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bobuk··on Amazon Echo Flex: Microphone mute button appears to be real and functional
But there’s still a security flaw in this method. If somebody from Amazon will decide to record you, they just send a reboot command to Echo. After reboot mic’s state will be changed back to normal I.e. powered.
bobuk··on Tell HN: Aaron Swartz died today, 8 years ago
More than 10 years ago, I've asked Aaron about the best way to tell him "thanks for your job". He said what he has a big wishlist on Amazon, so I've chosen a couple of books and bought them to him. Since then, once a year I have an event in my calendar: "check out what's new on Aaron's wishlist". Don't know why I decide to write it today but this is a link for this wishlist, just for inspiration. I think it will help you to understand more about Aaron and his personality

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2A6HM9B19FOPW/

bobuk··on Zero to Emacs and Org-roam: a step-by-step guide on Windows 10
org-roam is a solution for effortless non-hierarchical note-taking with org-mode. Basically, if you already using org-mode - it's a personal wiki-like system for your files.
bobuk··on Anu: A sound, distributed version control systema
It's like a zombie now, whole body is working but no brain activity at least for last 6 months.
bobuk··on Anu: A sound, distributed version control systema
It's rewriten from scratch and authors didn't answer about compatibility so I checked it right now. No, it doesnt' work with pijul repo at least in my scenarios
bobuk··on Anu: A sound, distributed version control systema
For lazy people: Anu is Pijul (modern distributed version control system) rewriten from scratch, also with rust. It's on very early stage and now interesting mainly for academic/research.
bobuk··on .NET Orleans
I'm interested, is there any urls to read about this package?
bobuk··on VTM: A Text-Based Desktop Environment
Looks like a modern version of twin https://github.com/cosmos72/twin
bobuk··on Show HN: Gitern is a Git host for hackers
nice to hear that but honestly, "re-writing the core" for 6 months - not a good sign at all :( I use pijul intensively for my own pet project and now feel insecure about that.
bobuk··on Show HN: Gitern is a Git host for hackers
Do you follow to pijul development? Looks like it stall or paused, no new patches since 2019 :(
bobuk··on Bible API
If you’re looking for ready to use data instead of API, there’s prepared jsons for you

https://github.com/bobuk/holybooks/tree/master/EN

bobuk··on Hackers 'led warplanes to Syrian hospital' after targeting surgeon's computer
doctor have used skype and whatsapp for sending very private information about his patients. This is the most important part of the article.

So now we have all this GDPR and doctors who's openly share personal information through skype at the same time.

bobuk··on Announcement: RT and Sputnik Advertising
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/407858-rt-twitter-us-election/

this is not a confirmation but...

bobuk··on Freenom World – A fast and anonymous Public DNS resolver
http://www.freenom.world/en/faq.html#q19

> Yes. Freenom World's DNS resolvers can handle DNSSEC requests as any other resolver.

bobuk··on Yandex.Mail's successful migration from Oracle to Postgres [pdf]
Typical Ivan with good developer skills costs $30k/year in Moscow. But you are right, theoretically it is possible to hide some money if you really wants to. As far as I know there's no big non-gov companies who spend something on bribes right now. May be it's because I too believe in humankind.
bobuk··on Yandex.Mail's successful migration from Oracle to Postgres [pdf]
My point is "big non-government companies in Russia doesn't pay any bribes". But you're right, it's definitely possible do hide some amount of bribe money if you really want to.
bobuk··on Yandex.Mail's successful migration from Oracle to Postgres [pdf]
Well-known? Thanks :)
bobuk··on Yandex.Mail's successful migration from Oracle to Postgres [pdf]
Well, it's 8% if you believe in "independed measurement" :)
bobuk··on Yandex.Mail's successful migration from Oracle to Postgres [pdf]
Nope, both salaries and bonuses (even on C level) is too low in Russia to hide any amount of bribe in them. Anyway, I never heard about bribes for electricity for last 5 years in Russia.
bobuk··on Yandex.Mail's successful migration from Oracle to Postgres [pdf]
You can check it on sec.gov. Yandex spend nothing on consultancy for 2014 and 2015 years
bobuk··on Yandex.Mail's successful migration from Oracle to Postgres [pdf]
Yandex is a public company with stocks on NASDAQ. Can you ever imagine how it is hard to hide bribes inside of public company budget? :)
bobuk··on Yandex.Mail's successful migration from Oracle to Postgres [pdf]
6, if you believe in comScore data.
bobuk··on Yandex.Mail's successful migration from Oracle to Postgres [pdf]
Oh no, at least not now. Electricity and land so cheap today in Russia, what Yandex starts to build and sell their datacenter to provide "cheap AWS alternative for Russian companies".
bobuk··on Yandex.Mail's successful migration from Oracle to Postgres [pdf]
now it's split between Russia (for russian audience) and Netherland and Finland (for others). Also this https://sputniknews.com/world/20151024/1029057531/finland-he... may be interesting for you.
bobuk··on Replacing Google with microG
Looks like another aproach of OnePF: http://onepf.org
bobuk··on Twitch Installs Arch Linux
This is insanely brilliant! A kind of survival horror game where everybody armed with "esc:wq!" and "rm -rf /" :)
bobuk··on Google Found Guilty of ‘Abusing Dominant Market Position’ in Russia
https://archive.is/wGWho
bobuk··on List of April Fools' Day Announcements
This is a good list of games, which can be used in SailfishOS's console: http://www.tuxarena.com/2014/02/several-great-linux-terminal... :)
bobuk··on Google faces Russia Android probe after Yandex protest
Yandex.Transport bought an access to API for positioning, but it's not exclusive. Everyone, including you can buy this access too, it's not very expensive.
bobuk··on A Way to Share BitTorrent Syncs
Yep. All developers around Sync are waiting for API and URI.
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