The article summary and the article both say “sold out”?

Yes I’m considering buying a high power laser so I can send the energy back into space instead of paying the power companies for the privilege of giving them electricity.

My company switched from WebEx to Teams and while Teams is not great it’s way better than WebEx.

Within my actual team we just use Slack Huddles unless we have to record. For my personal stuff I prefer Jitsi.

This is pretty much how The Handmaiden’s Tale book goes. “Terrorists” nuke DC and some Christian fundamentalists take over.

Don’t you mean 5/7?

I don’t see much negatively. But I use lemmynsfw.

In the Netherlands a number of cities were banning fossil fuel for deliveries in the city. It was in planning for years, easing into implementation.

Our new government just scrapped all of those plans because the largest party doesn’t believe in climate change, and another party in the coalition is the “farmer’s movement” party and opposes environmental regulations.

😢

I work at a company big into AI. We build our own models. Our senior management drank the Kool-Aid. We don’t have search on our Intranet any more, just LLM chatbots.

Our TLS certificate expired last week on our main web page. I tried to find the contact details for the team responsible and the thing just hallucinated e-mail addresses.

Needless to say, I’m less excited than you.

There are infinite prime numbers. This has been known for thousands of years. You can find numerous proofs of this online, and go through them until one makes sense to you.

Also, quantum computers are on track to make division-based cryptography useless in the next decade or two. (Note that this only affects public key cryptography, and not shared key cryptography. So your online backups should be safe as long as you have a password for them.)

Jerry: “Aren’t you going to see what the message is?”

George: “Nah.”

Kramer: “Why not? It could be important!”

Jerry: “It’s not like you to ignore a message…”

George: “Okay, okay! I’ll tell you. I was sitting at home.”

Jerry: “Doing what?”

George: “Nothing.”

Kramer: “Oh yeah! I love doing nothing! I love it!”

Jerry: “Nothing? Sounds boring.”

George: “Spoken like an amateur. I have it down to an art.”

Kramer: “We should compare notes!”

Jerry: “Anyway, then what happened?”

George: “I get a text from this girl I had lunch with.”

Jerry: “Lunch? Like a date? A” lunch date?"

George: “I don’t know, I don’t know! How can you know? Who suggests lunch when someone asks them out? I don’t know, but she did!”

Kramer: “Yikes!”

Jerry: “Okay, so you get this text message.”

George: “That’s right.”

Jerry: “From the lunch maybe date maybe not woman.”

George: “That’s right.”

Jerry: “What does it say?”

George: “What are you doing?”

Jerry: “I’m asking what the message said!”

George: “I know! The message said, ‘What are you doing?’”

Jerry: “Ooooo. Okay. And?”

George: “So I sent her a reply, that said ‘nothing’.”

Kramer: “Classic mistake.”

George: “Well I wish I had known! How am I supposed to know?!”

Jerry: “I don’t get it. What’s the mistake?”

George: “After I told her that I wasn’t doing anything, she called me!”

Jerry: “On the phone? What for?”

George: “To talk!”

Jerry: “About what?”

George: “Nothing! I wanted to do nothing, not talk about nothing!”

Kramer: “You got yourself a phone talker.”

George: “A phone talker!”

Jerry: “Seems like it. So what are you going to do?”

George: “What can I do? I’m going to have to tell her talking on the phone causes me migraines. It’s the only way…”

Kramer and George leave. Jerry sees a message from Elaine that says, “What are you doing?” He puts the phone down.

If a company has a lot of money in assets and those assets are worth less than before, the valuation of the company drops. This should mean lower share prices, which is basically the only thing a company cares about.

Will you please explain this?

I feel like I understand each sentence but not why you put them together.

By the way, my tinfoil hat uses Arch Linux.

EDIT: now I see that I’ve just repeated the same joke that someone already made better in a different post. Leaving my post up for posterity so I remember my shame.

Except that a recent study shows that a plastic bag charge in the UK significantly changed behaviors:

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00266/full

So the suggestion that people are unchangeable is plausible, but turns out to not be true.

Again? I guess I missed Microsoft being impacted in any way. 🤔

https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html

Is it? I mean, 100 years ago you might all be reading different things, with either a record on or possibly the radio. Why is it terrible that now you’re all… reading different things together in one room?

Boris literally just made up stories about the horrors of the EU when he was a journalist in Brussels:

https://www.ft.com/content/ad141e8a-976d-11e9-9573-ee5cbb98ed36

He definitely helped set the stage for Brexit.

Which is why the Supreme Court is hearing the case. Two wealthy industries fighting out who gets to extract the most wealth.

Yeah but your Linux partition is a freak and will do whatever you want. You can even ask it to dress up like Windows or macOS is you want for some reason… it doesn’t care!