Original link: https://1link.fun/blog/issue/issue60/
Big Tech is the new Big Tobacco
The article argues that Big Tech (like Facebook, now Meta) is like Big Tobacco: their products are addictive; they fund academic research to divert public attention from the dangers of their products; they spend money on A lot of money is spent on lobbying; they all change their names after their original ones stink;
Musk also changed the name of Twitter to X, but it seems that he will encounter trademark troubles , because the X brand seems to belong to Microsoft, and Meta is the trademark holder of X in the field of social media.
Internet in the 90s: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP president
The author of the article saw an e-mail from the president of the Internet provider when he was sorting out his e-mail inbox a long time ago, reminding him that he has been online for 20 hours in a row. If he does not really use the Internet, it is best to disconnect the link , so that connection resources can be released for other users to use.
This was very reasonable in the 1990s when dial-up Internet access was available. Now, it may be just the opposite. When you are not online for 20 hours, you may receive a system prompt.
Free phone therapy for technicians
This website provides free chat services for technicians: whether you are a programmer, product manager, or project manager, you can call them to complain about the bad things you encountered at work.
Unlike regular psychiatrist services, the person who answers the phone is both technically savvy and able to guide you.
However, currently only US/German phone numbers are supported, and I wonder if this can be done in China.
AlmaLinux’s Response to RHEL Source Code Policy Changes
This is an interview article, the author and the chairman of the AlmaLinux OS Foundation discuss the change of RHEL source code policy and the plan after AlmaLinux, if you are not very clear about this story about source code policy change, I suggest you read it.
The chairman of the foundation summed up this matter precisely: RHEL made it easy for competitors to survive from the beginning, and now they have changed this policy, thinking they can make it less easy for competitors to survive.
A picture to understand the network concept of AWS
There are many concepts and nouns on AWS. It is difficult for beginners to understand these concepts and the relationship between them. The author of this article drew a picture and marked the relationship between these concepts. The picture is understandable, but this picture is actually quite complicated.
Windows 11 collects a lot of telemetry data about your PC
Install WireShark (a network traffic monitoring software) on a freshly installed Windows 11, after the first startup, analyze what data Windows 11 will collect and send to which servers
Turns out: a lot of data was sent to several different servers, including some third-party (not owned by Microsoft) servers
Also, what if this test is done on Windows XP?
It turns out that it will only connect to the Windows Update server to check for system updates, nothing more
The “fall” of StackOverflow
The picture above shows the Page view data of the StackOverflow website. After the generative AI became popular, the traffic of the website dropped by half, and the number of questions and the number of votes dropped accordingly.
Although generative AI has not been popular for a long time, many people already rely on AI a little bit. For example, can you not use any AI-related tools for 7 consecutive days? Including but not limited to ChatGPT, Stable diffusion, midjourney, Copilot or other AI Application? 30 days?
Latest news: StackOverflow has launched its own AI application , OverflowAI .
The latest version of JetBrains IDE also deeply integrates AI functions
oppenheimer: history vs hollywood
This website lists the photos of the characters in the movie Oppenheimer and the corresponding characters in history, and the similarity is quite high. In addition, there are some historical knowledge about Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb on the webpage.
The pioneering paper on database sharding does not seem to exist?
Fragmentation (Shard) allows the database to handle massive amounts of data, and most of the current database systems support sharding. However, when the author of the article was learning the principles of database sharding, he suddenly discovered that the first pioneering paper cited by many database sharding-related research could not find a copy?
The author has tried various methods to obtain a copy of this paper, but has not been able to find one so far. You can continue to follow this blog for follow-up status updates.
How the Logback Open Source Project Gets Sponsored
How open source projects earn income has always been a difficult problem. Recently, I stumbled across Logback, a well-known open source project of the Java log framework, which can obtain sponsorship by letting you “title” a Release.
If your project encounters a bug in logback, and you want logback to fix the bug and release a new version very urgently, then you can donate a one-time donation of $800. Normally, the bug will be resolved within 3 working days. fix, and a new version will be released afterward.
It seems to be a win-win solution. The following is a “titled” release I found on the logback release page:
Maybe someone wants to title a weekly magazine? No need for $800, just 800 RMB 😉
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