Weekly reads for Tuesday Oct 15, 2024
Taiwan Makes the Majority of the World’s Computer Chips. Now It’s Running Out of Electricity | WIRED
This story is kind of playing out all over the world whether it be power or water, whether it be about semiconductor manufacturing or data centers. This stuff takes resources, and we’re kind of running out of them.
This is wild. I always think of black holes as sucking everything in, and now they’re blowing it all out. Kind of reminds me of Spaceballs.
Thousands of Linux systems infected by stealthy malware since 2021
OH HAY THANK GOODSNESEZ LINUS IS IMPERVIOUS TO HAXORS!!?? Oh, yeah. It’s not.
This college dropout was bedridden for 11 years. Then he invented a surgery and cured himself | CNN
Forget about that giant black hole, this is REALLY wild. A college dropout developed his own surgical cure and then talked someone into performing it on him. This guy does not take “lie in bed quietly for the rest of your life” for an answer!
A brief history of defragging – The Eclectic Light Company
It’s fun to spend hours mocking Windows users for defragging their hard drives, but Macs used to need it too. Also, no one on Windows defrags anything anymore either, let’s be real. But you should still spend hours mocking Windows users anyway.
