I'm an actual Starlink user at my farm. It's head-and-shoulders better than any competing service.

I previously has used a cellular uplink... and even with a yagi mounted 30' up on a mast, I barely had 1-2Mb/s of bandwidth. It was truly miserable.

Starlink is a game-changer... give 'em the freakin' money. They've done something truly miraculous for rural internet users, who had previously only terrible/expensive options. As a taxpayer, I'm actually glad to see the money I contribute going to something useful.

We can always strap a granade to a duck....

Till everything not edge wont run....

Classic Microsoft "innovation"... Chrome and google? Pretty similar. Safari and osx? Hell, that one is even worse. We should ALL help and contribute to mozilla. Those other bastards are killing the net.

Well... go see their secretary of education and you will KNOW why this is so.

Apple maps suck. Streaming in itunes sucks. Itunes mostly sucks. Apple music is okay, but spotify is better. Apple's clooud storage really is good for mostly nothing.

Apple does great, beautiful machines. Online services is not their thing. I hope they don't go all "appley" on us and split the web for safari to make their stuff work as intended.

Yeah, google is a monopoly. But its one that benefits from multibrowser compatibility and open source software. I pick that evil over the proprietary option which well, I cant even afford, let alone pick.

Agreed. The last 20 years have not been kind to this place.

Hollywood has long been a wretched hive of scum of villainy. Toads like Weinstein should have been burned down long ago.

But throwing Kavanaugh in with Weinstein? C'mon.

Hallelujah, brother... preach it.

Right here: "I'm still rocking Windows 7 because, in my opinion, there isn't anything wrong with it"

You are whats wrong with it.

I don't think this is a great idea. I mean, all that money to make sure students that pay tens of thousends of dollars aren't cheating mostly themselves.... it's fucking stupid and it says more about the whole idea of modern capitalism, the illusion of meritocracy and the doubtful relevance of superior education, that about the students that would cheat themselves.

It was a piece of shit back in the day and its move to the web is as yucky as predicted: piece of shit microsoft proprietary formatted crap.

Man i hate it.

I too remember the Old Days (TM). Slashdotting was an actual thing. We fearlessly rode the waves of the ether, and many a site trembled at the sound of our clicks.

I rarely post any more... but the passing of Rob is sobering reminder than none of us are getting any younger... RIP Roblimo :(

Um. Every state – NOT country, but STATE– worth its salt is conducting industrial and governmental espionage. It is what states do. Its like, its their thing, man.

We need to start moving to the distributed blockchain platforms as fast as possible. Check out steemit, busy.org, d.tube and the others coming around and on top of stuff like ipfs. Central platforms need to be phased. Im not saying current platforms are the way to go, but definitively, we need to empower distributed storage and services on blockchains transparent contracts, very much away of centralized palaces like alphabet's offers.

Cataluña has no reason to secede. Nationalists, who are basically localist fascists are the ones pushing for an impossible exit of cataluña from the Spain, when by the way, they werent anexed. Cataluña entered Spain voluntarily, more than 500 years ago. Now the spanish government though is anything but smart. Prime Minister Rajoy could almost qualify as a sea sponge if we are talking about intelligence. This is why this move on the Spanish part is sad, stupid, but not unforseen. It plays into the hands of the fucking cataluña nazis, which is what nationalists are.