Tried to order. The magazine is $30CAD, which itself is exorbitant enough but I was willing to pay. Then I got to shipping, they are doing this through SHOP, and the cheapest option was $32 DHL courier. Jesus guys, what happened to print day, you have boxes and boxes, and you stuff them into mailers and send them by good old fashioned USPS. I checked, and even first class priority USPS is a third of that, with ready options down to the $3-$6 range. If they are going to treat this relaunch as if they are armchair business people re-selling drop shipped boutique coffee at a click and passing on their lack of foot-work to every end customer, then this is going to be a VERY short lived relaunch.

Ouch. You just erased any old school street cred you may have had. One has to have been living under a sci-fi rock not to have heard of Starlog.

There is a very simple solution, which is to legislate that electricity price increases due to data center demand are borne solely by the data centers that create the demand. Then the data centres, as they balloon the electricity costs up, can decide whether or not they want to continue to operate as a power sink where they are, fund their own wind farms or other generation, or move to where there is more spare capacity.

It's not like calculating the exact impact is in any way hard. There is nothing opaque about the numbers.

The problem is that no monkey with a keyboard is doing it except the ones who see $$$ in their eyes and inject ads into a fucking screensaver. I picked that screensaver as there are no other aquarium choices that don't blare dumb ads at annoying intervals.

Working so well that 9% of you are going away!
Trump can get away this this kind of doublespeak to his drones, but does this really work said to a tech company's employees? What actual purpose does tone deaf idiocy like that statement serve?

SpaceX only enjoys near monopoly because NASA can't find its ass with a specialized rover.

I have no issues with Rust. I find working in it personally is relatively easy, I am not sure why the assertion "human developers find Rust difficult to learn". Perhaps for developers with experience only with hand-holding managed languages it is. As a systems level language, it has the proper amount of added machinery to its output. Namely none. I am of the camp that thinks that there should not be a differentiation between systems and user languages, and that most "user" languages need to just go away. Go is an abomination. Not going to grace it with any further attention.

Python is acceptable in scripts if USED AS DIRECTED!! Python for full applications and even for most non-trivial UI's is almost universally a Bad Idea(tm). Python is as awful for its abysmal performance as it is for its terrifying supply-chain failings. A Python program intended for Real Work or as a complex UI has the following lifecycle:
1) Prototyping and "proof" of concept
2) Beta with disappointing performance
3) If "Real Work" appllication this is where a back end library with a real language is contemplated for the heavy lifting
4) Test deployment in monoculture environment (other devs and power users with exactly the same Python install)
5) Disastrous real world deployment as the myriad of awful version-to-version incompatibilities are seen
6) Rework
7) Rework employing more libs and compatibility shims
8) Rework
9) ...
50) Abandon for a real language

They were designed at a price point. You get what you pay for.

How does that follow? You are treating the idea of a user upgrading their own RAM like a service RPI is providing.

RPI paid to design the board, sold them, then spent more money to make an update to prevent users from modifying a developer board in certain ways? That makes zero sense, and can only serve to alienate the very clientele that are paying their bills.

All joking aside if....

And if you want to block Google's AI Overviews, there's over 100 extensions to choose from.

...there are literally a hundred extensions to block this, maybe instead you might think of making ONE to add it. And just leaving it out.

Ya think?

I've watched the "runs". This isn't playing Doom. This is the "fly" sitting in the middle of a single room with four opponents that shoot at it and lasting about six or seven seconds of game time.

This was by no means a fruit fly brain playing doom. It was an exercise in interfacing Doom to a fruit fly brain which gets squashed in Doom about as fast as it does in my kitchen.

What a colossal waste of time. Predictably, when you take 139,255 neurons and place them in a situation they are utterly unequipped to handle they fail to handle it. Good science boyz!

I'm not interested in what savings, I'm interesting in what software? What software does Oracle have that is worth actually giving them ANY amount of money for today?

Lexmark invented the weaponization of ink and Toner, but it was HP that took it to a fine art. Where you can buy a cartridge but not actually own the ink in it or the right to use it. I moved on to Brother some years ago and never looked back. I wrote an article about it seven years ago, and have never regretted dropping them. And the Brother MFC-J6945DW I moved to then, I still use it. Large format, fantastic quality, giant refillable cartridges. My price per page over and above the cost of paper is a rounding error.

You're right. Meet Excelcia, the Slashdot monitoring and control AI.

That's a funny way of explaining that they neglected to implement proper security measures and backup measures for decades.

The security measures I can forgive. Or, rather, I can extend them the benefit of the doubt. There are so many vectors and ins, I'm willing to issue a mulligan on that.

But the backup... what is the difference between a ransomware attack and a hard drive failure? Only the predicate intent. The result is identical.

So while I have room for tolerance for a security failure, I have no tolerance for the aftermath. Anyone can get hit by it, but being harmed by it for more than a day, that's on them. Anything more than a day's down time to re-image every hard drive and firmware back to known good, is just simply incompetence.

Tero said: How did this article even get published?

It's a great article. There are a lot of apps, use cases, and workflows that can be duplicated in Linux, but which aren't obvious or well advertised. An article like this encourages people to share those workflows they have had problems duplicating and then others who have duplicated them or found other solutions can share them. Great idea. The lowest quality (or one of) part of this article was your comment.

couchslug said: Maintaining the low quality of Slashdot is a mysterious choice by its owners whose replacement by AI would be an upgrade.

...and here we have a tie for the other lowest quality part of this article. Great name, by the way. Matches your attitude. If you want to make a complaint, then offer a solution with it. If you hate Slashdot in general so much, why are you here? We have all watched the site slowly suffer from not having any energy input into the system, but maybe dragging it down further isn't the answer. Can you even see the irony of bitterly complaining about the lack of effort the owners are putting in?

Both of you, add some energy to the system, or vote with your feet. Lead, follow, or get out of the way.