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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • It’s what you deploy to your users if you want to work around ad blockers and browser extensions. It’s a great tool to get operating system level access to exfiltrate information about your users and identify them uniquely, even if they would prefer that not to happen.

    All that with the help of Google’s telemetry engine aka Chrome, which further helps Alphabet to manifest their interpretation of web standards in the world.

    We worked to move things onto the web. Now people bring the web back to your desktop with every application bringing it’s own browser shell. We have come full circle and we’re now using 10x the resources.

    Electron is the prime example of everything that is wrong in IT.



  • They wasted millions on the development of an app that is a trivial joke and they still needed several cycles to reach stability. Hetzner+Nextcloud is a cute toy, but has nothing to do with actual cloud infrastructure. 1B is a joke investment when your competitors are Amazon and Microsoft. This money is going to be wasted entirely and there will be zero useful products coming out of it. Exactly like the COVID app







  • Permanent light usually does not have the same intensity as a flash. For a flash, capacitors store a LOT of energy to release in a very short period of time, then they need to recharge. Permanent light would require extremely high wattage to compare, which is a dramatic increase in cost.

    For a picture like this, you want exposure time to be really low, to get a crisp image of the fluid dynamics. Think 1/1000 of a second. The amount of light a flash pushes out is so dramatically more than constant light usually offers, and no flash recharges fast enough for a burst of shots like that.

    Beyond that, you can also see their softbox with the flash above the subject. So I feel confident in my assumptions.