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Moter8··on Misconfigured Jira instances exposed data of hundreds of Fortune 500 companies
You can ask for cache deletion at https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/removals?pli=1, I've just done it yesterday and today the caches are marked as deleted/refreshed.
Moter8··on GitLab – A $1B business where all employees work remotely
As an answer to your comment, I had flagged the post. Guess what, they changed the title :)
Moter8··on OSGi After 20 Years
We had to use OSGi in a student project for a distributed systems module.

It was a nightmare. We were basically forced to use Eclipse (instead of IntelliJ which everybody was accustomed to). Eclipse alone was a nightmare to use (slow, imports not founds, etc).

On the OSGi side:

There is no package manager. One team tried to set up maven but they failed. We just loaded jars.

The manifest files were a mess. Eclipse launch configurations were a mess (had to be re-imported after any change).

A small project which only required a backend was needlessly split into 5 parts. Over-engineering at its finest.

Moter8··on How I Made $200k When I Was 16 Years Old Through Coding (2018)
I've almost finished with my cooperative work/university CS degree, and I always disliked programming "games" there.

Creating the 10000th Conways Game of Life? Developing some crappy game on my own? No, thanks.

Developing something for an existing game? That would have been great! I'm all with you.

Moter8··on Buster: Captcha Solver for Humans
My take on this: The only thing this will do is make Google either remove the audio captchas or make them super difficult to solve, even for us humans.
Moter8··on Twilio Super SIM
The EU roaming rules are only valid for a certain time period.

I can't get a polish SIM card and use it for an entire year in Germany, for example.

Moter8··on Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server
On snoonet at least there is a channel option frequently used, that makes the channel send the last x messages to the recently joined user.

It exists.

Moter8··on Ford CEO says the company 'overestimated' self-driving cars
Never heard of child carrier trailers? http://images.esellerpro.com/2475/I/100/58/BIKETRAILER-NA-SU...
Moter8··on Was MongoDB Ever the Right Choice?
Seems logically invalid.

If you gave to answer "it depends" on a "was ist ever", you should have written "yes" instead, imo.

Moter8··on Majority of health apps on Android tested shared personal health data
Did this but with an app in Germany. As I "scored" 95 out of 100 points and was apparently at the top 1% of the drivers, I got a pretty good discount on my insurance.

About 500€ per year less than without this app. So yeah, for that price they can track me anytime I drive, I don't have an issue with that.

Moter8··on Elon Musk Tried to Destroy a Tesla Whistleblower
Tesla caused a hype around EV cars and is probably the primary cause as to why everybody is talking about EVs.

I doubt regular manufacturers would have begun releasing real EV cars without their pressure.

Moter8··on Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service
The files are available up until they have been downloaded (from 1 to 100 times) or until a certain timeframe has elapsed (from 5 minutes to 7 days). See the screenshot at the article.
Moter8··on Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter
> you can only call one person at a time.

what? In the times where 15 people have phone dailies/dailys?

Moter8··on Why Portland's Public Toilets Succeeded Where Others Failed (2012)
I travel quite a bit on the weekends, on the way to my girlfriend, and all toilets that I've seen are nfc-enabled (Baden-Württemberg -- Bayern). Except for Crailsheim. There are Toilets by the Bahn, but are closed at 18:00 or so.
Moter8··on Launch HN: Dyneti (YC W19) – Helping apps stop fraud and process payments faster
Also: Are Maestro cards supported? Girocards (EC cards)?

Most Germans have a girocard, way less hava got a debit/credit card.

Moter8··on Launch HN: Dyneti (YC W19) – Helping apps stop fraud and process payments faster
Hello! Have you tested out semi-transparent cards (N26, ING) or vertical cards?

https://www.tide.co/blog/a-card-designed-around-you

Bonus weirdness for tide cards: Name, credit card number, signature and cvv are all on the back, haha

Some Bank in Spain gives out vertical cards too, someone I know has one.

