The amount of anti-competitive tactics being used by the big techs firms is ridiculous - and I thought it was illegal already but the relevant authorities were just really, really slow to take action.

Example - if you are on Windows, open Microsoft Edge and type "google chrome download" into the address/search bar.

Is the top match the page to download Chrome? Technically yes. Right under a huge "Promoted by Microsoft" section which says:

"All you need is right here
Microsoft Edge runs on the same technology as Chrome, with the added trust of Microsoft."

Then a nice big prominent blue button saying "Get started" which, if clicked, takes you to a page all about how fantastic Edge is.

Can you even imagine a more blatant anti-competitive tactic? I find if absolutely incredible that big tech firms get away with this kind of crap.

Nice one, thanks :)

So I see Slashdot now has a huge Retool "Generate apps with AI" black banner across to the top of page.

Anyone got some greasemonkey/tampermonkey code to get rid of it please? I've experimented a bit with setting a display style based on the DIV ID's, but haven't been able to get rid of it yet.

For anyone interested, the Internet Archive has a file with a copy of all the Dilbert strips:

https://archive.org/details/di...

Connectivity with Azure is announced for 2026.

then you're going to hate multi-cloud.

Amusingly, the site the story is about has itself archived the full version of the article about it, so you can view it without having to register.

https://archive.ph/https://www...

Not in the UK. Our last coal power plant shut down last year (Ratcliffe-on-soar) and demolition work starts in June next year.

Those interconnects are HVDC. There is no "sync".

Frequency change is a symptom, not a cause. The cause was a lack of control over reactive power which then caused voltage instability.

Try reading - https://aelec.es/wp-content/up..., https://www.lamoncloa.gob.es/c... (try google translate if your spanish isn't up to scratch), and https://d1n1o4zeyfu21r.cloudfr...

If Starlink is anything to go by (and Kuiper satellites are at similar altitudes) you’re looking at 25-50ms. My Starlink experience was over 18 months ago and there are are lot more satellites up than there were then so it might be more consistent.

Surely if the same principle applies - why would Ofcom care what a US court decides?

From the summary - "...support for induction, support for C23 / Fortran 2023 / C++23, grater user control of storage resources and memory spaces, and other improvements. "

Actually they announced there is "Greater user control of storage resources and memory spaces".

I'm not sure that using a grater would be a good way of controlling those things.

The name "Boaty McBoatface" wasn't intended for this sub at all.

In case people forgot, the ship which was named "RRS Sir David Attenborough" was named that after a public vote to select its name - and Boaty McBoatface won by a very large margin. The people running things totally disregarded the public choice though and went with a name that actually got 5th place in the vote.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...

They named this little sub "Boaty McBoatface" instead as a cheap cop-out.

An interesting idea. Cross-signing sort of achieves this.

How would certificate revocation work with multiple signers? If one signer said the certificate was revoked, but the other said it wasn't, which would you trust?

.. and at 2,950 kilograms, someone doesn't know how much a 2023 Rolls-Royce Spectre weighs.