I've really, really been unimpressed with Gemini. I'll use almost anything else.

Also -- completely tangential -- can I just say how nice it is that Slashdot still exists? Of course, it's WAY different than Chips 'n Dips and Redhat IPO days, but still, it's fun to come here and feel 1998 wash over me...

Sixteen Tons, Merle Travis, 1947 Covered by Tennessee Ernie Ford, 1955

Why do people give credit a performer of songs and not the author (and, in this case, the original performer). Ford's version was a huge hit and the first song I learned the sing, or so my parents and sister tell me as I was only three at the time.

It seemed crazy then.
It's far, far crazier now.

They already do -- they have a duplicate site in Egypt.

It's not BS. By state law in California speeding detected by camera is not a moving violation. There are no points assigned to the owner. The owner is responsible for paying the fine no matter who is driving. Red light camera tickets are a moving violation, but the cameras must take pictures of the license plate and the driver.

And how many modular reactors are now in production? Until there is some financial and engineering data, "is" remains the appropriate verb and, once more data on real use cases becomes available, my bet that operational costs will continue to leave modular nuclear behind for most use cases. Beating near zero operational costs and increasingly lowering costs will keep solar and, to a lesser case, wind in front.

Wow! It worked. Maybe someone of authority who didn't assume that Windows ad Mac were all there was and that actually knew something about Linux system security and Microsoft system security and which is more worthy of trust.

Thanks!

I am a longtime Firefox user, but time is running out, I fear. About a month ago I was no longer able to log into PG&E, my natural gas and electricity provider. No errors, but the sign-in page would not load on Linux or Windows. Last week, that changed. They print link to a page that says that only Chrome, Edge and Safari would be allowed to login to their web pages. The claimed that no other browser exceeds 5% of users and, rather than spend resources supporting other browsers, they were blocking all of them.

Chase Bank blocks all access from any operating systems except Windows and MacOS. Only those two systems were considered "secure enough" to allow in the door.

I can move to a different bank, but I can't change from Pacific Gouge and Extortion. Oddly, I can use Duck Duck Go on my phone, so I can survive, at least. If a real alternative browser ever is allowed onto Android (not likely without legal intervention), I suspect it will soon be blocked, but as long as all Android browsers are Chrome with a Firefox or other wrapper, it continues to work.

As time passes, the only options will become Chrome based except for Apple products.

Not all duplicate passwords are really duplicates. I have at least two cases where a single site has two distinct domain names and they are totally interchangeable. One is just two letters and the other is much longer. So, every time I run the checker in my vault, it lists these as dups.

When I was working, this was especially true for many internal and external systems that were like this. Many were anycast systems which had the anycast name (used in most cases) and a system specific name used when someone needed to access a specific member of the set of an anycast group.

I suggest 9.9.9.9, dns9.quad9.net. Take a look https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... to learn about it. I use the encrypted connection (DNS over TLS). Anycast from several global location and headquartered in Switzerland where they take privacy seriously!

This is true. The predictions have pretty consistently been conservative and the actual measurements have usually been more extreme than the predictions. The climate scientists understand what the deniers would claim if the predictions were not at least met, so they are conservative.

Interesting to see this today as this morning's paper (San Jose Mercury) had a nice article about how California handled this summer's record heat wave with no shortages and not even a single Flex Alert requesting conservation during peak usage. How it never even got close, mostly due to the large availability of new battery storage, along with new and existing solar and wind capacity, that has been added over the past few years.

There are real concerns with major interconnects both between northern and southern Cal as well as to other states, but, due to the multi-megawatt battery installations in multiple areas in the state, triple digits in both ends of the state at the same time did not over-tax the system.

Well, kinda close. The only way to get rid of heat in space IS radiation. Infrared travels though a vacuum just fine. That is how most satellites are cooled. And, yes, cooling is required by most satellites. Some satellites carry coolants. Liquefied HE or something similar.

Cooling in space is a bitch and cooling a data center of any size will be VERY tricky. Since I know hat they have thought of this, I'll be very curious to learn exactly what.