this is a good opportunity to be reminded that next to billionaires, hundreds of migrants drown every year in the Mediterranean, most of them without any mention in the media and without being subject to such zealous attempts to save them.

I don't know how good these Sichuan University scientists are at polymer research but they are top notch at spinning a story that the media will ingest without much questioning.

Somebody here old enough to remember http://del.icio.us/ (sorry, no HTTPS) and "social bookmarking" ?

I am sure that seeing humans go would be an immense relief for every other species on Earth and the planet itself.

It is the perfect occasion for this quote... The newsletter Electronic Week quotes astronaut Walter Schirra: “Every time I climb into the capsule I say to myself, ‘Just think, Wally, everything that makes this thing go was supplied by the lowest bidder.’” That Wally, always kidding. https://www.barrypopik.com/ind...

I have been using iDrive.com for years. It is ~$70 / year for 5TB of cloud storage. I chose them because at the time they were the only ones I found with linux support. But their linux support turned out to be very good. Icing on the cake: no limit to the number of devices backed up, file sync service, snapshot and versioning (as long as it fits in the 5TB), sector clone and restore option for Windows, full remote management through web interface. (Sorry to sound like advertising but I am very happy with their service)

Does anybody know if the people working on the Rust programming language are affected by the layoffs? Judging by the justification (i.e. focus on profitable activities) I would think so but I have not head anything specific.

Damn, I am still busy watching season 1 and I have the feeling that a lot has happened that I am unaware of! I have not reached the point yet where "AI is especially good at completing tasks that require planning, learning, reasoning, problem-solving and predicting" but that sounds awesome!

I am all for Falkon as well. I use Falkon on an old laptop with a slow processor 2 MB of RAM and it is the only one that gives me a rich browsing experience (including ad blocking) and does not bring the machine down on its knees.

I was under that impression too but I think they must have changed it very recently. If you scroll down on this page https://www.idrive.com/pricing you can see that linux is checked in the "iDrive Personal" column.

I am not a specialist but looking at the comments it seems that a bot has been posting the same text *against net neutrality* (starting with "The unprecedented regulatory power the Obama Administration imposed on the internet is smothering innovation..."). It looks like a bot because the messages appear to come from people that posted in alphabetical order of their first name/last name combination: Brittany Mccain, Brittany Proctor, Brittany Sharp, etc. in the view sorted by date posted. https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/searc...