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Anecdotal, I know, but I was ghosted by Google back in 2004-2005 or thereabouts. Back and forth with a recruiter, who promised me that she would book phone screens. Then heard noth…

For me, it was kubuntu. Back in late 2005 or early 2006. The reason? They were always pretty good at shipping the latest KDE. I had grown tired of hoping someone would compile a ne…

I have no idea about this catalogue, however, looking at the article and how the image manipulation has happened - it looks very much like "repro" work back in the day. Anything th…

My take: China is now producing cars of such good quality that companies are putting CT-scans of their cars online .. Been driving Tesla the last 9 years .. entirely possible that …

Uh; not the same as FreeBSD jails? But name conflict? That's just silly.

Leaving Google was the best thing I did, some 10 years ago. It reduced my stress level dramatically. I had no idea about how stressed I was at G. The release, when leaving, was imm…

> And now we are at a situation where nuclear escalation has already started (New START was not extended). This is a massive understatement. Russia has announced, and probably test…

Given the rapid expansion of solar, and that it keeps accellerating, we're less than 10 years away from seeing a massive decline in demand for gasoline. I don't know the chemistry,…

Nice, the L4 cache seem to be a newish addition. Love the detail about two filesystems with >10 exabytes of storage.

While reading this kind of articles, I'm always surprised by how small the storage described is. Given that Microsoft released their paper on LRCs in 2012, Google patented a bunch …

Been a kubuntu user since .. 2006? 2007? Don't remember when kubuntu became a thing, but as soon as I tried Ubuntu, I went kubuntu. I believe it was 5.10 or 6.04 or something. :-) …

Well, there was Ender's Game, it came in '85. Usenet did exist at that point, though. Don't know if the author had encountered it. The Shockwave Rider was also remarkable prescient…

I've been using Firefox since it was called Phoenix. Going against the users like that would make me drop it like a hot potato.

The interconnects already exists.

> and it's not too difficult to make an opinionated and challenging chatbot Funnily enough, I've saved instructions for ChatGPT to always challenge my opinions with at least 2 oppo…

Grew up with Duralex Provence as the 'regular milk / water glass' here in Norway. Never broke one by accident. Excellent glasses.

I don't know how folks did it elsewhere, or what the rules was. Here, a friend and I created ourselves a "bubble". My family and his family hanged out with each other. My kid was p…

Scary statistics from the US. Here's some anecdotal data from Norway (my daughter being the data, she's 11): - Walked in a different aisle at a store. My daughter started going to …

I'll note that phrack magazine predates the worm by 3 years. Wargames, the movie, predates it by 5 years. 2600 by by 4 years. Mitnick started having fun around 9 years earlier. I'm…

We had the right technologies in the past, but we mismanaged them. Email, Usenet and IRC was great. Email, however, went dogshit due to spam. From simply having the office mail-ser…

Sadly lacking a nice big table to lay out the metadata on.

All my random edits go through and stick around. Probably because they're relatively simple. A table with data up until 2020, and I update it with sources up until 2024? Never had …

What happens to the energy that did the useful work?

What I find truly insane is how we're "wasting" the hardware. I ran a mailserver for thousands of people on a 486 DX 33Mhz. It had smtp, pop3 and imap. It was more than powerful en…

I have a Tesla, and up until Elon did a hitler salute, I was more then willing considering that my next car would be a Tesla too (my main annoyance being that windshield wipers was…