My southern hemisphere schooling didn't include em dashes in the curriculum so I have no idea what they are.

If I received literature with obtuse punctuation, I would assume it was either AI-written (GPT) or AI-proofed (Word).

Old school - a note under the door, at least when they make the bed and provide fresh towels.

But everything is done by algorithms these days. If someone in head office makes a decision to terminate a contract then possibly all the bookings are just reset on the computer without any knowledge from the employees on site.

Chrome OS is also single sign on, with a Google login instead of a Microsoft one. So if a company is looking to wean itself off Outlook/O365/Win11/Teams for Google equivalents then that might be an attractive option for the bean counters.

Work gave me a 'new' reconditioned laptop 6 weeks ago. It is *slow* due to all the monitoring crapware they add to the factory image to keep Windows 11 secure and corporate; I can imagine Chrome OS running faster on cheaper hardware. FWIW we do already have software running in a cloud instance via a web browser, even devs remote into a cloud hosted sandpit these days.

Not since Treasurer Joe Hockey gave the industry an ultimatum.

And yet a decade on, alternative-PM (at least in his own estimation) Andrew Hastie would have us return to the glory years of cars made locally.

Pwn2Own.

You stockpile a bunch of zero days for a hacking contest.

Let alone the baddies...

You can check out any time you like or you can never leave.

Android pre installs that Google Chrome malware.
The first thing I do on a new phone is install Firefox.

All the above except the Kiwi collab were produced by the state run broadcaster, ABC.

But yeah 7, 9 and 10 are wall to wall reality because it's cheap to produce and satisfies, ironically, the local content requirement.

If Linux is ported to WASM, why not XNU?

Turns out Google Play had a web interface since, like, forever.

Article subject says 'browser' but I'm thinking web-based IDE, such as VSCode.

Bootstrapping just enough operating system to get your work done, within the same web sandbox as the parent process.

It could be lighter-weight alternative for certain simple tasks than hyper-virtualization, containers and all that jazz...

although in winter... northern Spain is kind of eerie as a tourist when you're up for an early morning hike in the mountains.

I observed that in Asturias that kids were catching the school bus in darkness because the sun didn't rise until 8:30am.

(Sorry that I may have made this anecdote 6 months ago during the previous DST story!)

going DST-less can only be decided on a nation level (if it would be Australia)

The northern-most regions that straddle the Tropic of Capricorn, i.e. QLD, NT and WA, don't have it.

Daylight saving isn't a federal issue. As a geographic enclave of regional NSW, Canberra follows Sydney time.

I blame Gene Roddenberry for the untold damage to the reputation of lizard people via TOS episode Arena.

The Gorn were living their best lives until the Metron showed up and tried to provoke a conflict with Captain Kirk.

'astronaut' isn't even really English - it was coined from two ancient Greek words meaning star-sailor. c.f. Argonaut.

a perfectly cromulent English word - 'sky-walker'.

A colleague of mine went to the hardware store and bought a pair of industrial ear-muffs.

Open-plan absolutely is a drain on productivity. Casual gossip, overhearing others on calls.

Work recently asked us to return to the office 3 days a week for 'collaboration', which is codeword for dump a bunch of stuff that is someone else's responsibility on me. Just let me do my fucking work in peace. Oh and the commute 2 hours a day on public transport...

As a salaryman in my 50s, I am tired of the bulltish.