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dingo_baton Google bans Podcast Addict app over non-approved Covid-19 content

What about google podcasts which literally lists and plays the same podcasts about covid?

dingo_baton German government to bail Lufthansa out of bankruptcy with nearly $10B state aid

If an average person were laid off today and couldn't find a job for 1-2 months, would they go bankrupt? I think most people would be able to survive on their savings for a month or two. Companies should also be held to the same standard. They should have enough savings to survive this sort of disruption, just like a person would.

So yeah, if your company can't survive a month without revenue, it is a crappier than average business.

dingo_baton EBPF is turning the Linux kernel into a microkernel

> Rebooting 20,000 servers takes a very long time without risking extensive downtime.

With eBPF, hot-patching servers will take a very short time to start the extensive downtime, plus the consequent reboot of 20,000 servers.

dingo_baton Lesspass – open-source stateless password manager

> Why can't people use keepass in local environment

How do I use it on my phone then?

> or store the database in sftp

SFTP where? The "cloud"?

> Why do people try so hard to use "cloud" based clearly unsecure solutions?

Because it is the easiest and most convenient and most useful.

dingo_baton Working from home – things no one talks about

I don't like wfh because I don't like being all alone at home all day. But my preference for office hinges upon the presence of other people in office too! That's why I encourage everyone to come to office and work.

dingo_baton FCC forced by court to ask the public again for feedback on net neutrality

> the commission should make rulings that require that providers of Internet service (ISPs) shall not intentionally or unintentionally interfere with any legitimate use of the network bandwidth between the end user and the service provider communicating with that end user.

You forgot the most important part of the comment that the FCC really wants to hear from the public : why?

dingo_baton Toyota believes hydrogen fuel cells are the future

Even if hydrogen is the future, Toyota must realize that the present is battery electric. They can continue research on future tech while they rise to the market demands in the present.

dingo_baton Plundervolt: Corrupt the integrity of Intel SGX by controling the voltage

I must say security researchers have certainly risen to the challenge of naming vulnerabilities in a way that conveys information and sounds cool too.

dingo_baton Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store

Which is the same thing.

dingo_baton Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store

Apple can only stand up to the US government when it comes to privacy and security. They will refuse to unlock a terrorist's iphone when FBI requests it. They can do this because of the fundamental liberty everybody is granted in the US to everybody. The real test of character is how a company reacts to an authoritarian regime like China. That's what reveals the true nature.

And Apple has completely shit the bed in this regard. Google has handled it so much more beautifully.

dingo_baton Great products do less, but better

https://www.amazon.in/Casio-FX-991ES-Plus-Scientific-Calcula...

I used this one for my BE in electronics. Casio 991es. If you look at the button just below the ON button, that is the logx function.

dingo_baton Want 1.5TB of RAM in Your PC? It Will Cost You

In my experience windows utilizes ram much better. It will cache programs and data at times it anticipates you will use them. For example it will cache outlook at 9 am in the morning because that's the time I check my email.

At all times only a very small fraction of my ram is free.

dingo_baton Great products do less, but better

Any proper scientific calculator also has a dedicated logx button.

dingo_baton Sites with dumb password rules

If you have a Microsoft or Logitech mouse you can map a button to a macro that types your password. It works well with rdp password fields.

dingo_baton Hong Kong protestors using Bridgefy's Bluetooth-based mesh network messaging app

I doubt China is planning to airstrile individual protestor.

dingo_baton Google is ramping up its efforts to replace SMS with RCS

Probably the fact that nobody would buy it.

dingo_baton Ask HN: Why is Bluetooth audio always so bad?

I know but I don't know what to do about it :(

dingo_baton Ask HN: Why is Bluetooth audio always so bad?

I think you've used only bad devices so you've had a bad experience. Use a good pair of Bluetooth headphones like Sony WH1000 or Bose Qc35 along with a good phone like Galaxy S10. It's perfect. No cut outs, amazing quality, insane range.

dingo_baton Thoughts on Rust bloat

If you, as the programmer, would prefer not to know and remember machine specific details, you can use rust or c++ easily. Just don't think you will always get the best performance possible for your hardware. And I think that is justified and reasonable.

dingo_baton Mozilla takes action to protect users in Kazakhstan

Can't do that because that involves actual risk for Mozilla.

dingo_baton Google unlocks 33% of publisher paywalls on July 30

It's only my personal opinion, but I don't care at all about tracking. They can track me all they like. I block ads because they make my browsing slow, cause my CPU to turbo boost, interrupt my browsing, clutter the web pages excessively. I suspect a huge majority of that 26% is similar to me in this.

dingo_baton Firefox Reality

There's no standalone VR headsets running ios.

dingo_baton Understanding IPFS in Depth(5/6): What Is Libp2p?

I read the whole piece and wanted to look at the interfaces of the library but couldn't find a C implementation. I don't know where to look for the interface in rust or go. I think the most basic requirement for a networking library is a working C/C++ implementation.

dingo_baton When it comes to composition and length, passwords mostly don't matter

Netflix is needlessly hard on TV. Hotstar has an amazing system where it shows a 4 letter code. You open the website on your laptop or phone and enter the code. No typing in TV.

dingo_baton Microsoft’s Azure Kinect AI Camera

It supports Ubuntu too, you can dual boot.

dingo_baton As a system programming language, C still deserves learning today

Xcode has its own C memory sanitizers? That's very surprising to me.

dingo_baton Show HN: I wrote a book on GNU grep and ripgrep

Why are you giving it away for free? Just curious, not trying to troll.

dingo_baton When Employees Use Software That IT Hasn’t Approved

In our company people just started using free slack en mass, boycotting the horrible IT approved Skype for business. When it was discovered that thousands of employees were using slack, the CTO had to step in and tell IT to fuck off, and started paying for the full version.

dingo_baton Uber’s Operating and Marketing Chiefs Step Down in Leadership Shakeup

A big factor in high adoption for Uber was the fact that each ride was highly subsidised by investor monies.