Wrong kind of hopeful for Google.

There was no money on the Enterprise . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Downright dystopian.

Seriously. They might as well tell us how many iPods the new U2 album is on.

This is one of the most blatant advertisements ever. It's almost worse if /. really got suckered into posting this for free, I hope someone at least got paid.

Yeah, the pattern is pervasive.

You'll see something similar if you look at talk of standardized tests being biased towards girls. The boys somehow get worse grades in class, but do better on standardized tests. And somehow, even with all that evidence about grading bias, the argument is made all the time that *the tests are biased against the girls* rather than just being ill prepared by a system giving them a free pass when "behavior" is taken into account and no one is auditing the teacher's marks.

People seriously arguing that this was evidence that the tests were biased rather than the grading was one of the absolute final straws that made me quite K12. It's so broken, they just . . . hate boys.

I worked for a major textbook publisher for years, the whole experience was summed up by one newsletter. How K12 treats boys was basically an open secret.

I got two emails, this was maybe in ~2016, back to back. One was a general education newsletter. In it there was this article, about a study done in the UK. They asked boys to gauge how much they thought their teachers, specifically high school biology teachers I think it was, were biased against them. They audited the grading of those teachers in a gender-blind way and found the boys surveyed were shockingly good at estimating this. The researchers were suggesting that basically boys don't try very hard in school by the time they reach high school, because they are actually quite smart about where they choose to spend their effort.

The next email was about yet another "Girls in STEM" promotional event we were running.

Nope. It's the USB ports. RTFA is alive and well.

If you push something in far enough, you can puncture the battery.

"“Today we received notice from three neighboring school districts about an ongoing TikTok trend influencing students to force electrical short circuits on Chromebook devices by inserting items such as paper clips, pencil graphite, pushpins, folded metallic gum wrappers, aluminum foil, etc. into the USB port. This action can spark or puncture the lithium battery in the device and poses a serious fire risk,” said Superintendent Zito."

Maybe the students would benefit from you teaching them how to destroy their laptops even better, but this is what they are apparently doing. Search "Chromebook Challenge" on YouTube and you can find plenty of examples of getting them to smoke this way.

It doesn't have to be more than a rounding error of the overall market share to be a big year. I mean, double a rounding error may still be a rounding error, but it's still 100% growth.

And that has literally happened, not so much in North America, but the growth in mostly India is insane. It's not a rounding error in places that don't speak English anymore. It just isn't, and that doesn't look likely to reverse.

I don't get the need to be like, if it doesn't unseat Windows it's not a big deal. No one said "Year of the Linux Desktop" but you.

GNOME has had kind of a weird few years. Objectively great releases, a lot of under the hood features people have wanted (HDR, triple buffering), big developments like sovereign tech fund contracts . . .

But they've also had budget drama, board shakeups . . .

It's an exciting time for the Linux desktop generally, hopefully they can really capitalize on that interest in the next few years.

Seriously, can it just be a /. thing, can we ban headlines with question marks in them?

It's such clickbait nonsense, every time. Just make it a policy.

That's not really what this is. I mean that's a thing, it's part of it, but it's not what this is about.

This is an issue of trying to subsidize prices case by case rather than injecting supply to make things cheap. The actual price of tuition is disconnected from what virtually everyone pays. We've made a completely broken market while insisting that we keep it a market.

Normally when you ask "how much does this good cost" and rather than a price the person asks "how much you got?" we assume something illegal is going on. With education, that's just the system now. It will be very hard to walk it back.

Lots of people, Microsoft in particular.

The value is in controlling the default search, and replacing all the features behind a Google login with features behind your own login.

There's this adage from standup comedy, I forget exactly how it goes, but basically the line is it's *always* the comedians fault if the audience doesn't laugh.

You may have a great joke, but if you tell it to the wrong group, and they just groan at you, that's *your* fault, never theirs.

It's not Bluesky that has the problem. The joke doesn't have a problem. Just this one comedian does.

It's wild how a few years ago everything said Disney controlled all of movies now and would never lose their grip. Then Barbie happened, then Minecraft, and next up the new Superman looks like it will destroy all the superhero movies trying to compete with it.

Seemed impossible ten years ago.

And seriously nothing else. Everything else in the article is just fluff. I worked for a streaming company when h265 was taking hold, no different. We fairly regularly would survey all of the devices using our service, to weigh how many of them would actually use it if we started encoding all of our library in h265.

It's the same thing, Apple in particular, was really slow to adopt AV1. No Apple TV supports it, and only very new iPads, iPhones and Macs do. (All of the ones for sale today do, but most streamers customers will be on older ones still.) Android and PCs are a better, but not by much. Big streaming services will start to adopt it once they can say something like 40%+ of their users will get a good experience from it.

Even if it saves 50% bandwidth, that isn't worth some very expensive reencode of a huge library if only 20% of users get that benefit. Just like h265 was ten years ago, the encoders are still really resource intensive, but getting better every day, so they wait.

RTFA never dies. The summary isn't great about it, but from the article:

"Mozilla Managing Director Ryan Sipes revealed that the new bundle of services is called "Thunderbird Pro," which includes several features including a new email service called Thundermail (think Gmail)."

Because due to EU regulation, Meta has put forth an "Interoperability Plan."

The letter is essentially a response to that plan.

RTFA remains as relevant as ever . . .