With a relatively inexpensive software defined radio dongle and antenna, anybody can pick up and decode real time imagery from GOES satellites. Imagery is also archived online, but picking up the feed from a satellite directly overhead is very entertaining. I hope the feeds remain accessible to all.

Who would ask an LLM if they should feed cheerios to their dog? Nothing good - other than entertainment - could come of this.

There are missing options. RetroPie running on a Raspberry Pi makes a great compact, low power gaming station. Load up some emulators, some roms, and off you go. There are also emulation handhelds of all kinds, but I prefer playing on a larger screen.

I think Microsoft is fairly used to 'blistering criticism'.

Rackspace wasn't cheap during their heyday. What niche do they still occupy? How can they compete today with the big (and small) hosting and cloud players?

If you're looking for cheap, there are many other options. If you're looking for enterprise, AWS and Azure are dominant.

Where does Rackspace even fit in?

The IHU is headed up by the controversial Didier Raoult, who was one of the earliest hydroxychloroquine shills. He is facing disciplinary hearings: https://www.france24.com/en/eu...

Fair enough, you are right, and I wasn't clear enough in my post. But wherever Microsoft is going with its strategy, it seems to be putting distance between itself and Docker.

Based on our experience with Docker in Azure over the last two years, Microsoft has been losing interest in Docker. Most of their Docker Azure stuff never left preview, didn't work particularly well when you tried anything other than a bog standard configuration, and you got almost zero visibility into what was going on in your containers if they failed to start up properly. It looks like they are betting on Kubernetes instead.

Having worked in both the private and government sectors, I can say that while government can collect more of your personal information, it is extremely restricted in what it can do with this information, how it can be accessed by employees, how it can be aggregated, and where and how it can be stored.

Corporations have it way easier.

I'm not a big fan of video as a means of learning coding, but the Google Chrome Developers YouTube channel does a decent job, particularly their Designing in the Browser series. Many videos are 15 minutes or less, and often have good examples. Some interesting coverage of new and emerging features, and the presenters aren't afraid of taking a dig at Chrome when it's warranted.

https://www.youtube.com/c/Goog...

As if we didn't have enough to worry about, Blackstone is also one of the world's biggest landlords. How could a corporation possibly resist the temptation to use this data for profit?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/0...

Any of the 1-star reviews of Tuscan Milk: https://www.amazon.com/Tuscan-....

For example:

"Be careful, there is no warning on the label, but this product severely damaged my iPhone when I immersed it."

And I thought it was about distilling.

Microsoft makes jumping onto Teams pretty compelling, by essentially bundling it with Office 365. The integration is well done. The cost is low (once you're in Office-land). However, Slack's usability still completely stomps Teams

- Workspaces: as a consultant, I can't be logged into all of my clients' Teams at the same time. Teams client won't allow more than one Office 365 login at a time, so unless they have a guest user policy, I have to have an anonymous browser window open for each additional Teams-using client. This is an epic PITA. Slack makes this so easy.
- Channels/conversations: Slack's channels are quick to set up, intuitive, and easy to use. Teams' channel equivalent, called 'teams' (brilliant) sucks. They tend to quickly turn into abandoned spaces. Notifications are crap. The message threading in them is awful and confusing. Teams needs to make its replies flat. Half the time you think you're replying in a sub-thread, but you end up replying to the whole team instead.
- Teams notifications. So far, nobody I know has been able to figure out how to enable notifications for a Teams team (ugh), unless you're @-mentioned. So you may miss out on important conversations unless you remember to visually check your Teams client.