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Don't think it has to be an oxymoron. Look at Red Hat: fully 100% open source code, but a multi-billion $ revenue.

This is really interesting. I'm tempted to attach red LEDs to a battery and put it in the fridge. But it would be quite tricky to measure whether it works. (Almost impossible to do accurately, without different fridges.)

Disagree. If you screen your test drivers, you no longer have adequate testing. Your test drivers need to be representative (as much as possible) of the general population.

What do you use to have rsync on your phone?

And did you have to root your phone to achieve any of this?

Also, is there a tool to use duckdns or similar to assign a hostname to your phone?

Doesn't DNScrypt (DNS over HTTPS) fix this issue?

I used this at some point on my Fedora laptop. I had issues on some hotel APs where it didn't allow me to see the 'login page' of the AP.

What's the way to circumvent this problem? I'm frequently on public wifi's, so I need to access AP login pages without issue.

Pretty sure that Java 9 should still fully support apps written for older versions of Java.

However, apps written specifically for Java 9 (e.g. using the new modules system) wouldn't work on older versions of Java.

Except Java 9 is already no longer supported. The next viable Java version after Java 8 is Java 11, which is an LTS version. Java 11 will come out around September this year.

So in reality, this means organizations have a couple months to migrate everything from Java 8 to Java 11. Laughable.

Java 9 was released end of September 2017... That's less than 1.5 years to migrate all your apps (possible many hundreds) from Java 8 to Java 9. Way too short.

In fact, Java 9 is already out of support (since last month). The next viable Java version after Java 8 is Java 11, which is an LTS version. Java 11 will come out around September this year. So in reality, this means organizations have a couple months to migrate everything from Java 8 to Java 11. Laughable.

Yep, same for Red Hat's support for OpenJDK (which goes up to October 2020 for OpenJDK 8: https://access.redhat.com/articles/1299013).

The release date of Java 8 doesn't matter. Nor does the fact that they're working on Java 11 (which is only because Oracle just started doing fast releases).

What matters is when Java 9 became available. I.e. how much have they had to migrate from Java 8 to its first successor: Java 9.

Java 9 is available since summer 2017. So that means companies will get only 1.5 years to migrate all of their Java 8 apps to the next available version. Which is very, very little for large organizations who may have many hundreds of apps running on Java 8.

Yep, I've used "I don't care about cookies" for a couple years now I think, it's been great. It's very rare that I see these pop-ups.

The extension "I don't care about cookies" prevents 99% of the useless "we use cookies" pop-ups.

But doesn't that mean you need to login again each time you go to a website?

Sure, by saving passwords in Firefox it isn't a huge hassle, but a cookie is still more practical...

That makes it clear, thanks!

That's interesting.

But how can an implementation be compatible with a codec, if a codec is not set in the stone -- i.e. if there are different versions of a codec?

Care to spell this out in more detail for those of us who don't know the relation between x265/h265/codec vs implementation/etc.?

Good point, hadn't thought of people listening to music at work :)

10K songs is limiting to you?! Wow, how/for what do you use Spotify?

At a (low!) estimate of 4 minutes per song, if you listen to Spotify for 3hrs/day, it would still take you 222 days to listen to all of them once.

Is this a form of data hoarding? If not, how do you use that many songs?

> The stock is near its all-time high and has returned a staggering 22% annually since 2000.

I was interested by this, so I checked.

It's indeed near it's all-time high. Though this is not surprising, it's the case for many companies that aren't dwindling currently, and that didn't have huge peaks around 2000.

But to say it's had a 22% annual return since 2000 is a bit of a misrepresentation. The overall return between 2000 and 2018, divided over the 18 years, might be 22% YoY (not sure, I didn't check -- could well be that it's not). But it's had a number of years with negative returns (e.g. 2015), certainly not 22% returns.

Edit: I checked. A yearly 22% growth from 2000 to today would put it quite a bit higher than its current stock price. So it's not a 22% YoY growth.

Why AdNauseam instead of uBlock?

I read an article many many years ago explaining why software engineering can't be compared to mechanical engineering.

I can't find it now, but one of its points of comparison was: if a nut isn't tightened enough on a bridge, you can tighten it a bit more -- turn the nut 3 or maybe 6 millimeters more. In software engineering, if you tighten the nut only 3 millimeters instead of 6, one of the bridge's endpoints now ends in a different dimension.

I think there is a valid point to it. I'm always amazed in housing construction how things are done "approximately". A wall should be vertically straight... give or take a few centimeters. That kind of approximation doesn't work in software engineering. It has a whole other type of complexity to it.

What about Keycloak (http://www.keycloak.org/)?

> It's also missing some key features

I'm curious, such as what?

The links & notes I save are private to me! It's crucial that you guarantee you'll treat that info with the privacy it deserves.

The uBlock issue is quite annoying indeed, would love to give it a try without adding exceptions to uBlock.

Also, extracting tags for links stored in Pocket would be very useful. There may be tags you can't extract. E.g. I've tagged a bunch of things as "work". Please add that functionality to your Pocket importer :)

Other than that, I look forward to trying it out! I find Pocket too limited, would love something that's more powerful.

Yes, I'm also confused about this.

Existing maps should be enough, and LIDAR, etc. ensure that self-driving cars can respond to road conditions in an ad-hoc manner, instead of relying on a predefined detailed map.

The article doesn't make a good point of why this is needed. OTOH, given the money involved in the technology & companies mentioned in the article (like Here), I presume there must be a need for this.