Wednesday, July 03
Daily News Stuff 3 July 2019
Your Conditions Are Acceptable Edition
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Your Conditions Are Acceptable Edition
Tech News
- WSJ Op Ed warns killing Section 230 kills the internet. (TechDirt)
Okay.
- Microsoft's books will stop working this week. (TechDirt)
If you bought DRM'd books from Microsoft's store, well, you never owned them, they're about to stop working, and Microsoft only gave refunds in Microsoft store credit, which, since they already shut down their book store, cannot be used to replace your books.
One word: Calibre. Sure, it can convert EPUB to MOBI, but it can also do other things.
- China actually is the country the media keeps warning that America is becoming. (The Guardian)
- Ubuntu is working to make ZFS an easy option for the root filesystem. (Phoronix)
I've installed ZFS on a number of systems, and it's amazing, but all of them so far have had regular EXT4 volume for /root and /. I installed that way and then installed ZFS afterwards. Making it a simple part of the instsall process would be a significant advance.
- Firing back at people who say Apple hasn't had a hit product in years, Tech Crunch points to the Apple Watch which was less of a complete failure than most of its competition.
Okay.
- Twitter is still garbage.
- On the other hand:
(CEO of Cloudflare)
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Has this ding-dong found any articles that advance both those narratives at the same time?
"The narratives, to summarize, are essentially that:
Jony had checked out, become incompetent or just plain lazy Apple is doomed because he is leavingIf those narratives look contradictory, then you have eyes."
Has this ding-dong found any articles that advance both those narratives at the same time?
Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, July 04 2019 12:07 AM (Iwkd4)
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