Why do you see this as USA only?

Because the announcement doesn’t use UTC to announce the event and there’s absolutely no chance that anyone outside the US knows when some random timezone is, or if daylight savings is active in that timezone or not at the time of the event.

The announcement also tells me that the organisation is run out of the USA, not a place universally known for its inclusivity or global consideration. Reinforced by a text only image with no alt text.

I think a tech workers coalition is an interesting and potentially useful idea, but the announcement doesn’t even contain a URL to the organisation.

Which leads to my conclusion, a USA only affair.

I’d be delighted to be wrong, but that’s what the announcement conveyed to me.

So … USA tech workers only?

This is the job for the OS.

You can run most Linux systems with stupid amounts of swap and the only thing you’ll notice is that stuff starts slowing down.

In my experience, only in extremely rare cases are you smarter than the OS, and in 25+ years of using Linux daily I’ve seen it exactly once, where oomkiller killed running mysqld processes, which would have been fine if the developer had used transactions. Suffice to say, they did not.

I used a 1 minute cron job to reprioritize the process, problem “solved” … for a system that hadn’t been updated for 12 years but was still live while we documented what it was doing and what was required to upgrade it.

Linux aggressively caches things.

4 GB of RAM is not running out of memory.

If you start using swap, you’re running into a situation where you might run out of memory.

If oomkiller starts killing processes, then you’re running out of memory.

No, “the due and payable” kind.

I suspect that the house of cards will come tumbling down as soon as one of the companies in this massive Ponzi scheme fails to pay their bill.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/638975/how-do-i-tell-if-a-file-does-not-exist-in-bash#638980

man mv

https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/string-manipulation.html

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/linux-sed-command

Absolutely!

I mentioned it last week.

Look at tailscale.

So … now we have plausible gibberish … also known as Autocorrect on Steroids … that includes corporate sponsorship… seems like we’re moving closer to the true meaning of advertising with every iteration.

Next we’ll be asked to pay for this feature … oh wait.

I can’t wait until the Assumed Intelligence bubble finally bursts and takes with it some of the largest companies in the world … perhaps this is how we finally address climate change.

So the net of obligation, ownership and mutually assured destruction continues to tighten?

At some point this is going to explode … right?

The flight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3Nl3LOZNjc

Am Dinky-Di Aussie, no wucking furries mate!

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

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Because they’re all copying each other’s homework?

Whilst you might not be able to turn back time, you can stop it:

https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/g/internet-time-service/c/o0dDDcr1a8I

Be the change you want to see and review them yourself.

… 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.