I’ve never heard Satya Nadella say a single thing that wasn’t just buzzword garbage. He’s like a human slop-generating machine. Maybe that’s why he can’t recognize AI slop when he sees it.

If you look at it the right way it’s like a particularly sexy dog butt.

Gateway was black and white patches like a cow.

You’re right, sorry, my mistake. I had the wrong currency setting.

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It’s nowhere near that cheap.

Surely you mean Gee.

The G in GIF stands for Graphical, but the G in Graphical stands for Graham Crackers, the G in Graham Crackers stands for God, and the G in God stands for Gnu. From there it’s Gnus all the way down. Also, God pronounces “Graphical” with a soft G as in Jod.

Well that makes more sense. Thanks for the information!

Is this named after Karl Popper? If so that’s unfortunate because Popper spent his life arguing against the validity of inductive reasoning in science. His distinctive contribution was to try to describe a scientific method that did not depend on induction.

https://philosophy.institute/logic/poppers-critique-rejection-induction/

In Chinese, affirmation is often compiled through negation:

没错 (méi cuò) = “not wrong” = Right

不差 (bù chà) = “not bad” = Decent

还行 (hái xíng) = “still passable” = Okay

没事 (méi shì) = “no problem” = It’s fine

In English, this feels bizarre. If something is good, you say:

Nice

Great

Perfect

Brilliant

You name the quality directly. You point at it. You own it.

In American positivity-laden, self-marketing, businessy English perhaps. But in the UK “not bad”, “could be worse”, “not wrong”, “can’t complain”, “I’ve had worse” and so on is often as positive as it gets, or at least was for a long time. American positive-speak gets on British people’s nerves; it’s perceived as boorish, boastful and unsubtle. And “no problem” is common in English all over. British people do say “brilliant” but only when they’re being unusually enthusiastic, or fake, or sarcastic.

Their agenda sounds good but apparently they’ve acted a bit shadily in various ways.

https://drewdevault.com/2025/10/22/2025-10-22-Whats-up-with-FUTO.html

The Infinite Mac site linked from this story is also impressive, and runs the actual OSes.

I see they’re promoting something called the Helium network. What’s the relationship between that and Meshtastic? Are they completely different things?

I’d use a Kill-a-Watt or similar to check how much power it uses, before deciding whether it’s worth installing anything on it. Also check how much noise it makes, unless you have a separate room for servers. Enterprise servers aren’t always a good fit for home use.

Binary on fingers really comes into its own when you need to order 1023 beers over heavy background noise. Except when there’s a mix-up and you end up with -1 beer.

I’m not saying this is the ideal solution, but I’ve had decent performance from the house to a shed 60 feet away using Asus ZenWifi AX XT8 nodes in the house (with one in the window at the back of the house) and an Asus RT-AX56U extender in the shed. Most days I get decent speeds, good enough to use for work and watching videos. Very occasionally there’s a bad day. I originally tried with the dual-band Asus ZenWifi AX Mini cubes, but they were not powerful enough. Their bigger tri-band units work better.

There are probably better solutions though, using directional dishes. I just did this because, like you, I didn’t want to have to mess with holes for ethernet cables, mounting dishes to poles, etc.

Oh, and I once had bad signal so I put the unit at the back of the house at what would roughly be the focal point of a large metal kitchen bowl and pointed the bowl at the shed, and the signal improved dramatically

The Asus boxes are overpriced when new, but you can get them for cheap used.

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There have been internet distributed file systems, but they tend to be very slow, availability can be patchy, and the capacity ordinary users could contribute wouldn’t be anywhere near enough for an internet archive.

They were bound to come after the archive sites at some point, because they allow people to see information the Trump government has deleted. We need a distributed, resilient archive, but the storage requirements are huge.