From the brief conversation I had with each place it sounded as if their entire order management system was taken out by this outage. There was no way for them to even enter the orders so that they could send them to the kitchen. I'm guessing Square must offer some kind of integrated software system that "does it all" for them and there just wasn't a way to reliably switch to paper tickets and cash payments.

I tried getting dinner from two local restaurants last night and they couldn't do anything because of this. They weren't even able to serve me if I came in person and paid cash. It was very disappointing to resort to a national chain to get some sub-par sandwiches.

It seems like using square is like a deal with the devil. It's great until it isn't.

You've only moved the problem up the chain a bit. Sure, it's easy to measure the productivity of "code monkey" work. How do you measure the productivity of the people making the "well described designs" in the SDS and their partitioning of the work among the code monkeys? The hard thinking that's hard to measure has to happen somewhere or you're not really doing much of value.

The Tory government policies are very unfortunate, pigheadedly ignoring basic math and reasoning. Backdoors do not work.

Several issues come to mind. Where is the City in this? I can't imagine all the financial infrastructure in the UK will be happy about weaker controls over security. What would Lloyds or Coutts say regarding government mandated backdoors?

UK has set a stronger policy of government support of the private sector with cybersecurity as well. They would be giving that up. NCSC and other governmental organizations and regulators have been remarkably effective at promoting a new path forward for the British economy. This places all their good work in jeopardy.

I must expect Labour will make hay of this as well. The Tories will be destroying good jobs. Britain cannot afford many more tech positions or firms leaving for the US or Canada.

While mandating the rest of the workers start driving back to the office again: https://www.businessinsider.co...

There doesn't appear to be a native Linux client.

The problem isn't that you can't get google to find results on Reddit. The problem is that many subreddits have gone dark and lots of users have deleted their posts.

So when you search for how to get some piece of software to work on some piece of hardware and put "reddit" in the search, you get the page on reddit where that content used to be but it's either been deleted or replaced with text about the protest.

I logged in after more than a decade to say this:

MLK didn't write the Constitution.

Indeed. I once took an AI class and learned a lot. However the prof said something that really stuck with me: what we call AI today is simply the algorithm for doing a thing tomorrow.

As an example, A* used to be considered "AI" in its time and it's a great algorithm for finding a path through a network with variable weights using heuristics. It's probably still what drives your driving directions on the maps application of your choice. But it would hardly be considered "AI" today.

The problem with "AI" is it's always a moving target.

I've been using a marble mouse for years and it's been great for mitigating carpel tunnel. I bought a few on ebay after they discontinued them to hopefully last my career, but it would be nice to get some new ones.

Same here... many are specialty/technical subreddits modded by experts in their field, where they contribute a lot and help a lot of people with their problems. They're the main reason I'm on reddit, since you can get cat pics and memes anywhere. It's looking like a lot of the ones I follow are planning to close up shop and find somewhere else to help people.

It's ironic to me since Reddit got a huge boost about 11 years ago when Digg went stupid. Now they're doing the same thing. Other than the number of users, Reddit doesn't really offer anything that's not easily replaced. And as the push the true content creators off the site, all they'll have left is all the stuff you can get anywhere else.

It's sad because when I search technical questions on say google, I often add "reddit" to the query since those were often the best answers.

I'm glad you mention Digg because they did pretty much the same thing by crapping all over the users who made the place worth going to. I guess that website's still there, but is anyone but bots actually using it?

Sure, /r/pics, /r/funny, and /r/news will keep going but I know the mods and main contributors of a lot of specialty subreddits are likely done if this doesn't get resolved in a good way. At that point, what you have left is Digg, since for most people I know, it's the specialty subreddits (like many of the highly technical ones I follow) that people are there for.

That whole, "please be mindful of wearing Reddit gear in public. Some folks are really upset, and we don't want you to be the object of their frustrations." is pretty offensive and lets us all know what he really thinks of Redditors. That's fine... Reddit can do without our content.

You have it turned around. The real product is something Reddit's getting for free right now... thoughtful replies to questions and moderation.

The only real "service" Reddit provides is a place for people with common interests to communicate. It's that communication, and the moderation keeping things on-topic, that make Reddit useful and interesting. The real things of value come from the stuff people post and their comments. That can all happen somewhere else.

For example I mostly follow technical subreddits and in each, there are between one and a small handful of passionate people who submit detailed answers to peoples questions about that topic. They're often the moderators there too. Most of them are pretty offended by Reddit's recent behaviors and they're likely to just leave. Reddit can't just find some random person off the internet to provide that valuable content.

I've already deleted my 11 years of posts and comments. Sure some of that was just drek, but there was a lot of useful information I had provided in my areas of interest.

With the content and moderation provided by the passionate people, all the really useful subreddits go away or become mostly useless. Sure /r/pics and /r/funny will still be around but at that point, Reddit just becomes another Digg. And we'll just find somewhere else to be helpful.

Asimov warned us of the dangers of letting robots run one of these stations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Ouch! I'm trying to not take that personally!