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akerro··on German Made State Malware Company FinFisher Raided
Or maybe regulations for development and trade of computer viruses are lower in Romania and there's less paperwork to make one without risk of another government wanting to claim the works, like it would happen in other cheaper countries, China or India.
akerro··on Google is killing unlimited Drive storage for non-enterprise users
>If you have unlimited storage, the data hoarders will find out about it and abuse it.

There was a post about it from BackBaze. They know some people abuse it and put several Tbs on there, but they still make money on average as most people have 100s of Mb

akerro··on CSV Reader Benchmarks: Julia Reads CSVs 10-20x Faster than Python and R
Rust is already killing old web app building technologies!
akerro··on Google sues me for using the word “droid” in my company name Orpheusdroid
and sexbook or fuckbook
akerro··on Google sues me for using the word “droid” in my company name Orpheusdroid
Facebook sued and won companies that had "book" in their name.
akerro··on Nvidia Uses AI to Slash Bandwidth on Video Calls
Is AI cheaper than bandwidth?
akerro··on Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google
Using a client is different than reimplementing compatible classes.
akerro··on Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google
>Justice Clarence Thomas compared Google's copying of the Java APIs to a football team taking a rival's playbook.

Maybe it should be compared to English dictionary, where American English cannot use words from pre-existing British English.

akerro··on Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
I would change shipping to "Availability" which is a list of country tags. Great idea, bookmarking it
akerro··on Nakabonne/ali: Generate HTTP load and plot the results in real-time
You can use it with influxdb and grafana which gives you 5seconds delay - almost real time I say.
akerro··on Nakabonne/ali: Generate HTTP load and plot the results in real-time
Similar tool I recommend https://k6.io/docs/
akerro··on Face retouching settings should be off by default
I don't believe in Google being interested in our mental health. Can this be because "filtered" photos make our faces harder to recognise by their AI and produce higher false positive?
akerro··on Proposed EU rule may mean you can finally delete some apps from your phone
The rule says the app must be removable or the data collected by the app must be shared with smaller competitors, this will probably evolve to also share data with governments at later stage.

>As part of its new Digital Services Act, the EU is planning to force the likes of Apple, Amazon, and Google to hand over customer data to smaller rivals in an effort to loosen the grip of big tech on consumers. A draft of the legislation stated that tech companies "shall not use data collected on the platform... for [their] own commercial activities... unless they [make it] accessible to business users active in the same commercial activities."

akerro··on Samsung Ads – Demand-Side Platform
> This should just straight out be forbidden and regulation is the only way out of it.

Ok, but also on the internet, radio and in newspapers.

akerro··on Flatpak: A security nightmare – two years later
Native apps are bad, webapps are really bad, firmware is worse, CPU firmware is even worse. That's the state of the world.
akerro··on Flatpak: A security nightmare – two years later
If I understand correctly, a lot of desktop apps need to rewrite their parts of code to adopt to flatpak, and probably also snap to use the sandbox correctly. This post is therefor not criticizing flatpak but GNU Octave for not having enough dev power to implement it.
akerro··on Spamtoberfest
Xorg foundation had something like that, I think they also paid for important works before GSoC - both of which have much higher entry level:

X.Org Endless Vacation of Code

https://www.x.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas/

akerro··on Spamtoberfest
i prefer 3 spaces intentation or tabs, please accept my RP
akerro··on Spamtoberfest
Wow I saw this was bad last year, but this is terrorism https://twitter.com/shitoberfest/status/1311714154701443072/...
akerro··on Purism's AweSIM – monthly plan for Librem5 including unlimited data
So the remaining $74.75 covers not tracking you and supporting opensource hardware.
akerro··on Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked code into a working OS
Is that part of your NDA?
akerro··on Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked code into a working OS
Overall it's 46Gb, a few thousands of IPs were downloading it the day it was released.
akerro··on Gitter is joining Matrix
element already has some gitlab integrations
akerro··on Gitter is joining Matrix
Yes, shame GitLab didn't integrate Gitter natively into public projects same way issues and roadmaps are integrated.
akerro··on OBS Studio 26.0
and they get 10k bounties from time to time https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/2568

* once ;)

akerro··on Nix × IPFS – Milestone 1
> In a lot of the world, upload speeds are very limited and ISPs charge an arm and a leg if you exceed your upstream data caps.

Not all 1st world countries have data caps. I pay ~20$ for month for 37mbps (15 upload) with no data caps (it's literally the cheapest plan I could find, if there was cheaper available, I would take it).

akerro··on Nix × IPFS – Milestone 1
>2 of them are run by commercial entities. I don't think those are all that interested in reducing dependency on them.

Docker is also removing some old images and putting limits on existing images, it's too expensive for them to host.

akerro··on Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads
> Comcast's cable box.

Isn't Comcast also a paid service? You (US) get ads in tv broadcast you pay for?

I haven't seen any TV broadcast for over 10 years now, my TV has only chromecast and it only plays what I stream to it.

akerro··on Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads
Do you guys connect your TVs to internet? I know my TV has WiFi and Eth port, but I never thought about connecting it online, it's as useless as Euro Scart.
akerro··on Nix × IPFS – Milestone 1
Yes, that's correct. I only buy original Samsung or SanDisk SD cards that come with 5+ years warranty, and then I keep original packaging anyway.
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