Last agent out, please turn off the light

"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced."

Suddenly, LinkedIn is empty ..

I am unsure if I would prefer having Elon Musk insinuating an assassination of a journalist with impunity.

Every attempt of regulation is a dance of a razor blade. Combine this with executive power, there is always a danger of stiffing free speech.

On the other hand, all court decisions are usually well argued. Press reports often simplify the case until it become unrecognizable.

Currently I am more worried about the limitations on the German version of the Freedom of Information act being discussed than for the free speech.

My personal observation is rather 99%. There are a lot of node.js installations hidden in some software that was last updated when the city of Rome was founded.

I used to travel to the U.S. once per year. Friends were working there and thinking about moving permanently. That is a thing of the past already since George W. Bush and the DHS.

Donnie put this to completely new level, but one could read the signs two decades ago.

One just does no longer feel welcome ...

The U.S. will still get those who only care about money. Please keep them there.

Most recipes (90+%) on the internet illustrate only two things: the author can neither cook nor write recipes.

Don't get me wrong: there are excellent recipes to be found. But it takes quite some effort to find them before being bludgeoned to death by ads.

We are hitting more and more negative feedback loops. It will not stop at 2.6C.

Story is not sexy enough to be noticed :-(

My last active Windows Installation is my Gaming PC. Once Windows 10 goes, I will switch to SteamOS. I took one look at the roadkill that the cat dragged in (aka Win 11) and decided, I will never use that. Microsoft has made so many customer hostile decisions. Worst is that they try to ram AI down everyones throat.

This is just anecdotal evidence:

I am working in sales, so my metrics are very clear: how many Euros do I pull in.

When I went to a 4-day-week three years ago, all my numbers went up and stayed there since.

I took a 20% hit on my base salary, but the higher commission compensated it.

I am suffering from osteoarthritis. I would rather need an appliance that enables me to walk more than a mile without pain. 5000$ would be small change compared to what I would pay for that.

My last Windows is my Gaming PC. Wanted to try Gaming on Linux anyway, so this is the necessary motivation.

8 * 8 TB HD
4 * 2 TB SSD
64GB RAM

The EU didn't demand that Microsoft grants 3rd Party Software Kernel privileges.

What the EU demanded, that all solutions must have the same access to work with the system as Microsoft does.

So the reason for 3rd party SW having kernel access is because Microsoft is using a shitty security architecture for it's own software.

Apple recognised this problem and went through years of pain and complaints to get security software to use an API and do things in userland territory.

Just checked:

Our first web server came up in 1994 using Cern HTTPD.

We developed that year a concept of mirrored web sites to keep non-local traffic low: the Bundesdatenautobahn. It was the first attempt of a CDN that didn't take of.

We also built a web shop that sold books online in 1994. Strangely we are no billionaires today.