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turowicz··on "I'm Embarrassed on Behalf of the Tech Industry"
And the constant MFA hell
turowicz··on Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K
They really built that shit in TS? Mad!
turowicz··on Framework Laptop 13 Pro
You can get a new Asus P16 ProArt with 5070 for exact same price (AI 370, 2TB drive, 64GB RAM)
turowicz··on Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars
They sold both of them?!

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turowicz··on EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf]
The only way for the government to bypass encryption in chat apps is to create their own social media company, just like china did.
turowicz··on Nvidia announces Jetson Nano 2GB, a single board computer
Meanwhile a production ready nano will set you $1000 back.
turowicz··on Engineer admits he wiped 456 Cisco WebEx VMs from AWS after leaving
It also means there was no orchestration for the VMs. System should have recreated them 1 by 1 on a health check triggered restore action.
turowicz··on SpaceX Starlink average speedtest is 42.3Mbps down / 9.7 Mbps up
My mom can't get broadband even though she has a house in Wrocław, a quite large city in Poland. She is using 4G internet sticks.
turowicz··on CERN approves plans for a $23B, 62-mile long super-collider
I see plenty of critical theory majors complaining about STEM in this thread. What has the world come to.
turowicz··on Jack Dorsey is giving Andrew Yang $5M to build the case for a basic income
We had this in Eastern Europe for about 50 years. I don't recommend getting so dependent on a government.
turowicz··on An analysis of the Lego City deep space rocket
Those are some serious accusations!
turowicz··on We Chat, They Watch
What a surprise...
turowicz··on 74% of Startups Have Trimmed Staff, 65% Have Less Than 6 Months of Cash
Business as usual then
turowicz··on France offers each cyclist €50 for bike repairs once lockdown ends
But first you’d have to get to France...
turowicz··on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)
Any news on CUDA Drivers/Toolkit for 20.04?
turowicz··on Zoom’s encryption has links to China, researchers discover
I always knew that the "zoom.us" is a dodgy name for an installation file. As if someone was going an extra length to make sure you think its a US company.
turowicz··on Maybe we shouldn’t use Zoom after all
What worried me the most is the “zoom.us” in the name installer file. As if they went the extra length making sure you are comfortable it’s a US company. In fact it is, so why even making a point of that?
turowicz··on No person who was born blind has ever been diagnosed with schizophrenia
Correlation doesn't mean causation.
turowicz··on Santa hat removed from VS Code after complaint
Interesting that he decided to post this using his real name and surname. You can find him and his employers on LinkedIn.
turowicz··on Jetstar pilots forgot to lower the landing gear
The world is full of airplane incidents. Check this out: https://avherald.com/
turowicz··on Learning at work is work, and we must make space for it
This over anything else. I wouldn't get to be a CTO multiple times if I wasn't in this mindset.
turowicz··on Virgin Media (UK) stores passwords in plain text, sends them through the mail
Probably to save money on ink for those envelopes with printed passwords!
turowicz··on Goodbye Docker: Purging Is Such Sweet Sorrow
In such cases I tell people that computers do what they are told. Especially when your code does something you didn’t expect.
turowicz··on Gimli – A Visual Studio Code extension for front-end developers
How does this tie to working with Bootstrap-based custom css frameworks?
turowicz··on OpenCV 4.0
It does use gpu, you need to compile it with a flag.
turowicz··on Face recognition in images and video with Python
The article is very similar to readme.md and samples from the github repo of face_recognition.
turowicz··on Ask HN: Anyone getting sick of all the 'web apps'?
Pushing UI rendering to client side and other "rich client" properties stress the servers less, so it's an advantage for the app provider.
turowicz··on Why SQL is beating NoSQL, and what this means for the future of data
Comparing SQL to NoSQL is like comparing a boat to a car. They serve different purpose and each come with their own benefits and disadvantages.
turowicz··on The Subscription App Paradox
You either pay for each version of the software or a subscription in a SaaS model. I don't see anything wrong with that.
turowicz··on Amazon Planning a Microsoft Office Killer
So much for making presentations on the plane.
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