Article note: We really should be running manufacturing more-or-less on "Battlestar Galactica" protocols. There's no reason to plug that shit directly into an Internet-connected network.
... Or, to make another reference
You hooked it up to the ~~phone~~ Network, didn't you?
Dade! Turn the shower off! You screw up again and you ~~won't get into college~~ will break civilization!
Article note: Man, we're only like 10 years from "Never use your real name on the Internet" to threatening "The government mandates you supply your legal name to the ad-tech companies who have taken over the Internet"
Article note: Getting out of Sparc makes sense, no one gives a shit about commercial Unix anymore, Oracle has poisoned the waters around Sparc, and Fujitsu has seriously badass AArch64 designs that can take over in the remaining markets.
The mainframes though? That's an ...odd... move. There doesn't seem to be a ton of overlap between the "Mainframe customers" (serous mainframes, the GS21 family are basically modernized Amdhal ESA/390 compatible designs) and "Customers who will migrate to a new, small cloud provider."
Once Japanese giant's main squeezes, they're being ditched at end of decade
Fujitsu has confirmed the end of the road for its mainframes and Unix server systems. It will cease to sell both by the end of this decade, with support services continuing for a further five years.…
Article note: This is just weird. Yes, AMD has some compelling technologies in both the CPU and Graphics spaces, and recently acquired Xilinx, so they're well positioned.
Yes, Intel appears to be making some poor decisions. But they have a long history of terrible decisions that they've managed to get away with. More importantly, unlike AMD, they own an (expanding) ton of leading-edge fab capacity, and significant market dominance in almost every laptop-and-larger CPU category.
Article note: Very cool. The various RT patch-sets to Linux have always been under-maintained for how useful they are; there is a lot of industrial equipment out there that is really a RTLinux box, and it's generally not a bad solution.
Now that Windows 11's first major post-release update has been issued, Microsoft has started testing a huge collection of new features, UI changes, and redesigned apps in the latest Windows Insider preview for Dev channel users. By and large, the changes are significant and useful—there's an overhauled Task Manager, folders for pinned apps in the Start menu, the renewed ability to drag items into the Taskbar (as you could in Windows 10), improvements to the Do Not Disturb and Focus modes, new touchscreen gestures, and a long list of other fixes and enhancements.
But tucked away toward the bottom of the changelog is one unwelcome addition: like the Home edition of Windows 11, the Pro version will now require an Internet connection and a Microsoft account during setup. In the current version of Windows 11, you could still create a local user account during setup by not connecting your PC to the Internet—something that also worked in the Home version of Windows 10 but was removed in 11. That workaround will no longer be available in either edition going forward, barring a change in Microsoft's plans.
While most devices do require a sign-in to fully enable app stores, cloud storage, and cross-device sharing and syncing, Windows 11 will soon stand alone as the only major consumer OS that requires account sign-in to enable even basic functionality. Apple's Macs still allow for local account creation during setup, and you can skip signing in when you set up iPhones and iPads (an Internet connection is sometimes required for device activation, though). Android likewise needs an Internet account for activation but doesn't require signing in to get you to the home screen. Even Chrome OS has a guest mode that you can use to enable basic browsing without a user account.
Collections of things, and their collectors, have generally tended to give me the willies. I sometimes, usually only temporarily, accumulate things in some one category, but the real pursuit is in the learning curve. The dive into esoterica. The quest for expertise.
