Bitcoin was the first famous crypto currency. But it has been surpassed by many other digital coins with lower fees, more transactions per second, better technical design and all these things combined. Bitcoin also suffers from whales routinely mass selling and buying to make profits at the cost of traders, resulting in volatility.
I'm sure it will rise again a few more times but there are better alternatives available.
Exactly, I'm running fine without Pulseaudio, Policykit and SystemD. Good old sysv init scripts always work, less complexity means less chance for bugs creeping in.
Can relate to this, audacious was terribly slow in the past but it's a pretty good music player now. However, the Winamp skin hasn't dated that well imo
Looks like fun and it's a game that's been on my watchlist for years. But I've reached an age where I'm pretty sure that once I finish the rocket and escape the planet (that's what seems to be the main goal) I'll never play it again. Just can't be bothered anymore by endless grinding and optimizing. Addictive games like MMOs and building games stopped being addictive for me once I figure out how it works.
I've used the free MaxMinds database for a while but since the last year I've been using iplist.cc. It supports IPv4, IPv6, shows if an IP is tor, spam, which ASN and a lot more.
It's also free and fast but with services like these I always wonder how long they manage to stay free.
The author doesn't seem to have much experience with running a business. The enterprise pricing makes a lot of sense when you know you need a service for multiple years. The bucket based pricing works very well for the example he mentions, sending SMS.
This is pretty awesome, I've been migrating from C# and NodeJS back to PHP and it's awesome. Want to know why?
- Everything is either built-in or can be enabled from an OFFICIAL repository (like functions for bc,xml,etc). No more trusting sketchy npm packages or having to pull in a ton of dependencies that might stop working some day.
- It's so fast and elegant to consume a (SOAP or REST) webservice. Visual Studio insists on creating tons of files, obscure web.config settings and other misc. stuff. PHP handles this in a couple of lines.
- Development feels natural, every file can be a single class if you want and there are plenty of highly matured frameworks available.
I estimate I've slashed development time in half compared to C#, less bugs and less security issues (verified through two independent code auditors). Even large projects are easier to work on in PHP compared to C#
Except this is not about enforcing opportunities for a certain group but to prevent a group certain privileges based on their skin color and sexual orientation.
Discrimination is not right because you think you have the right motives, the law is also very clear about this.
It's sad to see how these fires are automatically linked to climate change. Until the mid 2000's Australia burned down small patches of forests to prevent large disasters like these we have now. But that changed when burning down forests (mind you to prevent larger forest fires in the future) were deemed too bad for the environment.
So now the policies and fire prevention techniques changed (for the worse) and exactly what many firefighters predicted has happened: mass fires covering the east coast. It doesn't matter how much the climate changed when the whole part about prevention has been screwed up.
+1 for Mullvad. Been using them since the beginning but never used their support so can't comment on that. One thing that bugged me was the general instability of Mullvad vs others, a few years ago connections would often drop or become extremely slow. For the last two years this seems to have been massively improved.
Connection dropping is one of the major issues with any commercial VPN provider. I recommend to create a script which runs openvpn and immediately after that "ip link eth0 down" to prevent leaks.
Don't use it myself but this is great news. I'm happy to see Adriaan is so open about everything that goes on (also the bad things). Something that I always find difficult for projects like this.
I really doubt the recording is actually deleted from all of their servers. Wouldn't be surprised when a few years from now there is another news item about how they accidentally kept these logs in backups or how they were shared with law enforcement or ad companies.
Really love how this article is written, the choice of words and sentences really speak to me.