Great real world test of services failing. I think this has less to do with AWS screwing up, and more with people putting all their eggs in US-East-1...

This was a temporary, resolvable issue. What happens if there is an irreversible issue that takes out a chunk of the servers sitting in US-East-1?

If you had warm standby systems synchronized and ready to go in a different region, this shouldn't have had much impact (other than maybe having to scale to handle a transfer of load from clients normally localized to US-East-1)... the fact that it did, is a giant red flag. If I was an insurer underwriting cyber loss policies, I'd be combing over the list of companies that had outages very carefully to see if any of them were my customers...

And thus require better cooling? Granted, there are still structures whose activity will not increase with the 5x greater load per GPU but 5x is big enough that I would expect some marginal or even not so marginal cooling solutions to fail.

By this definition at least half of America (if not the world) is insane.

https://old.reddit.com/r/marke...

Also keep in mind that a lot of ads are now being served through sources other than web browsers, even if the backend is sending and receiving data over https. You'd have to implement DNS based filtering of ad traffic, if not outright MITM deep packet inspection to block traffic served via apps.

With that said, having recently fired up a browser that had not yet been configured with adblocking when provisioning a new machine... I don't know how people without adblocking can handle the ads.

People cloning posts, videos, and sites, and claiming it as their own work in order to frontrun/hijack social recognition and monetization.

SEO optimization which started out as hiring english majors to ghostwrite "articles" on topics in order to boost your business site (plumbing, roofing, auto repair) in the rankings, which now replaces the first two pages of search results on anything DIY.

Big corporations monetizing and then later discarding communities, and all of the information and relationships in them, when the new model of walled garden replaced the open internet. What happened to Yahoo Groups: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Also, remember all the free work people did for the CD Database before it was hijacked and turned into a closed commercial project? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/...

Yes, the internet was much better 20 years ago when you shared information online because it was a hobby you wanted to share with people. Not something you did in order to further a career as an "influencer". People largely shared stuff without fear of getting ripped off, because why would someone do extra work of copying your stuff without a benefit? People volunteered their time and effort because everybody was able to benefit.

Now a lot of that stuff happens in much smaller niche communities, or gated behind walled gardens, and the wider internet - the internet that we're able to access using search engines? A lot of it is just noise, and the remaining bits that aren't are really hard to find.

I wonder, are there any computers that both have a PS/2 port and also can run Windows 11?

I dont want to be near people whose neighbors have these.

while it still includes two controllers featuring dials and number pads instead of joysticks, they're both wireless and charge when docked to the console.

Wireless, no matter how good, still has delays or blips which interrupt the signal. You need the consistent signal of a wired connection.

I know people will give me reasons why I'm wrong, but this is no different than having touchscreens for basic operations in a car. You need the analog touch for simplicity and reliability.

One of the most fascinating aspects of H2O is the sheer number of forms it can take under different conditions.

According to Star Trek lore Earth was unified after a nuclear war in the 21st century. The way things are going you might get your wish, just not on the stardate you'd like.

Au contraire -- quite a few police have a well-known back door that you can exploit with nothing more than an envelope full of $100 bills.

Time to short LOGI.

I'm pretty sure not one of these crypto companies could obtain, much less keep a banking license (at least, not in a proper country where you can't just buy your way in).

And you would be wrong. The first stablecoin bank, backed by billionaires who backed trump, was just approved by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency after a rigorous two month review (that's sarcasm in case you missed it).

Supposedly this "bank" will have to adhere to money laundering rules, but as we've seen with other digital money, that goes out the window because who needs regulations.

That's just begging for a "yo momma" joke...

I suspect the idea they are hinting at is that ancient yeast might have been living on (then-livable) Mars and got meteorite-blasted over to Earth, and survived the trip. For a temporary trip like that, survival is sufficient.

Most people are forced into relatively sedentary careers with long commutes

Because working from home would be completely different with the refrigerator only feet away or not having to do much more than roll out of bed.