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threesquared··on By 2028 there must be fast chargers every 60 km on the EU’s key motorways
I worked at a company who made charging points a few years ago and the consensus then was that the idea of charging on the road at petrol stations was outdated.

Chargers need to be where you park for an hour or more, so at the home, destination or basically where there are car parks.

threesquared··on Australian drug tests show 40% of 'official cocaine' had no cocaine
What does "70 health interventions were made" mean?
threesquared··on A dad took photos of his toddler for a doctor – Google flagged him as a criminal
You might want to check out something like https://photoprism.app/
threesquared··on You Don't Need Microservices
But honestly what do you do when your application monolith outgrows its relational database. This seems to be the main reason to split concerns into their own services. Relational DBs don't scale horizontally.
threesquared··on Postgres full-text search: A search engine in a database (2021)
Why would you use Postgres for this which doesn't horizontally scale when you could easily index documents in ES and use that for full text search?
threesquared··on DMCA Notices Took Down 19,276 GitHub Projects Last Year
Why is "sound simulation software" illegal in China?

https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/blob/master/China/20...

threesquared··on UK launches “No Place To Hide” propaganda campaign to ban E2EE
> We like the idea of zero trust and provable perfect end to end encryption. But would prefer it to be based on vendor trust, unverifiable, imperfect by design and have a man in the middle.
threesquared··on Ask HN: Why haven't we heard of data centers being affected by ransomware?
The entire point of a datacenter is tenant isolation and security. Plus the fact there are few user workstations and physical access is extremely restricted.
threesquared··on Show HN: A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using React
I love how the meta description still says "Web site created using create-react-app"
threesquared··on Charles Darwin notebooks lost and assumed stolen
If anyone else was interested there is a virtual tour of the Cambridge Library Storage Facility

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH_rmdeTCWY&feature=youtu.be

threesquared··on US indictments of piracy group members throw top-tier piracy world into chaos
A good deal of it is status, like being involved in the most prolific group etc. But also the way "The Scene" works is almost gamified. Groups battle each other to obtain pre-release material and then race each other to disseminate to the sites they affiliate with. If you are first you win the PRE and your releases is the only one accepted by the whole scene. It becomes addictive.

Secondly money is involved, less scrupulous sites run pay to leech servers where people pay for slots and some groups are donated hardware etc for access. Also there are connections to various forms of cyber crime from contacts you can make from being involved.

threesquared··on Sonos: Working with big tech sucks
> including synchronizing audio across groups of speakers, adjusting the group volume, and setting up devices on a local wireless network.

I'm sorry but patents like this shouldn't really be enforceable, its completely anti-competitive.

threesquared··on Laptop Survey from r/thinkpad and r/mac
Really would have helped to order the values in the legend
threesquared··on Polari: The Lost Language of Gay Men (2016)
Yeah but if you do the long version the status is SERVFAIL?

edit: It's a known issue: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/www-lancaster-ac-uk-not-r...

threesquared··on Polari: The Lost Language of Gay Men (2016)
For some reason Cloudflare DNS does not resolve that domain....

  *** one.one.one.one can't find www.lancaster.ac.uk: Server failed
threesquared··on Show HN: CryptSend.io – Share encrypted files with randomly generated links
I made something like this a while ago. I think the name has a better ring to it though..

https://sendsh.it/

threesquared··on Snapchat Source Code GitHub Leak Caused by Bad iOS Update
This happened to the SickRage project a while ago when a developer was not happy about the project being forked. The repositories were down for some time.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sickrage/comments/6oep02/false_dmca...

threesquared··on Show HN: Ip Man. Mac menu bar app displaying your IP
£2.99 to copy your IP address to the clipboard....