ksec

Wed Feb 1, 2012 8:42am PST

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https://ksec.mataroa.blog

London, Hong Kong and somehow California*. Often a Contrarian.

The unwritten rule of HN: You do not criticise The Rusted Holy Grail and the Riscy Silver Bullet.

Interest: JPEG-XL, AAC-LC, VVC / LCEVC, Patent Free AVC, FreeBSD, memcached, Clickhouse, TigerBeetle, ZFS, DTrace, Vitess, Vespa, Objective-C, Java, Zig, Odin, Crystal, Pascal, Ada, Ruby, Graal, Rails, 5G/6G, ARM, x86, OpenPOWER, Apple/China, Supply Chain / Manufacturing, Retail.

@Google: Why No Pixel Phone in Hong Kong?

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