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Comment Re:Deuling dinosaurs (Score 1) 9

Here's a picture of what the fossil looked like. It was found in 2006. They were not necessarily fighting each other when they died, it could be that's just how their bodies landed.

Yeah so rude for the poor dinosaurs, maybe they were having sex.

Anyway, I would have called them the "Lovers Dinosaurs" which is much more respectful for those poor peaceful gentle creatures which for some reasons we always paint as violent.

Comment Re:Organic does not mean pesticide free (Score 1) 20

Exactly this! Also some niche local farmers use no pesticide at all so their products wouldn't support being shipped and processed along the way, they would surely arrive all rotten. Also, as you say, it tastes better and chances are it more nutritive too.

A good analogy is commercial mayonnaise sold in jars. Good for several months in the fridge even if opened and good only for a few days if you make your own.

Comment Re:PHP not dying yet? (Score 1) 29

Yeah, that's exactly what I came here to post, well, basically. More precisely, I was going to post that the only way I could see php was going down in popularity is that the same developers segment with propensity to use php would use node, js and the likes.

Not for me anyway, I prefer using a "real" programming languages for anything above really small quick and dirty applications instead of interpreted scripting languages and I find it pays off in the long term. For quick and dirty, I simply use bash scripts.

Comment Re:But will it be any good? (Score 1) 36

Most VPNs over promise and under deliver on security. So, I wonder, who holds the keys? What length keys? Elliptical curve? Ehat curve? What encryption is used? What about quantum-proofing?

Maybe I should apply to beta-test?

Agreed, I use VPNs a lot but I never used even once a commercial VPN and I wouldn't use Firefox free one either.

As a matter of fact, those can just concentrate the watching and tracking to one more single point yet.

I use several VPNs at the same time that don't change the default route on my desktop and several others on my router which may change the default route or not. On the desktop, it's to access protected resources. On the router, it's usually to optimize latency and throughput by routing through more efficient gateways over the public Internet using servers I have control of.

Comment Re:Something to improve consumer laws? (Score 2, Interesting) 53

Well, if you sign/engage yourself say for 1 year, it's a contract. If you want to stop using the service after 2 months, the service provider is in its full right to require a payment for the full year if he wants to, I don't see anything predatory with that. Consider yourself lucky if the service provider accepts to only bill you for say, 6 months.

Just don't engage yourself by contract if you don't expect to keep your words or ask for cancellation terms in advance if you don't keep your words.

Comment Geostationary satellite are hard to upgrade (Score 1) 21

Geostationary satellite are hard to upgrade since they are so far away and an upgrade might be required if the hardware on board does any kind of packet inspection which remains a question to me. Application level encryption (packet payloads) should still work although so maybe the satellites have nothing to do with it if applications using them don't bother to encrypt their payloads.

Comment Re:GitHub - Azure (Score 2) 32

Well, if it ain't broken, don't fix it. Microsoft might have broken it some since the acquisition but I'd expect more in the move to Azure.

From the article:

GitHub has recently seen more outages

I would expect more during and maybe even after the move.

Anyway, we don't rely on github for our own stuff. It might be a bad idea to put your industrial secrets on a publicly hosted cloud IMHO. We run our own instance of gitlab in house but you could get by with more light weight solutions.

Let's hope the move goes smoothly for those relying on github! It might not be a bad idea to setup your own mirror of you github hosted stuff just in case although...

Comment How stupid does one need to be? (Score 4, Insightful) 96

How stupid does one need to be not to double check what an AI chat bot tells them? I mean, I even usually double-check what humans tell me. I'd sure double check that imaginary Peruvian canyon location and the time that Japanese ropeway closes at if I intended to get off the mountain before the night.

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