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amachefe··on Empty stadiums have shrunk football teams’ home advantage
Familiarity of the stadium also count, I mean you are going to play in an arena 19 times vs once, there will be differences.
amachefe··on Smokers quit in record numbers amid Covid fears
An irony, because smokers are said to be more immune.
amachefe··on Openstreetmap, a global map for worldwide insight
I have contributed heavily to google maps but have recently tried to do same in OSM. However, that proves to be very difficult
amachefe··on Nginx UI – Access and modify the Nginx configurations files without CLI
What is wrong with the current config via CLI?

Edit file, reload... Voilà

amachefe··on Patagonia joins growing list of companies boycotting Facebook ads
Yawn... So what happened to the #DeleteFacebook campaign.

With the number of times Facebook has been cancelled, one is still shocked their is anything to boycott.

Haven't been a fan of Zucks but he has earned my respect for being the sane head in the Chaos.

Funny, they are also using Facebook to organize to boycott... That should say something to them

amachefe··on Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after Tiananmen event
If the alternatives were that better why will a chinese activist not use them?

Zoom is simply easy to use. I have tried all... Use Teams and SFB at work

amachefe··on Zuckerberg: I just shared the following note with our employees
> He is failing every user and employee of Facebook.

I wont agree on every. In fact, many FB employees prefer to avoid getting involved in the mud fight

amachefe··on A Fast, Cheap and Scary Way to Cool the Planet
A more virulent virus than covid-19 that will force world wide lock-down for at least 6months, and mortality rate of about 30%
amachefe··on Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation Portfolio for Linux
Just thinking about it, If IBM didnt sell the PC to Lenovo, packaging Fedora/RH with the PC would have been awesome... #justathought
amachefe··on Zoom says it won’t encrypt free calls so it can work more with law enforcement
>that are E2E and free, like FaceTime (ok you need an iPhone or Mac), WhatsApp, Signal etc. So people can just use that if they don't want to pay for Zoom (again, I don't think they're making the right decision either).

https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1268199863054811136 2) None of the major players offer E2E by default (Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Cisco WebEx, BlueJeans). WebEx has an E2E option for enterprise users only, and it requires you to run the PKI and won't work with outsiders.

Any E2E shipping in Zoom will be groundbreaking.

amachefe··on Zoom says it won’t encrypt free calls so it can work more with law enforcement
If you had read all the tweet, you will come accross to this https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1268199863054811136

2) None of the major players offer E2E by default (Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Cisco WebEx, BlueJeans). WebEx has an E2E option for enterprise users only, and it requires you to run the PKI and won't work with outsiders.

Any E2E shipping in Zoom will be groundbreaking.

amachefe··on Apple Mail randomly becomes the frontmost application in macOS
Added to this, have anybody been able to get Mail app to connect via authenticated proxy?..

I can only use Outlook to work at work which is frustrating

amachefe··on Popcorn Linux
aka Linux Cluster. This was very popular concept about 15yrs ago. I have seen telecom servers run in such kind of clusters
amachefe··on Popcorn Linux
Linux Clustering OS
amachefe··on What Would a WeChat Replacement Need?
Chinese govt (firewall) and people of China
amachefe··on Former CEO of RadioShack now an ER doctor on frontlines of Covid-19 fight
I think Ed Roberts who built the first PC Altair 8800 and gave Bill Gates his first job also did same
amachefe··on Zoom rolled their own encryption scheme, transmit keys through servers in China
This sounds like Zoom hate, which I am seeing a lot nowadays. The irony is that it is coming from tech while the av Joe's doesn't really care.
amachefe··on Huawei is dividing Western nations
Saying US has been proven and not Chinese is the real propaganda.

China has been caught countless times. Anyone working in network security or Telecom have their China story

It is no longer treated with fanfare because unlike US it's is almost common.

amachefe··on Khan Academy requests for donations as their servers are at 250% normal load
Are you not the one trolling?

So will the figure be less of it's he is doing the same work for a company?

amachefe··on Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers of right to organize
The can has been opened, i doubt it will stop with this. Any opinion that is not the companies position will not be tolerated. I bet the people who encouraged Google to "act" of opposing views did not think it through
amachefe··on PostgreSQL used fsync incorrectly for 20 years
> and today we have Citus.

After reading this, I have been wondering if the other requests/ideas are not startup ideas

amachefe··on The Google Cemetery – A list of dead Google products and why they died
I am still flamoxed by the decision to discontinue GTalk... The build Hangout and later Allo/Duo

Talk was lightweight, history backups and usable in every platform.

Any startups would love to have Talk

amachefe··on Time to End Factory Farming?
To end factory farming, start eating goats
amachefe··on MacOS Mojave removes subpixel anti-aliasing, making non-retina displays blurry
MBA (2012 >) is supported by Mojave
amachefe··on The Repeal of Net Neutrality Is Official
A fair reporting of the news. Really understand both sides
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