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franciscojson Even light drinking raises risk of cancer, heart disease, and early death

I wonder what's the impact of abstinence in terms of not participating in social events that generate around alcohol consumption. Some cultures rely heavily on drinks for social bonding and such.

franciscojson The RAM shortage comes for us all

I bought a motherboard to build a DIY NAS... takes DDR5 SO-DIMM RAM and only 16gb costs more than double the motherboard (which includes an intel processor)

franciscojson As Android developer verification gets ready to go, a new reason to be worried

Wouldn't be possible to just install an alternative Android build that has this removed?

franciscojson Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says

May be good for remote roles?

franciscojson Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync

TLDR: You should NEVER sync your Authenticator 2FA codes with a Google account.

franciscojson Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses

I'm on the same boat. On one hand it seems tourism is a bad thing, on the other it recommends places that are little known to tourism... oh well

franciscojson Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks

Looks like we have a new mesh comms solution every two weeks or so.