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Good point! Taiwan is a political anomaly, an accidental offshoot that came about as a result of the rise of the CCP in China (people moved to Taiwan for refuge), and Taiwan has be…

That was fascinating, thank you.

Simple: Chrome captured the market with a good product, at the right time. I remember when Chrome was new, and it was fast, and Google had other game-changing products (like email …

Computer Science is, on a evolutionary level, a whole new field, something between a branch off of Mathematics and physical engineering so... no, it won't stop changing anytime soo…

There are only 24^3 possible combinations of 3-letter file extensions, 34^3 if we start mixing in numbers. And they potentially will need to be constantly available for decades to …

I have noticed that many corporate tech companies rely on Digicert, such as the fact that it is the root certificate for the consumer websites of Microsoft, iCloud, Facebook, Amazo…

The Runescape 2 economy is quite a fascinating semi-simulation/semi-reality case study. It was originally a free market economy - players traded freely and advertised wares in publ…

Big surprise, a state-funded (kinda) organisation doesn't know how to sell. Economics is all about sales, guys... But the UK is getting a triple whammy from the financial fallout o…

But maybe there isn't much to 'improve'...? I suspect this is the feeling shared by those who appreciate it.

Would somewhat agree/disagree. Debian installer is kind of a monster, but Ubuntu's changes to the installer broke compatibility with tried-and-tested PXE install software (i.e. Cob…

Depends if you're running Python or not (or an equivalent scripting language with OS dependencies i.e. Ruby, PHP, Perl)

Given the privilege escalations in sudo and the bajillion untestable features built-in, arguably the Linux community should've moved on from it many years ago, following OpenBSD's …

Just want to add that you can also create a full Alpine Linux filesystem with Alpine's official "apk-static" (statically compiled version of apk) and then run it as a container, wi…

"Being smart is important, but knowing how to sell it also important. Americans know how to sell." - South African guy I met, who went to Yale on a scholarship

The reality is the technology industry has become heavily privatised, and privatisation means sales, and good engineers aren't interested in sales, but funding is required to build…

Given the Ukraine situation, there should at least be a read-only/no-login Tor service, I think

Oh so people are getting like facebook-login.tk and catching passwords or something, I guess. I'm sure there are tonnes of (free) @gmail.com or @yahoo.com accounts used for phishin…

It is true, encrypted /boot on Linux (i.e. where the Linux kernel lives) is time-consuming and error-prone to setup, even if you have been using Linux for years. GRUB only understa…

Bravo, it is much more likely to be reliable if everyone is going down the same kind of path to set it up

At my last job, what I least looked forward to was having to go back to the office someday. It is an anti-freedom, but it is the only viable option for certain kinds of roles.

Undesirable work culture, or mentally unstable? Both?

Oh man just reminded me of a strange dream, the other day. A lady was enthusiastic about Haskell and was trying to encourage me to get into it. I was like "I like the language but …

In regards to using a VPN for privacy: The important thing about a shared VPN service is that it makes it difficult to distinguish traffic, and by sharing multiple IPs across diffe…

Learn C?

There may be something to be said for working in industry generally, e.g. all the soft skills issues such as dealing with management, colleagues, deadlines, interviews, the touch-a…