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IceyEC

432 karma · joined August 7, 2012

Software Engineer @ Canonical http://chrismacnaughton.com

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IceyEC··on 'PC Building Simulator' Is More Fun Than Building a Real Computer
The Threadripper I put in last week begs to differ
IceyEC··on I deleted WhatsApp for a year
I don't have to worry about where the other person is; I can send WhatsApp messages to my family back in the US, or to friends here in the Netherlands, but it doesn't cost me anything. SMS to local numbers is free, but it's not free to send an SMS to the US
IceyEC··on Cierge – passwordless authentication
FastMail supports tag@username.domain.tld
IceyEC··on Meltdown Update Kernel doesnt boot
This seems like one of those things that is very hard to get right: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=823033
IceyEC··on T-Mobile Agrees to Buy Layer3 TV in Preparation for TV Service
panic inducing!
IceyEC··on Apple Is Allegedly Slowing Down Older iPhones with Degraded Batteries
On the other hand, my 6, same purchase day, can barely survive a full day of light use, and requires additional charging throughout the day if I'm calling or texting much
IceyEC··on How Firefox Got Fast Again
Google Hangouts :-/
IceyEC··on Show HN: Octotrack – automatic dependency and security manager for Ruby apps
Lot of placeholder text on that page : https://screenshots.firefox.com/hg5ayGsTXpQ2veoT/www.octotra...
IceyEC··on IRS Awards Equifax $7.25M Contract to Help 'Verify Taxpayer Identities'
So, why didn't the IRS just download their leak and do the verification in house?

/snark

IceyEC··on Cicada – Unix shell written in Rust
Check out snapcraft, it can build rust binaries!
IceyEC··on Supreme Court Says People Can’t Be Banned From The Internet
I can't stop you from going online but I don't have to give you a computer to access it?
IceyEC··on If companies interviewed tech recruiters the way they interview programmers
Why are we suddenly inundated with "If companies interviewed * the way they interview programmers" posts?
IceyEC··on Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project
I found a fiver not to long ago...
IceyEC··on AMD Announces Ryzen Update: Enables Memory Clocks Up to DDR4-4000
Any word on ECC support for the Ryzen chips?
IceyEC··on Ubuntu on AWS Gets Serious Performance Boost with AWS-Tuned Kernel
Or even doing a reboot after an `apt update` that comes with a kernel update. The livepatch bit only updates the running kernel anyway
IceyEC··on Most Electronics Being Banned on Certain US-Bound Flights
I flew Cape Town to LHR in January on BA and my entertainment system was stuck in a loop, booting into RedHat over and over again
IceyEC··on Single atom feels the quantum heat
That article just automatically scrolled for me, didn't much care for that
IceyEC··on Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory
Started to re-write it...in C
IceyEC··on Whonix – A desktop operating system designed for advanced security and privacy
They have KVM images as well, and KVM was the suggested model on Linux last time I looked.
IceyEC··on Web App Hunt – A hand-curated list of useful web apps
what's added by describing it as hand-curated over curated?
IceyEC··on Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine
With some things you can get a hash of an iso from the true source and compares that to the downloaded iso
IceyEC··on Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017?
Have you seen MAAS (Metal as a Service) from Canonical? Paired with Juju, it's fairly easy to deploy OpenStack on metal servers...
IceyEC··on What This Here Compound Needs Is Some Hydrogen Peroxide
I'm one of the lucky 10,000 today :)
IceyEC··on Fuck You Startup World
I first read that as "Shh, they're on a troll"
IceyEC··on Building a Modern Bank Backend
Most importantly, you can pass the blame to the third party organization rather than bringing that in house
IceyEC··on Linux.BackDoor.Irc.16 – A backdoor for Linux written in Rust
Now that stack overflow is memory safe!
IceyEC··on Building fast.com
The files that fast.com has you download ARE chunks of video files :)
IceyEC··on Show HN: Wryte – a dictation software for bloggers
This seems to be using Electron's text-to-speech so presumably, it's a wrapper around Google?
IceyEC··on Open Source Exploitation and Burnout
As long as you're willing to relicense your proprietary code as GPL
IceyEC··on “Safe C++ Subset” Is Vapourware
I think the parent is saying less that you don't need valgrind, more that you get it for free. I can take a program I'm writing in Rust and run it through valgrind, or other debugging / profiling tools written and designed for c / c++ because the rust binary ends up with the same debugging symbols that a gcc compiled binary could have
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