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cedivad··on Julian Assange Indictment (2018)
So what's the maximum sentence for this?
cedivad··on Julian Assange arrested in London
Last time I pointed that out on an unrelated article around here all I got were downvotes. Let's say you and I have the same mislead views on what is right. And all of this makes me sad.
cedivad··on Julian Assange arrested in London
I'm conflicted about this. It seems to be proving Wikileaks timed the release to have an effect on the election, and was aware of its wider effects, but don't you think if someone else came to them with a similar release benefiting the opposite party they would have behaved the same way? I still find it difficult to fault Wikileaks for this. They just did the leaking.

From that PDF: Organization 1 added, “if you have anything hillary related we want it in the next tweo [sic] days prefable [sic] because the DNC [Democratic National Convention] is approaching and she will solidify bernie supporters behind her after.” The Conspirators responded, “ok . . . i see.” Organization 1 explained, “we think trump has only a 25% chance of winning against hillary . . . so conflict between bernie and hillary is interesting.”

cedivad··on Julian Assange arrested in London
I'm honestly out of the loop. Is there concrete irrefutable evidence Assange helped electing Trump? Seems weird, even more so with them then turning around and pushing for his arrest. And being an annoying guest? Are you talking about the new rules introduced by the embassy only to be looked at later saying "you broke them"?
cedivad··on GPS Time Rollover Failures Keep Happening, But They’re Almost Done
You guys remember a couple of days ago people were discussing this eventuality and consensus was "surely they aren't pulling timing information from GPS, unfiltered! It's an aircraft manufacturer we are talking about, they know what they are doing!" -- Well, no, they don't. It's almost like you could begin to see a pattern here.
cedivad··on Linux-based 4G phones with Google Assistant sold for $7 in Indonesia
I couldn't understand why they were subsidising the phone, I googled a bit and found this article saying the original article is a lie:

https://beebom.com/fact-check-google-wizphone-indonesia/

cedivad··on The Biggest Saudi Oil Field Is Fading Faster Than Anyone Guessed
I think you meant going to infinity.
cedivad··on What is the Boeing 737 Max Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System?
As a non pilot, AF447 crashed because the guy flying it kept pitching up during the entire duration of the stall, 30k feet. The captain finally realised what was going on just a few thousands feet off the ground and starts yelling the pilot flying to pitch down, and he has to repeat the command several times because the guy just isn't listening. Honestly it's just sad. 200 people killed because of an idiot. The same captain says "angle of attack 10 degrees" just a second before impact. The same pilot flying suggests to deploy airbreaks because he felt like the plane was going too slowly - during a stall. I mean it hurts to even think about this.
cedivad··on Similarities Between the Lion Air and Ethiopian 737 Max Crashes
This guy on reddit claims to be a software engineer at Boeing and talks about how the system was mostly worked on by people that didn't understood how it worked, as the core was fortan and they were writing their patches on top of it in other languages.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/azds6k/ethiopian_...

cedivad··on ARM processors like A12X are nearing performance parity with desktop processors
Because that's the name of the chip in the Mac that Apple developed in house. They had that IP hanging around and put it in the only place they could - the security coprocessor.
cedivad··on TI Claims Breakthrough in BAW On-Die-Oscillators
This is so funny to me. I instantly thought of the CC26xx series (FSK transceivers) from TI when I first read the title, "Surely the next version of their chips will use this amazing new tech and destroy the need for that external epson oscillator!".

Sure enough, that's the first chip quoted in the article. That explains how the newest CC2652 has been available in sampling quantities only for what, a year now?

GG, TI.

cedivad··on Apple Is Blocking Linux User-Agent on appleid.apple.com
They most likely had a reason to threat those people differently and a bug came up under that special case ;) Watch them fix it.
cedivad··on Apple Is Blocking Linux User-Agent on appleid.apple.com
That doesn't necessarily mean they are willingly blocking linux, I've seen inconspicuous user agent strings triggering 502 errors before. It's just badly written code.
cedivad··on Nginx Is Giving Away a Free O'Reilly Book on Cloud Native Devops with Kubernetes
That's the feeling I have reading every single comment around here lately.
cedivad··on Blockstream Satellite API: Pay with BTC via Lightning to Broadcast Data Globally
You are confusing leasing bandwidth on a satellite with having a bitcoin satellite.
cedivad··on Avoiding a transit of the United States
That reads like vBulletin vs XenForo to me. Funny.
cedivad··on Pizza Dough
Some affectionados on Italian forums use G3Ferrari ovens... Overclocking them.
cedivad··on Gatwick drones: Two arrested over flight disruption
Not really, whatever you are jamming you can just make sure it doesn't make it 10 km up in the air where most of the planes are (especially given the GPS patch antenna pointing up from the plane), and I don't believe they need GPS signal on takeoff/landing, they use older tech for that.
cedivad··on Gatwick Airport closed for 24 hours now as drones keep breaking perimeter
This makes it to the top 3 most interesting news of the year for me. Someone has been able to fly some kind of heavy duty drone over the runway for 24 hours now. They called in the army but not only they can't arrest him, they are unable to stop those incursions too.

