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akerro··on Facebook Discovers Fake AI-Generated Profiles
Seriously is it what nytimes is now?

https://gfycat.com/maturefarflunghagfish

akerro··on Undocumented Catalina file access change
Ok, so this isn't about Tomcat...
akerro··on Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud
>pledge 10 years of support or something.

Totally gonna believe them

akerro··on Show HN: My in-network Node app for controlling my kids' nightlights
And Node-RED for more advanced automations https://nodered.org/
akerro··on Ubuntu 19.10: It’s fast
It's a Dell latitude laptop, screen is at 60Hz
akerro··on Ubuntu 19.10: It’s fast
I noticed absolutely no difference after upgrading from 19.04. Do I need to do anything?
akerro··on Today’s Top Tech Skills
>it's not easy. it's not fast to run. it's not fast to write. it's not fast to read. it's not memory efficient. it's not fun

Was 2010 last time you used Java? All these things were addresses in lat 5 releases. I like Java for:

* stability

* fast to run code

* fast to write code

* mature libraries

* good access to many good programmers (bad programmers write bad code which runs slow, is run slow and is read slow)

Try Java13 with modern GC (ZGC or Shenandoah) or GraalVM. It's really fun, fast, modern. 4 years ago I was into Kotlin and Go, this year I'm back on Java.

akerro··on Today’s Top Tech Skills
>Node.js was a contender but lost steam. May be .net once it becomes truly platform neutral have a chance to take on Java.

C# and CLR lost it a few years ago, GraalVM is taking this space really rapidly now.

I'm in opposition to most comments here hating Java for whatever reason, hoping JS or C# to destabilize this system. I absolutely love Java and its ecosystem. Super mature libraries, library for everything, great tools, literally for everything. A lot of tutorials, massive investment from several corporations contributing to OpenJDK. Java is super hot right now.

akerro··on Today’s Top Tech Skills
Because there are programming languages people hate and programming languages people don't use.
akerro··on PIA: Our Merger with Kape Technologies – Addressing Your Concerns
dedicated server
akerro··on PIA: Our Merger with Kape Technologies – Addressing Your Concerns
I pay ~$3.5 for my dedicated server and already consider it expensive...
akerro··on When will Google shut down Stadia?
https://protonmail.com/blog/search-risk-google/
akerro··on When will Google shut down Stadia?
They remove you from search results and you go bankrupt.
akerro··on Valve announces Half-Life: Alyx with first and only tweet for account
Let's hope it's not a card game
akerro··on Podman and Buildah for Docker Users
Yes, let's go on:

>Podman provides a Docker-compatible command

- not when you're using docker-compose and have custom scripts for docker-compose

- lack of support from Linux distributions - only Fedora switched to Podman a few weeks ago and a few people at work where abandoned with their problems so they switched to Ubuntu and Arch

- still don't know how to self-host podman/quay repository locally - only paid services available - even for homelab - https://quay.io/plans/

- k8s/k3s integration - broken (for me?), never managed to make it work locally in homelab

I see absolutely no reason to ever switch to podman and quay as it's in current state.

akerro··on Ohio bill would allow students to be scientifically wrong due to religion
>I doubt they read the law in question.

No, but they answered it according to their beliefs.

akerro··on Ohio bill would allow students to be scientifically wrong due to religion
Call it "Church of Churches as a Service" and you don't have pay taxes too!
akerro··on OpenWRT will natively support NextDNS in upcoming 19.07.0 release
My OpenWRT uses in-memory blacklist in dnsmasq on Omnia Turris that's faster than rpi.

I would imagine the performance of settings it on pihole would be unnoticeable, as it also stores blacklist in memory. The only latency difference would be in network request likely.

akerro··on Open Letter to the Linux Foundation
Is Linus going to be banned from LF conferences for the ugly words he said about people?
akerro··on Thousands of Facebook internal documents and emails published online
ipfs QmQ985xMEH5XYetw8nKYrr3MJV8ut6Fp8F8nQpEjhBpXsW
akerro··on Lack of cdnjs activity
hah, good point ;)
akerro··on NoSnoop – Find out if your HTTPS traffic is being monitored
My other comment:

There is also OONI for mobile from TorProject that does the same, app and data are opensource. Available in FDroid

https://ooni.torproject.org/

akerro··on NoSnoop – Find out if your HTTPS traffic is being monitored
There is also OONI for mobile from TorProject that does the same, app and data are opensource. Available in FDroid

https://ooni.torproject.org/

akerro··on Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B
>So much for "Don't be Evil"....RIP

https://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/10/02/as-google-becomes-al...

akerro··on Lack of cdnjs activity
>Microsoft (has or any other company) supports it by having their engineers contribute to it.

If project goes down and maintainers leave the project, Microsoft also loses money spent on their engineers contributing there. They will have to fork the project, put more people on it, waste a lot of time by re-learning code and start contributing. Money and time would be better spent by just donating to current main maintainers.

akerro··on NSO hacked WhatsApp to spy on top government officials at U.S. allies
>y banned use of WhatsApp and encouraged everyone to switch to the open-source Signal (another encrypted messaging app)

Oversimplification: WhatsApp is based on Signal, but repurposed for Facebook.

akerro··on Police Owe Nothing to Man Whose Home They Blew Up, Appeals Court Says
There more extreme cases:

>Who Pays When The DEA Destroys Your Vehicle And Kills Your Employee During A Botched Sting? Hint: Not The DEA

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150428/16401530826/who-p...

akerro··on Gitlab cancels plan on tracking user behavior on GitLab.com
I'm happy to enable telemetry on my self-hosted Gitlab if that makes gitlab better, maybe make it opt-in instead opt-out?
akerro··on The world is sitting on a $400T financial time bomb (2017)
>1. Get youth more productive

Youth is always more productive because they use tools and strategies worked out by the older.

>2. Make more youth

In some wealthier, western countries many people in their 20s and 30s can't afford to have a dog.

>3. Take a greater percent of youth's income

That's how you divide a nation, young will hate the old, riots will start. Check out "2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America"

>4. Have old people live on less or not retire so early

That's how politicians lose support, Brexit happened because more old people voted than young people, now opinions of old people are being listened to, young are ignored, because they have less voting power.

akerro··on The world is sitting on a $400T financial time bomb (2017)
There's a book that describes it "2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America"
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