Skype used to be peer to peer. Your call went from you to your friend (whomever). Microsoft decided that they couldn't mitm that setup to scrape data; so, soon after they acquired Skype, they made all calls go through their servers.
Then they tried to make Skype make more money, since those servers aren't free. Then they made teams and copied half the code into that, and cludged the rest to make it hold together.
Just like my local dive...
Companies are made up of people. Companies save money by firing the most expensive people, the most experienced. The ones left have a lot less experience.
Everyone I know has their contacts backed up to google or apple. Enter your account and password into your new phone and your contacts are there. Zero benefit.
Just to b sure, I'm going to set mine at 200%, to be double sure.
$1000? That's a lazy afternoon for bitcoin....
However, it might be interesting to use some sort of verifiable storage format where hashes of checkpoints are distributed elsewhere, so that if someone does manage to get into The Internet Archive, they can't go fiddle with past things without it becoming visible.
Why not use a write only medium, like CDs but obviously bigger capacity. Write once read many kind of thing. It's an archive, it should not be able to be changed.
And to all the cyclists who use a bright led lamp on their handlebar, remember to also point them down, not straight ahead. I've been blinded as a pedestrian and a driver by cyclists who don't position their lights correctly.
Yeah, I do the Dracula
Hi, I'm a chef. I'm just playing around with raspberry pis and stuff. I just like learning and seeing what I can do.
Or enough radiation to be warm enough.
I know someone working there. I was in a few group calls he organised using teams where I used an anonymous login. Then Microsoft forced you to make an account to use it, so I declined after that.