Moter8··on Changes to U.S. federal authorities relating to production and marketing of hemp
Citing a part of the first paper's Conclusion:

> Until data from well-designed clinical trials are available and reliable, and standardized CBD products that are produced using GMP are available, caution must be exercised in any consideration of using CBD for the treatment of epilepsy. In the meantime, based upon promising preliminary data, further clinical research should be wholeheartedly pursued.

Citing a part of the second paper's Conclusion:

> Human experimental findings support preclinical findings, and also suggest a lack of anxiogenic effects, minimal sedative effects, and an excellent safety profile. Current preclinical and human findings mostly involve acute CBD dosing in healthy subjects, so further studies are required to establish whether chronic dosing of CBD has similar effects in relevant clinical populations. Overall, this review emphasizes the potential value and need for further study of CBD in the treatment of anxiety disorders.

So the second one says it seems good for acute dosing. Both say more research has to be done. Let's hope this is being done in the near future.

Moter8··on Show HN: Fully-automatic image background removal tool
Link doesn't work, as the images get deleted after 60m
Moter8··on Instacart and Amazon-owned Whole Foods are parting ways
Man, before Prime shipping in Spain was a pain, at least anecdotally. It always took 3 business days, whatever the shop.

My mum was mad at me for paying for 1 day shipping (eg Prime Delivery - 20€ in Spain - crazy cheap) because "You know that this won't work in Spain!!"

Moter8··on What I Learned from porting my projects to FreeBSD
He got it working on pfsense, but not freenas.
Moter8··on Building your own deep learning computer is 10x cheaper than AWS
Ahh yes, corporate laptops.

At our enterprise, we have HP ultrabooks or however they are called. Windows 7, 32 Bit. You know, it has a decent i5 on it, but there is some specific bottleneck making it terrible. Every employee that sits in an office has this piece of crap.

Takes 3 minutes to start IntelliJ. Since some years ~50 developers were able to get Macbooks, luckily I am one of them, else I'd just be pissed off every single work day.

Moter8··on Apple Special Event [video]
The claim "running on renewable energy" is false.

See for example:

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/04/10/apple-caught-fibbing-...

https://www.fastcompany.com/40554151/how-apple-got-to-100-re...

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/9/17216656/apple-renewable-e...

(unordered list of sources)

Moter8··on Former Tesla Firmware Engineer Discusses the System
"Sorry, this content is not available in your region".

Welp, sadly I am not able to read your source.

Moter8··on Intel microcode license updated to permit redistribution
Well, the first two aren't even interesting at all, because the fix is not needed there and it is disabled.

The first two just show, that the fix doesn't make performance worse when disabled.

"With non-virtualized operating systems."

"For non-virtualized environments or where it can be guaranteed that all virtualized guest operating systems are trusted." --> Aka disabled.

Moter8··on Docker cannot be downloaded without logging into Docker Store
Explain why. A 2-word reply will always get you downvoted, and with good reason.
Moter8··on Are diesel’s days numbered? A view from a trip to BYD’s electric bus factory
Yep. As it is all controlled by software, this is being done today already.

Drove a Volkswagen E-Up. It had an Eco and an Eco+ Mode. Those seemed to just limit the acceleration, and for a bus this seems mandatory.

Moter8··on Refresh: concept for a new kind of web browser
Unfortunately:

>Sessions will not install on Safari 12 or later, as Apple has officially deprecated Safari Extensions.

Moter8··on Discontinuation of Mac Support for Autodesk Alias and VRED
Yeah, like not being able to emulate the MacBooks webcam. It's pretty dumb.
Moter8··on iTerm2 has a new drawing engine that uses Metal 2
How come it gets disabled when not charging/plugged in? Why not let me choose?

Especially when I would want to test it right now, sitting here on my bed. :)

Moter8··on The death of a TLD
Pretty sad that this was prohibited for gTLD.

My (sister) company has the .schwarz tld, and they use blabla@mail.schwarz. Such a waste, really.

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