You clearly didn’t watch the MythBusters episode dedicated to this topic considering all its various lighting technologies.

The takeaway: Turn off the lights when you leave the room, unless you’re going to be back within a fraction of a second.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fRWEE1wiUfU

What you described as personal habits seem appropriate for participation in polite society while being examples to teach in a world beset by climate change.

We’ll, that’s interesting:

During Newton’s lifetime, two calendars were in use in Europe: the Julian (“Old Style” calendar in Protestant and Orthodox regions, including Britain; and the Gregorian (“New Style”) calendar in Roman Catholic Europe. At Newton’s birth, Gregorian dates were ten days ahead of Julian dates; thus, his birth is recorded as taking place on 25 December 1642 Old Style, but it can be converted to a New Style (modern) date of 4 January 1643. By the time of his death, the difference between the calendars had increased to eleven days. Moreover the civil or legal year in England began on 25 March, therefore the Newton’s death on 20 March was still dated as 1726 O.S. there.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton

I joined Reddit because it was an open and moderated collection of communities … then after the blackout due to the API changes, moderators were sent packing and any sense of community that had been created was destroyed.

I joined both Mastodon and Lemmy and I’m glad I did.

The communities in both are nascent, but slowly growing, and that seems like a place I’d like to be.

After Twitter became Xitter, I also joined Bluesky but that feels much more like people ranting and venting, less about making communities.

Given the impermanence of any storage medium today, I’m thinking a puff of smoke would convey the sentiment with the right level of user expectation.

💨

… and anyone else who should not have access to your data.

And now you know why you should encrypt your data on any cloud provider.

Scrambled Eggs:

https://youtu.be/keGd9CXUHco

I’ve been using Linux for 25 years, awk is a more recent addition to my arsenal, but rapidly becoming more and more useful.

For example, awk is extremely helpful if you want to rearrange columns, do math on columns, essentially do things that would take multiple lines of bash with cut and read.

grep, sed, awk, and find

I wonder … will it be another case of “Too Big To Fail” … or will it be … “Let The Market Decide”?

I’m guessing the answer depends on how many medals the CEO of Oracle can bestow upon the Orange.

Me … cynical … no … just been here for a while.

Yes and no.

It’s not power by itself, because other appliances would be affected.

The common denominator is the network.

There may well be an interaction between the power and the network, but I’m suspecting earth issues, rather than voltage ones, because networking is essentially low voltage and adding power voltages would cause more permanent damage than a reboot or temporary outage.

A network should also be physically separated from power.

I’m suspecting that a network cable is damaged and is in close proximity to a power cable, which may well be also damaged, perhaps by the same event.

It might also not be in or near the house, but out on the street.

I wonder if you have a fault in your network wiring, one that causes a short circuit when it gets wet.

Interesting. TIL. Thank you.

I did discover this collection of tools that appears to provide code signing by the Linux Foundation project:

https://www.sigstore.dev/

Why can’t RustDesk use Let’s Encrypt instead?

It’s dinner time and why haven’t you fed me yet?

I’m clearly starving, why haven’t you fed me yet?

I’m not kidding around, why haven’t you fed me yet?

I’ll add it to the list:

• AI is Assumed Intelligence.
• AI is autocorrect on steroids.
• AI is a Dunning-Kruger accelerator.
• AI is a classic case of Gell-Mann amnesia.

What you’re describing is a general experience with LLM, not limited to the C-level.

If an LLM sprouts rubbish you detect it because you have external knowledge, in other words, you’re the subject matter expert.

What makes you think that those same errors are not happening at the same rate outside your direct personal sphere of knowledge?

Now consider what this means for the people around you, including the C-level.

Repeat after me, AI is Assumed Intelligence and should not be considered anything more than autocorrect on steroids.

You only just figured this out? It’s always been about reducing wages … or said differently, how to get richer than the other members at your country club.

Yup: https://github.com/bluesky-social