• Google is investing $13 billion over two years to construct datacenters in Finland.  (Notebook Check)
  
  Cheap electricity and free cooling.  It's as if Canada hadn't fallen to the commies.

• That unaccomplished feeling you get when all you've done today is build a working C cross-compiler and half a package manager.  And your day job...
  
  
  
• This 4TB Crucial T705 SSD is just $500 - which is basically the same price as last year.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  I have the T710 but the T705 is fine too.
  
  
  
• Framework has cut prices in the 32GB and 64GB models of the new Laptop 13 Pro.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Though this comes after increasing prices sharply a couple of months ago.  Things aren't getting better, they're just getting worse more slowly.
  
  
  
• Automattic's board of directors has staged a coup.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Mad King Matt Mullenweg has been exiled to Kyril Island.
  
  
  
• Suddenly I feel much better about humanity's chances of survival.  (Twitter)
  
  If this overblown idiot thinks we're doomed, we might not be.
  
  
  

Musical Interlude

Posted by: Zendo Deb at Friday, September 11 2026 12:18 AM (ogEye)

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