I wonder if this is the origin story for the recurring warnings about poisonous Halloween sweets.

It’s unfortunate that Keyboard Video Mouse and Kernel Virtual Machine share the same three letter acronym and that both are in widespread use in relation to multiple operating systems.

Hence my scepticism.

A device without any specifications and five different operating system logos behind it. Forgive me, to say that I’m sceptical would be a gross understatement.

Perhaps a more believable post would include the specifications and a link to the supplier.

Pretty sure that Google provides both a html and an iCal feed that don’t require authentication.

Ever since it became about engagement rather than the right results, the writing was on the wall.

Fortunately this means that there are significant opportunities for search competition. The only thing you need to do is give better results than Google.

Just like all the search engines before Google, it too will become a footnote in the history of the internet.

Wow!

I’m guessing that WordPress will be forked soon …

Yeah, in the unedited version of my reply, the asterisk wasn’t detected as part of the URL which lands you at Sag A, not Sag A*.

This.

If you’re wondering why, this is the centre of our Galaxy. Of course if you’re planning on intergalactic travel, you might have some issues, but before you get too worried about it, exploring the current galaxy is going to take a while.

Wikipedia

Edit: The link to the super massive black hole at the centre of our galaxy wasn’t working.

Hopefully this means that when I search for Kmart items I’ll finally only get Australian results for things I can actually buy, rather than stupid Google search results offering USA results, even when I tell it that I’m in Australia where Kmart is alive and well with apparently 301 stores in the country.

Here’s an example of me searching for “kmart sandles” on “google.com.au”

I remove the sticker, wash it under the tap and one bite at a time, eat it whole.

Walk into an Apple store and show the genius at the bar …

Excellent! Added to my Amateur Radio operating locations list.

Edit: Hmm. Need some extensive swimming skills, otherwise the ship will be extremely noisy.

I suppose we could sail there…

I often wonder how such an approach actually happens. One person sends the other a message via Tinder?

If you’re actually working out, nobody cares about what you look like and comfort is more important than any other consideration.

If you’re using the gym as a place to meet people, nobody you would actually want to meet cares about lines in your clothing.

In other words, the lines you’re concerned with have been put there by advertisers wanting to sell you more stuff.

Aww … shucks … giggle

True, the employee(s) here need to be across every aspect of the business, including cleaning the toilet and talking to CEOs and CIOs, not to mention do the accounts, chase debtors and write code whilst maintaining a sense of humour and getting enough sleep.

Yeah. I jumped through these hoops too and it created a company page for my company, with one employee, me, just so I could read someone else’s review on a different company.

Of course, now there’s a company page for my company that I don’t appear to be able to delete.

Your modem will likely keep connection statistics which will tell you how much data was downloaded and uploaded.

Ookla speedtest.net will give you an indication of your network speed. I have a cron job that logs the speed with their cli client every 5 hours and I use it to keep my ISP mostly honest.

The resulting data can also be used to map peak network congestion so you don’t end up with network buffering issues when you are watching the latest episode on your favourite streaming service.

Thank you.

Science communication is hard. If the audience is scientists in the field, the text is probably digestible, but for anyone else, it’s just not.

Note that I’m not saying anything about the content itself, but in my experience, considering who is reading is useful in most cases.

It is again beginning to feel rather dysfunctional…