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sojmq··on Django 3
async doesn't decrease the amount of CPU cycles needed to do work, in any case it only increases it.
sojmq··on Django 3
In my experience most people creating CRUD websites with Django will hit a CPU bottleneck.
sojmq··on Django 3
Yes. If you can afford the CPU power, by all means go with Python. Otherwise just don't.

Instagram can afford it so it works fine for them. Reddit can't, so their site is always slow or down.

sojmq··on Millions of SMS messages exposed in database security lapse
Nice clickbait. A database from a B2C provider, not personal texts from a telco.
sojmq··on Facebook rejects ad of two men kissing to spread awareness on world-aids day
Well I definitely don't want to see something like this in my feed, so thanks.
sojmq··on Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress injects Black Friday adverts without permission
What makes you think those "entitled pseudo devs" as you call them charged the client for a premium version? You're making an assumption too many.
sojmq··on PIA VPN to be acquired by malware company founded by former Israeli spy
"Riseup provides online communication tools for people and groups working on liberatory social change." Does this sound neutral to you? Have you seen the half-red, half-black star which they use as a logo?
sojmq··on Kali Linux Adds 'Undercover' Mode to Impersonate Windows 10
I never change wallpapers... who cares. I mean, you always have a window covering it.
sojmq··on The world needs more search engines
This is an advertisement for the Cliqz search engine. Let's remember that Cliqz is the advertising company that the Mozilla Corporation sent our private history browsing to back in the day:

https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/2017/10/06/testing-cliqz-i...

sojmq··on The world needs more search engines
Yes, I'm really looking forward to an inferior, super-censored version of Google (hate speech laws, anti-piracy laws, right to be forgotten laws, etc) paid with my taxes.
sojmq··on EU antitrust regulators say they are investigating Google's data collection
Every time someone says "I think the EU is overreaching here" the response always is "the EU literally has no power at all"

Actually you might be right: it's really Germany and France pulling the strings here.

sojmq··on Filesystem devs should aim to make “badly written” app code “just work” (2009)
Problem is when you have a shitty language like Python that does almost no optimisations so you're forced to write "clever" code if you want it to run reasonably fast.
sojmq··on Gnu: Net
Seems like the actual name is GNUnet, I don't know why this title of the submission but I guess it mirrors the logo... bad choice
sojmq··on Belarus’s Soviet Economy
Pretty sure someone like Putin knows how to pull the strings without actually being the president of anything.
sojmq··on The successor of SMS has already been hacked
TFA:

>SRLabs didn't find an issue in the RCS standard itself, but rather how it is being implemented by different telecos

sojmq··on South Carolina judges often lack formal training in the law
The first step to solving a problem is recognising there is one. Who knows, perhaps we will come up with something that's better than democracy one day. It's good to explore alternatives.
sojmq··on South Carolina judges often lack formal training in the law
The fact that there are no alternatives to something doesn't make it good.
sojmq··on Schwab Leaves San Francisco for Texas
Funny to hear that when we are comparing it to San Francisco. (Not trying to start a flame, I found this to be legitimately funny.)
sojmq··on Twitter begins testing Reddit-style nested conversations
Me too, it tries to redirect me through "guce.advertising.com" because I have enabled the list "Peter Lowe’s Ad and tracking server list".

You don't actually need to click, this is a preview:

https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1199446847560880128/pho...

sojmq··on ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B
You can register a .org domain no matter what purpose you give to it. Scammers and phishers have always been able to buy .org domains.
sojmq··on Giant tortoises show surprising cognitive powers
Intelligence is a sliding scale and, until someone proves us wrong, we are the most intelligent life form on this planet.

Emotional... well that's something else.

sojmq··on Facebook adds corrective label on user's post under new Singapore fake news law
What exactly are Zuck's options in this situation?

If anything this shows he's right: look at what happens when you have no freedom of speech.

sojmq··on Singapore tells Facebook to correct post under new fake news law
>The city seems super clean, but mainly because low paid workers clean the city really often.

As opposed to, say, cleaners in the West, which are paid more than engineers,

sojmq··on Singapore tells Facebook to correct post under new fake news law
You like to live in a place with crime, there's plenty of places to choose from. People should also have the right to live in a place where they won't mug you or rape you.
sojmq··on Rooms can be as bright as the outdoors
I was thinking about that. Putting a microsun in your peripheral vision? Can't that mess with your eyes in the long run?
sojmq··on Smart TVs like Samsung, LG and Roku are tracking everything
They could create an HDMI condom so you can't have network connectivity over HDMI. Similar to USB condoms.

Also... what if they put a 5G SIM card inside the telly? Now that would suck.

sojmq··on Windows 10 features we're no longer developing
Try sharex
sojmq··on Windows 10 features we're no longer developing
lol @ My People getting removed. It was added not so long ago and it was displayed so prominently (in the taskbar of the default install) and at the same time so seemingly stupid and useless that I was wondering if its inclusion was the result of a manager sucking off the right executive or something.
sojmq··on Why I Voted to Sell .ORG
The author is not naive. He is most likely malicious.
sojmq··on Former White House climate adviser calls methane ‘irrelevant’ to climate
And he only collaborated with the gov in the early 90s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Happer#Career
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