IBM jumped the shark with CentOS stream.

If my company is a typical shop that's been running their entire infrastructure on CentOS for decades (and I have no reason to believe they're not), CentOS is losing mindshare, as everyone's migrating to Ubuntu LTS.

Yes, we know about Rocky, and it may very well turn out to be a success. But it's not just the RHEL core, but whether the "aftermarket" software, i.e. VMWare, and the rest, will officially support Rocky like they support CentOS.

But the company is not going to take this for granted, and is migrating to Ubuntu LTS.

What IBM failed to recognize is that CentOS attracted mind-share. It did not translate into tangible revenue. But it was tangible mind-share, and attracted a pool of RHEL knowledge in the developer and sysadmin communities. And Fedora fed into it.

RHEL will be slowing bleeding mindshare, as a good chunk of the CentOS user base disappears. And, indirectly, this also impacts Fedora. I know: this is making me invest my own time into acquiring Ubuntu-centric skills and domain knowledge. Fedora's future looks glum.

P.S.: TWTR's annual meeting is on May 25th. Bring popcorn.

The reason that the board is now talking to Elon Musk is because, finally, they're afraid of their own hides.

They have no choice. Directors have a fiduciary obligation to their shareholders. It's tough to argue that when someone who walks in and offers far more cash to their shareholders that they hope to ever see, in any foreseeable future, it's not in the best fiduciary interests of their shareholders.

The directors tried to handwaive away Elon Musk's initial offer, citing the fact that his sources of funding were uncertain. Well, they don't have that excuse any more. He showed them the money.

They simply can't come up with a valid excuse for turning him away, any more. They ran out of hands to waive. Otherwise their asses will be class-actioned all the way to the moon, not to mention any possible involvement from the feds, for breaching their fiduciary duties. They can't expect that their political alignment with the ruling class will let them skate.

So, with the directors' own hides on the line, they really have no choice but to sell to Musk. All they can do is haggle about the price. But they don't really have a good position to negotiate. Twitter is as good as sold.

California is bleeding. It's a challenge to find an available U-Haul, every available one is being used to U-Haul U-Ass out of state. The Golden State lost congressional seats in the last census. It'll lose more in the next one.

This is a brilliant solution! Making it even harder to do business in the Golden State will surely encourage new business to flock in, and create more employment opportunities, and more job opportunities for the Golden State!

And every time one of the pirate sites gets removed from the search results, have it provide a helpful link to PDFs of all the filings from BREIN that lists all the pirate sites that it wants blocked.

It would be even better if the PDFs themselves have hyperlinks to each blocked pirate site.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

I was active on Usenet since the early 1990s, all the way through its peak and decline, and I do not recall spam being much of a problem. I saw very little of it, and whatever little it was, was quite manageable.

The reason Usenet decline, and was superceded by myface, twatter, spacebook, et. al. has nothing to do with spam, but with simple human factor. It does take some minimal amount of effort to organize one's thoughts and type up a coherent message that's readable by others.

It takes much less effort to post a picture of your yawning cat, to give everyone else their shits and giggles.

This is very simple: rediscover Usenet. This is the original, decentralized, peer-to-peer social media platform. Extra bonus: plenty of pr0n if you know where to look (or at least AFAIK, there was plenty back in the hey-days of Usenet, maybe not as much now).

I can post to Usenet anything that's on my mind, and I cannot be censored or deplatformed. It's simply not technically possible. And Usenet is still around.

All right, let's unpack this. Walmart has identified their biggest competitive challenge. Their number one corporiate priority. Their major strategy going forward. They're betting the company on it. What is it?

Blockchains. And digital currencies.

[clap clap]

How brilliant! That'll leave Amazon in the dust! Amazon is so stupid! They have no digital currency. And they have no blockchain to parade around their corporate headquarters.

Walmart's firmly established on its track of evolving into the next Sears & Roebuck.

Now, what percentage works from the toilet, now that would be fascinating data to know.

As a New-Jerseyan, I agree. What a shithole. Everything you heard about New Jersey in Futurama is 100% true.

It's really is a shame. At its core, Firefox is a top notch browser. After pairing it with uBlock origin you actually get a pleasant web browsing experience. I really cringe every time, for some reason, I need to load a web site somewhere other than my phone or desktop. It's always an obnoxious experience. Firefox is fast, and stable.

The problem with Firefox, and what's driving it into the ground is everything outside of the core web browsing functionality. On mobile, where most of the growth opportunities are, these days, Firefox has redesigned itself into a shithole.

First, the URL bar dropped to the bottom, inexplicably, and you have to dig through setting to put it back up at the top where it belongs. Then, you no longer have a home page, but a blank screen with six, or so, icons to choose from. What. The. Fuck. And then, everything your open becomes a new tab. And they multiply like rabbits. If you go back to the home-blank-screen your tab DOES NOT CLOSE, and just sits there, hogging memory. When you go to a new destination you get ANOTHER tab, even if it's the same web site you just backed out of.

I haven't tried to experiment to see what happens if I don't close anything for a week. Will this dumb thing keep spawning tabs, in perpetuity, until it runs out of memory? I didn't feel like wasting time to find out. You can dig through setting and set the tabs to autoclose after 24 hours, the shortest possible setting. Still, I'm majorly annoyed having to manually close tabs at least a few times a day.

Monthly Firefox redesigns just have to stop. They really have to. At its core, Firefox is a fine browser, but it's noone else's fault that its continuous stream of UI insanity is driving people away from it.

"... and urea"

Does it mean that, if I forget to turn out the lights and run down the battery, I can piss into it and get enough for a few miles to the nearest charging station?

I am not an expert on blockchain technologies. But I do know enough to be fairly confident that every claim that's made in article is 100% bullshit.

it will make it impossible for a movie to be played before it arrives at the intended location

Right. Because up until now movie theaters somehow played movies before they received their film or digital copies, all the time. They had some kind of a magical ray-beam machine, that beamed the movie in straight from the studio, or the Fedex package in transit to the movie theater.

a type of email server known as a mail transfer agent (MTA)

This is somewhat analogous "a type of a car known to have four wheels".

I also highly recommend xfce as an alternative to gnome. The updated xfce in F34 looks just beautiful, but it is still a traditional desktop, with traditional semantics that everyone expects.