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aiCeivi9on It's tough being an Azure fan

> five minutes it takes to learn to using the billing console.

I spent hour or two trying to find anything running and didn't find a damn thing. Yet Amazon decided to charge me a buck or two every month for "storage" so I just canceled whole account. I mean, if I can't find what I am paying for when not using it, how am I supposed to understand the bill when I actually have a dozen of instances?

aiCeivi9on Build an 8-bit home computer with 5 chips

Looks ok for me, with adblock+umatrix: https://i.imgur.com/UABzai9.png

aiCeivi9on This Artwork Does Not Exist

So far the best I have seen is https://thisstartupdoesnotexist.com/

aiCeivi9on No person who was born blind has ever been diagnosed with schizophrenia

Does aphantasia have any impact?

aiCeivi9on ICANN Allows .COM Price Increases, Gets More Money

> Google

They are trying to kill URL, with AMP and hiding parts of address in Chrome bar. The perfect google customer never types any URL and uses search engine instead.

aiCeivi9on What Will Happen in the 2020s

I have been hearing how great Thorium reactor are for last 15 years. Still not commercially available, almost as vaporware as fusion.

aiCeivi9on Debian votes for Proposal B, “Systemd but we support exploring alternatives”

> alternate init systems

Yeah, I am just end-user and I don't really care what is under the hood as long as it works, but isn't the biggest complaint against `systemd` is that it integrates a lot of other functions/subsystems that are not part of other init systems? And you kinda have to take whole package?

aiCeivi9on Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/927593460642615296.html

Still not very readable.

aiCeivi9on SuperShuttle is going out of business

Well it is a self-reinforcing loop. Cites are not designed for walking, there are huge areas used for parkings, the own car is really the only choice when there is no huge public transport network. And there won't be one when everyone has a car.

aiCeivi9on Founder came back after 8 years to rewrite Flash photo editor in Canvas/WebGL

Didn't they get rid of everything that didn't bring profit like JEE and NetBeans? The only part of Java that Oracle cares about is paid(supported)LTS versions, as there is no free LTS version anymore, with new quick release schedule. Well, that was the idea, some companies like Amazon ( https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/ ) want to backport fixes.

aiCeivi9on Collection of Software Bugs

I have randomly selected 3 links and 2 were dead. Using some king of webarchive might be a good idea for sites like this one.

aiCeivi9on Microsoft's “Love” of Linux

Both. GP knows Chrome for Linux exists but ignores that its need for auto-update doesn't play well with distros package management and it also statically-links or ships 3rd party libs. Clearly supporting diverse (fragmented) linux ecosystem is not easy at all.

aiCeivi9on Plaid Launches in France, Spain, and Ireland

Is Plaid using AIS?

aiCeivi9on Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation

> will not extradite anyone [..]

will not easily extradite own citizens but less care is given for foreigners.

aiCeivi9on Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight

SCO took even longer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO%E2%80%93Linux_disputes . It stops only when one side can no longer pay the lawyers :/.

aiCeivi9on Facebook Libra Is Architecturally Unsound

> they could provide consumers (and authorities) a way to trace their products back to their origins, a capability that already would have saved several lives.

Why would blockchain be required for that? In case of drugs and food there recalls are being done using batch number of day of production.

aiCeivi9on I tracked down developer of Android adware affecting millions of users

> First, the malicious app tries to determine whether it is being tested by the Google Play security mechanism. For this purpose, the app receives from the C&C server the isGoogleIp flag, which indicates whether the IP address of the affected device falls within the range of known IP addresses for Google servers. If the server returns this flag as positive, the app will not trigger the adware payload.

I can't believe something so simple worked so well.

aiCeivi9on Issue 914451: Autofill does not respect autocomplete="off"

I hat to fight with browser autocomplete in Kibana main search bar. On the other hand I guess it is the same as right mouse button - I don't allow any site to capture that event since some abuse it.

aiCeivi9on Mysterious Avid Issue Knocks Out Mac Pro Workstations Across Hollywood

Sounds like the case when EvE Online removed some Windows boot files: https://www.eveonline.com/article/about-the-boot.ini-issue

aiCeivi9on Dear Email Industry, We’ve Got a GDPR Problem

There is the Email Industry - that is the problem.

aiCeivi9on To decarbonize we must decomputerize: why we need a Luddite revolution

I hoped huge popularity of adblock would do the same, without the need for regulation. No need for clickbait title when visitors are only a cost.

aiCeivi9on 94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallet

Can anybody explain to me why would anybody try to make their alt-coin ASIC-resistant? They claim it is do decrease centralization but like parent says it just makes 51% attack possible with cloud computing and 0 investment in hardware or logistics.

aiCeivi9on The End of Moore’s Law and Faster General Purpose Computing, and a Road Forward [pdf]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count

The transistor can only get so small before it stops working. There are many issues with required extreme ultraviolet light sources (lasers) and allowed amount of impurities in silicon waffer. And R&D cost for each iteration of lithography is getting higher while bringing less benefits.

aiCeivi9on Ways to Tweak Slow SQL Queries

Yes in general but I was hit with case when Postgres started to switch to FTS depending on argument count inside `IN ()` while in reality using index was faster for each and every case. I had to split it in multiple queries with 100 args each, even if few month earlier it didn't have any issue with thousands.

aiCeivi9on Banned C standard library functions in Git source code

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#evaluating-co...

> 70% of respondents say they are above average

aiCeivi9on Using ‘switch’ to match arbitrary logic instead of string or number literals

So if both conditions are true is switch using earlier option? Or is the order undefined? I prefer to `switch` over mutually exclusive options.

aiCeivi9on Spying on HTTPS

Are we also going to change the middleman to middlemonster?

aiCeivi9on Sick of cookie banners and popups? They’re all changing, again

They are in effect and everyone breaks them. I guess we need to wait for first "cookie" fine for any panic/changes to happen.

aiCeivi9on AMD Zen 2 Microarchitecture Analysis: Ryzen 3000 and EPYC Rome

> Is it too good to be true?

It might just not last long enough. Athlon64/X2 also totally destroyed Intel but Core architecture arrived before AMD was able to grab more market share.

aiCeivi9on Calibra – Digital Wallet for Libra

> something flipped in small business owners minds

EU intercharge cap (The Regulation on Interchange Fees for Card-based payment transactions) entered into force in June 2015 [0] - it was probably that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_fee#European_Union