I swear we need an Alec signal, like the Bat signal, that we can shine when topics like this come up.

Here is a playlist is all of Technology Connections videos about the format wars. Alec does a great job explaining the history and showing things off.

TL;DW tape length and price are the main reasons. Arguably if you want to hang the win on a single reason, sports is probably the best answer. Betamax wasn’t long enough to tape a full game and Selectavision (which was doomed anyway) couldn’t record at all.

Every person on the internet that responded to an earnest tech question with “sudo rm -rf /” helped make this happen.

Good on you.

Makes sense, but it still makes me want to grab a coffee and order its murder.

Printed Solid Jessie filament has become most of my stash, its mid-priced filament that prints like premium. I use PLA for most stuff and PETG if its going to get sun or if PLA would be too brittle. I also use some flexibles (TPU) but each printer is different in how it handles soft filaments, so its hard to recommend.

If you experiment with other types of filaments, be sure your plate can handle it. PETG will stick too well to some plate coatings. Prusa has a good matrix to help.

I used to have a rack in a colo in the middle of Portland Oregon. The 3rd floor was the colo and they also had telecom equipment on the roof, but the rest of the building was normal commercial real-estate.

They spent so much reinforcing the floor, sound proofing the floor and ceiling, building a giant door in the wall (so they could crane in equipment), and helping pay for a new local substation that when P.a.a.S. services (AWS, Azure, etc) started they quickly started to struggle to keep the bills paid.

Soundproofing wouldn’t be needed if the whole building were servers, but the rest would be.

Tire balancing weights as others have said.

I have also used sand by pausing the print then filling up some of the voids left by infill. But you have to be really careful because you don’t want it in you belts or motors. I usually put the sand in a reusable condiment squeeze bottle from the dollar store and also use a small funnel to make extra sure its going where I want. I don’t fill all the way to the top and make sure all the fans around the printer are off while filling so they don’ blow it around… use tire weights if you can.

LibreWolf also has the Reader View, also do not use that.

Alexa is also the linchpin of Amazon Sidewalk which is opt-out and potentially gives a way for devices in your home (like smart appliances) to connect to the internet whether you give them wifi access or not. Pretty handy surveillance tool.

But don’t worry, we’ve only made Jeff Bezo’s powerful enough to rent Venice for his wedding.

Linus is the leader who tells all the Colonels how to do their jobs. Then they order the Drivers to take your data all through the series of tubes.

Also text files. At the end of the day it’s just text files.

I can’t respect that list anyway. Where is Hanna Montana Linux?!

Like most of the best things in life, Proxmox is built from Debian.

The squid are nice, but you need a hotend blob if you want to get higher than 6 out of 10. A blob that also consumed a silicon sock will get you to 9, probably.

They’re also inflating conversion numbers (the thing company ad spend is based on) by over 50%. Google is doing the same. So even real ads are only half as effective as companies think.

Good news! There’s an ad bubble too!

I walked into to work this morning to a dev IM needing permissions. Instead of telling me what the error message said, which would contain the allowance needed, he needed he sent me a screenshot of what chatGPT said he needed. GPT effectively said the solution was to let him assume any privileged access policy that exists.

I think security teams are fine for a while.

Given how much time I spend actually looking at the screen while the show/movie is on, it might as well be in ca. 2000 RealVideo 160x120 resolution.

The year of the Linux Desktop doesn’t happen when people shut up about Linux.

This is the first I’m hearing it, and I feel like I’ll always be just a little bit sadder now that I know its a thing.

Once upon a time they insisted that Amazon had independent decision making on their providers when they were needing new infrastructure and they “always decided that AWS suited them best.”

Shockingly (/s), they stopped making that claim right about the same time they started admitting that their biggest users are all under Private Pricing Agreements.

So Roblox is the only of those companies that can handle proper region failover if us-east-1 shits the bed? You young ops have gotten soft! Learn to live by ChaosMonkey or die by the Gorilla.