Still up here in the San Francisco Bay Area. Maybe only some regions are affected.
Aussie living in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Coding since 1998.
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LTS is supposed to contain stable components though. They really should wait for a stable (1.0) release before committing to it.
Have you considered using a VM?
I think the real issue isn’t the rewrites, it’s the fact that Ubuntu started using the new Rust coreutils even though they weren’t ready for production yet. uutils hasn’t even reached version 1.0 yet, and still fails some compatibility tests.
All your internet traffic is likely going through at least one network administered by a furry. It seems like there’s a much higher proportion of furries in network admin and cybersecurity jobs compared to IT/tech jobs in general.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Mastodon CEO steps down with €1M payout and a deep sigh
3·17 days agoThe healthcare system in the US isn’t great, but you do get a decent experience if you have an employer that offers good insurance. My employer pays most of the cost of my health insurance. I pay around $200/month for my wife and I, but that’s pre-tax money, and the plan is great for US standards. $15 for doctor visits and $100 maximum for ER visits.
In Australia we pay a 1.5% tax to fund the public health care system, so for a $60k salary that’s $900/year.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Mastodon CEO steps down with €1M payout and a deep sigh
20·17 days agoAn important note missing from this article (but included in others) is that Jeff Atwood, the founder of Stack Overflow, donated 2.2 million Euros to Mastodon. That’s likely partially where the 1 million Euro payout for the CEO came from.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Mastodon CEO steps down with €1M payout and a deep sigh
9·17 days agoWhy don’t you like people being paid for their work?
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Technology@beehaw.org•Mastodon CEO steps down with €1M payout and a deep sigh
10·17 days agous software salaries are insanely high compared to the rest of the world, because the cost of living in SV is insanely high.
I moved from Australia to the San Francisco Bay Area. My starting income was maybe 3x what I was getting paid in Australia, but the cost of living definitely wasn’t 3x higher. Major Australian cities are considered HCOL (high cost of living) areas too. Some things like electronics and food were cheaper in the USA too, at least until inflation and tariffs made everything go up.
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Tabloid: the clickbait headline programming language
75·28 days agoSeems like BASIC but with different keywords :D
I like this part of the readme:
How to use
Please don’t.
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Technology@beehaw.org•TPU v7, Google's answer to Nvidia's Blackwell is nearly here
4·29 days agoI wonder if Google will ever release a new version of the Coral, with some of the newer TPU tech.
(yes, I know Google handed that off to Asus…)
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Technology@beehaw.org•Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
2·1 month agoI’m 95% sure the settlement with the publishers would have included a clause requiring the Internet Archive to delete all “infringing” material in their possession.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
60·1 month agoI have mixed feelings. I’m glad they survived the lawsuits, and now they can spend their funding on their actual goals rather than it going towards lawyers.
On the other hand, it’s really sad that they had to delete so much of their archive - over half a million books, and a bunch of recordings from their Great 78 Project (which was archiving 300k+ music albums released between ~1900 and 1950). A lot of the things that can’t be archived are eventually going to become lost media.
Daylight saving (not “savings”) is good though. I wish it was daylight saving time year-round.
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Technology@beehaw.org•AWS outage reminds us why $2,449 Internet-dependent beds are a bad idea
2·1 month agoThis is a great post that I hadn’t seen before. Thanks for the link!
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Technology@beehaw.org•AWS outage reminds us why $2,449 Internet-dependent beds are a bad idea
8·1 month agoI feel the same about software development. For personal projects, I’ll often use a technology stack I’m very familiar with, like C# and MySQL on a Debian Linux server. Maybe not the fanciest, but they’re proven, reliable technologies that have been around for a long time, and will likely still be around a long time from now.
New frameworks, libraries, and languages pop up all the time, but some of the ecosystems move way too quickly. I have some Node.js sites I built years ago that I can’t even run any more without major changes.
Relevant: https://www.expatsoftware.com/articles/happiness-is-a-boring-stack.html
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Technology@beehaw.org•AWS outage reminds us why $2,449 Internet-dependent beds are a bad idea
22·1 month agoI wish there was a law stipulating that smart devices must allow for local control. That’d never happen in the USA (since companies couldn’t make as much money selling the data, and we can’t hurt the poor companies’ revenue streams), but maybe it’s happen in Europe one day.

Their deep investigations are so good. I liked their documentary about GPU smuggling in China.