don't worry, the page already looks like slop, it might already be less truly useful than one would think

tldr: they ARE regular european cranes, they just used to be larger and it is theorised that human influence asserted selective pressure towards a smaller form.

In cranes males are bigger than females.

The study has shown that the ancient bones as big as modern cranes were from ancient females which were as big as modern males, while the ancient bones much bigger than those of modern cranes were from the ancient males.

Without DNA analysis to determine the sex, it seemed like in the past there were both cranes of the modern size and other bigger cranes.

Very succinctly put.

Can't read the article because

> You're using a suspiciously old browser

m8 it's firefox mobile from two months ago, calm down

always has been, we are just distracted by abstractions around it.

somehow, this year is the year of the linux desktop for a lot of windows people in my vicinity, without me doing anything for it. I don't really advertise any OS preference, and use the big three equally. And yet everyone is so fed up by windows they are listening to the Linux stories you can find online now.

I am a Linux user myself but I don't think Linux will be a mainstream os anytime soon even though I hear that a lot.

The problem is that the economy is kinda flatlining and only the AI bubble (that is also hoovering up other, seemingly unrelated parts of the tech sector) is what makes this number as big as it is.

again. For some reason, they forbid it after setting the standard for decades themselves.

...who is ironically a former MS employee.

Sometimes I do wonder why it's hard to see that you shouldn't invest in AI, let Sam Altman hoover up all compute hardware and then make a surprise pikachu when hardware sales of your user base decline. Same for Google: "what, if I stop people from going to websites because I let a bot summarise what they're looking for, I get less money from website visits?"

At this rate (I know I keep beating that drum), I think we cannot have AI: it is too self-defeating from a business pov.

It's not like Google had a choice. Asking AI is superior to browsing links in 90% of use cases, and they would have been disrupted otherwise.

Browsing a curated list of the worst SEO generated spam, sure. Anything is better. Wait for SEO advertising to come to AI summary.

It's already here, ask AI for a product recommendation and it will recommend whichever company has the highest Reddit astroturfing budget.

Yeah but there is more competition in that space which might delay/slowdown the inevitable enshitification

Google search became considerably worse around 2019 when they started using LLMs for indexing, which make it ignore keywords it deemed "irrelevant".

Just a clarification, Google's search revenue actually went up in their latest quarterly reporting. It just didn't go up as far as analysts were predicting.

Yes, but the logical ouroboros should be evident:

- make money from ad views

- make people place ads on many websites, so a lot of ads can be shown

- use made money to build AI summary

- AI summary prevents people from visiting many websites

I've seen another poster successfully updating their Kernel from Ubuntu's "proposed" branch which already has the fix. God knows why they don't merge it into stable.

They have over a hundred kernel configurations (multiplied by aarch64 vs amd64), many of which going back years, to do testing on. That probably doesn't help. People comparing them to open source projects like Arch and nixOS which support maybe one or two versions per platform are making a false comparison.

So far they're two days later than IBM/Red Hat. Not great, for sure, but they seem to be that far behind compared to the competition just yet.

If they push a backport that kills a million set top boxes because of changes in the network stack, they're not much better off than if they work a couple more days on testing.