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ruairispain··on Robinhood and Didi to Kick Off a Hot IPO Summer
There is evidence, was involved in it. Someone else took a screenshot. https://i.redd.it/86xuz0p7w2e61.jpg

RH is a front for organised crime, selling data to Citadel so the can front run retailers trades. Hope to see Senate action on it at some point.

ruairispain··on Baltic airlines reroute flights to avoid Belarus airspace
The difference here is the European politicians will be scared shitless if they fly over a country where they think they might get arrested.

Politicians scare easily and will protect themselves. If journalists can be arrested so can politicians.

ruairispain··on WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app
So many children using it. Wonder what the EU law is on data privacy and under age kids? Can under-18s legally sign this snooped data over to FB?

Hope some lawyers can stop this in its tracks. Otherwise Signal or some other service will get our business

ruairispain··on FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization
I thought new evidence came to light that FB used illegally obtained metrics about IG and Whatsapp that allowed them inside information about the accusations.

Something about the FB mobile app siphoning off mobile data about other app usage

ruairispain··on Cellular immunity to SARS-CoV2 found at 6 months in non-hospitalised individuals
Here's a doctor's tweet from today about a young male that got reinfected after 7 months. EcMO machine, full bipass and 3 heart restarts.

NSFW link to twitter:

Not much scares me in this life. But just saw my first COVID reinfection this full moon Halloween & I am fucking shook.

20-something yo w/ massive PE, coded, TPA, ECMO in ED, hemorrhage, 3 code carts, methylene blue, PRBCs.

Praying for them and their family And for all of us. https://t.co/T0YqmVxLx8

ruairispain··on Cellular immunity to SARS-CoV2 found at 6 months in non-hospitalised individuals
Following a load of doctors, this is from today...

Not much scares me in this life. But just saw my first COVID reinfection this full moon Halloween & I am fucking shook.

20-something yo w/ massive PE, coded, TPA, ECMO in ED, hemorrhage, 3 code carts, methylene blue, PRBCs.

Praying for them and their family And for all of us. https://t.co/T0YqmVxLx8

ruairispain··on PostgreSQL 13
I used to be a big Oracle fan in the late 1990s, but now can't see the point in paying big bucks for Oracle DB.

Are there any legitimate reasons to pick Oracle over Postgres for a new project? Apart from "support"

ruairispain··on PostgreSQL 13
Personally, I think MySQL died when Oracle got involved with it. The momentum was sucked right out of the project.

The great think about Postgres is it has huge momentum and the team are delivering new features. Maybe Apache has less momentum because it's matured and doesn't need much momentum.

From a momentum point of view I see Postgres as the biggest FLOSS project. I see no point in choosing another RDBMS right now. Time to short ORA stock