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@acrow I think I might have heard that, but I didn't remember it until you mentioned it. Too bad. But I still have a considerable backlog (probably at least a couple of years) of unread.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@acrow I think I might have heard that, but I didn't remember it until you mentioned it. Too bad. But I still have a considerable backlog (probably at least a couple of years) of unread.
It'll make catching up easier.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@acrow I think I might have heard that, but I didn't remember it until you mentioned it. Too bad. But I still have a considerable backlog (probably at least a couple of years) of unread.
Well, the story kept escalating. There was really only so long that could go on without getting ridiculous. (I'd argue that it did get slightly ridiculous in the ending, but only once.) Admittedly, there was the time when the Toughs lost the Ob'enn fortress, and that certainly scaled down to smaller stories for a while, but Petey never really stopped escalating.
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@PotatoEngineer I'm really impressed with how many times the main cast got killed by the time it ended.
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@PotatoEngineer said in In other news today...:
Well, the story kept escalating.
How many sharks were jumped?
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I guess a lot of people are jumping ship
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
I guess a lot of people are jumping ship
Or Apple & Google are about to merge
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@PotatoEngineer said in In other news today...:
Well, the story kept escalating.
How many sharks were jumped?
I counted only one, but it was in the finale storyline. The story wrapped up before any consequences came home to roost from the shark-jump.
Mind you, there was a slow transition to funny-with-story to story-with-funny. I switched from reading it daily to reading it monthly, because the storylines got longer and more complex over time. Daily reading really doesn't work well for drama comics, even when there's humor smattered throughout. (Or for detailed action comics, like, say, Stand Still Stay Silent, where each page is a tiny fraction of a larger encounter.)
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
I almost read that as the Harkness test... and am a bit more sad.
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The source of potentially hazardous solar particles, [...], has been located for the first time by researchers at UCL and George Mason University, Virginia, U.S.
So that's where the coronal mass ejections were coming from.
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Ow shit
Turd!
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Source of hazardous high-energy particles located in the Sun
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@hungrier Specifically just above the chromosphere (which is the bit you normally “see”; technically it's the bit you see by, since looking straight at it is a Bad Idea). I used to work with the guys at UCL (about a decade ago or so) and they knew their solar science; they were hunting for this sort of thing even back then. They also had terrible networking.
Why does this matter? Because these are high-speed heavy ions, and they can do a catastrophic amount of damage to electronics in space. It's probably not too good for DNA either, even if protected inside a spacecraft. There are mitigation procedures possible, but you need time to implement those, which means you need to predict the events and that in turn requires understanding WTF is going on. Which is what this is about.
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@Luhmann Piss!
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@TwelveBaud
Brussel is generally know as a shit hole so I thought it wasn't word mentioning
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A wild turkey appears:
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
A wild turkey appears:
The Things That Remind You of TDWTF Members thread is .
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@JBert And he didn't even have an appointment.
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@da-Doctah Or teeth, presumably.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@da-Doctah Or teeth, presumably.
Although if it had only been a duck, then it would have been good for the bill.
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@boomzilla The one-box has the entire text contents of the article. What remains is a series of Tik-Tok videos. Incomplete, and not in order. I really hope there's an actual article on that somewhere...
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Oof.
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@loopback0 was the data center really constructed from shipping containers or is that a facade?
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@boomzilla It's camoflage. They're all trying to blend into their environment.
If you think about it, a data center is kind of a lucrative target to all kinds of people and groups. So they try not to stand out.
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@acrow hence my question. Although around here they're pretty obvious. Big blocky buildings with very few windows and serious fencing around the property. And there are a lot of them, with more being built all the time.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
was the data center really constructed from shipping containers or is that a facade?
The one that caught fire (SGB2) isn't.
Others on the same site may or may not be now.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla It's camoflage. They're all trying to blend into their environment.
They need to practice they camouflage technique more.
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tl;dr major drug bust going on over the import through the port of Antwerp of cocaine.
The breakthrough came when police gained access to secured telephones marketed by the Sky ECC company that had allowed suspects to communicate in secret until then. Police gained access to a million encrypted messages, half of which were read. Police were able to read the criminals’ messages for two years as a result.
