termau's comments

termau | 1 year ago | on: What if we made advertising illegal?

What a nonsense idea, you'd need to nationalise news, in the USA, right now this would not go to well, imagine Trump having the only news outlet...

termau | 3 years ago | on: The Disappearance of the Ashtray

I remember flying to Australia from London as a 9 year old UM (unaccompanied minor) and they plonked me next to a man who Chainsmoked the whole flight there

termau | 3 years ago | on: Apple ends consulting agreement with Jony Ive

the more obvious advantage is better battery life on my phone having its own on my laptop

termau | 3 years ago | on: Apple ends consulting agreement with Jony Ive

You can take the cellular modem in my X1 out of my cold dead hands and not a moment before. Open laptop, connected - no matter where you are in the world.

termau | 4 years ago | on: Russia's financial meltdown and the global dollar system

I grew up in late 70's early 80's UK and remember distinctly as a child the threats the USSR (then Russia) would make in this regard as they were being hammered by Sanctions.

Its a pretty cruel threat to live under that you don't quite understand - but now I'm older and do, cant help but feel the fear inducing threat of this is infinitely more destructive than actually facing people like Putin.

termau | 4 years ago | on: Mary Somerville, for whom the word “scientist” was coined

There is a all girls school in Brisbane named after her called, fittingly, Somerville house.

termau | 4 years ago | on: Where have all the insects gone?

crows are super clever, when I drive brisbane to sydney they'll be in the middle of the road eating kangaroos and other dead animals, they dont fly away they just hop to the right of the line so I dont squish them at 100 miles an hour, watch me go by then go back to what they are doing - they actually know which side of the road I'll go past and that they will be safe.

termau | 4 years ago | on: Kairos

Kairos is a NPC in teh timeless Isle in wow too

termau | 4 years ago | on: Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet

I feel like it just confuses the issue with a bunch of unnecessary babble about DNS, theres better ways to read about how BGP works without confusing a bunch of different things. The only part of the article that was relevant was 'Routes were withdrawn' - the rest being a consequence of that.

termau | 4 years ago | on: Something weird is happening on Facebook

Agreed. I've actively taken steps to combat it, only use my phone in black and white mode, and removed all apps. Stick to my PC for general browsing and my phone use as gone down to 30 minutes a day (mostly calls, messages with the wife, and email).

termau | 4 years ago | on: Sir Clive Sinclair has died

So the creator of the zx81 dies at 81, my first computer, very sad.

termau | 5 years ago

Most modern data centres wouldn't have had this issue, at least in in Australia they use Argonite suppression systems, these work by using a gas that is a mixture of argon and nitrogen that suppresses fire by depleting oxygen in the the data hall.

termau | 5 years ago | on: How to poison the data that Big Tech uses to surveil you

this sounds exhausting, move dude :)

termau | 5 years ago | on: How to poison the data that Big Tech uses to surveil you

Is this just an American thing? I dont get this real world spam in AU much and defs not targeted.

termau | 5 years ago | on: The State of the Serverless Art (2020)

That was super interesting thanks for posting!

termau | 5 years ago | on: I passed 2 AWS Solution Architect exams in a month

The new 'cyber security' ones crack me up.

termau | 5 years ago | on: Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads

Find IP address is connecting to for the ad server, and block it at the router? Its a sad fucking world when I have to suggest this - I flat out wouldn't buy a tv with adware but yeah should work.

termau | 5 years ago | on: Linus Torvalds on AVX512

wonder if this could be used as a denial of service against a vps host node.

termau | 5 years ago | on: How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue

BinaryLane in Australia have VPC across datacenters

termau | 5 years ago | on: Towards an Untrepreneurial Economy? Rise of the Veblenian Entrepreneur (2019)

I couldn't get all the way though it, it's almost as bad as the circle jerk that is the start up 'industry'.

Reading it I just think why does it matter either way? You're either looking for profit, looking for scale, or looking for someone to bankroll you to do those things. The rest is all noise, so much noise.