Yes they fucked up, but also there is nothing else left, Google is worse for the reasons mentioned against Firefox and... Here we are

There's always been a section of borderline mentally ill crazies on slashdot.

I wonder sometimes what sort of lives those guys ended up living from the mid 2000s that were posting the netcraft copypasta, enraged rants about open sores and Lunix etc.

Perhaps trolling a technical community was the least harmful thing they could have been doing with their unreleased anger.

Pretty well every major server vendor still uses VGA for the video output. A few months ago I built yet another rig for my lab desks with a multiport VGA / USB KVM and a pikvm because all the stuff that is important still uses VGA. Pretty sad really.

They should have changed it to an E as in their new defacto slogan, "Be Evil".

Bruce Simpson from my country of New Zealand did a great video earlier on in the week on this.

There's some comparisons of some of the images and other common objects in the sky.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...

Nah, I didn't. I'll be charitable and say perhaps you misunderstand the situation. You can replace peak time generation capacity with a battery charged up with quiet time capacity.

I'd love it if I could do the same thing with internet capacity that we provision in my day job.

Power usage has a daily pattern something like this:

https://db-excel.com/wp-conten...

The battery lets you take some usage from a period of low usage ( like approximately 5am on that image ) to charge up your battery array and then discharge it back into the grid at the highest usage point ( like 6pm on that image ).

A whole lot of engineering is worrying about the worst case of your metrics, so taking some usage from your best case and using it to make your worst case better is a great improvement.

After using it for a week or so I haven't come across anyone that seems that nuts yet. Where do the crazies hang out?

It's not a polished drop in replacement for reddit, but lemmy is looking better all the time. Folks can either create their communities ( subreddits if you like ) on public instances or host them on their own gear or VMs and everyone else can access them via federation on the other instances.

https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2023/06/11/lemmy-migration-find-subreddits-communities/

The userbase has been increasing at a pretty high rate since /u/spez initiated reddits suicide attempt.

For over a decade I've been wanting a web standard so news agencies and whoever could digitally sign their published articles so the users could trace the source back to its origin for content that needs to very trusted and verified...
Now it's probably too late with the current media landscape crumbling under the aggregators of this world, but still worth a try maybe?

And capitalism's use of AI without thinking of the impact on society even more so...

Since the first time I heard they were phasing out nuclear BEFORE phasing out gaz, coal, etc. and transitioning to solar, wind, etc.
I was utterly confused by the lack of thinking behind this decision!

I think moving functions into electronic automation rather than logic with vacuum lines and pumps is a step in the right direction, even if it is a bit proprietary to start with.

I don't have a Tesla, but my company car is a General Motors product ( last of the Australian V8 Holden Commodore's ) that I have had from new. It went through three BCM's ( Body Control Modules ) before the thing because when it was pretty new it started doing mysterious things like the doors not unlocking / locking and not starting because it couldn't detect the remote and weird error messages about tyres being deflated, power steering faults etc.

I honestly feel bad for the next owner of this old dinosaur V8, they are screwed. You could replace the ECU with a dozen other after market modules that would run the engine, but the BCMs are very difficult to cleanly integrate with an after market part and run half the stuff in the car. It doesn't seem that different to the Tesla situation to me.

If you have a chance to visit a physical Tesla store, have a look at the deconstructed vehicle they have in there.

There is so much less crap in their driveline compared to a regular petrol vehicle with gears and radiators, manage emissions and junk to pump fuel around etc, let alone the insanity that is in a hybrid car to make dual drivetrains work which is about the worst of all worlds.

I would be amazed if they can't make giant margins if they don't go broke figuring out how to manufacture them.