Honestly, since they left for Bluesky, X/Twitter has been more civilized. At least my feed is. The hate from just a few years ago seems like it ran out of steam, but maybe it's just on a different platform now.

That makes sense. Here in the US, I was an early reader of Linux Journal and Linux magazine. I hadn't heard of this one either.

I did. Was going to make it, but was beat to it.

All of mine are. They come in handy. No code in the car though. ;)

Oh boy, now they feel empowered.

Exactly, which is what government subsidies bring with it.

Sure, let the government run it. Without privatization, there is no competition, without competition quality begins a steady but certain decline. We benefit from competition in quality, choice, and usually cost. If anything, we need more competition in the space without small players being gobbled up by the behemoths.

Same here, although I was 9 at the time. I recorded the news on a tape recorder that day as Skylab was falling, just because I thought it was the craziest thing that something from space was falling and may hit something.

Life insurance is a low value offer for many, and it's value is inversely proportional to wealth. Term life policies are especially low value compared to whole life. As I got older, I dropped my term policies as they became more expensive, and kept my whole life as dividends now pay the premiums almost entirely. Younger policy owners have different priorities than older people in many cases. The choice between life insurance and rent/mortgage, car payment, and other household expensed or life insurance for someone in their 20s means the life policy is likely the first item to go away. As many employers offer some level of life insurance, that can erode personal policies. Also, as younger workers reach their 30s and may have been contributing to retirement plans through their job, they are more able to self-insure against death, again eroding the need for those policies.

I did a double-take when I read this. I haven't seen Jennifer Oueletteâ(TM)s name in years! I was an avid reader of Cocktail Party Physics, read a couple of her books, but haven't seen her in the scientific circles in what seems like a decade. Flash back Tuesday?

Couldn't agree more, this needs to be handled as expediently and efficiently as possible.

There are aspects of capacity planning that were seemingly ignored. You can have a system that can accommodate 1 million users, obviously across multiple nodes, but if you forget that all of those users may login at the same time you've failed. The initial wave forces you to dedicate more resources initially than you need during a steady-state. Who else remembers the "NetBIOS waves" we used to encounter when we first connected corporate LANs across all locations with centralized Windows NT domains? We knew exactly when the slowdowns were coming, you could set your watch by them.

The one without the Gannet

I'm on my fifth, including my current one that was replaced as part of the recall. I've never used a different make, and I'm pretty concerned about switching when the time comes.