Evil_incarnate@lemm.eetoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL going "balls to the walls" originates from aviation lingoEnglish
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5 days agoI want a garage in my pipe organ.
I want a garage in my pipe organ.
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.
Here you go then
“Oi, this startup’s about to turn an $800 kids’ robot into a bloody paperweight, but they’re havin’ a crack at open-sourcing it before it carks it.”