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laegooose··on A Theory of Software Architecture
Wow that's a lot of interviews and letters. Cheers
laegooose··on A Theory of Software Architecture
Very insightful. Can I read more John Carmack's letters somewhere?
laegooose··on Slow map: Mapping Britain's intercity footpaths
It is also a sure way to get some attention from potential users and contributors which is good for the project
laegooose··on Apple Ending "Fortnite Save the World" Updates for Mac
Can you please give a link about Netflix deal with Apple? Brief google search yields nothing.
laegooose··on Briar Project
Telegram clients are open source. I downloaded and built MacOS version recently - it was very straightforward.

https://telegram.org/apps#source-code

Encryption for secret chats doesn't involve server, so technically it can be analyzed.

It's a pity Telegram decided to roll their own encryption scheme. I use Telegram a lot for daily business because it's superior desktop messenger product. I would gladly participate if somebody started a crowd-funding for Telegram's security and encryption audit.

laegooose··on Signing .jars is not worth the effort
Thank you for asking serverfault question and writing about it here.

When I started to work with EC2 and SSH few years ago I encountered this problem. However I was overwhelmed with the stuff I had to do for actual business and had no energy to investigate.

Next question is, how do we protect against this attack without waiting for few minutes and making all those clicks to find the fingerprints every time we launch an instance?

laegooose··on How well do cars do in crash tests they're not optimized for?
[1] https://usafacts.org/articles/americans-causes-of-death-by-a...
laegooose··on How well do cars do in crash tests they're not optimized for?
The whole car safety topic is very confusing. Car accidents is top1-top2 death reason in US for people in 20-40 age group [1]. Probably less in Europe but still one of the leading ones. I was thinking about how I can make myself safer.

Which car brand/model is better? Which seat is better for passenger? How much riskier it is to drive during the night? In the rain? How dangerous is it to overtake on road with 1 lane in each direction? What is most dangerous: crossroad with no traffic lights? Turns? City? Highways or smaller roads?

I was not able to find any meaningful research. There are ratings by different government agencies (US, UK, Australia etc), but basically all cars have highest rating which I find hard to believe.

laegooose··on Pwned Passwords, Version 6
How can a regular user validate this? A malicious or compromised site could have same explanations and API page but would actually collect passwords.
laegooose··on Performance of modern Java on data-heavy workloads
Wow. I just replaced Java HashMap<Long,Object> with fastutils map for critical cache on a very compute-heavy project of mine, and it instantly got 25% faster. Thank you.
laegooose··on I helped reposition a database product that went on to make $1B in revenue
Totally agree. Italics are hard to read. Main text must be in regular font.
laegooose··on Your mobile data sold, without your knowledge
[2] says Bezos' iPhone was hacked via WhatsApp with the NSO Group-developed exploit. It is not possible to run iOS VM in the cloud, and even for Android it does not sound practical at all.
laegooose··on Your mobile data sold, without your knowledge
Do you have a source for claims that (a) google parses emails for purchase histories and (b) sells it?

https://myaccount.google.com/purchases is empty for me, and I sure do have a lot of email receipts on my gmail. It also says "Purchases made using Search, Maps, and the Assistant are organized to help you get things done, like tracking a package or reordering food".

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/17/google-gmail-tracks-purchase... "Google says it doesn’t use this information to sell you ads."

Google used emails for ad targeting which was mentioned in Microsoft "Scroogled" ad campaign in the US. But Google says it stopped doing so years ago.

Do I miss something?

laegooose··on How to Detect Business Fraud
Doesn't work.

"Something went wrong We're sorry. This page failed to Outline."

laegooose··on A Message to Our Users
They admitted problems and deployed fixes. All while massively scaling during pandemic.

I'm honestly curious, what could CEO say differently?

laegooose··on WeWork sells Meetup
$50k/year per 150 people is 1$/day per person. How is that expensive?
laegooose··on Singapore to Open Source Bluetooth Contact Tracing
Can you please explain or give a link, how can I use Find My Phone for anything coronavirus-related?
laegooose··on Unity Learn platform free for three months
I went through a bunch of Unity courses. Wrote about the best one here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22688437

In fact, it was my best experience among online courses on any subject.

laegooose··on Unity Learn platform free for three months
[1] is the single best online course I had. It took ~30 hours to complete, and we all know how easy it is to drop a course after couple sessions.

It teaches from very basics, at the same time the projects are diverse and fun because 3D-assets and effects are provided.

Chunk size is perfect, few minutes video and then it's few minutes of work in the editor. Videos have short text summary so there's no need to rewind the video if I missed something.

Often it solves a problem in a naive but incorrect way, and then fixes it. So when I encounter a problem in real project, I often have experience dealing with it.

It has debugging projects, where you have a complete project which is broken in multiple ways. So smart. In my regular programming work I spend most time debugging, not creating from scratch.

The narrator (Carl D.) is charismatic, videos are very professional.

I wish there were more courses with same structure and quality. Can't recommend it enough.

[1] https://learn.unity.com/course/create-with-code

laegooose··on Effect of economic crisis on America’s small businesses [slides]
This looks correct. Here's the data https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6912e2.htm?s_cid=mm... Scroll down for TABLE. Hospitalization, intensive care unit (ICU) admission, and case–fatality percentages for reported COVID–19 cases, by age group —United States, February 12–March 16, 2020
laegooose··on Nvidia calling gaming PC owners to put their systems to work fighting Covid-19
are they comparing SETI@home in 2001 vs supercomputer in 2013? Looks unfair
laegooose··on EU Commission to staff: Switch to Signal messaging app
They do https://signal.org/android/apk/
laegooose··on Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group
what is CL?
laegooose··on The DOJ Is Finally Suing US Telecom Providers for Robocalls
I'm getting multiple spam calls per day in Russia
laegooose··on Not everyone has an internal monologue
Thank you, I feel more normal now
laegooose··on Life Is a Ponzi Scheme (2009)
Don't carry the world upon your shoulders. It's not up to you or me what happens with human civilization.

Do what feels right and take care of yourself.

laegooose··on NSO hacked WhatsApp to spy on top government officials at U.S. allies
I hate facebook just like everyone else, but doesn't it have more resources to spend on WhatsApp security than Signal Foundation? Yes, Signal is open-source, but how many people are actually looking for its vulnerabilities full-time?
laegooose··on WhatsApp hacked to spy on top government officials at U.S. allies
I hate facebook just like everyone else, but doesn't it have more resources to spend on WhatsApp security than Signal Foundation? Yes, Signal is open-source, but how many people are actually looking for its vulnerabilities full-time?
laegooose··on Everything Is Getting Louder
This thread is amazing.

People I know don't care much about sounds, and I feel alone with me being easily annoyed by all the sirens, honks, music, PA in airports, cars blazing by, etc.

Good to know there are more people who care about silent environment.

laegooose··on Everything Is Getting Louder
Oh man, good to know I'm not alone
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