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Re:Google cloud outage takes down banks on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:21PM (#50343126)
100%, it varies depending on what you're looking at. IIRC it took them forever to even log at UTC instead of whatever. And some systems still had exceptions.
Re:Technofeudalism on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:00AM (#50338711)
The article not mentioning the likes of Curtis Yarvin or Peter Thiel misses the point...
You'd have thought all supermarkets would have audited their refrigeration vendors, or at the very least firewalled vulnerable controllers... Oh well...
Nope, seemingly geo blocked...
ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

I guess I'm not reading this...

Re:Google cloud outage takes down banks on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @09:53AM (#50166499)
Google is PDT-centric, and never grew out of it. Everything is Mountain View time internally and it's so jarring.
Re:Nvidia's first GPU: GeForce 256 on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @04:59PM (#50095149)
Might be the first GPU, but they made video cards well before the GeForce era... Riva 128 was their first card with 3D acceleration if I remember correctly?
All I'd get is pigeons and seagulls...
Re:US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @09:19AM (#49712095)
Bunch of idiots with space weapons. Great!
Seems to be blocking users outside of the US, FWIW...
I think, perhaps, Japanese paramedics shouldn't take their shoes off...
Android had (has?) a similar issue with the hotspot feature where it will not turn on in a region where 5 GHz is more regulated than in the US but will also not give you any warning about it.
a̵n̵t̵i̵-̵a̵n̵t̵i̵fa is just fa, no?
It's almost as if electing a pro-Russia politician has consequences...
Re:CarPlay Is Additive on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @04:18AM (#48814985)
Sounds like Wireless CarPlay lag. I've experienced it a few times. They should really fix it. Wired CarPlay is great!
Re:CarPlay Is Additive on Friday July 03, 2026 @04:13AM (#48772320)
At this point it's very easy: no CarPlay, no buy. So no Tesla (obv), no Rivian.
I use DNS-level blocking and audit, a bit like Pi-hole, but as a commercial service I can use anywhere. Definitely blocks a lot of trackers, but probably not all.
Re:U.S. Science Is in Chaos on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @05:02PM (#48576853)
Complicated question... Do you have marketable skills that could land you a job in demand with a visa? Or sufficient savings to "buy" residency somewhere?
You can criticize all you want on memegen, people will upvote but nothing will change.
^ this! Ever since the Cambridge Analytica scandal, people who decide to work there make the statement that they are ok with it. Same with Palantir, X, Grok, Tesla etc
Re:John Ternus to become Apple CEO on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @07:45AM (#47847441)
Apple Maps only works well in North America, possibly just the US. The same way a lot of happy paths in Apple products are designed for California/Single Culture/Single Language/Single Residence.
You're confusing colos and first-party data centers. A colo mostly relies on its customers for installs and maintenance. Google, MS, FB, Apple etc own the entire building so all the functions are local: server install and maintenance, network install and maintenance, generator maintenance, electricians, water treatment in some cases... That's very easily in the hundreds if not thousands for big sites.

Count the cars here: 36.242186561973, -95.32619746715035

You have no idea how much maintenance is required. Just replacing hard drives, not even counting server repairs, new servers installation, network infrastructure installation and maintenance, power distribution, generator engineering, water treatment etc etc
Data centers are hardly new technology... For the longest time, people had no idea where the cloud was because the footprint was pretty small. It's another golden goose moment where everyone is going to build DCs and we might end up like in the dotcom bubble where way too much fiber was deployed for what was necessary at the time.
Less than 30 makes no sense. It's easily in the hundred if you account for shifts and the specialized jobs required.
Thanks for that, now I have a rock-solid argument when people say "oh we're already Microsoft customers, we'll just use Azure, it's easier, and they have Active Directory!!"
This reads like Google culture too...
Re:ICAO issued new power bank restriction on flight on Saturday March 28, 2026 @05:42PM (#47558363)
Some airlines and/or local aviation authorities have additional restrictions. China wants CCC certified power banks, Thailand has a strict 160 Wh limit. Both are very strictly enforced.
Re:Kona EV Hacking on Monday March 16, 2026 @04:56AM (#47396533)
I think talking about "hacking" a car without a mention of OpenAI is not really hacking: https://comma.ai/vehicles#hyundai
Is this an ad for comma.ai? Because it sure reads like one...

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