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"Two years later, the same BYTE Magazine asked on its January 1997 cover: “Can Java Replace Windows?” (Spoiler alert 2: it did not, and… seriously?) Reflecting the myopic insanity of the warlords commanding troops from the comfort of their bunkers, Scott McNealy’s interview on page 40 is just a puzzling diatribe against Microsoft PowerPoint instead of an actual argument in favor of Java."

Aftermath Of The Kernel Wars
During the 1980s and 90s, computer companies waged an open war for supremacy. We are witnesses of an age that could be described as post-apocalyptic. The dust has settled for the past 20 years, with a small ignition of hostilities around 2010, between members of the mobile duopoly and some late challengers. But to a large degree, we can say that the Kernel Wars are over, and we are privileged observers of their aftermath. But everyone was surprised to discover the winner emerging from the ashes…

Ahkatari, a rap duo from Detroit, put out 'Blood: Act I', their sophomore record after 11 years - I hadn't heard of these guys but wow, another wild, unique rap banger from 2025
https://ahkatari.bandcamp.com/album/blood-act-i

TIL that George Lucas asked the guy who designed Darth Maul to give him "a vision from your worst nightmare", then looked at the concept art and, revolted, said
"Give me your second worst nightmare".
https://screenrant.com/the-phantom-men

Sparks turn out to be only second most bonkers act of the show. #TOTP

@… sehen wir die gleichen Youtube-Videos oder wie kamst du ausgerechnet jetzt auf genau dieses Thema?
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article

At the end of a long and complicated tender process with some fiendishly complicated requirements, the response we have got is
"You are the only supplier to fulfill all the complicated requirements we asked for. Unfortunately meeting all the requirements we demanded made the system too complicated for us, so we're going with someone who can't meet our requirements but is simpler."
I can't even.
We could have presented a simple setup! They just had to …

The same receptionist in my office building that nagged me today about leaving my computer (that I dial into remotely when working from home) on when I'm not in the office, just asked me to leave the front door of the building wide open because she's too warm.

If I was going to write a cyberpunky story, one piece of local colour that I would add would be a fashion trend for unique, intimate tattoos.
The idea being that deepfake machine generated porn has become endemic, but if you had an unusual tattoo around your bits the machines obviously wouldn't be able to guess what it was, and so a video of you in the act without the tattoo or with the wrong tattoo would be more obviously fake.

Occasionally I have mocked the IT practices of my older daughter's school, but at least they don't hide behind a https://www.nicchan.me/blog/the-f-off-contact-page/.
They send emails from accounts which can receive emails. This is the way.