MS will erect another campus and things will go back to “normal”. Hopefully this will last at this time…

Good documentary about MS hold over German government: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duaYLW7LQvg

The only private payment method is cash.

Thanks for the video link. Very interesting. This is how all computers will be built eventually. So seize the means of computation until we can…

Google will just say that pages with DRM will rank higher in their search and it’s all done.

You could try destination NAT with netfilter/iptables (DNAT) and terminate TLS on your home server.

This way packets will be forwarded to the home server without beign decrypted on the VSP.

I used to rip Amiga game soundtracks by putting a tape recorder near the TV speaker. This will work for any DRM content :) Obviously it is lossy, you would need a recorder of some form and it will take a long time for audiobooks. My tape deck had a turbo feature… you could try playing audiobooks faster and then reduce the speed of the recording if such option exists.

If you have a computer with line-in input this will work better than acoustic-coupling :)

I bet. That was 20 years ago :D

As the old Gentoo mantra goes: stuff breaks so you can learn things :D

• https://www.androidheadlines.com/2020/08/mozilla-firefox-google-search
• https://www.articlesfactory.com/articles/technology/why-google-pays-10-billion-usd-to-its-competitor-mozilla.html

Mozilla is, always was and will be mostly financed by Google.

MacOS used to be a good option for developers targeting Linux: UNIX under the good and nice UI on top. You can install most Linux program with brew and the like under MacOS.

So I move from Linux to MacOS when first MacBook Air was released but since them moved back to Linux. MacOS today feels way more like Windows (poor quality, pushing users around, outdated desktop paradigms wise)… I can’t stand it any more. In the mean time Linux got Wayland and Sway and other different desktops available. Distros like Void Linux make the experience very stable, comfortable and hackable.

If you are on Linux you can try getting spotify tracks from YouTube with yt-dlp like this:

cat playlist.txt | while read I; while read I; do yt-dlp -x --default-search "ytsearch" "$I"; done

Torvalds added that Rust isn’t that terrible in the end; “it’s not Perl”.

LOL

Good. In the meantime my GP asked me to send my medical data to theirs @gmail.com address… long way to go.

Good, let’s hope more will follow. If your business needs to know where I am, perhaps you should ask and I may tell you?

Vodafone says TrustPid will assign each user “random numbers” reducing the risk of individuals being directly identified. Someone saying something like this should never be allowed near a computer, let alone driving a surveillance scheme… what a joke.

Any form of surveillance used by any government will be used primarily for political reasons, against non-criminals. There is no such thing as Good Spyware.

Performance metrics generally put Rust squarely ahead of Go, but not by a lot.

10x, 4x and 3x performance difference is not “but not by a lot”, it is al lot! :D Imagine needing 1 server vs 10 servers to run same app. Same for memory.

Can people stop contradicting themselves when comparing X with Rust just to make X look less horrible, please!