Scripting News: Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Ocean warming is a bad thing. Ocean currents determine the weather all around the world, accounting for a relatively mild environment in Europe, for example, even though a city like London is on the same parallel as Winnipeg. Once the current is disrupted, people will find their buildings are not prepared for the change, or the cost of heating homes, or growing food. #In the 80s there was a tech press that reviewed software, and explained OSes and hardware, so you really had a good idea what was going on. They just don't do that anymore. Haven't for many years. But along comes ChatGPT and I can get a comparitive review of hosting services that compete with Digital Ocean, just by asking for it. I wanted to get an idea of how easy it would be to create an open source app so it could be easily deployed, on any of them and what the pros and cons were. I asked for a comparison between Digital Ocean (where I host my servers now) and Amazon, Microsoft, Google and I threw in Glitch, just to anchor the whole thing simplicity-wise. Even InfoWorld wouldn't have done such an in-depth review. This is a productivity revolution, at least.#
There's a new faster version of news.scripting.com coming. I was originally thinking I'd do the switch today, but decided to hold it for a bit. I want to do more testing and development.#
My Threads timeline is full of Kara Swisher the last few days. She has a book coming out. I think she's popular with other journalists. Her theme appears to be that it's the personalities that matter, not what the companies do. I don't think she has a whole lot of insight into the products and technology. For some reason tech, which mystifies a lot of history and english majors, is considered irrelevant or optional, or maybe kind of cute, by the typical reporter. So she expresses tech in terms the journalists understand, therefore they like her. #Linkblog items for the day.
One user's perspective on the switch from Movable Type to Wordpress in 2004. I wasn't paying attention, that was the year of podcasting. mastodon.social
I asked ChatGPT for a "list of 25 interesting blogs that regularly update. scripting.com
Scientists Are Freaking Out About Ocean Temperatures. nytimes.com
Repbubs will be sad for sure if Trump loses, but we'll all be sad if he wins, except for the grifters and the Nazis, they'll be happy. politicalwire.com
Variety: "Biden has long lacked the ability to bend the medium of TV to his ends." That's true of Democrats as a group. In contrast, the Repubs do this very well. It's the only thing they do well. variety.com
Officials admit to blown call as lowly Pistons lose again. theguardian.com
My two cents, I can't think of a single example of a tech revelation reported by Kara Swisher. washingtonpost.com
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