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Re:AirPods Max on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @12:51PM (#25348811)
Those are all the same traits that the current Airpods Pro have. The new parts are form factor / additional microphones / etc
Re:End of Life for Azure Notebooks on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @10:27AM (#24837666)
Did Azure Notebooks have anything proprietary beyond Jupyter notebooks? If not, not a huge deal - can still take away all of your content and rerun elsewhere :)
Crazy to do this when they don't yet offer a BAA for Atlassian cloud products, meaning you can't store PHI on their systems.
Re:Two Chinese Video Encoders on Monday June 29, 2020 @12:16AM (#23674274)
How do you enforce GPL in China? Is it enforceable at all?

> GPL violations are rampant, of course. Both ship Linux with no license text (even though UHE265-1-Mini comes with a paper manual) and no source in sight. Both ship FFmpeg, although URayTech has configured it in LGPL mode, unlike LinkPi, which has a full-on GPL build and links to it from various proprietary libraries. (URayTech ships busybox; I don't think LinkPi does, but I could be mistaken.) LinkPi's FFmpeg build also includes FDK-AAC, which is GPL-incompatible, so the entire shebang is non-redistributable. So both are bad, but the ENC1 is definitely worse. I've sent a request to support for source code, but I have zero belief that I'll receive any.

Re:AWS said it mitigated a 2.3 Tbps DDoS attack on Thursday June 18, 2020 @01:21AM (#23560024)
They charge you for _egress_ not ingress (and only for AWS Shield Advanced).

Standard: free; only pay AWS egress charges. Advanced: $3K/yr + ~$0.05/GB data out

So blocking 3Tbps costs nothing additional to the user.

Re:Python programming is drowning in red tape on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @02:25AM (#22875138)
Long-time python programmer: we could do a better job with bootstrapping projects. `create-react-app` and `create-probot-app` set up complete projects for ya. How great would it be to have a project skeleton with black + poetry + mypy with everything hooked together?
Re:Show HN: CloudWright – Build apps in your own cloud on Thursday April 02, 2020 @12:04AM (#22756093)
I'm pretty taken with this project (especially if you can define APIs in some way such that they can auto-complete with integration into CloudWright). How can I get in touch to chat more?