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yclept··on AMD Counter-Strikes itself, pulls driver after anti-lag feature causes CS2 bans
Tangentially related: Back in the day, the AMD Cool'n'Quiet feature had a funny effect in CS:Source where your player would move much faster than normal. This resulted in bans because of the obvious advantage, which was mistaken for a speed hack.
yclept··on Alternative facts: How the media failed Julian Assange
That is part of the false narrative you and many were fed and believed. Investigations, reporting from many parties, and the vicitm's own family weigh against this drivel.
yclept··on The Coming Chip Wars
I think you are purposely narrowly referring to 1 action of many in a crisis that has had >10,000 deaths.
yclept··on The Consul outage that never happened
Consul seems to be more prone to issues than one would hope though. Imo the feature set is not worth the increased complexity and operational burden. There are simpler ways of handling service discovery and configuration without running your own consensus based cluster.
yclept··on Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B
Is there any way to pull data from the fitbit device itself offline?
yclept··on AWS Experiencing Intermittent DNS Resolution Errors
China
yclept··on Build your own Mint
I don't know why I never looked for something like this before, but thanks for the link!
yclept··on Robinhood launches 3% checking account
Would you really move your emergency funds into a less secure more likely problematic service though?
yclept··on Neopets HTML Guide
I remember during school showing my Math teacher (who was a big Ultima gamer but also played Neopets) how I set up a fake neopets shop that prompted you for login. <form action="mailto:xxxxxx"> When you submitted the login form it sent the form inputs in an email to a hotmail address :D. One of my first experiences with HTML. I had no idea there were so many shared Neopets experiences in this community.
yclept··on Visualizing Meltdown on AWS
We saw instances which normally kept a healthy stock of CPU credits quickly burn through them and severely degrade in performance thanks to Meltdown :<
yclept··on How traders 'pump and dump' cryptocurrencies
Exactly the same outcome as Runescape "merchanting" aka pump and dumping where the majority of the participants were looking to make a quick flip and end up screwed over by the organizers who bought in much earlier start selling early as well. I think much of what is happening in the crypto currency scene has played out in virtual economies a decade earlier and irl for hundreds of years prior.
yclept··on Nasdaq Plans to Introduce Bitcoin Futures
You may be interested to know the creator of the crypto currency exchange Kraken was CEO of Lewt Inc. Many of the people involved in virtual item shop businesses over the past few decades are prominent holders and founders of crypto currency businesses and schemes.
yclept··on Cybersecurity Incident Involving Consumer Information
Dilemma: spend $30 on credit freezes or put $30 into bitcoins?
yclept··on Japan Wakes to a Text Message: Missile Approaching
WW1 began over less
yclept··on The AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 and RX Vega 56 Review: Vega Burning Bright
AMD has been bouncing up and down between ~ 10-14 since ryzen hype
yclept··on MathJax CDN shutting down on April 30, 2017
cjdns is a different thing from cdnjs
yclept··on Google Cloud SQL for Postgres
Google announced yesterday a partnership with Rackspace where they will be supporting GCP. https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/08/rackspace-now-offers-manag...
yclept··on Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory
for easy firewalling and i'm sure a fun internet experience https://www.cloudflare.com/ips-v4
yclept··on Snap commits $2B over 5 years for Google Cloud infrastructure
Yes there are marketplaces for this with some providers like AWS. You are buying capacity (like a voucher) for a server not a particular server.
yclept··on DuckDuckGo Hits 14M Searches in a Single Day
Congratulations on the big growth.

I'm annoyed that I can't set DDG has the default search engine in Chrome (Android). I hold a bookmark though so 'duc' autocompletes to duckduckgo. Not too inconvenient.

yclept··on WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages
Aren't all messages undelivered, until they are?
yclept··on Tech workers pledge to never build a database of Muslims
I solemnly pledge to do nothing 8)
yclept··on Grafana 4.0 with alerting is released
Switch to Datadog and don't look back. Most valuable SAAS for my teams.
yclept··on How can I protect myself from government snoopers?
DNS or html bowser prefetching... oh my
yclept··on What Happens to American Myth When You Take the Driver Out of It?
Can't you just contact the driver... via your phone?
yclept··on Fewer foreign entrepreneurs say they need the U.S.
To give some idea of how small a 1M company is, a non-chain Mexican restaurant in the suburbs of Virginia was making 3M / year.
yclept··on North Korea claims success in fifth nuclear test
Do you not think China is helping NK develop their ballistic missiles and nuclear technology?
yclept··on Secret Cameras Record Baltimore’s Every Move from Above
All governments are oppressive to different extents.
yclept··on Google Intrusion Detection Problems
This sounds like a nightmare. One that I can't imagine happening at Rackspace Cloud...
yclept··on Why I'm not a big fan of Scrum
I feel like there's a standard blog post that can be posted in response to opinion pieces like this, and it would be titled "x is not a panacea".
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