"...with a clear case and LED lights ($349)..."

"...125,000 gigabytes per second..."

"...50,250 Gbps..."

Try to be consistent between bits and bytes.

I could be wrong, but this seems to touch on the larger issue of 'let's do it because we can, not because we should'.

This seems to be a mindset that is rampant these days. Someone comes up with a clever idea and everyone just leaps on it. (ChatGPT, 'filters', AI companions, deep and wide data mining, etc.) Seems to me a mindset that comes from greed, fear of being left behind, fascination with the newest shiny object, a search for self reassurance, etc. None of those seem like motivations that lead to a more mature society.

I believe the faster we leap to 'the new', the sooner we cheapen our humanity. I mean, we could "choose" to not extract/stockpile/use everyone's personal data.

Now get off my lawn!

I only skimmed the article, but am I the only person who thinks that, if we had a situation or field of diagnosis where doctors were only getting it right 20% of the time, we would throw some research/education/analysis at it? Because 20% correct (or 80% incorrect) seems kinda concerning and I would think would lead to a lot of brouhaha or lawsuits?
Maybe it's just me.

What a tease. The cloud is "close to Earth", "40 moons in width".

Oh, it's 300 light-years away.

Judging by the headline - "...Unmployment" - DOGE must have convinced someone that letters cost money and we need to slash how many vowels we use.

"...along with slower wager growth"

I thought online gambling was booming...

(sorry - couldn't resist)

"...inhalable particular matter has fallen..."

Which particular matter are we talking about? Possibly the particulate matter that is particular to some cities?

"...it came equipped with rover-penetrating radar..."

Couldn't they just peek around the rover?

Lens manufacturers have been offering firmware updates for some years now. And it seems that, like with other devices, the firmware update sometimes goes sideways. Example;

https://petapixel.com/2024/02/...

Setting aside L4S for just a moment, couldn't it also be just that Comcast has higher-than-average latency overall? So anything would improve it? Could they have gotten a 30%(?) improvement by tweaking other parameters in their routers?

Is this an isolated group within Facebook who read a couple articles about how Linux enables some negative things, therefore Linux=Bad?

Suddenly I wish Linux had a 30% desktop market share and someone in that group suddenly realized they had Linux on their desk...

Reading recreationally is a choice and reflects (in some small part) education and emotional/intellectual development. Did you grow up eager to learn new things?

I wonder what the level of recreational reading is (relative to the general population) with the slashdot community... We tend to be educated and intellectually 'busy'.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I always have a stack of books waiting for me to read. I even installed a wall-light to make reading in bed easier.

I've use Let's Encrypt certs for years and never donated. [shame]

But the article reminded me of my 'civic duty' and I've now donated.

Thanks

Does anyone remember Bernie Krause - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... - who gave us (among other things) Gorillas in the Mix?

He sampled lots of animal sounds (late 1980's), then used those samples as the basis of various (electronic) musical instruments. An elephant was the bass and even the tiny sound of a crayfish snapping its claw was used as the sound of a drum stick lightly tapping a cymbal.

Seemed pretty cool at the time...