Alexa is also the linchpin of Amazon Sidewalk which is opt-out and potentially gives a way for devices in your home (like smart appliances) to connect to the internet whether you give them wifi access or not. Pretty handy surveillance tool.

But don’t worry, we’ve only made Jeff Bezo’s powerful enough to rent Venice for his wedding.

Linus is the leader who tells all the Colonels how to do their jobs. Then they order the Drivers to take your data all through the series of tubes.

Also text files. At the end of the day it’s just text files.

They’re also inflating conversion numbers (the thing company ad spend is based on) by over 50%. Google is doing the same. So even real ads are only half as effective as companies think.

Good news! There’s an ad bubble too!

I walked into to work this morning to a dev IM needing permissions. Instead of telling me what the error message said, which would contain the allowance needed, he needed he sent me a screenshot of what chatGPT said he needed. GPT effectively said the solution was to let him assume any privileged access policy that exists.

I think security teams are fine for a while.

Given how much time I spend actually looking at the screen while the show/movie is on, it might as well be in ca. 2000 RealVideo 160x120 resolution.

The year of the Linux Desktop doesn’t happen when people shut up about Linux.

Once upon a time they insisted that Amazon had independent decision making on their providers when they were needing new infrastructure and they “always decided that AWS suited them best.”

Shockingly (/s), they stopped making that claim right about the same time they started admitting that their biggest users are all under Private Pricing Agreements.

So Roblox is the only of those companies that can handle proper region failover if us-east-1 shits the bed? You young ops have gotten soft! Learn to live by ChaosMonkey or die by the Gorilla.

I still think the web took a wrong turn when NCSA Mosaic first stated supporting inline images.

Yeah. Obviously that’s what console.debug() is for.

The 24.04 beta of Pop! with cosmic just dropped.

It’s canonical (to me alone) that the HML is the basis for LCARS in the Star Trek universe.

They denied it until the instant doing so was inconvenient to them.

I’m still holding out for Motörheads

So we got rid of most of the useful government data and now we’re paying gas fees to billionaires to store the rest. Great.

How many natural language search tools for GNU manuals have been written and called “mansplain?”

Countdown to articles (that take themselves very seriously) about people getting really upset over the term “clanker lover”

Per your own link: they started as game delivery service called Control Video Corp and later became an AppleLink service called Quantum Link. They became AOL in 89 when they separated from Apple and offered internet modem pools starting in 91.

Yeah, tipping culture is out of control

I became adept in IRC in early 90s when I was under 10 years old, before my BB provider was even a full ISP (so I couldn’t even look up help on what existed of the early web). Every time I hear an adult claim its too complicated/obscure/esoteric I realize how close to the medical exam scene in Idiocracy we’ve gotten in a few short decades.