Fourth panel. AI trained on all the above, floods it all with generated content rendering the signal-to-noise ratio too terrible to tolerate, even for corporations.

And losses in the inverter.

4D conspriacy theory: was actually killed by Airbus, because the negative press for Boeing will push the Airbus stock price up…

I feel bad for the guy. This is going to put a wet blanket on future whistleblowers, regardless of the actual cause.

Malicious Corporate Compliance

I mean, python has pickle and people use that to store config. It’s a weird practice, and totally unsafe, but it works well enough. This wouldn’t be that different.

Yes. Built into Android Studio. Has existed for at least five years. However I only ever used it with the apps I was developing and never even considered using it as a means to launch outside apps. That probably would have been painful.

Seriously, it feels like 1999 internet. And I’m loving it!

It isn’t all the users. It’s localized outages across several networks. Also, this is solar flare related, which is cool :)

Not to be argumentative, and I generally see your point :)

I do occasionally write software that will have zero users – not even myself. Because it’s fun to play with the code. “I wonder if I can prototype a openscad type thingy using Python set syntax…” Or whatever. It’s the equivalent of sitting in front of a piano and creating song fragments to pass the time.

Naturally the benefit here is that you’re developing skills, passing time in an entertaining fashion, and working the ole grey matter.

I’ve worked on open source software projects, some of them pretty major. And we had a sort of similar debate. In a non-capitalist software product, the users are not strictly required – particularly if they aren’t paying, you don’t really need them. Except that open source has this user->contributor treadmill that requires that some users become contributors in order for a project to grow. So you want to be as pro-user as possible, hoping and dreaming you’ll get patches out of the blue some day, or similar.

But what happens when your users become hostile or entitled. What if they do the equivalent of calling tech support and demanding satisfaction. The customer is always right, right? How much time and effort can you devote to them without detracted from what you were doing (coding). Eventually as a product grows, the number of hostile users grows. What do you do to manage this at scale?

Suddenly you’re facing the same problem Home Depot faces in your article, except your capital is not measured in dollars but time, motivation, mood… And you start putting up barriers in a similar fashion.

I hate to alarm you but… What is a file system except dynamically allocated memory. ;)

Probably this is captured equipment within the geofenced operational zone. Likely the geofence isn’t responsive enough to changes in the frontline position (being more responsive might actually breech opsec). And likely Ukranians are having trouble with inventory control on their Starlink dishes – knowing which ones are captured or not. Very likely the media is making this a bigger story than it ought to be, from a technical and logistical perspective. Practically speaking, this is like connecting to the enemy’s civilian cell network while within range.

That would go a long way towards solving the range anxiety barrier. 1000km is close to the maximum that same people can do in a single day. Yes, you could push further in a day in a pinch, but not comfortably unless you’re rotating drivers. It’s pretty close to the limits enforced on long haul truck drivers in Canada or the US (depends on speed limits and traffic density and a few other things).

Screaming into the void.

Mommy issues is not a sickness… Unless it is.

It’d be funny if the EU forced them to ;)

I think “/pictrs/” is in the path for the image hosting. That might be rule-friendly.

If you’re using a web browser, just add the image host domains to your Adblock or ublock origin Blacklist.

Check if your instance is running 0.19 (scroll to bottom)

I read “wasm” as per “wasp” – white, Anglo-Saxon – and then my brain create “men” because Protestant didn’t make sense. And I continued to read the sentence until context didn’t make sense.

But it still kind of does.

(Yes, I know web assembly is a thing. Just making conversation.)