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And it’ll take ages to have an impact too.

Furthermore, we find that these reentry byproducts may take up to 30 years to settle from the top of the mesosphere into the stratospheric ozone layer. Upon reaching an altitude of about 40 km, aluminum oxides catalyze chlorine activation which promotes ozone depletion.

So the “reentry byproducts” from a satellite re-entering now, won’t start breaking down ozone until 2056, and by then there will be another 30 years’ worth of byproducts deposited in the upper atmosphere.

And since it’s a catalyst, it won’t even be consumed in the process like CFCs are.

All the more reason to delete it and ban the person uploading them.

Even if you didn’t have AWS and the like modern sites/tech products need a lot more hardware than your random desktop computer to work. And that needs to be housed somewhere.

They really don’t, everything is just hideously inefficient these days.

The ebook format is basically a subset of html if you ever look into it. And as time goes on ebook readers have different ways to show these books.

Funny thing is that browsers used to be the same, that’s why “CSS resets” were created.

Unnecessary these days as it’s a solved issue, for the wrong reasons.

The generic HEVC decoder was never free, what was free was the OEM version that comes pre-installed when you buy a new computer (Because the price is included in that).

But you always had to jump through hoops to get that version installed, it wasn’t ever something intended for end users.

We’re also facing a shortage of the materials for PCBs.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-war-disrupts-the-circuit-board-supply-chain-raises-costs-tech-firms-2026-04-27/

Alongside the existing helium shortage, we’re going to see higher prices for every part of a computer, even without the chatbot hype buying.

I’d assume it’s for things like (e.g. Pixar) films, or stuff like GTA6 where there obviously isn’t any actual people in the end result but hoping they’ve actually spelled out that constraint in the law.

The best numbers I can find are from 2024, when Starlink made a total of $72 million in profit.

Not great numbers though, as the article explains. It only talks about the cost of the end user hardware and providing the service, so the profit is against those expenses. It doesn’t factor in the cost of launches and satellites.

Microsoft announced these price increases back in April, this shouldn’t be a surprise to anybody.

Give Marginalia search a try, see how well it works out for you.

Moltbook is already a thing unfortunately, even owned by Meta.

Think about what technology looked like 20 years ago.

20 years ago I had a 64-bit PC with a dual-core processor and 8GB of RAM, now I have a 64-bit PC with a 6-core processor and 32GB of RAM.

Sure, it’s an improvement but consider the same situation from 1986 where it would have been a 386 (The first 32bit x86 chip!) with 1MB of RAM. The rate of computer technology improvements is slowing down, not increasing.

Edit: Thinking about it, 20 years ago I had a GeForce 7600 GT, which I replaced with a 570, that with a 980, and finally with a 3070. So 4 GPUs across 20 years, and they all used the same bus on the motherboard.

I wish people actually read the california law, it’s rather short, and covers a lot of the “gotchas” people are coming up with (e.g. No it doesn’t apply to servers).

I don’t like age verification laws (Especially since I live in a jurisdiction with one already in effect) but at least argue against the law itself rather than a strawman version people heard about via social media.

Gitlab is also going all-in on AI.

It’s because he’s an idiot.

Another victim, Angelica Montano, came forward with a similar story to that of Vigil. She said she had been held captive by Ray after Hendy invited her to the house to pick up a cake mix.

… Montano convinced the pair to release her along the highway. She was picked up by an off-duty law enforcement officer and told him what happened, but he did not believe her and left her at a bus stop. She also later called the police about the incident, but there had been no follow-up.

Yep, sounds about right.

That the developers chose to add it at the same time as all the age verification stuff was starting is too much of a coincidence.

It’d be weird if they added it before the laws were passed, but not that strange to implement it afterwards, but before the deadline.

Depends on the point of the wiki I feel, if it’s project documentation it should be in git alongside the code, if it’s a generic “document store” then yeah there’s better storage backends than git.

Yep, there’s a reason they turned Office into a web app. Even if companies switch to Linux or macOS, MS can still sell them a subscription to Outlook/Office/etc.

Company wants to move their servers to Linux as well? Well Azure also provides cloud based Linux servers, MS doesn’t care what you run as long as they can make money off it.

That’s just the cover page, you can see the source files here.

The print out is “bundle_2”, while the actual compliable source is in “86DOS.A86”, you can see where the code starts and the header ends.