housing supply to keep up with demand, it needs to increase, hence new construction.
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
They Don't Think It Be Like It Is, But It Do
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Putin Just Revealed Democracy’s Superpower(octavian.substack.com)
43 points by KoftaBob 5y ago|112 comments
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
Isn't this generally taken care of by only allowing messages from numbers that are in your contact list?
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
...you're Russian I take it?
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
> Then, an associate in her late twenties stood up. She said there were lawyers at the firm who were “uncomfortable” with Boies representing disgraced movie maker Harvey Weinstein, and she wanted to know whether Boies would pay them seve
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Apple confirms outages for multiple services(twitter.com)
14 points by KoftaBob 5y ago|0 comments
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
Thanks for the laugh :)
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
Well sure, the question is how were they able to out-exploit and out-genocide the rest of the world.
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
>Sometime in living memory, the built environment of the U.S. began to freeze in place. I’d mark the time roughly at *1970*, but it’s a process, not a single seminal event. > It is obviously fair for authorities to take some time to p
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Americans born in 1991 are special(qz.com)
11 points by KoftaBob 5y ago|8 comments
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
For sure, I should've mentioned that even the quote by Omar itself is suspect in terms of whether it was ever said, let alone whether it was Omar who had anything to do with the demise of the Library of Alexandria.
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
> if a book disagreed with the bible it was heresy and should be destroyed, and if it agreed with the bible it was unnecessary and could be destroyed. Not sure where you're getting this from, but it's suspiciously similar to th
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
More than 95% of what news sites/tv "report" on isn't remotely actionable or relevant for the average viewer. It's basically something that scratches the itch of human curiosity, but with manipulative and lowest com
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Percentage of world citizens living under different political regimes(ourworldindata.org)
3 points by KoftaBob 5y ago|0 comments
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Total market value of BTC surpasses value of total circulating supply of Ruble(coinmarketcap.com)
5 points by KoftaBob 5y ago|0 comments
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
> We can distribute videos for free, you remember that, right? Outside of a purely P2P system like Peertube, how would you distribute videos for free? Are there not server costs?

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