@evilmiera

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So... I was just laid off from Epic Games along with 1000 other people! BUT... since I was already planning to quit in April, this is a pretty great outcome for me. Now I can go back to making my own indie games with severance pay and health insurance 🎉
Blog post with more details coming soon.

Do we want to work for Google for free?

I feared this day was coming — this is the first site I see closing down, because Google has stolen their content.

The owners of this cycling inspiration site asks: What is the reason to continue creating content, when Google just steals it and serves it as AI answers to keep all the traffic to itself?

It seems our EU politicians are soundly asleep at the bike handlebar.

https://www.holland-cycling.com/blog/321-holland-cycling-com-stops-in-2026

Via @saarmuller.

Holland-Cycling.com - Holland-Cycling.com stops in 2026

After 13 successful years Holland-Cycling.com will stop its activities at the beginning of 2026. Now that the cycling season of 2025 has come to an end the website will no longer be updated.

OK. #signal is down. And it seems to be an issue with Amazon Web Services. Not the end of the world, but a reminder that a centralized cloud is a single point of failure.

https://aboutsignal.com/news/outage-at-signal-and-several-other-online-services/

Outage at Signal and several other online services - AboutSignal.com

Users can't send or receive messages.

AboutSignal.com

Today in 1992, 33 years ago: An Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are assassinated by political militants in Berlin.

#OnThisDay

Terry Pratchett talking to Bill Gates in 1996. I think about this a lot.
I am too tired to be my family’s IT support desk right now.

Today in 1986, 39 years ago: in Knebworth Park, England, before more than 120,000 spectators, the British rock band Queen performs its last concert with its original members, before the death of vocalist Freddie Mercury in 1991.

#OnThisDay

Intel's 386 processor was popular in late 1980s microcomputers. From the outside, the 386 chip is a boring ceramic square. But I obtained a 3-dimensional CT X-ray scan from Lumafield, revealing six layers of complex wiring hidden inside the ceramic package. Let's take a closer look... 1/N
Think I need to follow more peeps, not seeing a lot of posts lately. That or people have ditched the platform