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Riker Googling

is borg assimilation a pre-existing condition

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An unapologetically oldie but goodie

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Gerry McGovern

"Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta combined more than doubled their energy consumption between 2017 and 2021."

And they will double their energy and water and material demand again by 2026.

Is anyone anywhere in government paying the least bit of attention to the environmental catastrophe that Big Tech is massively accelerating? Or have all our politicians been bought off by Big Tech?

techzine.eu/news/infrastructur

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On This Day In History

Today in 1911, 113 years ago: The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy 16 kilometres (10 mi) from Havana, Cuba.

#OnThisDay

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Come soon sweet comet

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nixCraft 🐧

That is AS400 from IBM. Although discounted by IBM, it is still in production in many places running mission-critical apps. It's far better than the stuff people write today. This is how reliability looks. Why break it when it works?

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On This Day In History

Today in 1595, 429 years ago: the tragedy Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, is premiered in London.

#OnThisDay

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Sometimes I will put my blanket over my head because my dog cannot deal with it all. He will bark at me then jump on the couch and pull the blanket off.

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Framework :fedora: :ubuntu:

We really, really don’t want to have to make a printer, but wow.

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/0

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62F this morning. That is a 50 degree shift in a week. They are out cold patching roads already.

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Happy Fedi Friday everyone!

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The worst thing to come out of the pandemic were the always-on remote working toolchains, and the expectation that you never stop working.

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A lot of rain this afternoon. We need it.

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It reminds me of that scene in Smokey and the Bandit 2 where someone keeps saying no while being handed more and more money, until they say yes.

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@mntmn The internet has created this idea where you have to google everything, but I know with the reform that whatever it is, it's almost certainly in the handbook.

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mhoye

By 2026 Covid policy is going to be “Smell this Tabasco and if you can’t you can go home half an our early as long as you work through lunch”, and you pay for the Tabasco.

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On This Day In History

Today in 1921, 103 years ago: in Paris, the Conference of Allied Countries establishes that Germany must pay as war compensation 226 billion marks in 42 annuities (until 1963) .1924: in Russia, Petrograd -formerly St. Petersburg- is baptized Leningrad.

#OnThisDay

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Get Ready for the Great #AI #Disappointment
wired.com/story/get-ready-for-
“Some people will start recognizing that it was always a pipe #dream to reach anything resembling #complex #human #cognition on the basis of #predicting words.”

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