I do wonder if this is the new standard when moving everything from AWS to Azure.

Which championship? Which sport? Which country in the UK?

Hear me out...

How do we know it wasn't a peaceful person leaving a hand written note begging for no more datacentres, when their nemesis, Dr Datacentre, drove past and started shooting at him?

Aren’t these the guys who disallow the term “Taiwan is a country” and “Free Tibet” in their chat system?

Where's the photo of him being propped up to face the camera with a stick?

Well, I guess there was 1 PC for the whole family. Analogue modems would scream as they talked over wires. A lot. If you picked up a phone in the house, you would hear the scream of not just the modem, but the person using the internet to put it down.

A lot of people had their own homepages hosted on Geocities or Angelfire - which were like free-form expressions of your facebook profile. Utterly abusing HTML and GIFs.

And to communicate with your friends, you used IRC, MSN Messenger, ICQ or AIM. All of them, as some friends wouldn't be on one or the other.

You searched for information using Alta Vista, Web Crawler, Yahoo!, Lycos or Ask Jeeves.

Your email address usually ended in @hotmail.com or @yahoo.com (and regional variations, like .de or .co.uk, etc.), BUT, you also had an email address from your ISP (so aol.com, freeserve.co.uk, free.fr, etc.) were really common.

Listening to music was different. You would search for MP3s (people would 'rip' songs from CDs into MP3 format and upload them) using free services like Napster (the OG), then WinMX, Limewire, eDonkey. and you would listen to them using an audio player like WInAmp (on the family PC). MP3 players (like the iPod or Zune) were just starting out I think, so you tended to get MP3s and then burn them to a CD so you could listen to them in your car, or in your portable CD player, or even your HiFi.

Streaming video wasn't really a thing, as modems are too slow, but, you could download movies (it just took FOREVER) and they would almost always be the worst cam quality you could imagine and compressed as much as possible.

Using Linux/Unix was really a huge pain as most of the modems were actually Winmodems so none of the manufacturers would provide binaries or modules for anything other than Windows, so they were almost always reverse engineered - and it was just a pain.

I could probably ramble on for longer, but this feels like a good place to stop and say "get off my lawn".

There was a bit of controversy about them a couple of years back that put me off.

• They used to disable Wayland and force X11 - that was a pain.
• They didn't fully open source all components I think.
• There was some concerns about where it was being developed, I think it's entirely Chinese devs.

This used to be IT in the early 2000s

Beige as far as the eye could see (in a data centre)

The balls on the man who tackles the shooter. Give him every medal.

I think the issue there is the k-ID software asks you to do things like open your mouth, then close your mouth - so you'd need to find stock photos of the same person doing stuff like that. Which, now that I think about it, I imagine there will be an influx of selfies of people with closed and open mouths available on google images very soon.

UK: Had 3 heatwaves this year so far. And it's always humid :-(

I mean, I get it, but that's also not a thing of git, right? Just because GitHub does something doesn't mean every other hosting provider needs to. If your code review process is to comment upon specific commits, maybe it's the code review process that's wrong?

"shutted"

Werner Vogels introduced in his closing speech at re:Invent this year the term "Verification Debt" and my stomach sank, knowing that term is going to define our roles in the future. The tool (AI) isn't going to get the blame in the future, you are. You are going to spend so much time verifying what it has generated is correct, the gains of using an AI, may start to be less beneficial than we think.

Wasn't there some controversy about this that it wasn't entirely open-source?

I'm in the UK, we have different siren sounds than the US - and I still do this when I hear a siren on a song by a US band or artist.

Have they actually said why? That post doesn't cover it.

Wait a sec, I was told American's don't use the metric system...

Yes, Elijah Wood is in Back to the Future II! He's one of the kids trying to play the old school arcade machine.

Oh, and Cuba Gooding Jr is in Coming To America (he's getting a haircut).

Worse how? Jellyfin was forked from Emby, and since then has continued to improve in my eyes.