Scientist’s ashes dropped into hurricane Milton’s eye as final tribute

Hurricane hunter Peter Dodge's last flight into the storms he spent his life studying.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/10/scientists-ashes-dropped-into-hurricane-miltons-eye-as-final-tribute/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

A reminder that anyone can sue anyone else for any amount of money.

The amount requested in lawsuit filings like this is PR. It's designed to get journalists to publish wildly big numbers to sensationalize the case even more.

And it usually works, because journalists routinely do PR for plaintiffs, by not thinking about what they're doing.

The Verge -- and other media organizations -- should know better than to do this.

"the internet is a resilient network"

the internet when one cdn goes down:

I am begging developers of command line tools to simply write an example of the working command after the options.

reading a 1000 lines of documentation with a million -flags and -switches and then guessing how im supposed to use them is not fun. many many non coders want to use your program. Let us copy paste the working command and then edit to our needs