random9763 | 5 years ago | on: Gitter now speaks Matrix
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random9763 | 5 years ago | on: AMD Ryzen 9 3900x price drop could take the wind out of Intel comet lake sales
That is true, but considering how terrible the AMD APUs were before ryzen, I’m still impressed by the performance leap (current dual-core APUs with HT perform better in multicore workloads than the previous ones with four). I’m still waiting for them to release something that has a low enough thermal envelope to go into a NUC-like while keeping decent performance.
random9763 | 5 years ago | on: AMD Ryzen 9 3900x price drop could take the wind out of Intel comet lake sales
AMD APUs are not that bad anymore, I am certainly considering a 3000G for my next cheap build. Obviously it would be nice to have a 15W Zen3 APU though, but one can only dream.
random9763 | 5 years ago | on: Should I Block Ads?
"collapse" is really quite a big word. You listed five websites, which is hardly "the web as we know it", though it certainly is a sizeable portion of online traffic. Stackoverflow would easily survive since it is a tool used mostly by wealthy people, easy to monetize. Reddit may survive but is it even alive right now? Youtube would have no way of surviving as it is.
But really, you are conflating "the web" with "megacorps flushed with cash able to hire (tens of) thousands engineers building unprecedented surveillance tools and networks". And the end of the latter
random9763 | 5 years ago | on: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS
Yes, salaries usually posted on HN are quite far from the average or median salaries for engineers.
E.g. as a french junior SWE I earn €50k before taxes and I known that’s more than most and less than some.
random9763 | 5 years ago | on: Intel accused by workers of prioritizing chip output over safety
Well, then you go to court and win, because that’s not how they are supposed to do it. If you are a temp worker they can obviously not renew your contract as well.
random9763 | 5 years ago | on: Intel accused by workers of prioritizing chip output over safety
Yes. e.g. in France you have something called "droit de retrait" ("right of withdrawal") when you consider that you cannot do your job without endangering yourself (e.g. not adequate protection or measures, especially in a pandemic), you only have to inform the health committee or your boss by any means before doing so.
You cannot be directly denied your salary or get demoted/fired for this. The company can of course appeal by opening a court case saying you abused this right, in which case any sanction may be applied if the ruling is in their favor.
The law also mandates that the company is responsible for the health of its employees on company time and premises, so you can also open a court case if you do not feel adequately protected (what happened to amazon).
random9763 | 5 years ago | on: Firefox for Mobile now supports NoScript, PrivacyBadger, HTTPS Everywhere
I’m using it as my main mobile browser but the lack of amp redirector hurts quite a bit.
random9763 | 5 years ago | on: We are complicit in our employer’s deeds
Engineers should begin to understand that they are not some enlightened beings that have somehow grown beyond the need for workplace organization. They are still cogs in the machine that can be replaced at any time; pricey cogs for sure, and replacing them may take some time, but they are still cogs.
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It is interesting because Matrix has money thus full-time developers, marketing, exposure, and time to defend their work to the depth of the deepest reddit thread.
(The Element page on F-Droid reads "Element is able to do all this because it operates on Matrix - the standard for open, decentralised communication.", not presumptuous at all)