today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 16, 2023,
updated Sep 16, 2023

• Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+L is the most cursed Windows 11 shortcut combo

  Professional social media hell is just a keyboard combo away.

• Unity Technologies Destroys Its Goodwill With Developers

  This has been a banner year for once-beloved brands crushing their own value. At Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., newish CEO David Zaslav inexplicably removed the HBO from HBO Max, confounding users. Elon Musk’s destruction of Twitter is too depressing to think about. And this week, Unity Technologies Inc. CEO John Riccitiello zapped any remaining customer goodwill for his company with the disastrous rollout of a widely reviled new policy.

  Unity is the company behind a suite of tools and technology, called the Unity Engine, that helps people make video games. It has long enjoyed a reputation for being user friendly and well suited for independent developers — especially in contrast to its chief rival, Unreal Engine, which tends to be a better fit for bigger, more expensive games. The long list of games developed on Unity includes indie hits like Among Us, Hollow Knight and Cuphead.

• 100 SBCs, Python Flask, and two NUCs for MrBeast

  If you haven't already, watch How I almost broke MrBeast's 1-100 video, which provides context for this blog post.

• Fermyon Brings Wasm and AI Together via Serverless Framework

  Fermyon's Wasm PaaS now includes a serverless computing framework for invoking AI models.

• Ubuntu Blog: How a real-time kernel reduces latency in telco edge clouds

  Telco edge clouds are among the most popular and promising technologies with great potential to deliver performance improvements. An edge cloud is an infrastructure to run software located close to devices and end-users. 
  

• FOSS Week In Review: ZFS’s Ubuntu Return, the Nigerian Prince Goes AI, Stolen Passwords, Torvalds Does Hutton, and More

  In this week's roundup we look at ZFS's return to Ubuntu as an install option (and why it was removed in the first place), how the Nigerian Prince is adopting AI for phishing, Linux Torvalds fabulous impersonation of E.F. Hutton, and more.