Welcome to Random Short Take #93. If it’s old news can it still be called news? Maybe olds. Let’s get random.

• I haven’t had the pleasure of working with tape for well over a decade now, but it still has a place in the world. Even with hyperscalers. To that end, Quantum recently announced i7 Raptor tape library for hyperscalers.
• I rave about how much I enjoy the Backblaze blogs, but that’s mainly because I do. If you’ve ever found yourself wondering about data centres, temperature, and power, it’s worth checking this article out.
• In news that can only be considered both amusing and alarming, El Reg has reported that San Francisco’s railways will upgrade from floppy discs. I love a good bit of “if it ain’t broke”, but wow.
• I thought it was just me, or something I did, but Jeff Geerling has confirmed my suspicions that macOS Finder is still bad at network file copies.
• In press release news, Hammerspace has expanded support for commodity hardware.
• A lot of people get excited about the tech powering the platforms at Meta, Google, Netflix, etc. And a lot of people take their cues on how to do enterprise things from those organisations. This might be a mistake. You’re likely never going to hit that scale, or have those kinds of problems to solve. That said, I really enjoy reading the Netflix Tech blog, and found this article on the making of VES: the Cosmos Microservice for Netflix Video Encoding to be really interesting.
• This article over at AV Gadgets was amusing – I Gave Up Modern Tech For A Month and I Lived to Tell About It! There’s a lot I’d be going without, even though I have a house full of physical media.
• Finally, JB wrote about his enjoyment of bomber jackets. Given the climate in Brisbane, I’m not sure just how much use it would really get, but I dig the look.