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CannoloBlahnik

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CannoloBlahnik··on Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol
Once Nginx gets support for DNS-01, does that mean we'll be able to use wildcards for SSL using Let's Encrypt?
CannoloBlahnik··on Google to buy Wiz for $32B
Nobody Beats the Wiz is great, but $32B is so much money.
CannoloBlahnik··on Apple Gets EU Warning to Open Up iPhone Operating System
I had interpreted “the EU aims to compel Apple to re-engineer its services to allow rival companies to access the iPhone’s operating system” to mean that they want other phone manufacturers to be able to install iOS on their phones. I agree that your interpretation is much more reasonable.
CannoloBlahnik··on Apple Gets EU Warning to Open Up iPhone Operating System
To be clear, I would love to be able to install macOS on any PC. As a former Mackintosh user, I'm not excited about drivers, but I'd love to see it nonetheless.

But pushing Apple to make iOS available on other phone hardware is a massive undertaking. iOS is developed for a very constrained hardware set. When you move away from that and the optimizations thereof, what's left? It's a major distraction, you'll either get a much worse experience on other hardware, or the general polish and performance of iOS takes a nose dive. I don't see why Apple would spend the money to support this the way it would need to be supported rather than leave.

CannoloBlahnik··on Apple Gets EU Warning to Open Up iPhone Operating System
This seems like such a gross overstep by the EU. What's next, they push for macOS being installable on every PC?

With regard to the idea that Apple should stop selling iOS devices in the EU: https://daringfireball.net/2024/03/eu_share_of_apples_revenu...

CannoloBlahnik··on Google to Disable Third-Party Cookies for 1% of Chrome Users
This is the same story as in the Wall Street Journal today: https://www.wsj.com/tech/google-is-finally-killing-cookies-a...
CannoloBlahnik··on Hop: Faster than unzip and tar at reading individual files
This seems like more of a tar problem than a zip problem, unless I'm missing something, given the lack of compression on Hop.
CannoloBlahnik··on Reasons to Quit Social Media
Yes, Hacker News and Reddit are both social media.
CannoloBlahnik··on Today Sci-Hub is 10 years old. I'll publish 2M new articles to celebrate
Sharing with collaborators may constitute fair use. I wouldn't put one of my own papers on my website, though, for example, for something that isn't published as open access.
CannoloBlahnik··on Adobe Lightroom v6 is Falling Apart
Same, and you can still own an actual copy of the software.
CannoloBlahnik··on Why I left my tenured academic job
Some areas focus on conference publications rather than journal publications—in optics is there no conference publication, just the presentation?
CannoloBlahnik··on Why I left my tenured academic job
Are you in academia? Papers are the standard metric of success for tenure in science. At research universities, it's most of the basis for tenure.
CannoloBlahnik··on Cracking down on research fraud
This is absolutely not the reality of a PhD. On what planet do people with those backgrounds get those positions out of their PhDs? What's the basis for this entire comment?
CannoloBlahnik··on Face Masks Considerably Reduce Covid-19 Cases in Germany
You're assuming also that peer review will fix statistics issues. Statistics will often fall through the cracks.
CannoloBlahnik··on GCC 9.3
I always viewed Clang as faster, and perceived GCC as catching up.
CannoloBlahnik··on “This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server”
I’d be using GoAccess if it meant not giving up my users to Google. Matomo is a dream.