Nobody Cares: Technology-only Edition

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I don't have any use for smart watches, but several people I know will like hearing the news about Pebble.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Today's Starship launch actually made it back to Earth today, falling into the ocean. It was damaged and half-melted, and it exploded as soon as it touched the water, but it DID technically reach the surface with only a few bits missing which is a tremendous success by Starship standards and the fans are already screaming about how they can't wait to walk on Mars in two years.

 

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Query: Should the government (hah!) allow a company like Microsoft to abandon millions of users in this way? Is this merely the downside of capitalism, and we just have to live with it?

(Yeah yeah, just install Linux!)

Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating. - The American Prospect

The company will stop supporting the OS on October 14. Advocacy groups warn this will leave up to 400 million computers vulnerable to hacks or in the dump.

prospect.org

 

[Essence Lumin]

Query: Should the government (hah!) allow a company like Microsoft to abandon millions of users in this way? Is this merely the downside of capitalism, and we just have to live with it?

(Yeah yeah, just install Linux!)

Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating. - The American Prospect

The company will stop supporting the OS on October 14. Advocacy groups warn this will leave up to 400 million computers vulnerable to hacks or in the dump.

prospect.org

Not great but should be tempered by virtually all home computers being behind a nat.

 

[Noodles]

(Yeah yeah, just install Linux!)

Thats what I did. Inwent from 2 Windows 10 and one Windows 11 to 1 Win 11, 1 Mint, and 1 Ubuntu.

Irritatingly, Firestorm crashes very quickly now on mylaptop in Mint :/

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Noodles]

The cookies thing...

Inheard sometbing that made it more irritating. Apparrntly, if the cookoes are all related to the app itself, needed to function, like log in cookies. It doesn't need to throw the annoyimg concent pop up.

Basically, the law apparently.acknowledges beneign/harmess cookies.

But everyone is lazy so they put the pop up anyway out of fear of a lawsuit.

 

[Erich Templar]

The cookies thing...

Inheard sometbing that made it more irritating. Apparrntly, if the cookoes are all related to the app itself, needed to function, like log in cookies. It doesn't need to throw the annoyimg concent pop up.

Basically, the law apparently.acknowledges beneign/harmess cookies.

But everyone is lazy so they put the pop up anyway out of fear of a lawsuit.

It's not laziness, it's pettiness.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

One of my favorite YouTube peoples explains how catalytic converters work, and how your car monitors it and knows when it's going bad.


Allegedly the beginning of a whole series of car-related videos!

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

It's not laziness, it's pettiness.

Malicious compliance.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Firefox used to have a little Weather report on each new tab. Just now I noticed it's switched to Portland, OR and won't accept my location outside the USA.

 

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Firefox used to have a little Weather report on each new tab. Just now I noticed it's switched to Portland, OR and won't accept my location outside the USA.

I'd call it a bug, but...that's weird.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Amazon again. Sigh.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

OSU has our class system on AWS. I have no access to a lot of University services. Just gave a class the day off on Amazon.

 

[Isabeau]

It’s says it’s back on as of 5 minutes ago, but some are still experiencing issues.

Hundreds of billions of $? Aww..

• Before the latest round of issues, Amazon said it “fully mitigated” an earlier outage. Several popular websites and apps— including Snapchat, Facebook and Fortnite — were impacted. Banks and cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and AI firm Perplexity also reported issues, as did US airlines Delta and United.

• One expert said the financial impact of today’s disruption could total hundreds of billions of dollars.

https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/amazon-tech-outage-10-20-25-intl

 

[Essence Lumin]

It’s says it’s back on as of 5 minutes ago, but some are still experiencing issues.

Hundreds of billions of $? Aww..

https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/amazon-tech-outage-10-20-25-intl

If you believe downdetector, the number of people with issues is still sky high.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Amazon apparently uses AWS because their website today is pure ass.

 

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Amazon apparently uses AWS because their website today is pure ass.

I kept getting their 404 "Meet the dogs of Amazon" page when trying to access any of my lists early this afternoon.

 

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