Imagine a Beowulf cluster of invisible squid brains!

...welcome our new invisible squid overlords

That phrase is causing my brain to lock up. It's either umami, or it's sweet...

Where the fsck am I gonna find a floppy disk, not to mention a drive..

browser.vpn_promo.enabled=false

Thanks! I've never seen this behaviour but I've preëmptively set "browser.vpn_promo.enabled" to false.

"I really didn't know the significance of this crime until I was picked up [by the FBI] at my home,"

Yeah, right.

Insignificant but bought him "more than $30 million in assets, including nearly $6 million in cash; cars including Lamborghinis, Porsches, Bentleys, and McLarens; and a portfolio of more than a dozen properties he'd amassed across Philadelphia and its suburbs."

Got any other good howlers you want to tell us, Omi?

He had a choice?

I live in the SE US and I have memories of the craptacular heat pumps of the '70s & '80s. They did pretty good in aircon mode, but in heat mode they were merely adequate at best. The "heat" they blew was pretty cool, and below about 35-40F outdoor ambient they would fall over to their backup heat source which was usually electric strip (resistance) heating -- i.e. expensive! My current house has an early 2000s-vintage heat pump (with gas backup) and it's better but still wouldn't be suited to a cold climate. I hope these newer more efficient ones work out.

Exactly. There's nothing unique about Apple in this. In fact, Apple have taken measure to try to not have AirTags abused like this. If you want to stalk someone there are better choices (Tile etc) than Airtags. Airtags make efforts to announce their presence if they seem to be being abused. But Apple have deep pockets so they're the ones getting sued

First: Only 5 million? Given a global population of 8 billion, a huge percentage of whom are online, 5 million seems like a surprisingly small number

Second: 24 hours and this topics has only 4 posts? What has become of /.?

...and in other news, scientists find that rain is wet

Is /. still "news for nerds, stuff that matters"? I'm missing the "news" and "matters" part of this

WTF is "the SAO Incident"?

Privatize the gains, socialize the losses

Haven't played with either in years. And I thought I'd left ps2pdf behind with the Linux box on my work desk when I retired. I guess I'll have to reacquaint myself...

Or I guess I could do my rendering and converting on an RPi. Hello again, vi. Remember me?