Zeke Hausfather, a research scientist at Berkeley Earth, warned more records could be broken this year, due to an increase in emissions and El Nino.

Okay, I know this isn’t the point of the article, but this guy’s name is cool as hell and would fit perfectly as the leader of a band of survivors once the climate change apocalypse actually hits.

Now, that said, I would prefer that it didn’t. Every other form of existential dread I can rationalize away, but this feels inexorable.

because we’re taking the internet back to 2003 and that includes omg teh random posts being funny again *holds up spork*

Here’s a link to the blocky docs with a little more explanation. The above link looks like it goes to the a docker image posted on the user’s profile… I think? ^I need to get more familiar with docker^

the biggest thing to me, in terms of server load, is that reddit does not need to host videos/images. It’s a link aggregate.

I’m only a layman in this particular field, but I imagine it’s a lot lighter on resources to direct people to sites streaming video than to host and serve it all yourself.