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🗓️ On This Day In Windows History
On 11th October 2022, Microsoft announced that tabs would be coming to Windows 11's File Explorer. 🗂️ But did you know that tabs were originally developed for Windows 95? 👀 The feature was shelved for 30 years before an official release. 🤯
.@LNER Amused to see your app telling me about my connecting Grand Union Trains service, an operator that never actually ran any trains before it folded two years ago. Elsewhere the same train is labelled First Trains Stirling. (Of course it is actually @LumoTrain West Coast.)
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🚨PSA if you have a public Amazon wishlist🚨
A stalker who wants your address can open an Amazon seller account & list themselves as a third party seller for an item on your wishlist. Then they order the item from themselves as a gift for you. Presto, they now know your address!
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The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible.
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bed overheated because AWS-east was down.
but um....... its good because it alerted them to the outage? i dont even know what to do with this shit
I want to specially thank the @vercel team for working around the clock to keep customers safe and available.
In fact, I was sleeping, it was 2am~ ish, and I was alerted about this issue because my internet mattress (which I love, shoutout to @eightsleep) was warm 😅, which led me to opening the app…
I notice there's an ongoing AWS outage. I open HN and it's there too. I go to our incidents channel. A dozen incidents had been automatically filed by our systems, later merged, and failover and service restoration was well underway by on-call teams.
us-east-1 is not fully back. There are lingering networking issues and throttled creation of resources (e.g.: EC2). These incidents take a lot of work to recover from, which the Vercel team is taking care of right now. I'm extremely thankful to them and our partners at AWS.
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You can sign our petition here libdems.org.uk/nodigitalid
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Mandatory digital IDs are the wrong direction for our country. Nobody should be forced to hand over their private data just to go about daily life. I will keep speaking out and standing with the @LibDems in opposing these plans.
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Professionals don't use FFmpeg and FFprobe. They use extremely expensive software that runs FFmpeg inside (and that vendor contributes nothing back)
Hey! I have a question.
Is FFprobe actually a reliable tool for analyzing media files?
Do professionals really use it in real projects or are there better alternatives?@FFmpeg
I wonder whether the actors are being paid this year.
1st July 2018
In Cambridge, in July, Cambridge Shakespeare Festival players into head into town to promote their summer open-air performances held in College gardens.
Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Time & Space'. Available at cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambrid… and all bookshops.
Cartons of water on my @EuropeanSlpr
train say "88% plant based". Surprisingly close to correct for water if you claim that oxygen comes from plants, but hydrogen originated in the Big Bang.
(Yes I know they meant the packaging!)
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Care work is not a low skilled job. It's simply under-paid and under-recognised.
Stop this nonsense and start recognising those who look after our most vulnerable, whereever they come from.
On behalf of us sane people - thankyou to all overseas care workers
