It's an interesting board. A weird hybrid.

Raise your hand if you ever inadvertently caused a 2+ hour outage (which was impossible to fix in a deterministic manner) due to DNS misconfiguration. #itwasdns

AWS Outage #itwasdns

At @npub14uc8...amv8 I found: - ESP32 Lisa hard drive emulator - RP2040 powering iMac display replacement boards - Wisblock chip powering LoRa radio for Commodore 64 - Pi Zero C64 drive emulator - Pi Pico voltage board for AMRAY SEM - Pis running various exhibits... I've just posted a video that *tries* to document the overwhelming nature of the event (overwhelming in a good way, of course). And I only covered like 1/3 of the show floor! Video:

Kind of amazed this just worked. Old PowerBook putting the "Universal" in USB

I wonder if Microsoft secretly wants everyone to switch to Linux. There are certainly fewer reasons to stick to Windows every day:

The Verge

Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account

Microsoft is disabling the best local account workarounds

If the size of the current AI bubble can be estimated by how many - AI job offers - AI product review offers - AI service paid sponsorship offers - AI creator representation offers I receive per day... then I'd say we're nearing the pop.

Raspberry Pi just announced the Pi 500+ It has a quad-core CPU, 16 GB of RAM, 256 GB SSD (built-in NVMe), and an RGB backlit mechanical keyboard (Gateron KS-33 blue switches). Cost: $200. First thing I did was yank the SSD out and replace it with an M.2 to OCuLink adapter, so I could game and local-LLM on the thing, using an AMD RX 7900 XT with 20 GB of GDDR6 VRAM.

If you use an adblocker on YouTube, please click 'like' on this video: I'm trying a small test on 2nd channel, want to see impact from a large desktop audience, as I've seen a 30-50% decline in views (without a drop in other metrics).

YouTube views are down (don't panic). Some data-backed analysis of the current downturn in views for many channels (especially in tech?), thanks especially to @BuhDan from LTT for help!

YouTube views are down (don't panic) | Jeff Geerling