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“DDoSed” He complains about outgoing traffic of 4GB/day. On a server. In 2022. If this is an issue he should not be hosting Go modules on his own servers.

We have to weight a complex set of circumstances: - smoking is an exceptionally harmful habit, so just by coming up with any other activity at random one is likely to end up health…

Because Mike is the NYT beat reporter for a number of tech companies like Facebook or Uber.

Ten euros worth of Amazon gift cards as birthday gift from the company. That amount has a great way of signaling that the company is too cheap to do anything real, but too unsophis…

Talking about Firefox, I've recently heard some people getting annoyed that Firefox now depends upon Rust and Rust doesn't build on their obscure legacy platform. I'm in turn getti…

This conversation reminds me of discussions around cryptographic hash functions: https://slideplayer.com/slide/12035043/69/images/28/Reaction... Google clearly considered it an imp…

I think the really damning bit is: > According to Frau-Meigs, independent funding for academics as well as journalists is extremely important. “Google and Facebook are paying these…

Google attempted to fix Chrome against Spectre but gave up, so what you're saying about no feasible attack is not true. See: https://v8.dev/blog/spectre > we quickly discovered tha…

This comes from a government in which the junior coalition partner is the far-right FPÖ, an openly pro-Putin and authoritarian party. This law is part of their campaign to browbeat…

It's weird that technology oriented people see code/IT in terms of infrastructure, but too little from a city as such. I'm living in Vienna, Austria which is a city consistently ra…