So far on my work computer I’ve had a policy to indiscriminately uninstall anything that says copilot. If I hadn’t seen this post I may have nuked it, then spent the afternoon trying to figure out where excel went.

Yes, about everything awful.

But also oil extraction prices are between $15 and $70 per barrel depending on the conditions of the oil fields. And any significant oil extraction rate increase will drive already volatile oil market prices down so far that US oil fields (that average extraction costs of about $40/barrel) will end up shutting down.

Then stop being a slopmonger.

I don’t log in automatically, but I do let my session login hold my password manager vault open.

Would that be the station core that’s cracking, leaking, seemingly getting worse, and which they haven’t been able to fix?

I heard once that in the early days of printing (and literacy) most of Europe’s reading material was made for or by the church. And one of the things that was very popular at various points in the 16th century were books of hymns, many of which contained old latin hymns turned Christmas carols. It doesn’t explain the lack of New Years songs, but it may be why we continue to have so many Christmas songs compared to every other holiday.

I swear we need an Alec signal, like the Bat signal, that we can shine when topics like this come up.

Here is a playlist is all of Technology Connections videos about the format wars. Alec does a great job explaining the history and showing things off.

TL;DW tape length and price are the main reasons. Arguably if you want to hang the win on a single reason, sports is probably the best answer. Betamax wasn’t long enough to tape a full game and Selectavision (which was doomed anyway) couldn’t record at all.

Every person on the internet that responded to an earnest tech question with “sudo rm -rf /” helped make this happen.

Good on you.

This country was once so resistant to any mandatory national ID that the Social Security Administration was only able to issue cards after assurances that the ID number not be used as such. That didn’t last long, and now we’re here.

I used to have a rack in a colo in the middle of Portland Oregon. The 3rd floor was the colo and they also had telecom equipment on the roof, but the rest of the building was normal commercial real-estate.

They spent so much reinforcing the floor, sound proofing the floor and ceiling, building a giant door in the wall (so they could crane in equipment), and helping pay for a new local substation that when P.a.a.S. services (AWS, Azure, etc) started they quickly started to struggle to keep the bills paid.

Soundproofing wouldn’t be needed if the whole building were servers, but the rest would be.

LibreWolf also has the Reader View, also do not use that.

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.

The Unabridged Oxford English Dictionary is $1,400 in a hardback set, if you’d rather.

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!

Virginia’s exists because the navy was worried that a bridge accident or attack could cut off Norfolk Naval Station from the Atlantic. Submarines cross under the bridge though.

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.

I guess Don Jr is getting his supply from Columbia these days.

I believe the polite way to ask this in their culture is, “Do you come from the land down under?”