He must be flying from several kilometers away and the airport is already expecting disruptions most of tomorrow, so I would argue they already tried a GPS/ISM jammer and it must have been ineffective. Is this guy using some kind of inertial navigation system?

So basically a skilled someone managed to destroy the holidays of hundreds of thousands of people.

cedivad··on Clearing Up a Few Things About Facebook’s Partners
That cannot possibly be it, the last permission is just the "offline_access" field that was available to normal developers and I remember seeing used a lot. I refuse to believe this is what fb talks about when saying users gave permission.
cedivad··on Aller Artix-7 FPGA Board with M.2 Interface
If my memory serves me this also uses an Artix-7 100T and is half the price: http://squirrelsresearch.com/acorn-cle-101/

You can thank miners for the cheap FPGAs.

cedivad··on Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial officer in Vancouver
So what you are saying is not even Thailand is that much up their asses to behave like the US does in international relationships, this idea of having jurisdiction over anyone all the time is unique to the US.
cedivad··on Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial officer in Vancouver
And HN plays its part with the downvotes.
cedivad··on Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial officer in Vancouver
Which to me doesn't sound that different from the above comment talking about Thailand wanting to extradite westerns for offending their king, breaking their law. The something doesn't matter, it's not why she is in trouble.
cedivad··on Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial officer in Vancouver
Just watch them come up with something.
cedivad··on Show HN: End-to-end LTE example with Docker and emulated radio
Yep, you need to be DJI or similar to get access to them. Very discouraging as a small fish. (I've looked into the broadcom-based project above, unfortunately it's not suitable for continuous reception/transmission, and you would still need processing power anyway).
cedivad··on Facebook lured advertisers by inflating video ad-watch times: lawsuit
I once had google adwords flooding my website with some ridiculous number like 1000 clicks in 5 minutes, zeroing my daily budget in just a few seconds. The clicks had nothing to do with my campaign keywords, which was set to gradually distribuite the adverts during the day instead of rushing to the budget limit.

Conversion was terrible, as in no one subscribed to the newsletter (the website usually had a very high newsletter conversion rate (20-30%? I forgot), but of those 1000, not even one person decided to subscribe.

The ad spend for the day (I remember now) was even higher than the daily limit.

I spent two weeks talking to the useless billing support that would admit no fault before giving up and paying for a "bug" in their system.

cedivad··on Why Italy Could Be the Epicenter of the Next Financial Crisis
Where then?
cedivad··on Why Italy Could Be the Epicenter of the Next Financial Crisis
I don't know what I'm talking about but I cannot resist the urge to tell you what I think. As a bit of a background I've been living outside of Italy for many years now, I was there last week for the first time in 8 months. I can think of several reason:

- Italy used to handle Europe's low end manufacturing, like textiles, thanks to our relatively inexpensive wages and nice location. This all disappeared in the last 15 years with production moving to Asia, you can say we got outcompeted at our own game. Here is one example of one such factories in ruin (https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Valdagno_Marzotto.jpg) I saw last week. That thing is massive.

- You heard this before, but taxation is huge. It's one of the reasons I left and it is especially depressing given the next to nothing we have to show for it. We do have a corrupted political class we can't seem to get rid of. I didn't really follow but it seems that in the process of replacing it we ended up with a worst evil, that is populism. I guess stealing a bit from everyone for your own profit is a thing, stealing from future generations for feel-better political manoeuvres is even worse.

- The huge divide from north to south. It's a long story, but if you ask the north they will tell you the south is spending all their taxes, if you ask the south they will tell you the north conquered them and stole all of their wealth 200 years ago. The region I'm from, Veneto, used to be one of the wealthiest in Europe until very recently. The big majority of our taxation ended up being redistributed in the south, again, with nothing to show for it thanks to corrupted politicians, mafia and I will add, a general disinterest in improving one's condition due to the very nice weather and the very little you have to do in life to live comfortably in the south. Which I hope doesn't sparkle any debate, it's something I believe you can observe in the whole of Europe taking a train from Sicily to Norway.

- English. We don't speak it. If we do it's just a notch above barely. With the internet and international commerce that is holding us back more than you would expect. I wish we had cartoons and movies with no dubbing on national TV.

On the positive side, one Indian friend of mine jokingly told me his parents still buy textile machines from Italian companies, which is a nice example of the kind of industries that managed to survive in Italy to this day.

cedivad··on Why Italy Could Be the Epicenter of the Next Financial Crisis
Let me guess, you are german. Trading deficit parity when? Or laws you signed don't apply to you?
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