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by fmajid 2y ago
Skype open-sourced their architecture way back, using PL/Proxy to route calls based on shard. It works, is quite elegant, handled 50% of all international phone calls in the noughties. My old company used it to provide real-time analyt
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by fmajid 2y ago
The people doing the pig butchering are themselves trafficked and working in horrendous slavery conditions in Cambodia: https://theconversation.com/pig-butchering-fraud-the-link-be... https://restofworld.org&#x2F
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by fmajid 2y ago
Rights holders are the economically marginal tail wagging the dog due to the disproportionate political power of content industries. All of Hollywood's annual revenues represented 2 weeks of telcos' SMS revenue back when you paid
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by fmajid 2y ago
Well, if we finally have hundred-billion-dollar corporations pushing back on the copyfight around the continual expansion of copyright (e.g. the congressman for Disney, Sonny Bono) or abusive laws like DMCA, that's a welcome developmen
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by fmajid 2y ago
Anker makes these earbuds for sleep: https://www.soundcore.com/uk/products/sleep-a20-sleeping-ear... I haven't tried them myself, but they come highly recommended.
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by fmajid 2y ago
He was operating on outdated advice. Yes, 1990s ANC headphones would only work on repetitive noise, but the technology has advanced by leaps and bounds since. Sony and Apple AirPods Max are considered best-in-class.
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by fmajid 2y ago
In the U.K. specifically supermarkets are having a tough time hiring and retaining staff, but self-checkout is also popular in similar countries like France where the job market is not as tight.
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by fmajid 2y ago
Eventually they will build the scales into the shopping cart itself.
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by fmajid 2y ago
I was being sarcastic about how even-handedly the British dispensed their cruelty, to white Irish or Boer just as readily as to brown Bengalis.
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by fmajid 2y ago
So the British Empire was color-blind in its viciousness, after all?
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by fmajid 2y ago
Apple also serves ads and trackers on the web, not just in-app or on the App Store. Here are the relevant built-in uBlock Origin filter rules: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AuBlockOrigin%2FuAssets+ap... Thus they also c
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by fmajid 2y ago
Apple is totally an advertising company. Have you missed the part about their stalling phone, tablet and laptop revenues, that they hope to compensate with "services" revenue, i.e. App Store 30% racketeering and App Store search a
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by fmajid 2y ago
The real issue is control. Facebook allowed you to go back to chronological view by appending &sk=chr to the URL, but they removed that safety valve at some point. Depending on context you may want to sort your feed chronologically, by
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by fmajid 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_R%C3%A9mi_Fraisse
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by fmajid 2y ago
There is a whole UK industry of law firms shielding oligarchs and other scum from accountability for their crimes, the most notorious being Carter Ruck. Politicians talk about sanctions but do nothing. https://archive.is/hjm
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by fmajid 2y ago
The UK has egregious libel laws where the burden of proof is on the defendant, and their reactionary judiciary is all too happy to issue “super injunctions” where the existence of an injunction is itself gagged. This is used by shady corpor
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by fmajid 2y ago
I did a MS in Telecoms Engineering. Our Telephony teacher Claude Rigault drummed it into us that when people can't make emergency calls, pople die, thus the importance of reliability.
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by fmajid 2y ago
SPRINT == Southern Pacific Railroad Internal NeTwork.
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by fmajid 2y ago
Level 3, the biggest Internet backbone transit provide, was spun off from the Peter Kiewit construction firm, and had as its original asset a coal mine in Wyoming.
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by fmajid 2y ago
Presumaby they are worried about a reprise of what happend to Meng Wanzhou, daughter of the founder of Huawei, who was put under house arrest in Canada, thus severely damaging Canadian diplomatic and commercial relations with China, all for
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by fmajid 2y ago
Because Myhrvold is the single most notorious patent troll, bar none.
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by fmajid 2y ago
NOLF2 was hilarious. The samurai sword fiht in a trailer park while a hurricane blows through it! The fight against French mimes toting machine guns (Ah, ze pain is unbearable)!
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by fmajid 2y ago
Yes, as a user I definitely shudder at Electron-based apps or anything built on the JVM.
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by fmajid 2y ago
Apparently Go 1.24's internal implementation of maps was changed to use Swiss Tables (reimplemented in Go, of course, not the Abseil C++ implementation). https://www.bytesizego.com/blog/go-124-swiss-table-maps I&#
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by fmajid 2y ago
Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPgDgNtOouo Some more background: https://www.volvocars.com/en-ca/news/safety/let-your-head-re...
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by fmajid 2y ago
Yes, those workloads are mostly sequential I/O, that HDDs can still handle. Most of my usage is heavily parallel random I/O like software development and compiles. You also have the option of using ZFS with SSDs as L2ARC read-cach
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by fmajid 2y ago
It's a largely academic question. HDDs simply don't have the performance required for modern use, and NAND flash SSDs are not archival if left unpowered, so it's SSDs for all online storage and HDDs for backups. You do have t
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by fmajid 2y ago
They used to advertise the fact their CEO's wife was a nurse, and she lobbied them to prioritize safety.
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by fmajid 2y ago
It’s not that simple, even in a company that was as notoriously mismanaged as Twitter. When he came in with his trusted lieutenants from SpaceX and Tesla, they had some sort of game plan to data mine HR databases, corporate email and so on.
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by fmajid 2y ago
Well, they blew up an ammunition dump in the Czech Republic 10 years ago, they are sabotaging electric and fiber cables, including to a highly sensitive Norwegian air base: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Vrb%C4%9Bti

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