For sure, but it's definitely just part of it. They break down the hardware and distros used. SteamOS is a bit under 30%.

The momentum is undeniable. At this rate it could pretty easily break 10% in 3-5 years. It's already having a lot of subtle but important effects. Peripheral makers like 8bitdo, Hori, and even Sony, are all supporting Linux all of a sudden. Tons of game publishers are too.

Oh yeah, it absolutely played a big part. This timeline of 2FA even has a special section about it:

https://www.newamerica.org/in-...

Basically Apple had to scramble, to both insist that their systems were not hacked, but also that they were doing something about it. So they finally started pushing 2FA, and where Apple goes, the industry goes.

There's a cyber security angle to this story that I don't think is getting talked about nearly enough.

I think it was the Target breach a few years ago, where a huge number of non-techie people just stopped caring about data breaches. They gave up "I just assume my data is out there anyways" and the like became a normal line.

But with this . . . people are going to get mad. The "fappening" moved the needle. In about a year suddenly every big company adopted 2FA. Will this finally make the US adopt some serious data protection rules? Will the class action against Tea that's likely coming actually drive them out of business?

Big precedent setting events are likely on the way.

Stack Exchange is shrinking rapidly and has no idea when the bleeding will stop.

I imagine they needed to buy new hardware, and that investment makes a lot less sense if you expect *less* traffic next year, not more.

The generic spin about not having to go to the data center is serious cope in context.

The reading between the lines here, is that with traffic down 80%+, they aren't saving money running their own stuff anymore. I'm sure the reality is, refreshing old hardware that they would buy, doesn't make sense when they have no expectation the bleeding will stop. So cloud.

The spin about "no one having to drive to the data center" like its AWS marketing from 2015 feels like some serious cope in context.

Read the actual article, what they did, was tune a system to get the best results possible from ~80 case studies based on rules they devised for success.

That is not, even a little, the same as having it evaluate patients.

These articles are just exhausting. The tech is cool, but no, they don't have an 80% accuracy in diagnosing patients compared to a doctor's 20%.

Yeah. And that "random" podcast includes experts in the field explaining this in detail.

Even if it's just some AC, it scares me how dismissive people are of actual science now. They've found something to panic about, and by god, they're sticking to it.

What you said is exactly what they go into. Because labs have so much plastic in them, and the procedures that measure them require burning that can break other chemicals down into things that look very much like plastic, plenty of studies have been off by literally many orders of magnitude.

Basically all actual experts say yeah, wait for someone to replicated it, the single study, should not be a headline outside of the circles of actual experts.

Microplastic studies have been so wrong so many times, I just can't muster the freakout until other people replicate the results.

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/...

While I'm about as big an Elon detractor as there is, you know, I like him on this. Not $4.20 specifically, but that he's happily unserious about the things that aren't serious.

The Model 3 being named the Model 3 is still funny.

It's OK to keep things a little weird.

"Mozilla however has been a dumpster fire since they ousted Brendan Eich."

Kind of begrudgingly . . . yeah. That's it. They've had bad times ever since. They need an engineer back in charge. They need their Lisa Su or Jensen Huang, someone who really, deeply understands what they can and can't get done, and can really focus their development on the things that get the most for the least effort.

They haven't had that since Brendan Eich. And it's been a mess in a lot of ways.

I'm optimistic about a lot of what they're doing now, the renewed focus on Firefox, the mail service that's coming, feels like they're really pushing their core strengths, but a lot of the criticism is well-earned at this point.

100% this is about giving these big tech companies data on the students, and instead of paying the students or giving them a discount, telling them they are getting something for free.

At the risk of sounding overblown, this may be the moment higher education in this country really dies to business. They're behind the eight ball in enough ways already, and this just feels like the final death throes.

May very well be the marketing person whose job it is to pretend that they're job has been replaced by AI.

Sure, but what I mean is, Fedora is probably a bigger chunk than is being counted, as while you may not use Flatpak, a large number of Fedora users do, and I think Flatpak is #3 or #4 in the rankings.

You probably are. They count the flatpak runtime all in one big blob, and I think most Fedora users are actually in there, not in the Fedora category.

Seriously. Did we spend all this time putting the names of everyone who flew across an ocean in a jet in newspapers?

It's silly. They're reach people doing tourism. No one should care, no media outlets should be boosting them.

NASA is getting constant attacks and defunding, and we're reporting on this nonsense like it's space news . . .