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alarmingfox··on Servo is now available on crates.io
I think they implemented parts of it into their Gecko engine. But they laid of all the Servo development team in like 2020 I believe.

Only recently when it moved over to the Linux Foundation has Servo started being worked on again

alarmingfox··on FDIC Takes over Silicon Valley Bank
I believe the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) in the UK insures deposits upto £85,000.
alarmingfox··on My mom left behind some number code
24 level 10, missed out on level 11 by 1 number :')
alarmingfox··on ByteDance confirmed it used TikTok to monitor journalists’ physical location
Non-paywall link: https://archive.vn/1jRVq
alarmingfox··on UK airports to scrap restrictions on liquids and electronics
Non-paywall version: https://archive.vn/doB9S
alarmingfox··on ElonJet Is Now Suspended
Well it seems like Elon is reneging on his previous commitment to free speech.

- https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589414958508691456

alarmingfox··on I’m taking some time away from Comma
I believe the OP answered that in their second sentence.

> Very few people I’ve met with similar personalities are.

alarmingfox··on Instagram ‘down’, suspending accounts for no apparent reason
Yeah a friend of mine has the same issue. Said he got a notification his account was suspended and when he tried to appeal the decision he just gets an error.

His profile comes up with 'User not found' when I checked it. Very strange.

alarmingfox··on Checkbox Olympics
Wow in Chrome 102.0.5005.115 (Official Build) (arm64) it gives me 3.273s which proves that point even more
alarmingfox··on We're moving to a four-day work week at Beacon
They have marketed this by saying they will be working 80% of the hours they use to work yet they want their employees to travel to the office? Surely the hours they've cut for their employees will now be lost travelling to the office and back instead?

I'd rather work a 5 day week if I could work from home then a 4 day work week and have to travel to the office

alarmingfox··on We're moving to a four-day work week at Beacon
Yeah that surprised me too. Surely if they are able to get the same job done while working from home that would be the better option for everyone involved no?

As some employees may lose like an hour a day just to travel whereas that hour could be spent working on features etc. if they didn't have to travel into the office.

alarmingfox··on uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox
I instantly install this extension whenever I work on a new machine as I could not imagine browsing the web without it.

For that reason I just went looking for a donate button to help fund the project and it turns out they don't even accept donations

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Why-don't-you-accept-...

alarmingfox··on YouTube is now building its own video-transcoding chips
This[0] Google blog from 2017 states they were using TPU for RankBrain which is what powers the search engine

[0] - https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/g...

alarmingfox··on Google outage – resolved
https://downdetector.com/search/?q=google shows all the Google services and seems like everything other than search is reporting errors
alarmingfox··on Google outage – resolved
Only thing working for me is the Google search engine
alarmingfox··on Where Is the Sun Located in the Milky Way?
http://www.lightyear.fm was inspired by the opening scene of Contact