FWIW, Linux 7.0’s major version increase is primarily a numbering milestone, not a signal of a single massive breaking change or new feature set. Linux kernel version numbers are sequential and historically don’t imply strict semantic meaning; number bumps have happened for pragmatic reasons (cleaner versioning and manageable minor numbers) rather than functional messaging. El Reg has more

Efficiency dividends go to owners, not customers. There is a reason why privatising government functions doesn't lead to lower costs for the public.

I agree. This is at least in the right direction and should become an industry standard when companies want to retire the cloud component of their products. Ideally mandated by various large consumer protections from various large jurisdictions.

Hell yes. And as soon as possible.

No, haven't heard of it, but I have no doubt there will be multiple movements. When the singularity does happen, it's going to be a pretty wild time to be alive - what's the Chinese curse? "May you live in interesting times"

It is interesting to draw a line from the Luddites of the industrial revolution to the present shift with AI. Then it was machines that replaced manual labour. Now we have systems that can imitate human reasoning and threaten to absorb much of the work done by white collar roles. Generalised robotics is also close to taking over many blue collar tasks. The real question is whether society will adapt fast enough. Human capital is still valuable, but the form it takes is changing. The pace of that change is uncertain. Will we become a new kind of Luddite movement in response, or will we find a way to reshape our roles around these new tools?

Maybe you don't realise just how busy 2.4ghz is these days. PoE Ethernet app the at, dedicated channels and power. Unless you rent.

Honestly the level of local tax dodging strategies in use are off the charts and only worsening Australia's net trade deficit. Apple: earned billions in Australia in 2023/24 and paid zero income tax here, per the latest ATO transparency data and analysis of the report. Microsoft: same story as Apple in 2023/24, billions in Australian income and zero income tax. Netflix: about A$1.2b in Australian revenue in 2023/24 and paid zero company tax. The âoebig fiveâ US tech firms (Microsoft, Google, Facebook/Meta, Apple, Amazon) together paid only about A$650m of tax on their Australian operations in 2022/23, despite multi-billion local revenues. Having local media quotas is the bare minimum. Updating the tax rules to exclude strategies like exorbitant charging for IP for trademark and marketing materials from company owned subsidiaries in low tax jurisdictions. It certainly doesn't go far enough.

Nice write up, sums up a lot of the issues with a major rewrite of a decades old system.

You have to remember this wasn't just a website, it was several decades of technical debt sitting on end of life onprem databases, middleware and legacy code that needed rewriting. This is also a migration to cloud enabled modern stack with a heap of backend and front end Integrations. Did Accenture charge a bomb for the BOM website?! Yes they did. Australia has a problem where government departments outsource all the decisions to consultancies and doesn't do much in-house any more in the name of "small government". In the process the tax payer pays through the nose.

Came here to say the same. Common misconception, many people don't know this important detail.

My Samsung remote has had the solar panel in the back for some green washing too. So glad I can save 100mah of power every 3 months!

Sheesh, if you need proof, it's the people willing to pay this much for a bag.

Proof we are now living in the era of the Idiocracy

The world can't manage to handle the tragedy of the commons situation. It's not me, it's them!