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by kreeben 5y ago
>> targeted ads are necessary In the TV era, they weren't. Targeting in the TV era meant selecting a program and deriving from that what my interests are. Selecting channel == choosing web site. That should be enough for advertis
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>> With Topics, your browser determines a handful of topics, like “Fitness” or “Travel & Transportation,” that represent your top interests for that week based on your browsing history. Google's definition of what is a browse
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by kreeben 5y ago
Very helpful, thank you. Which part of Sweden are you in, by the way.
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>> This is hosted on a computer in my living room Since you serve Swedish weather info from marginalia I'm assuming you live in Sweden, is that correct? Could you very briefly explain how you host and serve pages from your living
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by kreeben 5y ago
I'm not talking about my global app. I'm talking about the system I deploy to, the actual plumbing, and how a huge turd in a western toilet causes east's sewerage system to over-flow.
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>> you need to load balance across multiple independent availability zones The only problem with that is, there are no independent availability zones. What we do have, though, is an architecture where errors propagate cross-zone until
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by kreeben 5y ago
If the design goal of these zones is that they should be independent of each other then, no, they do not work extremely well.
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by kreeben 5y ago
>> Having multiple fully independent zones seems more reliable I don't think these independent zones exist. See AWS's recent outages, where east cripples west and vice versa.
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by kreeben 5y ago
Calming your nerves lowers your heart rate. Lower heart rate leads to less heart problems. Less heart problems leads to longer life. A glass of wine calms your nerves.
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by kreeben 5y ago
During a zombie outbreak, how important is cloud access, really?
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by kreeben 5y ago
Would you remind a dumb-wit like myself why that's a problem, when the API of a relational db is virtually perfect for a queue or event bus? Push, pop, look-but-don't-touch, data available through the most scrutinized and battle-t
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by kreeben 5y ago
Now the path to the finals has cleared right up for Michael Ymer. Go Sweden!
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>> Google can't search inside Discord. Can anyone, even in theory? Are there open APIs to all systems of discord? Does Discord have one? Wouldn't that open up all of these systems to systematic classification of all users? A
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by kreeben 5y ago
Businesses ruined their web sites and everyone's browsing experience, not law makers.
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To my ears it's the most beautiful when you replace "ae" with the "e" sound from "meh". Eh-stetic
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The correct way is more aesthetic.
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Ask HN: What should the next web search engine be like
4 points by kreeben 5y ago|3 comments
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Most people aren't good with logistics. This procedure might have been called a "well it's better than nothing" solution, because of the logistics, instead of it being a scam. Just saying.
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by kreeben 5y ago
I don't see the scam nor a conspiracy. First of all, private COVID test producing corporations are prolonging the pandemic by suggesting to gov't that testing be done to a higher degree than necessary? Why would governments fall f
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by kreeben 5y ago
To send a signal to the EU that US based web sites wish to continue to steal their users' PII and sell it to whomever they wish, without users having to give their consent, because that's how you make money when you don't hav
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Oldweb saved from incursion by the shear fact js is not backwards compatible ;)
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AFAIK operating systems delegate reads/writes to their IO subsystem. This subsystem can optimize the IO operations by scheduling them in an order that differs from when they arrived to the IO queue and this improves performance in some
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by kreeben 5y ago
Some day we will have native browser support for the full URL showing in the status field.
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Why presenteeism wins out over productivity(bbc.com)
5 points by kreeben 5y ago|0 comments
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by kreeben 5y ago
>> not just management sitting up in their high castle and issuing a decree That's great to hear. >> In remote-only setting, everything requires setting up a meeting. That often formalizes everything, and less things end up
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by kreeben 5y ago
Thank you for your point of view. It was lovely of you to share it. I'm going to paraphrase: >> Some are allowed to work from home, others aren't I'm guessing the people who insist they continue working from home, if th
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by kreeben 5y ago
>> A phased approach: >> Embrace >> Extend >> Innovate Hah!
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by kreeben 5y ago
I've been using AirGuard on my Android. It's FOSS. Available on Play. https://github.com/seemoo-lab/AirGuard
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Didn't log4j show us that "battle tested, proven" means nothing?
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Anti-5G necklaces found to be radioactive(bbc.com)
19 points by kreeben 5y ago|6 comments

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