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devrandoom··on 'Immediate red flags': questions raised over 'expert' much quoted in UK press
https://archive.is/Ksune
devrandoom··on Getting forked by Microsoft
This is a candidate for name and shame. Microsoft is made up of people and actual real people made these decisions.

Who are they?

devrandoom··on Turing-Drawings
Very impressive! There is something earie and disturbing about the animation, some primal instincts triggered.
devrandoom··on Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days
Wow I'm blind. Thanks and apologies.
devrandoom··on Frankenstein's `__init__`
That's Python's constructor, innit?
devrandoom··on Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days
Not against it, but I'm genuinely curious what the use case would be for that?
devrandoom··on Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days
I skimmed through the docs, couldn't see anything about soaking disabling it.
devrandoom··on A Map of British Dialects (2023)
Irn-Bru, the national soft drink of Scotland.

Their ads are brilliant.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1lcuZoYiuVs

devrandoom··on A Map of British Dialects (2023)
I love it, have listen: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/ZrJMVPQyxvg
devrandoom··on 15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python
> One could argue

How?

devrandoom··on There will be no "European Cloud" as you understand it
Not only do we need a European cloud, but the world needs to move quickly from the US centric idea of everything.

US is speeding into fascism and everyone needs to prepare.

devrandoom··on Show HN: HN Watercooler – listen to HN threads as an audio conversation
Oh nice cool water. It's a bit muddy looking? Is it safe to drink?
devrandoom··on Meta antitrust trial kicks off in federal court
It came with a threat that you'd lose your account of you didn't approve. That's hardly voluntary.
devrandoom··on Meta antitrust trial kicks off in federal court
Back in the day, Android allowed any app to see what other apps were installed. That's how Facebook saw the threat from Instagram so early.
devrandoom··on Don't sell space in your homelab (2023)
The article is on point but assumes that you're providing service level agreement that you can't honour.

So go ahead, sell your space and in your SLA promise absolutely nothing and bill only for what they use.

Also have an explanation ready then the feds raid your house :)

devrandoom··on Key principles on in-game virtual currencies in the EU
Then EU will fine them with fines that draw blood.
devrandoom··on Key principles on in-game virtual currencies in the EU
Price means price without discount.
devrandoom··on People Are Using Camera Filenames to Make Midjourney More Photorealistic
I wonder if it's actually leaking training data and these are real images, as per this: https://theaiunderwriter.substack.com/p/an-image-of-an-arche...
devrandoom··on Datastar: Web Framework for the Future?
> fresh perspective, embracing server-driven architecture

This is not fresh perspective. I used to be on "team everything on server" but it's a mistake on insist on that today.

devrandoom··on Pentagon to terminate $5.1B in IT contracts with Accenture, Deloitte
Waste or not, I don't think two companies should have $5.1B government contracts.

Although I think neither that or waste is the reason for termination.

devrandoom··on Hacker News Hug of Deaf
It's https://sheep.horse/
devrandoom··on The chroot Technique – a Swiss army multitool for Linux systems
We kind of did but its all put in the context of containers. Check out the unshare command.

unshare --mount

Most examples you'll find put it in the context of containers, like https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/mount-namespaces

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