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akerroon CEO of Banjo admitted to being a Neo-Nazi skinhead in his youth

In the history there were plenty of Jews who were trading and killing other Jews as well as Nazi soldiers who were saving Jews.

akerroon Ask HN: What are some great posts or articles about history of computing?

https://yarchive.net/comp/index.html

akerroon Khan Academy requests for donations as their servers are at 250% normal load

This gonna cost a lot to rewrite

akerroon Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS

Linux is supported with V4L2 https://imgur.com/a/BvkPfP9

What's the problem with it?

akerroon Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions?

All animals panic even in minor danger.

akerroon Facebook tax court trial begins over Ireland offshore deal

That's what the point of punishing companies for hiding money in tax heavens is. If they got fined $10M it wouldn't be much newsworthy

akerroon Ask HN: A major USA bank is storing passwords in cleartext – what to do?

When I went to TSB (UK) open an account for my partner and she was asked to type her password on their computer she asked when she can change the password, are they any limitations, like wait 3 days before changing password. The assistant responded "why would you ever want to change your password? you can type any password you want now, just please type your password". This was so weird we didnt use the account for a few days, changed the password, waited a few days again and after that deposited money.

akerroon Iota cryptocurrency shuts down entire network after wallet hack

It doesn't matter. IOTA isn't a cryptocurrency, but a decentralized messaging platform. Coin is a funding mechanism, it's more like matrix.org on financial steroids, rather than bitcoin.

akerroon GDB Frontend with C Pointer Visualization

There is also https://github.com/cs01/gdbgui

akerroon I found a WhatsApp security flaw that allowed hackers to read the file system

How come that WhatsApp has so many security flaws recently and Signal isn't affected? This cannot be coincidence right? Signal has less people working on it, no massive corporation behind the product, more people as smart as Moxie working on it. I don't believe these flaws are just bugs... Right?

akerroon Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?

>- Listen to classical music. This one didn't come to me until my 40s but I finally realized: there's a reason that this music has been popular for 300 years. Opera is great, too. Listen to Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro". Download the KUSC app and listen to the amazing Metropolitan Opera broadcast every Saturday morning at 10 AM Pacific.

How is this a skill?

akerroon Tesla's self driving algorithm's overlay [video]

What are the blue squares? Features to estimate position and motion?

akerroon Microsoft Teams outage due to expired certificate

The same company also did Windows Vista

akerroon Microsoft Teams outage due to expired certificate

Is anyone else redirected by this url to https://guce.advertising.com/collectIdentifiers?sessionId=3_... ?

https://gfycat.com/fortunateyawningcopperhead

My router is blocking this domain on DNS level in OpenWRT, techcrunch.com is redirecting me there, so I can't visit this page.

Edit: I literally can not visit any techcrunch.com article, all of them redirect me to this doggy ads+tracking domain. It doesn't matter if I came from google, DDG, reddit or HN.

akerroon Is Catalina a Good Upgrade Yet?

Yes, Tomcat has been used on production for a few years at least.

akerroon Fortran.io – a Fortran Web Framework

https://github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheelchair

akerroon I'm building an open, crowdsourced database of ML models

http://resources.wolframcloud.com/NeuralNetRepository

akerroon Every Google result now looks like an ad

Just use µblock origin, it hides ads from search results.

akerroon Ask HN: Are compiler engineers still in demand, and what do they work on?

GraalVM

akerroon Technical Debt Is Like a Tetris Game

> If it doesn't tilt at all, you won't sell tickets to tourists.

I dont know about that... Eiffel tower is vertically straight and sells a lot of tickets.

akerroon Firefox Multi-Account Containers

Ymm this should be included in the official version. Tried making merge request?

akerroon Uber stops upfront ride pricing in response to California worker law

>Well that sucks big time. One of the main reasons I used Uber was I know what it's going to cost me, upfront, no matter what, I just click

And I can't care less about this change, when estimate was for £5-£7 but actual price was £8.80. Estimate never worked for me, only once in several trips in last 2 years actual price was in range of the estimates.

akerroon Linus: Don't Use ZFS

>Has Linus not seen the work that the OpenZFS folks are doing?

That's what he meant by Oracle licensing issues. Java API infringement case against Google

akerroon Linus: Don't Use ZFS

Google and Microsoft too!

akerroon Iran crash: Ukrainian passenger plane crashes with 170 on board

> Unverified video

Well, checkout other videos of the twitter user for more.

akerroon U.S. government limits exports of artificial intelligence software

Google, Amazon, Microsoft are in military and oil business now because of AI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3n8txX3144

akerroon Google’s Monopoly is Stifling Free Software?

Ironic.

akerroon Google’s Monopoly is Stifling Free Software?

Some rant about monopoly published on medium, while I run out of free-articles for this month...