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looopToolson Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring

I had the privileged of seeing him deliver at Keynote at IEEE GlobeCom in 2019. He was funny, an amazing presenter, and very down to earth.

looopToolson Is it time for a new Embedded Linux build system?

Whilst I find yocto perfectly fine. I also see that it has its limitations. I think there is a need to make yocto more nimble rather than designing a whole new build system.

yoebuild does seem interesting at least as a proof-of-concept.

looopToolson Apple discontinues the Mac Pro

This honestly saddens me a little. From the PowerMac's to the MacPro I always loved them when having the opportunity to work with them. Plus I loved the expandability they offered.

I don't find the external GPU houses for Mac Studio as appealing to use.

looopToolson Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149

As I understand it, it is just like in Opera. So a proxy not a VPN. I honestly find it distasteful that they may call it a VPN without it actually being one.

looopToolson The Linux Programming Interface as a university course text

We did not get as recommend or required reading in a course. But the professor did recommend it to me outside of class.

looopToolson The MacBook Neo

I cannot believe I am saying this, but I am honestly thinking about getting one. So my iPad Pro is nice and I love my Mac Studio, but my MacBook Pro is out of support and installing Fedora Linux on it will be a hassle due to the touchbar from what I can tell. So I am actually in a marked for a laptop to just write on when I am on the go... The neo fits that spec perfectly....

looopToolson MacBook Neo

Besides the the lack of a magsafe which I find essential for a kids laptop, I think it is perfect from a kid in the age 10-15... Unless they want to game of course.

looopToolson Researchers design wearable tech that can sense glucose levels more accurately

If it has sufficient accuracy then this could be cool. But I want to see it battle tested before raising my arms to high

looopToolson Australia proposes ban on social media for those under 16

I agree with others whom see the identification problem. But I also think that it is a right step on the way to help improve the current situation

looopToolson Pretty.c

I cannot wait to show this to a colleague of mine. He will kill me XD

looopToolson A proposal to switch Fedora Workstation's desktop from GNOME to KDE

Having used both, I would be really sad if they switch to KDE. Based on my experience KDE cannot be considered stable. Additionally I feel Gnome have better UI and UX compared to KDE

looopToolson SeaMonkey All-in-One Internet Application Suite

I really like the concept of SeaMonkey, but the project needs some major UI updates and way more love to be relevant today.

looopToolson SeaMonkey All-in-One Internet Application Suite

It is AOL

EDIT: woops nope it is Yahoo now XD

looopToolson Abstract Methods and NotImplementedError in Ruby

I totally agree with this point of view

looopToolson Show HN: AutoMQ - A Cost-Effective Kafka Distro That Can Autoscale in Seconds

Seems nice, but are there any publicly available documentation to be able to evaluate its readiness and what languages are there libraries for? I may be blind but I cannot find any.

looopToolson Dave Mills has died

Thank you Dave! Rest in peace

looopToolson German court prohibits LinkedIn from ignoring "Do Not Track" signals

I think this is really, really good. I hope other European countries follows suite

looopToolson Fast DataFrames for Ruby

- Because some like it better than Python/Julia/<INSERT NEXT language>. - Because they want data analytics in a ruby application - Because Ruby is awesome

looopToolson Ask HN: What piece of code/codebase blew your mind when you saw it?

Sadly I cannot share the code. But some COBOL code used for validation of financial transactions. It was crazy!