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ri0t··on Nacirema
Also, this nugget: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCb49OOCGqA
ri0t··on Nacirema
In 1996 some crazy folks produced a very dark, yet extremely funny, satirical mockumentary about Austria's culture in the style of western documentaries about Africa, from the perspective of a rather serious all-african documentation movie crew:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109689/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

As a european, i found that one hillarious! They reversed all the cliché things, and express a lot of wonder about bizarrely presented austrian culture.

ri0t··on Why is the Zoom app listening on my microphone when not in a meeting?
Have you heard about Phantom Power?

Good thing! Yields superior audio quality (because it means there is a powered pre-amp right next to the microphone's recording point) and allows to physically turn off microphones.

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

ri0t··on Why is the Zoom app listening on my microphone when not in a meeting?
That is the reason i LOVE phantom powered microphones.
ri0t··on Porn Spam on Google Maps
You know what scam is spelled backwards... ;)
ri0t··on How can we, as web professionals, help to make the web more energy efficient?
Sure, #hackerfleet on freenode :)
ri0t··on How can we, as web professionals, help to make the web more energy efficient?
I cofounded the Hackerfleet[1] Community, a (rather too small, join! :) group of sailing hackers and nerds.

Since we operate our tech stacks with batteries and often only solar/wind power, we try to come up with very energy conservative solutions.

One thing we couldn't do without: ARM CPUs even for servers, because they're quite energy efficient.

If you have any questions, i'll be checking this comment thread for a few days.

[1]: https://hackerfleet.eu

ri0t··on The Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low memory pressure
Add swap (Windows does that, too) and never use more memory than you have RAM (edit: ..in one process). Storing swap on a quick storage adds to the fun and the price.

The one trick, SSDs don't like.

ri0t··on Ask HN: What is your preferred Python 3 testing framework?
tox with py.test
ri0t··on How to choose and pair typefaces
Also, it could easily be reduced to 2x3. Designers.. sigh
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