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1,323 karma · joined February 8, 2022

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vachina··on JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history
The truth is there is no money to be made from (good) offline software.
vachina··on ASOS app users receive push notifications apparently sent by hackers
Why do you have an app installed just to buy clothes
vachina··on Huawei and Qualcomm Announce Broad Patent License Agreement
Huawei has been leading in 5G deployments until US decides him and his allies cannot be friends with Huawei.

Qualcomm will benefit greatly from this arrangement.

vachina··on Nearly 200 people under observation after Irkutsk lab worker dies from plague
Source? Your account is no better hearsay.
vachina··on [dead]
Cheeky cheeky American spies
vachina··on LinkedIn Larpmaxxing
Don't fight the prevalent sentiment.
vachina··on How Singapore's government-run dating service works
There are obvious deal breakers, and then as you grow older you develop “taste”.

These are well defined criteria which can be queried upon.

However the ranking only works if both sides are honest.

vachina··on macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
Still rocking a Sonoma and everything works, without the liquid glass slop.
vachina··on US Forces Exit Iraq
Exit Japan and Philippines next.
vachina··on Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain
Japanese brands’ customers are typically the US, and Americans don’t like EVs.

You got your answer.

vachina··on Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
Pot calling kettle black
vachina··on Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election
Depends on who the government is. You can’t realistically give anyone full write access to your populace.
vachina··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
They build the fundamental building blocks of your (American) tech industry so you can scroll Reels at a higher speed.
vachina··on PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock
Reject Chromium, accept Firefox
vachina··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
Of course Amurica will not do it themselves, Amurica will outsource the job to someone else.
vachina··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
Yes it will not end well because Amurica will put a crater in the middle of the fab if it ever becomes viable.
vachina··on Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
There’s Huawei App Gallery but it is to the West a product of a commie so it needed to be suppressed and snuffed.
vachina··on Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
> This effectively means I’m paying Google more than 1000 Euro per year for their services. 1000 Euro per year is 1.5x what I’m paying for my internet access. It’s roughly what I’m paying for my notebook per year if you assume I use it for three to four years. When my internet breaks, someone drives to my house and fixes it. When my notebook breaks, someone drives to my house and fixes it.

Couldn’t have said better. We all allowed it to come to this.

vachina··on Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta
Yes, having a taste of their own medicine.
vachina··on Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta
And you let it happen.
vachina··on Grok 4.7
If not for Tesla there won't be EVs you see today. Tesla was and still is the benchmark for extremely lean car production and software stack.

If not for SpaceX there wouldn't be gigabit internet connectivity in the middle of the ocean.

You're entitled to your own opinion to hate the guy but some self reflection goes a long way.

vachina··on AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0?
The verification plan did not make 0 a bin to cover.
vachina··on AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up
> Is everyone just running full speed in circles or something?

Yes, just rehashes of the same thing that was done before, in another language/framework/codebase/fork.

vachina··on Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions
You guys are paying for Disney+?
vachina··on I built the fastest PHP webserver in the world
PHP is stable enough to not need Docker.

As in there’s very little ways to fuck up a PHP setup.

You just turn it on and it runs.

vachina··on Waymo in Singapore
If you never needed a car in Singapore then why is the COE so expensive? COE price is determined from a bidding process.
vachina··on Waymo in Singapore
This thing is DOA if it only does predetermined route, which I think is what's going to happen.
vachina··on My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it
Whenever I see a npmjs project I nope out of it. I’d rather spend $50 on tokens to reimplement whatever JS slop in Python or Go.
vachina··on Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust
Platform may retroactively make up and enforce rules that makes your content violate terms (and remove them)

See YouTube.

vachina··on XCancel service is suspended until further notice
Once you’re logged in it becomes functional
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