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keanb··on The UK is still trying to backdoor encryption for Apple users
If voting could remove them it wouldn't be allowed.
keanb··on Employees must wash hands before returning to work
I didn't know "illegal showerheads" existed. I thought the Seinfeld episode was a joke.
keanb··on Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits
Hard disagree.
keanb··on Germany must stand firmly against client-side scanning in Chat Control [pdf]
You make those networks illegal to use. Just using them would be illegal, regardless of the contents of your communications.
keanb··on I spent the day teaching seniors how to use an iPhone
An Android smartphone would have the same usability problems for geezers.
keanb··on Fp8 runs ~100 tflops faster when the kernel name has "cutlass" in it
I don’t think anybody remembers this since that code never shipped in retail.
keanb··on Meta's Teen Accounts Are Sugar Pills for Parents, Not Safety for Kids
This is a bit one-sided innit. It doesn’t include the explanation given by Meta, just their rejection of the claims.
keanb··on Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine
Of course.
keanb··on Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine
When you receive a request to your website (or any service), that request comes from an IP address. There are databases that can tell you what country an IP address is from. It's not perfect, but it works well enough 99.99% of the time. Then, if the country is blacklisted, you do not allow access.
keanb··on How I block all 26M of your curl requests
Those bots would be really naive not to use curl-impersonate. I basically use it for any request I make even if I don’t expect to be blocked because why wouldn’t I.
keanb··on Big Tech Told Kids to Code. The Jobs Didn’t Follow [audio]
So since “big tech” told kids to code now they have to hire them and keep them in an office twiddling their thumbs?
keanb··on Larry Ellison – 'citizens will be on their best behavior' amid nonstop recording
What others have been doing thus far has not been helping either. The problem just gets worse every passing day. How many have to be killed using American money until this problem is eradicated?
keanb··on Why we develop EloqDB mainly in C++
I suppose because it will start writing in memory that is handled by other parts of the code and corrupting it.
keanb··on Dismissed as a joke, UK's first rice crop ripe for picking after hot summer
Maybe they should stop the massive increase in population if it cannot be sustained by the resources in the island.
keanb··on Ed Zitron is mad as hell
A lot of pessimistic and angry predictions about IA that never materialise. That's his shtick.
keanb··on Why is Windows still tinkering with critical sections? – The Old New Thing
You can add as much multi threading as you want, but if you need to wait until all threads are done, the entire window will stall to show you that context menu you requested.
keanb··on The Amazon Kindle War Against Piracy
Where in the message did he claim that pirating the books compensated the writers?
keanb··on Eric S. Raymond to the OSS community on codes of conduct: Refuse to have one
Utterly unpresentable because some don’t like his politics? That’s bizarre.
keanb··on 'Independent' auditors overvalue credits of carbon projects, study finds
Carbon credits are nothing but a scam. Their prices are completely made-up since we don’t have the technology to remove carbon and therefore don’t have the faintest idea what the actual cost should be. It’s nothing but a way of hamstringing our industry to make us poorer.
keanb··on Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers
What do you think is happening to those markets?
keanb··on The story of DOGE, as told by federal workers
That’s a good question for the DNC!
keanb··on The story of DOGE, as told by federal workers
Maybe make the other side less horrible so people vote for them?
keanb··on Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its tech in mass surveillance of Palestinians
And?
keanb··on Ruby Central Is Not Behaving in Good Faith, and I've Got Receipts
The ideology of the author needs starving children to survive. Once children stop starving, the author’s ideology is no longer useful and dies.