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usbqk··on IP Addressing in 2021
You can make money off ipv6: it allows for better tracking, which is why Google, Facebook and friends are all ipv6 ready.
usbqk··on ISO C became unusable for operating systems development
Can Linux compile under clang nowadays?
usbqk··on Pine64 should re-evaluate their community priorities
In Europe they can’t do that.
usbqk··on Comcast Shot Themselves in the Foot with MTA-STS
Oh boy. I sure hope you guys aren’t using your ISP’s email address.
usbqk··on Is Google Analytics illegal in your country?
Google analytics is against the law because they are American which means that they have to give up any data the us government asks of them. That’s the only illegal thing they do, and they are not better just for being American. They are better because they are better.
usbqk··on The PinePhone Pro brings upgraded hardware to the Linux phone
With that hardware and software even $400 seems a complete rip-off.
usbqk··on Union Pacific Addresses LA Cargo Thefts; Problem Requires Collective Effort
A system that works in a country won’t work in another country that is culturally different, more heterogenous, etc.
usbqk··on Making Your Game Go Fast by Asking Windows Nicely
Well said.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20081211-00/?p=19...

usbqk··on Shenanigans on Microsoft Feedback Hub
It smells like the developer is in charge of the component and he didn’t want the report posted there publicly.
usbqk··on Shenanigans on Microsoft Feedback Hub
My rule is to never work as a QA for free.
usbqk··on YouTube suspended my channel for a video with disclosed issue in Grammarly
You mean that he can’t open YouTube at all, not even to watch videos?!
usbqk··on Intel and Nvidia just dunked on Apple’s M1 Max. Should you believe the hype?
People want to run x86 code.
usbqk··on YouTube suspended my channel for a video with disclosed issue in Grammarly
I think they recently changed the tos to blacklist all videos regarding hacking and similar stuff
usbqk··on A mobile game I built 5 years ago suddenly blew up
So glad to be completely out of the loop about this app. It all seems like a publicity campaign.
usbqk··on The (probable) origins of MS uncovered
Does this mean that after mass COVID vaccinations we’ll see an explosion of MS cases in a few decades?
usbqk··on David Simon Made Baltimore Detectives Famous. Now Their Cases Are Falling Apart
Obviously they do, but you wouldn’t notice from reading this kind of publications.
usbqk··on In MySQL, use “utf8mb4” instead of “utf8” (2016)
Sure, you just prepend mb_ to all php string calls >:)
usbqk··on The State of Web Scraping 2022
I think if you make intangible things public you shouldn’t consider them to be only yours anymore.