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SaltySolomon··on Bangladesh saved lives by getting lead out of turmeric spice
> I've seen this as a common trend on any India-related discussion. Does anyone have any ideas as to why?

My theory is the rise of Hindunationationalism, and nationalism in general in India, which leads to the feeling of needing to defend ones country against any perceived attacks. Combine this with a huge country and rising levels of English proficency and you will get that type of comments on English speaking online boards.

SaltySolomon··on Europeans drain billions from banks, fed up with shrinking savings
Yep, and I find it so very American to leave that tid bit out of their complaint and then it getting upvoted because muh evil EU? when its really the US goverment screwing their abroad citizens in this case.
SaltySolomon··on The decentralized web and the future of Section 230
No, you don't need a single authentication provider, you can use more or less what you want/need and there is nothing for it mandatory in the protocol.

What currently is kinda centralized is an identity matching service, but even that is completly optional and will bec replaced by something more federated at some point.

SaltySolomon··on It’s time to repeal the Jones Act
Because if they 'import' things like food or an amazon package from the mainland they can only use Jones Act vessels which drives the costs up crazy.
SaltySolomon··on Why doesn't Stripe use Stripe Billing?
I mean, it also creates a circular dependency, if you have an issue with your own product and trying to fix it then you can suddenly not communicate.
SaltySolomon··on Hot Chips 34: AMD’s Instinct MI200 Architecture
I am very thankfull that the sites exists and does those architecture deep dives, ever since Ian and Andre? left anandtech it has lacked in that territory and this site is a good replacement.
SaltySolomon··on Is Grammarly a keylogger? What can you do about it?
DQ = Disqualification, a no go.
SaltySolomon··on New EU data blockage as German court would ban many cookie management providers
But there are already many laws in many countries that distinguish. For example airlines where for example to count as a EU Airline more than 50% must be owned by EU citizens.
SaltySolomon··on XMPP, a comeback story
The whole issue with XMPP is that yes, in theory you could do e2ee accross multiple servers and devices but only if all the servers support the right extensions and the clients support them properly.
SaltySolomon··on Reddit raises $410M in new funding
Thats less than 0.5% of traffic tho, most of it is from the official apps nowerdays.
SaltySolomon··on BBC Sport's Tokyo Olympics studio [video]
That is actually a real good studio however I think it has been done better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l61tE7i1frg
SaltySolomon··on Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B
Mumble has a terrible user experience, especially for non technical users. It also covers a really small subset of discord features, the Voice Chat.

Don't missundertand me, on a technical level Mumble is impressive and can do voice channels with thousands of participants, but on the clientside its just a mess.

SaltySolomon··on Facebook's GDPR consent bypass reaches Austrian Supreme Court
Just a nit pick, its not at the supreme court, its at the highest court (Oberster Gerichtshof), the court below the supreme court, the Verfassungsgerichtshof.

Its confusing, I know.

SaltySolomon··on Piracy, Overcoming Gravity, and the Digital Edition
A drop of sales is so common, and espeically a more sharper after the core customer base has bought the book.

So yes, the OP is probably a novice to the whole book selling buisness.

SaltySolomon··on Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while
The issue is really that the entire feed went buggy from all the comments, even the inbuilt too, which they are probably using called AutoModerator has delays of over 10 minutes and more instead of being instant.
SaltySolomon··on AMD Ryzen 9 5980HS Cezanne Review: Ryzen 5000 Mobile Tested
Yes the l3 chache was doubled, on mobile it was only 8 MB total (split 4+4) now it is 16 MB shared by all cores.
SaltySolomon··on Global chip shortage threatens production of laptops, smartphones and more
Mostly likely Windows because most education software is written for it and most education places get it basically for free.
SaltySolomon··on With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux
Uh, no its not fun to play a multiplayer game full of cheaters
SaltySolomon··on AMD PSB Vendor Locks EPYC CPUs for Enhanced Security at a Cost
Memory and Virtual Machines
SaltySolomon··on AMD PSB Vendor Locks EPYC CPUs for Enhanced Security at a Cost
The keys for trusted compute, memory encryption and such are saved inside the CPU, so if you change the CPU you also loose all those keys.
SaltySolomon··on Apple (Pro) Mouse (2014)
Its generally fine and just works on windows, usually on linux too.
SaltySolomon··on Intel Launches 11th Gen Core Tiger Lake
Its probably only the PHY for it and require additional (expensive) components to implement, just like with the "integrated" 2.5 Ghz.
SaltySolomon··on Intel’s 11th Gen Core Tiger Lake SoC Detailed
Its quite possible to build an AMD-Hackintosh, its quite in stlye really.
SaltySolomon··on We’ve decided to rename Riot
Announcing Annoucements is all the rage right now...
SaltySolomon··on FreeRDP 2.0 – A Remote Desktop Protocol implementation
Mostly RDP, many things (still) require a GUI, and Windows Server Core is something relativly new and has some issues because not everything is exposed to shell.
SaltySolomon··on FreeRDP 2.0 – A Remote Desktop Protocol implementation
Idk, I set up one last week and no matter the tunning I did it didn't work at all, like screen tearing and extermly low frame rates.
SaltySolomon··on Running your own secure communication service with Matrix and Jitsi
For how many users?
SaltySolomon··on Microsoft unveils full Xbox Series X specs with 1TB expansion cards
A good deal is probably for future proofing and for auxillary applications that run parrallel to games like voice and social stuff.
SaltySolomon··on Securing Memory at EPYC Scale
In transparent mode it will only protect against somebody pulling the Stick, in per page mode it will depend on the mode.
SaltySolomon··on Firefox to Discontinue Sideloaded Extensions
So, how do you now install Add-Ons on computers without internet access?
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