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dagaci··on IRS files $44B claims against bankrupt FTX
Could this be some kind of turf war between regulator/govenment entities to gain control over the spoils?
dagaci··on CheerpJ 3.0: a JVM replacement in HTML5 and WASM to run Java on modern browsers
Its pretty fundamental stuff to know the difference between what is server side and what is client side. I think you will have a lot of trouble undertanding a framework without this.

Blazor WebAssemly requires you make explicity Ajax-like Calls to external web services in order to interact with a server and data. There is no server side framework in WebAssembly for maintaining state. State is entirely client side.

Blazor Server basically uses Web Sockets (with fallbacks) to communicate changes between client and server, this is far more efficient than using http request calls. State here is server side. But differs from all other frameworks in that state is trasmitted over sockets not http requests.

I'm not convinced you have actually used any kind blazor tbh

dagaci··on CheerpJ 3.0: a JVM replacement in HTML5 and WASM to run Java on modern browsers
I think you’re a little misconceived, WebAssembly runs entirely in the client and have no bindings to the server, as far as the server is concerned such apps may as well be static HTML. This is Blazor WebAssembly. It will be just as trivial to run such on Mac, Linux or Windows server or any other plain web servers.

TeaVM seems to be the same except it compiles Java to JavaScript which means has fast startup times.

Web browsers and their fundamental development foundations are best described as a set of mostly well meaning compromises, and so even modern browsers have been updated to support all the other disagreeable things you have mentioned, even having the ability to navigate the browser history within an SPA

dagaci··on Finland Becomes a Member of NATO on Tuesday 4 April
Putin has become such a disaster of a leader, but the real disaster was the inability enforced the law of only two terms as president.
dagaci··on Entwined African and Asian genetic roots of medieval people of the Swahili coast
The idea that bantu poplations are not native to south africa stems from colonial propaganda, to sanitize the land grab. Xhosa groups are known to have reached the Cape by the 11th century
dagaci··on The dark defaults of Microsoft Edge
I really wonder how and by which process Microsoft thinks its Ok to force everyone to look at its garbage bottom feeding msn news feed, do Microsoft exec's atually use Windows and put up with this?
dagaci··on Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI
Never under estimate Microsoft's ability to screw a "first mover advantage up" they have done this many times before. They really need to keep this thing focused and not try and use it to try and switch everyone to edge, push bing news, and install weird browser extensions....
dagaci··on The Life of Octavia Butler
This is a great overview of the book i read: "The Cost of Evolution | Xenogenesis Trilogy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjrXHaDYb7w
dagaci··on US Attorney Announces $3.36B Cryptocurrency Seizure in Connection with Silk Road
The question is will the USA government refund what was stolen to the victim "Silk Road"? (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/silk-road.asp) Is there a protocol for this kind of event?
dagaci··on Google loses EU appeal and is fined a record $4B
This is true, but the case for the acceptance of Android in the Market was that its was and open-platform and open-source. This is what gave it legs despite its early questionable software and hardware merits (the mantra being that you can fix it yourself!). The slow moving EU, a decade++ later is on target from this point of view. ....
dagaci··on Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?
This thread is incredibly negative, this is a suprise because our entire company relies on teams for remote working and it works pretty damned well.

Interestingly teams usage seems to be still rising post-pandemic, something competitors are not seeing (and competitors include its own Skype product), teams even managed to surpass Slack in third part plugin support. So i'm not really buying this thread as repsentative, but it more function of the extremly high usage whcih is suprising on a forum which is heavily Mac/Linux oriented.

dagaci··on The Dangers of Microsoft Pluton
I remember when Microsoft introduced driver signing, i remember articles in Slashdot and TheRegister going wild about how Microsoft was about block side-loading third party software, and only allow software which they specifically authorized to run on Windows or that they would charge large % fees to allow 3rd party software to be installed.

When those these restrictive practices were introduced with iOS and to a much lesser extent various Android distributions (not just phone, but other types of appliances), i was genuinely surprised about how quiet the same type of people are, who I thought protested out of principal.

Its the same pattern, like poltics, where people are just basically trying to sell or advocate for you to buy into or sell another product.

dagaci··on Hispaniola's great divergence
After the revolution (1791), Napoleon sent an Army of 60,000 Europeans (French and Polish) to reconquer Haiti, that Army was defeated. The shock of this loss and the shock of the subsequent defeat cannot be overstated,

France humiliated, and the United States panicked by this huge slave revolt-imposed trade blockades and sanction's on Haiti

Haiti (1825) was compelled to pay France reparations (equivalent of 32 billion in 2022) for the loss of the slaves... this was an extreme national debt.

Haiti of course had no immediate ability to pay the debt, after decades of isolation. The first payments required taking further loans from French banks and American banks causing the debt to only increase, these loans were backed by giving control over natural resources and monopolies to foreign entities.

(This is a pattern well known and understood today)

Haiti is simply the first country in the world to enter the debt-trap spiral, and of course the longest to be in a debt trap spiral. A wholesale transfer of wealth from Haiti to the USA/France.

The result of all of this is that Haiti entered the modern world with very small and weak governments, with very low infrastructure, and educational support, with most of what ever remained of an economy controlled by foreigners and foreign interests.

It is difficult to see how any nation in this situation, can turn it around.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti_indemnity_controversy#In...

dagaci··on African kings on medieval and Renaissance maps
https://www.medieval.eu/slavery-in-arpad-era-early-medieval-... - with the last slave raid by the "ottomans" taking place in the 1700s.

