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Phurist··on Many ransomware strains will abort if they detect a Russian keyboard installed (2021)
Or you know... just use Linux
Phurist··on Time-Series Anomaly Detection: A Decade Review
If only life was as simple as calling .isAnomaly() on anything
Phurist··on AI is exhausting the power grid
Or start using power to gas and go nuts with solar? Yes, there is a lot of loss in the process but the space available for solar is still untapped. Turn it to gas and fuck it, store it under the ocean if need.
Phurist··on GitHub Copilot Workspace: Technical Preview
You start by talking about apples and finish talking about cars.
Phurist··on When do we stop finding new music?
> Corporatized, consolidated, computerized. wtf, pick a word and say it. Stop spewing nonsense
Phurist··on When was the last time we built a new city?
Why?
Phurist··on Tens of thousands protest in Germany against the rise of the far right
The "good" options are doing what their funders demand them to do and that is keeping the current system limping onward.

The opposition, the far right ones are however funded by new sources, shady ones. Their platform is thin as ice, there is no substance behind their loud slogans. But the slogans they use, do reach peoples heads. If the current leaders are not able to take these points for them selves and gain back the votes by actually doing what the proletariat want, then a very sudden and painful fall is the outcome. It has always been that way.

Phurist··on Jeff Lawson steps down as CEO of Twilio
You have to thanks the abusers and scammers for that. All nice things have to be locked down :(
Phurist··on macOS Sonoma is available today
Just use Nix
Phurist··on iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus
Not fair I think... in a world where most companies produce profits without a single care for the world we live in, I welcome a company like Apple that has shown a path to a better future in some areas. They still have a long way to go I think... but advancements like that are also advancements.
Phurist··on I don't want to host services but I do
Hmm.. you mind talking a bit more about it? You are just consulting them or getting your hands dirty as well?
Phurist··on SMS traffic pumping fraud
Why would I want to buy a smartphone, just to log in to some service? Why would I want to install some crappy auth app on my computer (That most likely does not have a Flatpak for it even)?

Most places do not support Yubikey... so getting SMS on my Nokia 3310 is the best option for me.

SMS is the way to go.

Phurist··on America aims for nuclear-power renaissance
Sure, how about we compare building regulations with China as well ? They can get away with a much simpler and also much riskier projects
Phurist··on Solid-State Battery Has 2x the Energy–and No Anode
Yeah, Isn't that what engineers in the Skunksworks at Mutual Polydynamics were already working on in scope of the SANS ICS HyperEncabulator?
Phurist··on World’s largest four-day work week trial finds few are going back
You know the answer to that.
Phurist··on Twilio is laying off 17% of workforce
They are also very unreliable
Phurist··on Why a global recession is inevitable in 2023
Cringe
Phurist··on Fixing macOS Zsh Terminal History Settings
Wtf, macports ? Please do your self a favor and install Nix package manager.
Phurist··on Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1
In my country, noone will bother you if you download pirated content but they will bother you if you seed it.
Phurist··on Charles Mitchell and the 1929 stock crash
That's what they keep saying throughout history, yet it seems that tech industry as a whole just wants to reach these highs over and over again. I wonder why ? Could it be because it's the superior business case, which can reach global markets at ease ?

Oh noo... noo how can that be... my wood workshop in Agbogbloshie Dumpsite, Ghana has the best business model known to mankind, how can it be that it can not compete with BigTechCorpo123 ? Oh.. I don't know... maybe because BigTechCorpo123 can sell their product to the whole world at ease while your wood toys have to be shipped by vans ?

Phurist··on What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020)
How to say that you lack experience running a successful business without saying you lack experience running a successful business.
Phurist··on European Central Bank rises rates by 0.5%
You would not be able to understand it, it's domestic.
Phurist··on GnuCash – Open-source personal and small-business accounting software
What is wrong with HLedger ? Why would I use this bloated software over it ?
Phurist··on A World Tour of Abandoned Amusement Parks
The theme seems to be similar: a park was built once -> lot of people used it -> repairs/maintenance was not done or was not done enough -> park got dangerous due to neglect -> less people visit it -> park gets closed down

I wonder what could be done differently

Phurist··on I should have loved biology
You do not need to know every implementation detail down the stack, just the the general concepts behind it all. But in case you do need to know a specific part of the stack very thoroughly, you can just read the source code and come up with an understanding quite soon.

That is not the case with biology, if you want to know a part of the stack thoroughly, you in essence have to come up with the "source code" your self.

Phurist··on Ask HN: Why are Git submodules so bad?
That sounds like a problem that exists between the chair and the keyboard.
Phurist··on Gitlab Now the Main Development Platform for Wine
Get with the times grapms - JS is here to stay ;)
Phurist··on System Preferences Reimagined on macOS
They are just moving on with the industry standard. I am quite happy with this layout on Gnome for a long time already. Get with the times
Phurist··on EU vote to ban all sales of combustion engine vehicles by 2035
With rapeseed oil :)
Phurist··on Fonoster: The open-source alternative to Twilio
10DLC will be the future anyways: https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/1260800720410-W...
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