We’re entering the ‘blockchain for every need’ stage. Expect massive money to flow into scams, poor ideas, and outright dangerous uses for a few years .

Before Blockchain we had ‘the web’ itself in the dot com era. Before that? I saw it in basic computing as a solution to everything.

I had a student came into office hours asking why their program got a bad grade. I looked and it didn’t actually do anything related to the assignment.

Upon further query, they objected saying that the CI pipeline built it just fine.

So …yeah… You can write a program that builds and runs, but doesn’t do the required tasks, which makes it wrong. This was not a concept they’d figured out yet.

If the PoE is stable, then it’s a nice and relatively unique board. Not sure about the NPU support. There’s a ton of boards and chips coming out with those claims, but I’d like to be able to get clearer info on drivers and library compatibility.

There’s all kinds of wacky taxes, regulations, and barriers to prevent the US industry from having to compete with the world. One such example is the Chicken Tax:

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/chicken-tax.asp

That one keeps the Toyota Hilux out of the US.

I like the UNIX/Unix-like category since it could include Linux, OSX, MacOS (current), and ChromeOS, but it doesn’t. It would look much different, percentage wise, if those all summed up.

This also is only desktop OSes. Add in servers, smartphones, and embedded systems and it’s a much different landscape, but I’m sure MS DOS will still hang on forever.

Any time they put you in a basic TIE… the first wave of an engagement was terrifying since just a couple of shots could end it right there.

I’m not surprised at the funding. During the Dot Com bubble in 2000 you just had to say “Web” and someone threw a brick of Benjamins at you. We’re seeing a similar thing around AI/GPT LLM tech right now.

We had an ongoing project studying network communication structures within social media groups. The primary goal was to identify patterns of misinformation dissemination. We lost our ability to poll the API and pull messages to build up our data sets to work with. The cost to hit the API used to be free for a limited rate for researchers, but the new doofus in charge demanded a massive rate to get even a reasonable quantity of data so we had to fold up shop. We just routed the students to other projects, but it’s one more way to isolate and control the network so the dictator can be in charge however they like.

I like the tldr notes on how many sentences were skipped. It gives a lot more context to how the bot has reduced the total article length.

I gave the Orange Pi 5 a try and I love it for hosting/data intensive applications. The real M.2 for a SSD is a game changer.

I still use RPi boards for all kinds of embedded solutions, especially once it’s GPIO based work, but for server/network kinds of work I put it on the Orange Pi 5 board.

They were prescient up through Win11. They couldn’t see the subscription model push, though. Ready to pay monthly for your OS to keep working? That’s the vision of the future!

I’m Spartacus!

So… Just so I know to not sub to them, which communities are the blackjack and hookers in? Asking for a friend.