In the meantime, there's Mastodon. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmastodon.social%2F

The whole sentence begins from a false premise. It generates electrical and hydraulic power. Therefore it does not matter what size it is, it is the *opposite* of a lift generator. It is a drag generator that *steals* kinetic energy from the aircraft to turn it into power that can be used to help the pilots choose where to crash.

Advertising Company ends trial of service which may reduce Advertising Sales. Shocking news indeed.

Here in NZ timezones for everywhere except the east coast of Australia (2 hours behind) is a PITA for us. So we make it part of the SoW for all new contracts that our day-to-day contacts must be either local or Aus east coast. Obviously there will be exceptions and escalation resources could be anywhere in the world, but that keeps it down to a dull roar at least.

Correct. In most ways the legacy environment is much more capable.

Nice! I wish I had had that luxury.

You laugh, but here I have a business critical service which is currently running on Solaris on SPARC. It's 16 years old, to give you some perspective on the architecture: tightly coupled C/C++ processes using shared memory IPC and Oracle RDBMS as backing storage, with app-layer caching.

Across all environments, the legacy system consists of 8 servers and 168 CPU cores. It could do with a bit more metal, but it's coping OK.

The Linux x86 containerised solution about to replace it comprises 55 servers, 3,500 CPU cores - and the vendor reckons it will need another 30% more hardware on top of that to cater to some requirements they did not fully appreciate during the RFP process.

Containerisation, folks.

Just put everything in the cloud! The cloud will solve all of your security and upgrade treadmill problems!

Kids, if you're listening: when the cloud breaks, it may not be your fault, but it will definitely still be your problem.

When CGI tools gave Buzz Lightyear 17 fingers and a backwards leg, that was a bug Pixar would have to fix. When AI does it, Sam Altman will just shrug and tell you to adapt.

I guess that's the end of the AI industry then. *shrug*

We're trying to save our children from a planet on which agriculture has collapsed to the point we can't feed everyone and here we are sucking up precious energy for more copies of advanced autocorrect being deployed to take your job. I guess you won't need money to buy food that doesn't exist anyway so it sort of makes sense.

Using an AI to interview people simply sends the message: we don't care enough about you to even talk to you. Don't work here.

... The bus!

But smaller, more expensive, and less fuel-efficient per passenger.

What a time to be alive.

They're a pain in the arse to find on the GSMA site, but they are indeed there to download for free. This is the E2EE spec, which they adopted from Google: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gsma.com%2Fsolutions...

GSMA standardised adopted Google's E2EE protocol as a standard a few months back. However: in a lot of countries, including mine, telecommunications carriers have interception obligations that prohibit them from implementing any encryption which they cannot remove in order to provide clear text to authorities. As Google is not (for probably political reasons) classed as a telecommunications carrier, they can get away with it.

I am not an encryption expert by any means but my reading of the standard suggests it truly is E2EE - as opposed to encrypted at each end by the carrier who sees it in the clear in the middle - so it is unlikely that carriers in those jurisdictions will be able to implement it.