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2y ago
Isn't it already patent free in Europe? You can't patent algorithms in Europe. For example MP3 was royalty free in Europe because there was no patent on it.
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Legacy 2FA like OTP or SMS isn't going to protect you from this kind of phishing (as shown). However webauthn with a security key or passkey would have prevented this. Unfortunately mailchimp doesn't support those.
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European countries are going to "wait and see what happens". You think Poland, who are only free from Russian occupation for about 30 years, is going to wait and see if they are going to be occupied by Russia for another half a de
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2y ago
> I really want structured concurrency out of preview!! I'm guessing they thought it couldn't hurt to do another round of testing. Since OpenJDK 25 will be an LTS release, I suspect it will go out of preview in the next release
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2y ago
Surprised nobody mentioned JEP 491 [1] yet. Basically it ensures the "synchronized" keyword can no longer mess up virtual threads. That's a big win for running existing code in virtual threads. [1] https://openjdk.
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2y ago
> Having had to deal many EU regulations and see their negative impact on small businesses for no sizeable beneficial outcome to the average EU citizen Because you didn't give any concrete examples the fact you couldn't see any
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If SpaceX would have failed the taxpayer would have footed the bill. Since the money invested would be gone. Now they are successful the tech is in the private sector. Socialize the losses, privatize the gains.
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2y ago
Agreed. If you want something more accurate you are going to need something more bulky and invasive. Like a heart rate monitor chest strap. It's simply a trade off between convenience/cost and measurement quality.
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> Electrical transmission systems are roughly 85% efficient to the consumer; Electrical generation itself isn't a 100% efficient. For example a gas powered electricity plant is about 60% efficient for generating electricity. Generat
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> You're justifying jail time for racist speech! For inciting further civil unrest during civil unrest. Kinda weird to just cherry pick some things from my post.
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This wasn't someone posting just a meme online or anything. The guy was posting racist shit during civil unrest [1]. Literally throwing oil on a fire. Yeah, you are going to get prosecuted for that. [1] https://www.bbc.com&#
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2y ago
Pretty cool! I'm wondering if using an imsi catcher is still effective? Most of the time I'm using calling over wifi (VoLTE) or I'm in a car (where an imsi catcher isn't really practical).
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2y ago
? Unbound and NSD are pretty popular.
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2y ago
the Netherlands has nukes in loan from the US. They are at Volkel Airbase. Officially it's a secret, but it's common knowledge and was also confirmed by a former prime-minister. In exchange for these loaned nuclear weapons the Net
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> The US had an obligation not to expand NATO to Ukraine, but hey, here we are. Both Gorbachev (the leader of the USSR at the time) and Jasow (higest military leader of the USSR at the time) both say this was never promised to them [1].
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2y ago
If by "resolving" a war you mean forcing the victim into a surrender and making the agressor a victor than sure. You seem to forget the obligations the US has when they signed (and made Ukraine sign) the Budapest memorandum. In wh
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2y ago
Can you prove they don't? Right now Google is losing in the AI space. I wouldn't be surprised if they went with "it's better to ask for forgiveness later than permission upfront".
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2y ago
It's probably more of cultural difference. It's common in the US to build companies like a lot of houses are build in the US. In the US houses are often build from wood and plaster and have a high chance of being knocked down by a
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2y ago
On the other hand Trump killed the EV charger subsidies, so that doesn't really help Tesla.
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One of the advantages of self-hosting is that you don't need this level of FinOps. You also don't have to live in fear of bill-mageddon.
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> He cofounded paypal which is payment system. Presumably he knows about things like payment systems, fraud, etc... No, he didn't. He founded x.com as a payment system which was substantially less popular then paypal. Due to a bunch
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I assume this is big news for htmx (and the likes)?
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Whether you think this a bad thing or a good thing it certainly proves most large companies stand for little more than shareholder value. If it's advantageous to raise a LGBTQ+ flag they'll do it, if it's advantageous to burn
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> I still managed to save more money there than I can now. Europe is just poorer, In Europe (at least speaking from the perspective of the Netherlands) a lot of money / resources go to fee's employer have to pay, unlimited sick
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> It’s hard to get excited about learning German and joining a local tech company for peanuts in salary. I don't know about Germany but in the Netherlands there is also a minimum income restriction in order to get a knowledge worker
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So Campsite got acqui-hired by Notion, tells their customers in a blog [1] something along the lines: "Thanks for all the fish, you've got 2 months to migrate to something else.". They could have open sourced it in a way whic
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While I fully believe Amazon to be capable of making such an atrocious product it could also be that the "mute" function is broken in it's entirety (i.e. unmuting after a couple of seconds). The person just hasn't notice
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"Serve your app as XML" As someone who started his professional career in 2005: All the old is new again.
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I think we lost HashiCorp way before the IBM acquisition. About the time they started switching to the BUSL.
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If it so bad there is actually a whistleblower then how do they pass their ISO27001 audits? Bit too friendly with TUV Nord? https://cariad.technology/content/dam/digitalmindofmobility/... EDIT: Just noticed t
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