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by bobuk 6y ago
Yandex is a company registered at the Netherlands, 99% of the company's developers are located in Russia. So, technically Yandex is Russian.
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by bobuk 6y ago
But there’s still a security flaw in this method. If somebody from Amazon will decide to record you, they just send a reboot command to Echo. After reboot mic’s state will be changed back to normal I.e. powered.
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by bobuk 6y ago
More than 10 years ago, I've asked Aaron about the best way to tell him "thanks for your job". He said what he has a big wishlist on Amazon, so I've chosen a couple of books and bought them to him. Since then, once a yea
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by bobuk 6y ago
org-roam is a solution for effortless non-hierarchical note-taking with org-mode. Basically, if you already using org-mode - it's a personal wiki-like system for your files.
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by bobuk 6y ago
It's like a zombie now, whole body is working but no brain activity at least for last 6 months.
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by bobuk 6y ago
It's rewriten from scratch and authors didn't answer about compatibility so I checked it right now. No, it doesnt' work with pijul repo at least in my scenarios
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by bobuk 6y ago
For lazy people: Anu is Pijul (modern distributed version control system) rewriten from scratch, also with rust. It's on very early stage and now interesting mainly for academic/research.
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by bobuk 6y ago
I'm interested, is there any urls to read about this package?
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by bobuk 6y ago
Looks like a modern version of twin https://github.com/cosmos72/twin
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by bobuk 6y ago
nice to hear that but honestly, "re-writing the core" for 6 months - not a good sign at all :( I use pijul intensively for my own pet project and now feel insecure about that.
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by bobuk 6y ago
Do you follow to pijul development? Looks like it stall or paused, no new patches since 2019 :(
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by bobuk 6y ago
If you’re looking for ready to use data instead of API, there’s prepared jsons for you https://github.com/bobuk/holybooks/tree/master/EN
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by bobuk 9y ago
doctor have used skype and whatsapp for sending very private information about his patients. This is the most important part of the article. So now we have all this GDPR and doctors who's openly share personal information through skype
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Twitter pushed RT to spend big on 2016 US election(rt.com)
4 points by bobuk 9y ago|0 comments
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by bobuk 9y ago
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/407858-rt-twitter-us-election/ this is not a confirmation but...
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Hacker decrypts firmware for Apple TouchID and extract decryption keys(iclarified.com)
5 points by bobuk 9y ago|0 comments
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Yandex open sources CatBoost, a gradient boosting ML library(techcrunch.com)
202 points by bobuk 9y ago|28 comments
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Yandex’s on-demand taxi service debuts its self-driving car project(techcrunch.com)
113 points by bobuk 9y ago|53 comments
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Facebook shareholders urge company to replace Mark Zuckerberg(venturebeat.com)
3 points by bobuk 10y ago|0 comments
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by bobuk 10y ago
http://www.freenom.world/en/faq.html#q19 > Yes. Freenom World's DNS resolvers can handle DNSSEC requests as any other resolver.
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by bobuk 10y ago
Typical Ivan with good developer skills costs $30k/year in Moscow. But you are right, theoretically it is possible to hide some money if you really wants to. As far as I know there's no big non-gov companies who spend something on
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by bobuk 10y ago
My point is "big non-government companies in Russia doesn't pay any bribes". But you're right, it's definitely possible do hide some amount of bribe money if you really want to.
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by bobuk 10y ago
Well-known? Thanks :)
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by bobuk 10y ago
Well, it's 8% if you believe in "independed measurement" :)
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by bobuk 10y ago
Nope, both salaries and bonuses (even on C level) is too low in Russia to hide any amount of bribe in them. Anyway, I never heard about bribes for electricity for last 5 years in Russia.
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by bobuk 10y ago
You can check it on sec.gov. Yandex spend nothing on consultancy for 2014 and 2015 years
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by bobuk 10y ago
Yandex is a public company with stocks on NASDAQ. Can you ever imagine how it is hard to hide bribes inside of public company budget? :)
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by bobuk 10y ago
6, if you believe in comScore data.
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by bobuk 10y ago
Oh no, at least not now. Electricity and land so cheap today in Russia, what Yandex starts to build and sell their datacenter to provide "cheap AWS alternative for Russian companies".
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by bobuk 10y ago
now it's split between Russia (for russian audience) and Netherland and Finland (for others). Also this https://sputniknews.com/world/20151024/1029057531/finland-he... may be interesting for you.

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