Maybe I missed it, but the introduction doesn't explain the point that "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" is just a play on "Six Degrees of Separation".
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So my powerbills are predictable.
Whereas traffic spikes to websites are not.
This age of abusive AI crawlers and the non-revenue generating traffic has been a very real problem for me!
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/04/ev-sales...
I find the mainstream subscription players to be excruciating to use to play what I want at the time.
I've got the lifetime pass, but it really does feel like a Sword of Damocles situation...
It's magical to me as well, but I don't feel like it's AGI.
Because in my experience a Senior Programmer does not need the right prompts to deliver the right outcome! :-)
We've been here before with Windows and IE dominance!
IE peaked at ~95% market share, and windows peaked at ~97%.
Broadly it seems to me that Google is behaving much like MS did.
But who knows, everything is the same and different this time around.
It’s probably files that, over the course of a month, add up to multiple TBs.
Which would suggest that a 1Gbit fibre connection would be adequate. For serious commercial usage, multi Gbit fibre is available in many places around the world.
Although being video files, they could easily be in the TB range. In which case, it would be interesting to know!
Apparently, I googled, “expended ordnance” is the term.
Chain of Thought?
Cheap wired headphones are the default choice in the classroom, in my experience.
Bluetooth headphones that need charging aren’t really what you want.
It’s easy enough to get cheap USB headphone adapter, but still, I t would nice if it was built in.
Apple knows what they are doing sometimes it seems! :-)
My reading of what Google are saying is that yes, that feature is going away.
But one of the key benefits of this is obscuring what my actual Gmail address is!
I don’t want to use my Gmail address as my main email address. Even if it’s just for personal usage.
I don’t want people knowing what my Gmail account is.
And what happens if I do use my Gmail for everything and Google decides to lock me out of my account….
So are Google wrecking peoples Gmail account setups just to push people into paying for their Google Workspace product?
This industry wide obsession with squeezing revenue out of every little corner of services is exhausting and exasperating.
Preserved in pristine condition since the year 2000!
Well, be careful what you wish for Adobe!
Now everyone just says an image is AI, and something being Photoshopped is a distant memory.
RIP Photoshopped Images.
I take modern USB-C Flash Drive, plug it into my Mac. Nothing. Take it out, plug it in again, and it mounts just fine.
Same with SD Cards.
I have no idea why this is, and I'm not sure if it's always been this way, but I can't remember a time when I didn't have to do this.
I’m not even convinced these are all real, or at least are staged:
https://ipcrawl.com/?page=6&cam=63f7feaf5042d223
That’s the invisible man hanging out at a tennis match…
I used to have SCSI Terminators in my tech support bag. I still have some somewhere…
And the size and thickness of some of those SCSI cables!
Much of the black magic art of Mac support back in the 80s and 90s was getting SCSI chains sorted out!
Sorting out the device order, swapping out cables, that sort of thing.
I once spoke to a client who said they’d been happily running a single external SCSI drive hooked up to two Macs at the same time….
I see many arguments claiming it's about mass surveillance and an invasion of privacy and so on.
We already have mass surveillance, so I don't really buy into those arguments.
I think it's worth considering that it is actually about control. Or more precisely, that it's about dissuading citizens from using social media in the first place.
The damage done to our western democracies from misinformation spread via social media has not gone unnoticed...
I can’t see it in the article when reading on my phone?
Here in Australia, the local and state governments push the use of their Apps as well.
These Apps provide access to identity documents, offical notifications, and messages for health, benefits and taxation purposes.
Then there is Banking and the issues around becoming a cashless digital society…
It’s become less about access to hardware devices, as useable devices can often be free when donated by a friend or relative, and more about continuity of access to your digital life.
The risk of losing access to your online identity or having it stolen are very real with often traumatic results for individuals.
I've been using Deepseek v4 with Cline in VS Code as a replacement for Github Copilot, and it's not been too bad.
Modern ethernet supports Auto MDI-X, which manages that automagically for you.
Abrogate their usage.
Things have moved on since the days where GPUs in Macs were a priority.
But then the AI race has changed things. So who knows - maybe we will one day see official eGPU support from Apple and new drivers from nVidia. Wouldn't put on money on it though....