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akerro··on GitHub banned all Iranian users. Our accounts are restricted. Please support us
Intervenes? Where? In white house?
akerro··on XSS attacks on Googlebot allow search index manipulation
Mining Monero on googlebot anyone?
akerro··on Amazon Accidentally Sold $13k Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day
This happens a lot with HDDs and SSDs. At least once per month I get a notification about disks being really cheap. Looks like sellers make mistakes and put wrong numbers to quantity/price boxes. Most often orders are cancelled.
akerro··on France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall
International flights are much cheaper in the UK than local trains. I paid the same price for a flight from Cardiff to Malta as for train from Cardiff to Bristol (40 miles).

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/578284/train-ai...

akerro··on France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall
>that planes will fly in with enough fuel to fly out again

Planes with fuel are too heavy to land, planes have just enough fuel to get to destination. Landing with 40% fuel capacity would break wheels and damage planes, increase stopping distance.

akerro··on Craig Wright faces tough questions over forged documents in court
We're going to see such things at some point, there are a few "bitcoin address collider", some of them are even distributed.
akerro··on Microsoft's eBook Apocalypse Shows the Dark Side of DRM
It's more a trust issue in a technology. Pirated ebooks don't have DRM and never expire, can be opened on any device and you keep the money anyway.
akerro··on Calgary student has been studying decibel levels in hand dryers since age nine
That's not the only reason why children hear more and louder. When you're in your '30s you already have a minor hearing loss, you don't hear all sounds and noises then you did when you were 5. Children see more colours as well.
akerro··on Glass discs that can store 360TB and remain intact for billions of years (2016)
It might hold data for billions of years, but no one has CDRoms at home these days because interface and use-cases were deprecated years ago.
akerro··on Mastery with SQL: Learn Modern SQL with Postgres
> varchar(45)

That's crashing with my full name

akerro··on Raspberry Pi 4
https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=200003201&initiat...
akerro··on Raspberry Pi 4
Have rpi fixed the interference of usb3.0 with WiFi? It's going to be really problematic for raspi

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/io/uni...

akerro··on Wikipedia pageviews this year for each line of ‘We Didn't Start the Fire’
Sadly too many `vs` breaks the flow and rhythm
akerro··on Facebook moderators break NDAs to expose working conditions
Ah right, last news I remember from a few years ago was that facebook had a child-company in Thailand that was hiring 1000s of moderators locally.
akerro··on Facebook moderators break NDAs to expose working conditions
Machine learning for recognizing duplicates is only for "protection of IP rights", not for protection of low wage workers. Apparently somebody at facebook decided that ML is more expensive than low wage human worker rejecting the same material over and over. Layers are more expensive and bring more bad media coverage than someones suicide in 3rd world country.
akerro··on Facebook moderators break NDAs to expose working conditions
They most likely can't change wallpaper on their windows XP...
akerro··on Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra
>who is holding cryptocurrency for 10 years[

zuckcoin isn't cryptocurrency, it's digital currency, like gold in WoW

akerro··on Mozilla patches Firefox zero-day abused in the wild
> You are not authorized to access bug 1544386. To see this bug, you must first log in to an account with the appropriate permissions.
akerro··on Berlin approves 5-year rent freeze
And unnatural homelessness surge will just happen over night in 5 years.
akerro··on Facebook plans cryptocurrency debut
They're doing it to skirt GDPR laws. When GDPR passed, all users were automatically opted out of personal data sharing, targeted marketing, etc. With ZuckCoin, they're going to pay users a small amount of coins to use the site, but in order for users to be eligible for that they'll be required to opt into all of the personal data sharing stuff. And since it will be considered a monetary transaction, Facebook will be required to keep the data from every transaction for 10 years for tax purposes. People won't even be able to ask that Facebook delete their data because they'll be required to store it for 10 years.

edit: If you want to listen to the explanation in more detail, Meanhash explained it on a recent episode of the Hashr8 podcast: https://h4shr8.libsyn.com/meanhash

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/bx9dik/face...

akerro··on “Apps intended for kids may not include third-party advertising or analytics”
This is massive, Apple banned what Google does with Chromebooks for kids/schools.
akerro··on China Prepares to Drop Microsoft Windows, Blames U.S. Hacking Threat
Russia is doing the same!
akerro··on Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default
Tell that to the banking and medical sector, in the UK NHS would still be using IE6 and WinXP if not they were hacked a year ago with that ransomware from NSA.
akerro··on Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default
> It is funny how my browser preferences has changed over last 5 years.

Sure, we're still testing, if stuff works on IE10...

akerro··on Ask HN: I need ideas to impress fifth graders with technology
https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY/comments/bvyc3p/i_made_a_video_...
akerro··on Net worth of Americans aged 18 to 35 has dropped 34 percent since 1996: study
That's not correct! If at any point in your life you make more than £25k they will add this tax on you, and your interested on the student loan is still growing, even when you're under £25k.
akerro··on A home microhydro plant (2009)
You're assuming Google won't deprecate HTML in favour of dynamic JS in the next few years.
akerro··on Alexa shows private Wyze Cam feed to stranger [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7Krn-DH3tw
akerro··on Net worth of Americans aged 18 to 35 has dropped 34 percent since 1996: study
Can't compare UK here, education is free in Scotland, £9k/annually in Wales (Welsh government can provide 67% grant every year, so it goes down to £3.3k), in England it's the most expensive, over £9k/ann and Student Loan Company has highest interest rates there.
akerro··on Block Fingerprinting with Firefox
Modern captchas are designed to be anti-human and use as for free training of their AI algorithms. We're slaves for free while Google benefits from this, both technologically and financially.

Next captcha from google will be even more aggressive, you're not logged to Google = you're a bot, you can't access that content.

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