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akerro··on Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?
Nothing more after disabling NFSW filtering, so doesnt explain anything to me?
akerro··on Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code still run?
>Or use the old version of Gradle?

Intellij / Android Studio are nagging me to update gradle

akerro··on Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code still run?
Code written in Oak still works in Java 14. You can still write `public abstract interface BlaBla{}` and it still works. If it doesn't work (due to reflection safety changes in Java9), it sill surely compile with newer compiler.

Another thing, are tools used to compile still available? I tried to compile my BCS Android+native OpenCV project and failed quickly. Gradle removed some plugin for native code integration, another plugin was no longer maintained, it had internal check for gradle version and it said "I'm designed to work with gradle >= 1.x < 3.x" and just refused to run under 6.x ... I would have to fork that plugin, make it work with newer Gradle or find replacement. I was obviously too lazy and stopped working on that project before I even started.

I'm sure if (would) put more effort into making the build process reproducible, it would work effortlessly, but I didn't care at the point. I wrote it using beta release of OpenCV that's also no longer maintained, because there are better, faster official alternatives available.

akerro··on Solar panels are starting to die, leaving behind toxic trash
That's not the only "clean" energy that's hard to keep for long with low costs:

Wind Turbine Blades Can’t Be Recycled, So They’re Piling Up in Landfills

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-05/wind-turb...

akerro··on Lightroom app update wipes users' photos and presets, Adobe says not recoverable
SNAP the Ubuntu thing?
akerro··on Volunteers spot almost 100 cold brown dwarfs near our sun
What does "cold brown" mean in this context? How can it be cold near the sun?
akerro··on Lightroom app update wipes users' photos and presets, Adobe says not recoverable
> "updates are recommended", followed by "updates are strongly recommended", and more recently, "updates are mandatory".

This is 5 years old, today we are doing:

Updates happen in background automatically without user knowing and sometimes when autoupdated software is being used at the time, it crashes when new action is performed and all not saved user data is lost.

Move fast, break things!

akerro··on Moving from YouTube to PeerTube
I meant webm as an example, anything else works as long as the file will be encoded once and then directly streamed without reencoding
akerro··on Moving from YouTube to PeerTube
Can I encode video to one format, like webm, and only serve this format without reendocing specifically for a client? Force all clients to watch only in resolutions in which the file is available on disk? It would deduct CPU/GPU time and only need to get storage and network, which isn't that expensive. I have a few dedicated kimsufi servers that are under-utilized.
akerro··on Canon's cloud platform has lost users' files and can't restore them
I have all hosts share the same .zshrc and config with yadm, so all terminals look the same and share keyboard shortcuts. My oh-my-zsh with powerlevel10k is configured in a similar way: when I'm connected by ssh to a host it shows hostname@domain or hostname@ip on RIGHT side of a screen. It's not much, but it's easily visible, sometimes even annoying, but at least I never deleted wrong docker images from dev :)
akerro··on Ask HN: Why is Reddit on mobile so obsessed with making me use their app?
Go to your profile settings and play with maxvisit, minaway and delay.
akerro··on Canon's cloud platform has lost users' files and can't restore them
It's sound similar to "junior dev had access to prod database" scenario which really isn't engineering mistake but process/administration.
akerro··on Chat server on a WiFi-enabled SD card
I sadly don't have any documentation left from this project.

Our goal was to build lowest possible energy consumption GPS tracker with "live" feedback, 2h delay was acceptable not ideal, 30min was just ideal. It was close to 30min on good weather.

I remember it used Ardunio Uno with xbee or zigbee with mesh module on radio, whichever had lower power consumption. GPS module was checking for fix every 30minutes, transmitting the location to master nodes which were sending it to our server.

Master nodes were located on hills without trees with solar-powerbanks, so even if there was no sun it would keep the nodes running for 2 months, GPS nodes were in areas without even GSM signal, and even on hills 3G was not guaranteed.

GPS nodes had replaceable rechargeable batteries, had to be changed every 3.5months. We didn't care about speed transmission.

We had budget of max. £15000 (including hardware, software and any legal fees and SIM card maintenance) for around 350 devices.

akerro··on Chat server on a WiFi-enabled SD card
We did it back in ~2011/2012, LoRa wasn't a thing back then.
akerro··on Chat server on a WiFi-enabled SD card
We actually did something like this at uni. Meshnet using low-power radio receivers with arduino uno and whatever else you want (gps?), a few power-stations that had solar powerbanks and 3G connection. Power stations were collecting data from the mestnet and sending it to a server. Weak nodes only required battery to be changed less often than every 3.5 month. I thought it was pretty cool.
akerro··on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing
I'm 100% sure NLP will do the same mistake with non-English language as face recognition did with faces of black people.

I'm taking bets.

akerro··on Netgpu and the hazards of proprietary kernel modules
it's always been great
akerro··on Epic Games releases "Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite" ad
So the next IT revolution is turning kids against one of the biggest corporation in the world? Sounds good to me.
akerro··on Thank You MDN
>Does their management understand the gravitas (that word is warranted here)

What if management wants to move away from web development and concentrate on satellite technologies like email and VPN?

akerro··on Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products
>4) Don't spend most of your money on projects that aren't your browser.

Web browsing is much more than a browser now, it's outside of browser tracking, like Facebook and Google pinging your ip address. It's hiding your email from spammers and email traders. Sharing links outside of browser and being able to read them offline. Controlling browser habits with voice.

Mozilla offers paid service that do such things. It all works towards your second goal - respecting your privacy.

akerro··on Mozilla Fires Servo Devs and Security Response Teams
do all of them use google extension store to install adblockers like Brave (also Chromium)?
akerro··on Mozilla Fires Servo Devs and Security Response Teams
or blink
akerro··on Mozilla Fires Servo Devs and Security Response Teams
Not direct source:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24120336

akerro··on NSA's Tips to Keep Your Phone from Tracking You
It's like in Rick and Morty episode where Scissorshand says "you can run but you can't hide" and the run ends with "since when we take advice from this guy"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5g7Z1qC7-k

akerro··on Y Combinator Startup Library 2.0
yes i did
akerro··on Y Combinator Startup Library 2.0
This is great for coreboot right?
akerro··on 20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tools, backdoor mentions
>merely a debugging server that could be enabled and allowed you to inspect internal state during runtime

When we talk about CPU it's bad enough. Think that your program has an input and output streams where most of the app data goes through and I can attach debugger and listen on the data.

I would not be very happy about it and would still consider it backdoor.

akerro··on Y Combinator Startup Library 2.0
I get this is YC where investors are involved (required part?), but are there any good resources on organic growth?
akerro··on Google discontinues the Pixel 4, nine months after release
Yes, I still have AMD Duron 800 which runs on Linux
akerro··on Take Gitlab to the command line with GLab, an open-source Gitlab CLI tool
Too lazy to do the setup on multiple computers
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