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Posts by TheMeerkat
521 posts • joined 29 Mar 2017
Is computer vision the cure for school shootings? Likely not
Back-to-office mandates won't work, says Salesforce's Benioff
A miserable work week spent toiling inside 'the metaverse'
Yodel becomes the latest victim of a cyber 'incident'
Telegram criticizes Apple for 'intentionally crippling' web app features on iOS
Google engineer suspended for violating confidentiality policies over 'sentient' AI
TSMC and China: Mutually assured destruction now measured in nanometers, not megatons
EU lawmakers vote to ban sales of combustion engine cars from 2035

Re: And the UK ?
It seems that some people developed really wrapped view of how democracy work after their side of the referendum lost.
You don’t have to like the result, but alternative is to not have democracy. So learn to live with it.
I noticed another interesting point - after the referendum a lot of people who before were arguing that everything should be decided by a referendum suddenly stopped pushing this idea :)
IETF publishes HTTP/3 RFC to take the web from TCP to UDP
Tough news for Apple as EU makes USB-C common charging port for most electronic devices
Engineer sues Amazon for not covering work-from-home internet, electricity bills
Beijing needs the ability to 'destroy' Starlink, say Chinese researchers
Russia labels Meta an 'extremist' organization, bans Instagram
Huawei UK board members resign over silence on Ukraine invasion

Re: Must be quite a sight, these "Sirs" kowtowing to the chinese.
“ getting the xenophobia out into the open”
Why people are so stupid?
Do you think Russians supporting Ukraine care when Ukrainians swear at “Russians” during the battle and accuse them of “xenophobia”?
No . Because all those accusation of “xenophobia” are usually made by people who don’t know what the war and real xenophobia is.
Internet backbone Cogent cuts Russia connectivity
Ukraine's IT sector looks to business continuity plans as Russia invades
US imposes sanctions as Russia invades Ukraine
This is going well: Meta adds anti-grope buffer zone around metaverse VR avatars
Court papers indicate text messages from HMRC's 60886 number could snoop on Brit taxpayers' locations
Sophos: Log4Shell would have been a catastrophe without the Y2K-esque mobilisation of engineers
Rolls-Royce consortium shopping for factory sites to build mini-nuclear reactors
The robots are coming! 12 million jobs lost to automation in Europe by 2040 – analyst
Billionaires see wealth double during pandemic as tech bros lead the charge
Open source maintainer threatens to throw in the towel if companies won't ante up

Re: There's something I don't get
The only reason open source is popular is because it is free for corporations.
If, say, log4j2 had to be paid for, most of the companies would expect developers to write their own logging code and pay for it.
By providing it for free open source developers take jobs from their fellow programmers.
Open source isn't the security problem – misusing it is

Re: six million flies
Red Hat drop everything to fix stuff because otherwise it won’t have an income stream. The same as any company selling proprietary software would do, no difference.
Red Hat is parasitising on what many developers have done and are doing for free, so it is not a “knight in shining armour”.
And log4j fiasco proved that idea of “many eyes effect” is just fiction. Nobody noticed the issue for very many years.