facow

See also HTCPCP and HTTP response 418: I'm a teapot

Fool me twice can't get fooled again

GNOME really seems to be targeting some mythical user who is tech savvy enough to install Linux, is likely running Windows currently, wants their new operating system to feel like MacOS but is also helplessly confused by any settings/customizability or the smallest change in behavior from other operating systems.

I don't generally see recommendations for new users/less tech savvy to use GNOME anymore since there are plenty of DEs that behave closer to what they're already used to and it feels like most of the enthusiasts have largely abandoned it already. I just don't understand who they think this is for. Just baffling decision after baffling decision

Being able to have ublock and Bypass Paywalls is legitimately a killer feature and one of the reasons I'd never leave Android.

Economists hate this one trick. If we don't test for it we don't have inflation. Time for the fed to cut rates

Reading comprehension is dead

Ken Birman, a computer science professor at Cornell University, told Reuters that “software developers need to build better fault tolerance,” suggesting Amazon could have done more to prevent the latest outage. “When people cut costs and cut corners to try to get an application up, and then forget that they skipped that last step and didn’t really protect against an outage, those companies are the ones who really ought to be scrutinized later,” Birman told Reuters.

suggesting Amazon could have done more to prevent the latest outage.

The professor is explicitly saying the opposite. The reason these blips from hyperscalers cause such widespread impacts is that the companies/applications that use these services don't bother to take any precautions against outages.

The full context from the Reuters article is literally 3 sentences I don't understand how this "technology reporter" so fundamentally misunderstood what was being said

Not trying to defend Amazon it just amazes me that this is what passes for journalism now.

What's the deal with "þe"? And do you type the hexcode for þ every time?

Not the point of this article but

Meta is shaking up and downsizing its artificial intelligence division

Wasn't it just a month or two ago that Zuc was poaching AI engineers with multi-million dollar sign on bonuses? These boom and bust cycles are happening at breakneck speed. Most efficient system btw

It's apparently a vape and bullying detector. So ostensibly the mics are used for the bullying part. But it does make you wonder if the vape detection actually works by just listening for "can I get a hit"

I 100% agree. Everyone raves about the AUR but it really feels like more of a necessity than a value add because so little is actually packaged for arch. And the AUR is definitely more annoying and feels more jank than just having it in your default repo.

Libgen has always worked well for me

I should learn Mandarin