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WhereIsTheTruth··on Mysterious New Jersey drone sightings prompt call for 'state of emergency'
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WhereIsTheTruth··on RISC-V HiFive Premier P550 Development Boards with Ubuntu Now Available
Linux not even mentioned once, it is Ubuntu®©

Who is their target audience? definitely not me

WhereIsTheTruth··on Mysterious New Jersey drone sightings prompt call for 'state of emergency'
DoD testing Starlink (wich is their product, from their front company SpaceX) with their shiny new drones
WhereIsTheTruth··on Trailbase: Fast, single-file, open-source app server built using Rust and SQLite
"single file"

https://github.com/trailbaseio/trailbase/blob/main/Cargo.loc...

WhereIsTheTruth··on Tsunami Warning for Northern California
That's it? "Tsunami Warning", no context? no advice on what to do to avoid panic?
WhereIsTheTruth··on Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals
They served as bases to spread the American culture through music and cinema and later with the industry through the coal and steel community, to create a single and unified market

The US did not want to create competition, but to break monopolies and to create a unified market for its industrial complex

The remnants of that goal are visible today with Big Tech

WhereIsTheTruth··on TikTok CEO summoned to European Parliament over role in shock Romania election
X / Facebook / BS / Threads are immune :troll_face:

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...

WhereIsTheTruth··on Ancient Sumerians created the first writing system
for egypt to turn into sand, there must have been a cataclysmic event that burried much of the ancient history

"who was first" doesn't make much sense when you know we are missing most of the data

"the first of the last 5"

WhereIsTheTruth··on Rust haters, unite Fil-C aims to Make C Great Again
Downvoter, you haven't read the damn article

> Fil-C has some limitations. Presently, it only works on Linux/x86_64. Also, it's slow – about 1.5x-5x slower than legacy C. That's in part because of its implementation of a pointer encoding method for tracking bounds and types called MonoCaps, and also overhead from calling conventions and dynamic linking that differ from standard C.

This is the definition of Worse C, and nobody wants nor need that

WhereIsTheTruth··on Rust haters, unite Fil-C aims to Make C Great Again
Nobody wants nor need a worse C

If you want/need C with an optional GC, just use D, it also compile C code

WhereIsTheTruth··on Is China Really a Nation of Slackers?
China: overproducing

China: slave labor

China: slacking

What's next?

WhereIsTheTruth··on Is Chrome the New IE? (2023)
Chromium is, not Chrome

And that's not a bad thing

- open source

- portable

- crossplatform

- efficient

- always up to date

WhereIsTheTruth··on First Impressions: Lenovo T14s with Qualcomm Snapdragon ARM64 CPU
Sounds like an AD more than a review, weird
WhereIsTheTruth··on Taiwan can be key to US renewal, minister says
By deindustrializing Taiwan?
WhereIsTheTruth··on EV apocalypse: Which brands might not survive the electric revolution?
It's interesting how the media tries to rewrite history

https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/renault-nissan-c...

WhereIsTheTruth··on The PS5 Pro's biggest problem is that the PS5 is already good
It's the whole point of the PS5 'PRO', to give a little more of what's good

Why is it only a problem for Sony, but not for Apple?

FUD journalism

WhereIsTheTruth··on EU opens antitrust investigation into anticompetitive practices by Corning
At some point, the US will run out of trade partners if it sanctions all those who denounce its anticompetitive practices
WhereIsTheTruth··on Switch 2 will be backwards compatible with Switch, Nintendo confirms
there always is:

- smaller

- energy efficient

- cost saving

and they are all valid reasons, it's a handheld, the form factor will evolve until perfected

WhereIsTheTruth··on Mozilla VPN misses catching the big wave in Brazil
It's not about user data, it's about the traffic data

And you think they'll disclose everything they do? The NSA love to disclose everything they do, it's a known fact /s

When the CIA controls Facebook, it's not to spy on users, it's to spread data to rig an election and create civil unrest, like with Myanmar

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...

Or Musk with Twitter

WhereIsTheTruth··on Trump wins presidency for second time
tariffs? the world is fed up with tariffs and sanctions, they came up with the BRICS+

the US will definitely _not_ love the death of the USD, or no longer having access to rare earth materials located in China ;)

WhereIsTheTruth··on Mozilla VPN misses catching the big wave in Brazil
aka Mullvad, wich got raided by the police, if you know you know, if you don't, well, you don't
WhereIsTheTruth··on Gary Newman (GMod/Rust) pressured by Unity to spend 500k on services
Yeah, i impress myself, sometimes
WhereIsTheTruth··on Signal: Online MIDI Editor
> Please consider changing the name. A generic common word is hard to search for, and there is already well-known software named Signal.

People are free to use the name they want, whether it is the NSA or an individual, it doesn't matter

WhereIsTheTruth··on Gary Newman (GMod/Rust) pressured by Unity to spend 500k on services
Only Apple, Microsoft, Google and Valve are allowed to extort 30% of developpers' income :^)

If you are Unity, you have to do charity, and offer your products for free, and never try to sell anything else :^^)

Let's put things into perspective shall we:

Facepunch sold 16 millions copies of Rust in 2023 [1]

At $40, it's ~448 millions USD after the 30% cut from Valve (30% flat tax lol), $500k a year is not even 1%

But wait a minute, what even is Rust? Rust is an online open world PvP survival multiplayer game, so it relies on a cloud infrastructure with beafy servers to handle all the physics and proc gen, if they sold 16m copies just in 2023, they then have to handle a lot of concurrent players[2], whether it is from Unity or not it doesn't matter, so the 500k is relative, it's a successful game, the invoice will be sweet regardless of the cloud provider

Without knowing more details, the email probably goes: "We now bundle the product X, and you meet the criteria"

Remember, less than 1%, and is relative to the type of game and its success, shy of the 30% cut from Valve

I don't particularly like Unity, but people are free to use the engine of their choice, or roll their own

For steam however, it's where the users are, therefore you have no other choice but to get taxed 30%

So make sure you fight the right battle, nobody forced you to pick Unity, you had choice

[1] - https://rust.facepunch.com/news/steamawards2023/

[2] - https://steamdb.info/app/252490/charts/

WhereIsTheTruth··on Claude for Desktop
Electron slop, a literal insult to the people who worked hard on what powers all of that bloated crap
WhereIsTheTruth··on Russia Fines Google 2×10³⁶ Rubles over YouTube Bans
As foolish as stealing assets of Russians

Either way it is noise used to serve propaganda

WhereIsTheTruth··on Elon Musk Wants Big Families. He Bought a Secret Compound for His
Can you choose to not take part of this boring new world?

No? ok, back to NPC role

WhereIsTheTruth··on TI expands internal manufacturing for gallium nitride (GAN) semiconductors
> part of the weird BRICS network

This is why the other side of the world chose to team up, typical snubbing from the west

WhereIsTheTruth··on 'Americans just work harder' than Europeans, says CEO of Norway's $1.6T oil fund
Tech contributors per capita (github):

European countries rank very high (USA only 14th)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004016252...

How many employees does it take to run chess.com vs lichess.org ? who work harder? who is more efficient? That kind of business is bad for him, yet is great of value, perhaps there is a disconnect somewhere?

WhereIsTheTruth··on Ask HN: If the NSA offered free backups, would you use them?
it already exist, they have various flavors

- Google Drive

- iCloud Drive

- OneDrive

Free source control too: GitHub

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act

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