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You know you're an old school Linux user when... you still try to use ifconfig and get a "command not found" error, followed by a moment of silent grief 🤬
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Wait what?
AI Startup Perplexity Makes $34.5 Billion Bid for Google’s Chrome Browser https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-12/perplexity-makes-34-5-billion-bid-for-google-s-chrome-browser?embedded-checkout=true
I even trust an AI startup less than an ad tech company like Google. They don’t have that kind of money, but then again, they might have AI batshit crazy investors. AI overhype is reached max with delusional investors and tech bros
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Based on past experiences with Microsoft with similar case, I don't believe the government will succeed in breaking up Google. Big companies with a lot of money tend to win these battles. While it's unlikely, I'd still love to see a company like Google or Microsoft face real consequences for their actions. A boy can dream, can’t he? 😉
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Wait what?
AI Startup Perplexity Makes $34.5 Billion Bid for Google’s Chrome Browser https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-12/perplexity-makes-34-5-billion-bid-for-google-s-chrome-browser?embedded-checkout=true
I even trust an AI startup less than an ad tech company like Google. They don’t have that kind of money, but then again, they might have AI batshit crazy investors. AI overhype is reached max with delusional investors and tech bros
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Who misses the old Linux Ethernet names? Remember when your network interfaces were just eth0 and eth1? Now we have long names like enp0s25. Let's see where you stand.
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StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1032732/3334850da49689e1/
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the day after Microsoft core AI team took over GitHub it started having issues https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/9rfydl2xdqqj These folks claim (especially Bill Gates) 24x7 how AI is going to take over all jobs. They can't even run stable git hosting. lol.
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this is why you don't poke around stable products but as many feared other day Microsoft is going to ruin GitHub.. they still don't have IPv6 and it is so embarrassing.
nixCraft 🐧@nixCraft@mastodon.social
the day after Microsoft core AI team took over GitHub it started having issues https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/9rfydl2xdqqj These folks claim (especially Bill Gates) 24x7 how AI is going to take over all jobs. They can't even run stable git hosting. lol.
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From BBC HOMEPAGE: Chip giants Nvidia and AMD have agreed to pay the US government 15% of Chinese revenues as part of an "unprecedented" deal to secure export licences to China, the BBC has been told 😅
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgvvnx8y19o
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Oh my. New Data centre construction is rapidly becoming number one construction activity in the United States.
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Here is another tip for Linux, *BSD, macOS, or Unix users. Sometimes your router, ISP, OS, or even a misconfiguration in dual-stack networking (IPv{4,6}) will use IPv4 or IPv6 instead of the desired protocol version. There is a simple way to tell commands (and services in a config file) to stick with IPv4 or IPv6 only by passing the -4 or -6 option. For example:
ping -4 domain-name # ping using IPv4
ping -6 domain-name # ping using IPv6