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Brits are happy that space rock hitting their driveway puts the town on the map:
I don't get it, I would have thought the town had always been there.
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Because bloomberg:
Taiwan Has Enough Water to Keep Chipmakers Humming Till MayRecent conservation measures, including fallowing some farmland, has helped save some 701 million tons of water. That ensures Taiwan has enough water till late May, with an additional month’s supply cushion, he added. Taiwan uses about 16 billion to 17 billion tons of water annually, the official said.
Typhoons are usually an important source of precipitation but they didn’t deliver for Taiwan last year. Not a single typhoon made landfall in all of 2020. Over the past century, the island is hit by between three and four typhoons each year on average, according to the island’s Central Weather Bureau.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Typhoons are usually an important source of precipitation but they didn’t deliver for Taiwan last year. Not a single typhoon made landfall in all of 2020.
Now that is one strict lockdown.
Wait, wrong thread...
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
So they try not to stand out.
Hence, the huge blazing OVHcloud logo in various places...
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I found this page open in my browser and don't remember how I got there. Don't think somebody here linked directly to it, but probably another page I found on here. So, in the "not really news ":
Considering the name of the page and their field of business, I don't trust their opinion one single bit (which is a tad ironic considering the first paragraphs) but it still piqued my interest.
As this crisis in consumer confidence unfolded, marketers rightfully sought greater authenticity in their content and communications. They understandably strove to build meaningful relationships with consumers by building on the perceived trust between consumers and the celebrities, YouTube stars and influencers that they follow on social media.
Unfortunately, what we call “influencer marketing”—an industry that grew to nearly $10 billion in 2020, according to Influencer Marketing Hub (and could grow to almost $14 billion this year)—doesn’t actually build trust, because influencers command attention, not intention.
Charli D’Amelio, my son’s favorite TikTok star, reportedly charges upwards of $100,000 per post to reach her 107 million followers. However, the result of such a sponsored post is an ephemeral spike in buzz, not sustained word-of-mouth. A placebo.
Who the fuck is even that, and why would anyone care?
I don't get it. I'm probably just a huge outlier of the ol'-grumpy variant, but why would anyone care for an "influencer". That word alone immediately has huge negative connotations for me. Your "job" is it to do stupid shit on social media and "influence" me into buying certain brands? Why would I trust that when what you say is obviously determined by whoever pays you most? I don't want to be
manipulatedinfluenced. If you call yourself an influencer, I despise you before you've even opened your mouth.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Considering the name of the page and their field of business, I don't trust their opinion one single bit (which is a tad ironic considering the first paragraphs) but it still piqued my interest.
I remember AdAge being fairly decent back in the day (granted, that was ten years ago, and advertising was never my field - although it intersected with some of my interests) and, having skimmed the post, it seems they haven't quite gone downhill since then.
The old... ahem... adage about 50% of advertising spending being wasted still holds, it seems.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
If you call yourself an influencer, I despise you before you've even opened your mouth.
We should start a club
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
I don't get it. I'm probably just a huge outlier of the ol'-grumpy variant, but why would anyone care for an "influencer". That word alone immediately has huge negative connotations for me. Your "job" is it to do stupid shit on social media and "influence" me into buying certain brands? Why would I trust that when what you say is obviously determined by whoever pays you most? I don't want to be
manipulatedinfluenced. If you call yourself an influencer, I despise you before you've even opened your mouth.They're people with large followings, so if they're talking about your product then a lot of people are hearing about your product. Frankly, the whole thing sounds like a "legacy" advertising guy upset that so much ad money is going towards influencers. I have no idea if the actual complaint is legit, but if it is then it's probably at least as legit towards other legacy advertising channels.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I have no idea if the actual complaint is legit, but if it is then it's probably at least as legit towards other legacy advertising channels.
Certainly, that’s why I wrote the first sentence about not trusting them. It’s basically an ad for “legacy” ads. Still, I find the concept of fawning over influencers moronic.
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@topspin it's like any other fashion related thing.
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@dcon they probably got tired of getting accused of reporting Fake News™
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
To be fair, "struggle to maintain altitude" and "can glide back down with some control with no fuel" are not necessarily the same thing. For instance, the former could imply some bizarre overcorrection happens when there's no fuel.