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Of course, that's Germany, not London or the US, but at least there, the evidence currently points to a bad flu or something else for all these people from November to February.
Anecdotally, almost every startup/VC/etc. in my circle has been using Zoom for the past 2+ years (Paris and London). So there was probably a seed ready to take root not far from you. I've had the occasional Hangouts, and the rare WebEx or Teams meeting with some larger orgs, but that's it. I haven't even logged in to Skype in that time period.
Even my parents have been able to use zoom seamlessly from their phones. I think it helps that you don't even have to login or have an account if it's always someone else creating the meetings.
Zoom was not the first mover in chat/video apps, far from it. But over the past few years, it has overtaken all the other, older ones for the early adopters in the technology adoption cycle, at least in my anecdotal experience. The last few weeks have accelerated the mass adoption that could have taken much longer or never happened to an instant.
(the original links in Italian are at the bottom of the post if you prefer that)
You also know you can get all the information a company has on you, and get them to delete it if you need to. I haven't made use of it yet, but I've read of people who have.
From inside the business side, I see most companies thinking about GDPR compliance when developing new products and features. What was never the case before and you notice now is they try to minimize PII collected to avoid headaches, and they are very careful about how data is shared with 3rd parties, asking for consent before doing it, etc.
I've since realized it's a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19963640
And the source is https://github.com/PavelDoGreat/WebGL-Fluid-Simulation
Everything has been crystal clear since. I highly recommend it if you use git.
[0] https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Reset-Demystified
1. It's notorious that hard drives have a higher failure rate at the beginning of their lives than in the middle (see bathtub curve [0]). So it's not absurd to test them hard early on before writing any useful data and to do an early RMA.
2. The failure rate on drives is low enough that his methodology may be right but he still never has any failure in his life. Doesn't it make insane.
Very nice research and writeup. For those who haven't seen it a couple of years ago, Project Zero also had a series of articles about exploiting Broadcom's WiFi stack [0].
[0] https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/04/over-air-expl...
Saying this without any animosity, but you would probably be interested in reading about the history of operating systems. Desktop OSes are a (very visible) minority, and it's the opposite way in my opinion: a desktop OS is an OS + a large suite of tools + a shell.
It's literally something that operates the system so that every program written doesn't have to handle all the low level IO, that enables task management, etc.
If you look at the company, their product is providing infrastructure code, it was not a byproduct.
As far as I know, it was manual, but that was already a few years ago.
I don't remember the name of the company, but surely it can be found and there are probably multiple such providers. The service was provided to TV operators (satellite, cable or pay-TV) to include in their set-top boxes.
PS: of course, as sjcsjc mentioned in a sibling comment, it immediately gives the idea to many people to only show those parts :)
The article has an old vibe of hacking articles published in the '90s/'00s (in a good way).
> obviously, it was password protected
Not obvious at all. Last time I checked, WhatsApp or Telegram didn't password protect their database (that was a while ago admittedly). And obviously, it doesn't actually provide that much protection if the key is on the phone, as the article demonstrates.
They do have Mark Russinovich of colossal SysInternals fame as Azure CTO though.
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