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by stiray 6y ago
If those entities would be any risk, they would already be bought. Or they will be long gone due to google/aws/microsoft price dumping. In meanwhile, the openly accessible technology / know-how will be gone or hired by them a
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by stiray 6y ago
> Google's choice to bump these prices made me realize that they could do the same thing with their compute cloud pricing or other APIs, again with little notice. That, in turn, led to the realization that we needed to remove our re
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by stiray 6y ago
Regarding ECC and ZFS: https://jrs-s.net/2015/02/03/will-zfs-and-non-ecc-ram-kill-y... "Next, you read a copy of the same block – this copy might be a redundant copy, or it might be reconstructed from pa
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by stiray 6y ago
Talk the talk, walk the walk. And she is only doing the first part. My "spelling" has nothing to do with meaning, but as a nice childish (and highly comparable to your statement) test, we can try your spelling in in my language. O
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by stiray 6y ago
Historia magistra vitae. And over and over again, this is proven (Snowden (gov), Facebook (corporation), Google (corporation), just a simple example). Or to say it differently, "where money talks bullshit walks". Once you have a c
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by stiray 6y ago
I have checked her site, it has references to Facebook and is full of trackers. She is just some self promoting woman that has found a niche in privacy, where she doesnt follow what she preaches. Yes Survailance Capitalism is a nightmare an
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by stiray 6y ago
What you consider as super-hackers are hype driven developers and architect-astronauts to me :) We are not talking about same set of people.
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by stiray 6y ago
I must say that this blog made me sad. It is exactly due to such thinking code becomes bloated, full of frameworks, zillion of 3rd party libraries for something that could be implemented with bearable codebase by just having a little more e
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by stiray 6y ago
I love idea of VR but... Sure, I would love to buy VR headset but there are things that are stopping me, and until they are fixed, I will wait before buying, it is not a crucial piece of technology after all (like robotic vacuum cleaners ar
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by stiray 6y ago
Well you might address it also the way you have mentioned but there is a tiny issue. European culture and its laws are highly problematic in regards to todays behaviour and income that large internet companies profit from (spying on users a
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by stiray 6y ago
I think if the guy that came to the internal google documents a few years back, would offer the content on the donation based web site and prove they are genuine, it might get more out of donations from various privacy groups / people
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by stiray 6y ago
Linux kernel? KDE? QT?
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by stiray 6y ago
Worst advice? I am just commenting what I am seeing. Worked as a contractor in a bunch of teams in large companies, quite a few blue-chips. Yep, I was quite amazed when I came out of pocket size companies, it is quite amazing how f*-up ever
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by stiray 6y ago
Well, as much I have seen code reviews in my life (ignoring a few people that have OCD), I have noticed that the trend is to: - add whatever comment that comes to your mind and you know wont be argued about (like using spaces instead of tab
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by stiray 6y ago
An alternative without dedicated device (although I do redirect all traffic from wifi accesss point used for phone on router to another computer) and rather use it on device and analyze later: https://github.com/M66B/Ne
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by stiray 6y ago
I am using Hugo for my personal site... and I suffer. If I just disregard strange formats etc. there are just a things that Hugo doesnt do, as a design decision, like start a binary when you are rebuilding the site. Which is to me extremely
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by stiray 6y ago
Well I have encountered this article a while ago - "How CIA made Google": https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-goo... From this perspective, youtube blocking CIA criticizing video seems li
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by stiray 6y ago
As a guy who ignored the chain on his first bike with XTR gears and had to replace whole drivetrain - yep, I would buy this chain. No question asked, as long as they guarantee me that it wont be stretched.
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by stiray 6y ago
Reference please? I am not talking here about bright ideas... I am talking about something that is really bitch to implement (quite frankly I would rather take tinycc and mutate the c source (same goes for go source code) before compiling t
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by stiray 6y ago
I cant really enjoy articles like this after seeing: https://z0mbie.dreamhosters.com/ (yes, site looks like crap by today standards, but author was an evil genius) and https://z0mbie.dreamhosters.com/autorev
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by stiray 6y ago
At least one command that i would put on a list, often not known by users: setfib[1] So simple. So powerful. [1] https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=setfib&apropos=0&s...
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Good Heavens 10M Impacted in Pray.com Data Exposure(threatpost.com)
43 points by stiray 6y ago|29 comments
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by stiray 6y ago
There is one huge issue with ZFS, the distributions and various crappy software will catch up the ease of use and abuse it to the maximum. I have already seen what huge pile of noise Ubuntu makes, not to mention creating snapshot for any up
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by stiray 6y ago
The interesting thing here is that until I say "go" no one will "Schedule a demo" or "sales call" to them. While I will absolutely not do it for a fishy firm - and by putting something like that on the site the
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Ask HN: Linux/FreeBSD tape backup software?
3 points by stiray 6y ago|0 comments
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by stiray 6y ago
Well this somehow reflects what I am seeing for last 20 years. Hobby or just passion of open source is fueling the industry to forge massive profits while on other side provide peanuts for authors, far less than if they were their employees
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Gary Yourofsky – The Most Important Speech You Will Ever Hear(youtube.com)
6 points by stiray 6y ago|0 comments
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by stiray 6y ago
Actually I was quite surprised that those are ordinary trucks without superhero style exterior etc. I think that this is a recipe for success of electric vehicles (and they are hurting EV market on long run) - not that they look like from o
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by stiray 6y ago
Welcome to vendor locked-in world where you have willing-fully decided to become prisoners in exchange for few sweets that you dont really need. I hope you dont also own some google router or even better, "home security" device. T
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by stiray 6y ago
Imho, the issue with speech technology is that it is beeing developed by companies that wants to abuse your home (device,...). There is just no way I will let google device that listens my conversations let at my home (let me be faster - no

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