viking

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[–] viking 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's a simple function, you don't really need a whole lot of computing power to keep on track. Worst case you can simply remove the factorial and store the zeros in a separate array and tack them on in the output.

[–] viking 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Have a look at gullo.me, their entry level vps was just $2 or something.

Edit: https://hosting.gullo.me/pricing (apparently the cheapest is $3.5 - annually)

[–] viking 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

With no atmosphere and the sun going nova, there's a chance of the rock getting obliterated. With a nice boost you might fly off to another planet eventually. Might not be inhabited or even inhabitable, but hey.

[–] viking 8 points 1 year ago

The article said that they track the movements of bodyguards. I doubt Trump or Biden use anything remotely related to fitness. Obama might have.

[–] viking 97 points 1 year ago (18 children)

If you're in acute danger, call the cops. A credible threat has been made. Even if they can't remove you or your brother, everything being on file might serve at the very least as a deterrent to execute his plan.

[–] viking 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like a bunch of dumpsters lined up on garbage collection day.

I'm still not entirely convinced it's not a practical joke from Elon...

[–] viking 19 points 1 year ago

More like salaries below survival limit, so overtime is a must-have.

[–] viking 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm using Fennec which also removes telemetry, but many standard users are not comfortable installing apps that aren't on Google play.

[–] viking 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They mention that the shared codebase means they can add functions back in, so there's that. To me that reads like a hard fork that they'd have to maintain independently.

[–] viking 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

The link you shared is the company profile only and doesn't mention any controversy about telemetry being shared with China.

I've been googling for a bit, and there are articles concerned this might happen from 2016 when the takeover was announced, and plenty of discussions on reddit, hacker news, y-combinator, quora and even on the official Opera forum (not deleted or redacted, mind you), but there wasn't any clear evidence that telemetry is being shared.

While the concern remains valid, I'm also asking myself whether it's that much worse than Chrome, Brave or Firefox sending telemetry to the US? I'm neither American nor Chinese, and would consider both governments hostile. Which one of them has access to my data is merely a choice between plague and cholera.

So in the end it's on informed users to block transmission of telemetry themselves, regardless of their browser of choice.

[–] viking 3 points 1 year ago

One of my all time favorites. I usually recommend it along with I Origins. They hit differently, but scratch the same itch for me.

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