Exactly. The fact that "disposable" vapes even exist is mind-boggling. And now they account for more than half of the electrical waste going to landfill. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Why do they even exist? Can't they be banned?

It's like buying a USB battery pack to recharge your phone - and then chucking it out after it's run out.

For the same reason big hair can make someone look crazy. They make you look unkempt.

They could be upgrading hosting infrastructure - sometimes this requires servers to be shut down or restarted. They might also be applying database changes such as migrating data from one server to another, or updating the structure of the database to improve performance or support new features.

Honestly, there are quite a number of reasons for planned downtime.

Unplanned downtime is a different story. Usually that's because something unexpected went wrong and there will be engineers trying to get things back up and running ASAP.

Yep 🤦🏻‍♂️

This isn't even about AI. Regular search engines will also provide results reflecting the thing you asked for.

In the UK it's a "builders' bum"

They can still reject the proposal. Just because they're built upon Chromium, doesn't mean they need to utilise or retain every feature Google adds to it.

Agreed. News about X is not news about technology.

Screen and tmux are your friends in this situation. They can keep your vim session alive when your SSH connection drops, so you can reconnect and continue where you left off.

Asking for a friend, of course...

It really does, doesn't it!?

Do people even use Pinterest nowadays?

I'm always staggered by how regularly it appears at the top of search results.

You weren't wrong. He stepped down as CEO, but remained on the board. Whereas now I guess he's leaving the board.

The decentralised nature of it makes that much harder. But also much less likely to be required.

For example, could you imagine a scenario where emails "go dark"? It'd require individual email services to go dark.