a routine configuration change

Honest question (I don’t work in IT): this sounds like a contradiction or at the very least deliberately placating choice of words. Isn’t a config change the opposite of routine?

Was that a threat?

“Google might break! Please be careful!” - the threat of a good time.

Let’s be very clear: Pichai is one of the Very Big Assholes whose name should be uttered in the same breath with Thiel, Altman, Zuckerberg etc.

He drew comparisons to the late 1990s Internet boom, which saw early Internet company valuations surge before collapsing in 2000, leading to bankruptcies and job losses.

“We can look back at the Internet right now. There was clearly a lot of excess investment, but none of us would question whether the Internet was profound,” Pichai said. “I expect AI to be the same. So I think it’s both rational and there are elements of irrationality through a moment like this.”

Equating the dot-com bubble with the internet. Only a $trillion company CEO could spout such bs. And the misinterpretation translates very well to AI.

Frankly, what I’m getting from this article is “Hey, we’re not the #1 in the current hype, so would everybody else please slow down a little so we’re all at least on equal footing again?”

And the idea that it could all burst, leaving not only Google/Alphabet utterly destroyed - don’t threaten me with a good time, Sundai!

I prefer to think of them as (F)Leather mice.

Thanks for that!

Lemmy.world that i use was though.

So what does that entail - the site was completely down, or images didn’t load?

Would I even notice that in my unaffected instances feed? Just no lemmy.world posts at all, or would it leave empty placeholders?

I didn’t notice and I’ve been on Lemmyverse the whole day, on and off. Different time zone though (Eastern Europe) so I’m not sure how that translates to “this morning”.

Have you ever pulled a long hair out of your butthole? Weirdly pleasurable.

Apparently this is not about software licensing so much as about the services Rebble provides:

Core would spearhead the development of brand new watches, and we’d be there to provide our Rebble Web Services to go with them.

It now seems Core wants to just keep on using these services as their own. I read a few paragraphs but I gave up when they go back 9 years to explain it all.

But this isn’t the first time a company tries to steal what isn’t theirs, under the auspices of FOSS, and my benefit of the doubt definitely stands with Rebble here.

We used to have a copier that would go bonkers over that. The spot was in a different location though.

PSA

git the FLOSS software is completely independent of github, the MS-owned web platform.
git was originally written by Linus Torvalds and can be selfhosted easily without additional software. Or be used locally.

No reason for Linux budgeting since it comes completely free (as in beer and as in freedom)!

(sorry could not resist. arrest me for dad-joking)

It is possible to install True Linux™ on many phones, it’s just the phone-specific bits that often don’t work too well. Ideal for this scenario though.

Of course you’re still right, but with that in mind the list is much longer than you think.

I was going to comment that I really miss that extra step. A local server on Android sounds like a major PITA, not to speak of the possibility of continued data mining.

It is possible to install True Linux™ on many phones, it’s just the phone-specific bits that often don’t work too well. Ideal for this scenario though.

How would you serve from the phone into the internet? The only option I see is via WiFi to a router and hope your ISP gave you a static IP.

What a stupid headline. Negative clickbait (it makes me want to click elsewhere).

Well they wrote provider of “domain with servers”. TBF (to myself) I think OP is confusing things. If they meant the domain only, you are correct.

can the provider over which I rent the domain with servers in my country actually see what our traffic is? Especially since we are streaming our movies etc.

That’s what encryption is for, a.k.a. HTTPS in this case.

If there’s several of you, really, get a dedicated IP address (a domain name is nice but not necessary). Usually a dedicated IP is not an option for normal priced home connections, but a full (not shared) VPS with decent storage/performance can be had for under €10/month, and that will always have a static IP.

It’s up to the OS, software or web app and I’m happy to report that not all of them do this.

But I have noticed that on Win11 this seems to be the standard. On those rare occasions. Particularly funny (not really) if they’re phrased in such a way that you have to think hard which specific kind of temporary rejection you choose, for fear of messing up.