I do have issues on AWS us-east, accesing some services, instances and so on. Also, NPM says they ARE implementing a fix (NPM registry is fully dead) https://status.npmjs.org/

Last benchmark that showed real benefit to users was ACID test. Telling off about the trash that IE always had been. Nowadays, gains are marginal on JS engines and rendering, while devs fall on same mistakes of old, relying on frameworks' magic to pull it all out, regardless of things like NPM dependency hell, lack of caching strategies, linting and so on. We had ugly images for a long time just to ensure no heavy resources were used; now everyone brute-forces networks because at least it's not a stream. It seems to be more about how much are you being exposed/sold by your browser+plugins (or how some service workers are killing your machine, go figure why you need 1GB RAM to make web outlook/teams/whatsapp work).

Given what everyone learned from Snowden, does this mean we have more or less trust on Meta having full ownership on an undersea cable?

Point being? This was a single manual, conscious change in configuration, made by a human being, that rendered all services useless.

On August 14, 2024 between 23:02 UTC and 23:38 UTC, all GitHub services were inaccessible for all users. This was due to a configuration change that impacted traffic routing within our database infrastructure, resulting in critical services unexpectedly losing database connectivity. There was no data loss or corruption during this incident.

Nope. He funded and supported bloody dictators here in South America, just because USA government wanted to avoid anything related to "lefty" policies on governments; his idea was that anything else was better (for USA business, of course). We are still figuring out how to deal with all the horror caused directly by his work. The good thing about him dead is that he is not wasting oxygen anymore; the bad thing is that he should have suffered more before dying. Obama the drone guy won the Nobel prize as well, so there goes the Nobel prize idea.

Same happened with USB-C. A lot of people with less money available didn't notice any change in their habits when Apple was pushed to use it.

This. They publicly spanked MS for relying on lazy SSD manufacturers. Now they shame them because encryption is expensive but, for once, they care about their users (even if it's not the most convenient option). I avoid Windows like the plague, but this approach to the change in bitlocker is a bit unfair, like shaming those who publish Retbleed and Spectre mitigations.

In fact, places like UK show that deregulation following privatization has brought price on utilities way up, while the companies themselves have only provided dividends to stakeholders while being deep in debt (billions in debt), a debt that is likely to be paid by customers. The logical fallacy there is strawman. Problem is not regulation (as shown with tenants and landlords, among many examples) but the lobbying. Corrupting elected officers to be lenient with incumbents is corruption, not a fault on regulation. Avoid conflicts of interest on regulators, that's it. Embroiden sponsors on legislator's shirts so we know who are they caring about :)

This. Also, something that is not mentioned anywhere in the post: internally, StackExchange as a whole has been deeply and continously questioned by users, with longstanding moderators quitting in the last two years. Changes in how content is licensed and how the network is managed have caused repeated outrage on users. So, SE is asking for money instead of blocking LLVM usage (as reddit did). Aaaaand AI-based answers are still banned due to them not disclosing their source. The fact volunteer-based moderation got more stranded by AI-sourced answers, making revision more time-consuming (with a lot of scaffolding around blatant false answers) surely adds to other things mentioned across comments (people being laid off, people using other sources, people too lazy to care about peer reviewing).