perhaps something to chuckle at: Assembler AMQP

While working on the integration of a complex distributed task queue in a design-by-committee meeting, I wondered out loud why we parse AMQP messages more or less directly instead of using higher-level abstractions like Spring Integration or Celery."

A colleague argued that it wasn't a problem, and also it would be easy to integrate multiple languages, and the target programming languages would be able to handle everything just fine."

I begged to differ and pushed the whole thing up a notch: "technically, one could even parse AMQP messages in assembler if one were inclined to".

So long story short: this project was born as proof that low-level messaging integration is possible, even close to bare metal. Because who wouldn't need that?

it was 0.5 ns .. 1s was the FHE case

the point being that there was a time (some greybeards might remember) where contributing to the linux kernel wasn't "work" but a fun hobby

Sure, but that time was nearly 30 years ago. Linux has been "mainstream" since at least August 1999.

Why August 1999? Seems quite specific?

RedHat's IPO. Seemed like as good a date as any to anchor "when Linux went mainstream". I'm sure there are other dates that are arguably at least as good here.

Ah right, that roughly tracks. Just wasn't obvious where "August 1999" came from.

Kind of amazing timeline in hindsight by the way; Linux was "only" 8 years old at that point.

people like me contributed their freetime afterwards still

People still do. I think the point he's making is that the bulk of the kernel's source coming from people paid to do it has been a thing for probably over 20 years.

Any data for this?

Yes, here for example https://lwn.net/Articles/915435/

Appreciate it! I tried, but couldn't come up with the right search term.

So, total being between around 60%!

unfortunately this doesn't work if the user doesn't have write permissions for /etc/hosts already.

perhaps: echo "127.0.0.1 reddit.com # The real blackout" | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts ?

If they are using the uBlock Origin addon they can go to Preferences -> My Filters and add:

    # Block Reddit Experiment
    ||redd.it^
    ||redditblog.com^
    ||reddit.com^
    ||redditinc.com^
    ||redditmail.com^
    ||redditmedia.com^
    ||redditstatic.com^
    ||redditstatus.com^

I've been using that as an experiment to see how many times I click a link that is blocked. Thus far only once.

there is another possible, more charitable explanation for the wait period for device unlocking: as a cooldown period to help people avoid being scammed into unlocking their phones

Was that a common scam before the cooldown?

I don't think so. OTOH what GP described (reseller earn money by batch unlocking phone and pre-installing not uninstall-able apps/malwares before selling to consumers) is very common some time ago.

China is wild.

"uninstall-able apps/malwares before selling to consumers"

Isn't this what American mobile operators do?

True about uninstallable for cheap phones at least eg. Boost mobile phone <= $150 from my experience. I've seen notification I can't swipe close, the voice mail app having built in ads...

At least they don't push snake-oil ads to your grandparents.

yes thanks a lot! also retrospectively for implementing basic auth in ffsend!

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