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mindfreeze··on Google's new Pixel 6a fingerprint scanner unlocking for random fingerprints?
News Article: https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-6a-fingerprint...
mindfreeze··on Why Silicon Valley's Optimization Mindset Sets Us Up for Failure
Outline link: https://outline.com/tVCrcF
mindfreeze··on Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing business focus
Recently I came across this https://shadow.tech/

They do something promising and better (?)

mindfreeze··on .gay Generic Top Level Domain(gTLD.) is now open for public
Official Website: https://www.ohhey.gay
mindfreeze··on Using Android’s Digital Wellbeing to Timeline Android Activity
Part 2 blog: https://thebinaryhick.blog/2020/05/16/walking-the-android-ti...
mindfreeze··on Air India plane crashes on landing with almost 200 onboard
https://mobile.twitter.com/SkyNews/status/129176597630075699...
mindfreeze··on Cloudflare was down
I was having troubles with overleaf.com
mindfreeze··on Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack
All Apple Tweets are now deleted

https://twitter.com/apple and now one scam alone https://twitter.com/Apple/status/1283506278707408900

mindfreeze··on GitHub was down
Another Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23817794
mindfreeze··on GitHub was down
I am thinking when was the last time GitLab went down, I rarely or did not see downtime experience like this bad with Gitlab, I was seeing history,

https://status.gitlab.com/pages/history/

They do have some latency or slowness issues, but couldn't find like whole system down thing,

Like in one of the comments here, reminded me of 2017 incident, https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2017/02/10/postmortem-of-datab... They should have improved a lot by now, but still I am curious, why such large or frequent downtimes are happening to GitHub. Is it due to making it more open for teams with Private repos, and more perks along with quarantine and WFH things

mindfreeze··on NA
Previous Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23767781
mindfreeze··on Show HN: A simple GUI Notepad using C++ natively made in my high school in 2015
It is Kendriya Vidyalaya[1], chain of Central Government Schools in India, so they have almost one school in almost in a district of a state. or sometimes two or three in the state depending on Population Density.

So at that time Syllabus is something like this[2], it is not exactly same, almost same and I think this was overall pattern of that[2], now it is again revamped[3].

At our time it was more like 4 hours theory/week and 1.5/2 hours lab sessions(which sometimes becomes theory).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendriya_Vidyalaya

[2]: https://www.kv1bhuj.org/admin/downloads/1997118251study_mate...

[3]: http://cbseacademic.nic.in/web_material/Curriculum19/Main-Se...

mindfreeze··on Show HN: A simple GUI Notepad using C++ natively made in my high school in 2015
I agree with what you have said,

Open framework surely looks promising, so do the manifesto,

At that point, I think I was mostly self-driven with the goal of making "it works" with little to no knowledge of security aspects of things. If I am doing the same thing now I would be knowing how to do, how to "Google", and also the right place to ask, but at that time I think I wasn't aware, I do also think this or even worse is the situation of school students at least here because there is no exposure to things and the bright side of the Internet.

Also, for this to solve, one thing we can do is start FOSS and cybersecurity Clubs and build a culture among them through various ways like competitions, workshops, code-sprints, hackathons, CTFs and lot more which can be solved. Keeping that in mind, from our uni we have Started CTF competitions and bootstrapping them through workshops,

https://junior.inctf.in/

So last year(2019), we did try to have workshops and courses, classes online and offline for school students which did help them.

So the primary problem here I faced was lack of understanding of how really things work and how to explore in a better way.

mindfreeze··on Show HN: A simple GUI Notepad using C++ natively made in my high school in 2015
Yes,

It was taught in Turbo C++, Syllabus was very basic ones which has basic i/o, file stream, loops, etc.

So at that time, wanted to explore something out of box, and for the 12th Grade Project, School did restrict to only Turbo C++ at that time, so the thing which was most possible solution was to hack around with that and having a mouse pointer and a GUI was a pinnacle moment at that time when the resources was limited.

But now School's Board of Examination (CBSE) did change syllabus to Python did move to Python scraping C++.

mindfreeze··on Show HN: A simple GUI Notepad using C++ natively made in my high school in 2015
Updated, Thanks
mindfreeze··on Rav1e, an AV1 encoder written in Rust and assembly
dav1d is a decoder while rav1e is an encoder

rav1e = rav1e is an AV1 Encoder

dav1d = dav1d is an AV1 Decoder

mindfreeze··on Rav1e, an AV1 encoder written in Rust and assembly
FFmpeg master is having for a while now, if you could grab latest nightly, you can use it. https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-codecs.html#librav1e
mindfreeze··on Rav1e, an AV1 encoder written in Rust and assembly
Yes, by default it is, You can use `--threads` to hack around,

We are using Rayon for multi threading, and also tiling to boost the output

mindfreeze··on Rav1e, an AV1 encoder written in Rust and assembly
https://medium.com/vimeo-engineering-blog/behind-the-scenes-...

https://vimeo.com/blog/post/av1-new-standard-codecs/

mindfreeze··on Rav1e, an AV1 encoder written in Rust and assembly
Vimeo: Vimeo's staff pick is encoded using rav1e, FFmpeg is having it
mindfreeze··on List of open source applications for macOS
Where is VideoLAN's VLC