When discussing African nuances between, slave, peasant, peon, churl, sharecropper, whatever are discarded, and all are designated slaves. In Europe such nuances are emphasised, frankly this is probably done unconciously for egotistical reasons.

dagaci··on African kings on medieval and Renaissance maps
Less understood about west African history is the sheer volume of un-analysed ancient (mostly Islamic) manuscripts. They were deliberately hidden out of fear from the imperials, and even post-imperials until very recently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbuktu_Manuscripts

Exceptions to the above, are the Tarikh Al Sudan and Tarikh Al Fattesh, they were first translated into the French 100 years ago but only recently into English (in 1999 by Professor John Hunwick). This is how Mansa Musa was introduced into American speaking world

These chronicles are 300 & 400 years old, substatial in size with many references to Mansa Musa as well as other notables and rulers of the Medieval Mali and Songhai Empire (which is basically the Mali Empire Part 3).

These cross reference whatever independant mentioning’s are found in other medieval sources, Spanish, Egyptian, other. Perhaps confirming Mansa Musa was indeed a corporeal entity!

dagaci··on Saskatchewan, Ontario to roll out mini-nuclear reactors
Thats fine, solutions are always fine. But ensure that only the consumers of this power and pay for its construction an upkeep
dagaci··on Saskatchewan, Ontario to roll out mini-nuclear reactors
These cost estimates do not include the maintenance of the waste products of nuclear energy production.

These costs are astonishingly!

If the 10,000 year costs fell on the producers and consumers directly (this is how it should be), they would quickly have a different point of different view

dagaci··on Webcams aren't good enough
If you want a great webcam, then you can buy something like a Canon m50 mirrorless dslr or wire up your phone iphone (or samsung!) to you Pc. Eitherway you will end up spending close to $1000. Standalone webcam's just dont have the CPU or firmware to create great pictures.

The courious thing for me is why the Webcam on my Mac m1 so bad, when you know the hardware/firmware involved is so closely related to the hardware in the iphone

dagaci··on Gov.uk drops jQuery from their front end
Yes as a "greybeard" i noted first that the headline performance gain was 10% & 11% this for a team given far more time and resources to optimize for their goal than most teams or individuals dev. I raised an eyebrow at that

However devs seeking employment should always be prepared to play up to what is trending vs what is appropriate.

dagaci··on Hacking attractiveness biases in hiring? The role of beautifying photo-filters
Zooming out, you should understand than African's have darker skin generally because they literally selected for that preference and those men had more wives and more descendants for those choices, the reverse is true for Europe. These choices of course being influenced by other factors but the point is an example that it is always important to articulate the forest as well as the trees.
dagaci··on UK is spending £500k on a PR campaign demonising end-to-end encryption
*This is the same government-party which make extensive use of such technology https://www.google.com/search?q=tory+party+whatsapp+groups+e...

*You might start to think they dont practice what they preach, we know they like to party https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59577129

*If they dont actually belive in the thing they promote, hmmm i wonder who is getting these contracts https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/mar/28/high-court-...

dagaci··on Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard
I guess this is what you call Microsoft buying the dip, Activision's price fell by half since Feb 2021 until today!

https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/NASDAQ-ATVI/

dagaci··on Bitcoin mining is being banned in countries across the globe
No it PC gamers (not a machine count), i was being specific, basically as in basically Windows Gamers with fraction of other

https://www.statista.com/statistics/420621/number-of-pc-game...

dagaci··on Bitcoin mining is being banned in countries across the globe
I have assumed the miner would also turn off mines during the off peak hours to evade scrutiny
dagaci··on Bitcoin mining is being banned in countries across the globe
I don't think so... the PC gamer population is estimated to be about 1750 million, there are estimated to be around 1 million crypto miners.
dagaci··on Bitcoin mining is being banned in countries across the globe
"Banning" bitcoin is interesting since it basically bans factory mining compared to individuals mining. Because:

The high power consumption used by a heavy gamer (CPU + GPU) is easily indistinguishable and probably higher than a plain old individual miner since you would have CPU + GPU + Peripherals running.

And since there are 1000+ X more gamers than miners, the Bitcoin Inquisitors will have a hard time finding the needle in that haystack by simply examining your electricity bills.

dagaci··on Upwork asking me for a $12.5k refund as the client was using someone else’s card
Upwork seems to be a haven for scammers to get work done for free.

If someone has stolen money and made purchases (which is generally the purpose of theft), then recovery procedure should be with law enforcement. That will be the police. Of course this takes time and effort, so what you are expericing is a company trying to shortcut the process and leave you holding the bag.

dagaci··on Why Apple’s iMessage is winning: teens dread the green text bubble
Using SMS or iMesssage seems to be a very US centric thing to do. At this point i only get these kind of messages from companies.

In Europe i'm gussing people quickly migrated away built in messaging system, to basically whatsapp because its availible on all platforms

In any case it feels like a very low level thing to use the phones built-in messaging system. If someone sends me a message using imessage i would reply to them on whatsapp and ask if they are Ok ;)

dagaci··on Are cryptocurrencies to blame for high GPU prices?
I waited 6 months for delivery of my CPU, then immediately had to wait for the RAM.. HEDT woes..
dagaci··on Are cryptocurrencies to blame for high GPU prices?
PC Hardware can come from an Era with so many manufacturers and true-actual fierce competition, resulting in complete commoditisation of components. However, now in 2022, there are only 2 CPU vendors,2 GPU vendors and even with storage the number of manufacturers is small. Only TSMC can deliver 5nm and Mr Cook has all that capacity on lock (AMD and Intel will get a look only when he is done with it)

Mining like with politics is just some easy target to blame, the problem is Monopolies and duopolies.

Events have catalysed a market rife with monopolies and duopolies: these rule the supply chain, they have seen the true prices the market will accept, how can we expect prices to go back to "normal"?

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