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moneromoneyon Intel paid money to passmark.com to decrease measured AMD's CPU performance

The older results were similar to other benchmarks. Now passmark shows results that are completely different when comparing with other benchmarks...

moneromoneyon Slack account takeovers using HTTP Request Smuggling

In Germany you will be VERY lucky making 100,000 euro / year. Germany has the lowest

software dev. salary / average country salary

ratio of all countries on planet.

moneromoneyon Facebook sues Namecheap

Very proud about Namecheap!! Great company that doesn't give your infos to anyone without your permission. and the whole story is another reason to stop using anything facebook-related.

moneromoneyon Google's ambitious push into gaming is floundering

Stadia is already dead. I don't know anyone in Europe who is using it.

moneromoneyon Safari will no longer trust certs valid for more than 13 months

Apple's browser is already called "the New Internet Explorer":

https://fabiofranchino.com/blog/css-height-parent-flex-safar...

https://dev.to/nektro/safari-is-the-new-internet-explorer-1d...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/06/op-ed...

... and millions similar articles

I developed widgets for web developers and I had to change it to stop using the 'fixed' positioning anywhere, because iOS is the only browser that interpret it differently on all touch enabled devices. They have many other issues as well. I have to spend half of my time to fix their buggy browser!!!!!!!!! Not even the old internet explorer causes that many issues as safari.

They torpedoed progressive web apps and many important web standards. Why? Just because they want you to use their apple store, where they can take 30% from every transaction without doing anything.

I hope Apple will go bankrupt and stop hurting the web community as they successfully did in the past years.

moneromoneyon SoftBank’s $375M bet on pizza went bad fast

SoftBank will go bankrupt. Such bad and incompetent investments...

moneromoneyon Boeing Starliner's flight's flaws show “fundamental problem,” NASA says

"move fast and break things"

moneromoneyon ThinkPad T480 is my new main laptop which runs FreeBSD

Try the new Thinkpad X1 Extreme Gen 2:

9th Gen Intel® Core™ i9-9880H (16 Threads, 16 MB Cache)

NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1650 Max-Q 4GB

64 GB RAM

4K OLED display (better colors than Mac)

Great keyboard

Infrared Camera

Fingerprint Sensor

DOULBY Sound System

Water-Spoil-Protection

...

The first generation had some cooling issues, but it is solved now in the second generation.

moneromoneyon Chrome 80 Is 30% Slower Than Chrome 75

Instead of improving the browser, Google team wastes their time to find a way to stop uBlock Origin and other AdBlockers. However, very soon they will face competition from Microsoft, because they also switched to Chromium Engine, so they will not have any compatibility issues anymore and can improve their browser much faster than before.