That was my first thought when I saw this headline.

So it’s like we are entering the Dark Ages for Information. Maybe Dark Information Age or something. There is an insane amount of information available but we are moving to a society in which there is no way to ensure information validity for the average person. Deep fakes are getting way too good. It won’t be long before we have no way to determine validity. Video evidence is now suspect and so is audio. We need some sort of golden record which only reflects accurate information. Like news orgs used to be viewed before infotainment like Fox “News” really started taking off.

Realistically, this is where AI currently exceeds expectations, the ability to do amusing shit like, sucking up time, making amusing but useless pictures, videos, etc. I could easily amuse myself for a day creating random stuff but it doesn’t contribute to my job in a big way. We are “encouraged” to use AI so, I let it write my code comments and documentation…stuff that I’m not too concerned if it screws up and can blame AI if it does. Stuff that won’t break anything or take down a system. I’ve had an increase in things I’ve needed to fix when other devs merged their AI code which is a PITA.

It feels like the Vikings are always getting away with this stuff. I mean I can’t recall the last time I read a report where a Vikings was apprehended and/or charged with a crime. I doubt that this Spice Girl incident will be any different :-(

Pretty sure it’s, “with one more monthly payment, we will give you some insight into a small price of information we already know “

At this point I actually wonder if they remember where they hid it. I wouldn’t.

Bro this ain’t the 1800s, we’re obviously using LED light strips for that now. The downside is that a single section goes dark and we lose mapping data for the entire northeast. Totally worth it though when they turn on the strobe effect.

Bet it can run doom.

My guess is that by going fully onsite, they can probably avoid layoffs entirely. The majority of tech roles are hybrid or remote so the departures are going to be often and steady which will naturally select out anyone not interesting in making their life Amazon. They want employees that live and breath Amazon and this is how they get that (or just keep desperate people).

It sure sounds like the trade association needs to bring a better offer to the union if the impact is going to be so severe.

I’m of the opinion that it’s just to improve the perception of package quality. I don’t see those cheap plastic pieces as keeping the prongs from accidentally warping or bending but I guess they could keep moisture away. I’ve never received a corroded set of prongs before their use though so my theory stands as they are upping the packaging visual aesthetics.

Should be able to handle XFCE.

I think the workers want their pensions back. That is reason enough to strike.

US about to declare war on the Arctic and bring some freedom to…uh…the penguins?

If your service needs to operate 24/7, then it needs to be staffed 24/7. If it doesn’t need to operate 24/7, then staff will resolve the issue during normal work hours. Most businesses have IT teams stagger their start time so that someone comes in early and can deal with issues that may have risen the night before and prior to other employees arriving.

I can’t imagine working for a company and not having the thought of layoffs in the back of my head. Article states that companies are encouraged to provide life long employment which is pretty great. Here in the US, I hop to a new job every 2-4 years since I don’t think a single company is invested in the worker. So we get both the constant threat of layoffs as well as a five day work week. Sounds like Japan is heading in a better direction since at least the government is behind a four day work week. I can’t imagine a single Republikan being in favor of that.

Right!?!?!?! I thought we hit rock bottom with Bush Jr and then this whole thing with Trump came along. I am starting to realize that it’s just going to get worse from here. If GWB wasn’t the worst then Trump will likely not be the worst.

You have to remember that the cloud is just a series of data centers owned by cloud providers. If you are Netflix, you’re not hosting Stranger Things for audiences in the US from the EU. You have a copy of it in both places and leverage AWS regions in each area to server geographically closer users (it’s typically called latency based routing). If the undersea cables are cut, the EU still watches Netflix because the content doesn’t need to travel undersea, it’s already in the EU, same thing in the US. The challenge comes in at the end of the month when people pay their Netflix bills and the banks needs to process international payments. End users are largely not impacted by direct service outages but big companies are.

Could be good as a firewall with PFSense or something. 2.5gb to the ISP and a 10gb trunk port. Would be an upgrade for me. All I would use is a drive in it though.

I was RedHat 3 back in 1996. Not even sure how we got the CD but we all passed it around and were amazed.