To anyone wondering. Sauna boats are not common in Norway. It's not "a thing". Please don't add it to the list of Scandinavian stereotypes 🙏

Could "Billionaire X's latest stupid remark" not be considered "technology" news?

Title is a bit misleading, and I think intentionally, which kinda irks me. It isn't a 400x speedup of RAM by means of compression. If I understood correctly, it's 400x speedup compared to disk read for swap.

Please correct me if I'm wrong here. I'd love some positive news from the IT world that isn't depressive. (edit: I implied this wasn't. It is. I'm just not sure of the actual impact)

Never trust cloud solutions when it isn't your cloud.

Indistinguishable from some random masked dudes driving unmarked vans up to a group of kids, with the intention of kidnapping some of them? Sheeeesh. There has to be some serious nation wide lead poisoning over there.

The ones with the absolute most, are, by and large, contributing the absolute least?

I don't see what the big deal is. This is just a Roman roof shape.

Until proven otherwise, I assume either ignorance or malicious intentions by those who want to rename these "problematic" terms. It does nothing to improve the actual issues.

The false pretense of having done something, is worse than doing nothing. It's just noise.

To be clear: I don't mind the changing of terms. I'm too old to care about trivial stuff like main vs master. But if the reasoning for such a change is dumb and potentially harmful, you've lost my respect.

The more accurate description is "Israel's war against Palestine". And, given the power difference and stated goals: "Israel's ongoing genocide of Palestine".

And if you think that it sounds a bit too disturbing, just try to imagine a pile of 4000 children. It might ruin your day.

Why did he think that? Also, why have no one mentioned Valérian and Laureline? It is much easier to argue was more than just a little inspiration?

The comic was published in 1967, ten years before star wars.

https://www.ign.com/articles/2017/07/30/are-the-valrian-and-laureline-comics-really-a-big-unnamed-influence-on-star-wars

I remember seeing more side by side comparison somewhere, and the list of passing coincidences was very long. I think it was this one

From what I've learned by working in top heavy product teams vs slimmer developer teams. The basis for this "in-office leads to productivity" mentality is:

• People who's job uses meetings as their main tool, want these meetings to be in person, and push for a lot of otherwise unnecessary meetings. These meetings, are, of course, more effectively conducted in person.

• People who's job is ultimately to do the work, want to avoid unnecessary meeting. The work that needs doing, can be done more effectively, with fewer distractions, higher quality of life, less environmental impact from the commute, etc, from home.

The pandemic showed that productivity increased when people worked from home. What you can deduce from that, would be unpleasant for all those in the former category.

It's also what Linux should be doing in general,. It's not even the US. It's a fucking state in the US that is doing something stupid on behalf of Meta.

Any Linux distro should just put the onus on the CA legislature. Have a TOS that specifies that it does not comply with CA law, and as such isn't legal there. No need for any implementation change. Businesses in CA can take it upon themselves to comply by maintaining a fork that adds any sort of BS. But, more than likely, the dimwits who didn't know better and listened to Meta, might be surprised to find jusy how much everything runs on Linux (except a tiny number of user facing devices).

Can you point to a way in which the actions, policies, or rhetoric of the Israeli government meaningfully differs from those of Novemberpogrome-era (Krystalnacht-era) Nazi Germany?

They spoke German.

As a Norwegian fairly interested in fotball, I wish everyone could engage slightly less with fascist governments and corrupt organisations. We can do better than USA and FIFA.

Some years ago ago, I was a happy subscriber to Google Music. But, they added it to the graveyard, and instead grafted on some music playing functionality to YouTube and called it YouTube Music. So, I went back to Spotify.

Then I started paying for YouTube Premium Lite. It wasn't unreasonably expensive, although it was a bit annoying I couldn't just have "YouTube" in the household, like with Netflix. So if wife would cast a video to the TV, it would play with ads.

It was about a year ago, when Google starting cracking down on adblockers, that they also removed an option to pay for the service. I think YouTube Premium Lite wasn't a thing in the US (correct me if I'm wrong), but they removed YT Premium Lite, and the only option left was a twice as expensive YouTube Premium bundle that included YouTube Music.

Tldr: fucked up Google Music, then removed an option to pay for YouTube premium, leaving a fairly expensive alternative with the pile of shit they replaced Google music with. It'll be a rough time if they manage to force ads. I won't pay for it, out of principle.

Edit: I looked at the numbers again. I'd have to pay more for YouTube than for the highest Netflix tier. It's more than Prime and HBO combined. They also don't have to front large sums to fund risky projects. If they didn't include YouTube Music, I might have considered it. But with it, it just pisses me off, they can go get f.ed

That's what we call having hundred of untouched games in the steam library. Right?

Given that they are committing a war crime against 2 million people, which by some definition can be considered hostages... This is quite rich.

Isn't Trump just a symptom? What scares the shit out of me, isn't Trump. It's that Americans voted for him once, and a repeat of that shit show is somehow again a possibility. Even 5% thinking that could be a good idea, would be cause for concern. 10% is "what the actual fuck America...".

Remove Trump from the picture, and the issue is still there. The people who would vote for him, and the machinery in place that can convince them of it.

Imagine someone as vile as Trump, but not dumb as a sponge....

Politically motivated threat of violence? What was the term for this again?

Not unusual to teach and preserve the cultural heritage in school.