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8 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:
Very cool we're letting this antisocial dipshit shape the entire future of humankind.
Hey man, he's a rich guy so by the law of the land he can do whatever he wants. Haven't you been paying attention? Something something job creation by destruction
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16 hours ago, horn4life said:
So ADP is now going to withhold Labor Statistics from Fed?
Wonder who put a finger on that lever?
Reminds me of blocking COVID testing because if you don't know then it's not happening
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Heh, Elmo and SpaceX lost in the trespassing suit from the Cards Against Humanity folks
QuoteA year after suing SpaceX for “invading” a plot of land on the US/Mexico border, Cards Against Humanity says it has obtained a settlement and will provide supporters with a new pack of cards about Elon Musk.
The party-game company bought the land in 2017 in an attempt to stymie President Trump’s wall-building project, but alleged that SpaceX illegally took over the land and filled it with construction equipment and materials. A September 2024 lawsuit filed against SpaceX in Cameron County District Court in Texas sought up to $15 million to cover the cost of restoring the property and other damages.
Cards Against Humanity, which bought the property with donations from supporters, told Ars today that “we’ve been in negotiations with SpaceX for much of the last year. We held out for the best settlement we could get—almost until the trial was supposed to start—and unfortunately part of that negotiation was that we’re not allowed to discuss specific settlement terms. They did admit to trespassing during the discovery phase, which was very validating.”
A court document shows that SpaceX admitted it did not ask for or receive permission to use the property. SpaceX admitted that its “contractors cleared the lot and put down gravel,” parked vehicles on the property, and stored construction materials. An Associated Press article yesterday said that “Texas court records show a settlement was reached in the case last month, just weeks before a jury trial was scheduled to begin on Nov. 3.”
The game company said a victory at trial wouldn’t have resulted in a better outcome. “A trial would have cost more than what we were likely to win from SpaceX,” the company’s statement to Ars said. “Under Texas law, even if we had won at trial (and we would have, given their admission to trespassing), we likely wouldn’t have been able to recoup our legal fees. And SpaceX certainly seemed ready to dramatically outspend us on lawyers.”
That'll be a fun set to pick up
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1 hour ago, immamac said:
I think a ton of people went down cuz of dynamodb shitting the bed and a bunch of stuff they didn't even know indirectly using it.
A ton of folks using SDK's to communicate with cloud services neglect to parametrize their region settings, resulting in their software using endpoints in an east region for doing DR to a west region. There were a few instances of regional anchoring for "global" services in AWS but those cleared up/failed over fairly quickly compared to the overall recovery time for compute.
From reading AWS's outage explanation, when DDB shit the bed, it knocked over a ton of interdependent AWS services that took a while to come back to life. EC2 was back up for a few hours before serverless and other managed services stopped being marked as degraded.
It'll be a few more days before they release a full RCA analysis but I'd bet a dollar they're gonna have some Correction of Error documents to release as well
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7 minutes ago, immamac said:
We had one network outage that lasted ~90 minuted a few years ago that was a huge deal, but I failed out into azure because ive got DR set up outside and did that via DNS update.
You would not have been impacted yesterday if you were running on AWS - you have reasonable multi-site DR configured and sensitive to DNS update. That's the biggest thing a lot of businesses overlook, really just because it's easier/cheaper to design around a single site/region
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1 minute ago, Brian Fantana said:
I have a primary (AT&T) and two backups. The failovers didn't fucking work because were are in the middle of a migration and my MSP apparently had some routes configured incorrectly. I was absolutely fuming yesterday.
Gotta love waiting until an outage to actually test a DR strategy
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1 hour ago, jeevsie said:
About 4 years ago it was server replacement time. The discussion was cloud or stay local? Local won out. I was travelling back from the Kentucky game yesterday - so happy we are still on a local machine!
TBH you're still subject to the same risk profile of single-source outage, you just (theoretically) have more control on the state of your single site. If you build a true multi-region architecture that doesn't hard-code its endpoints to region specific infra, it's pretty straightforward to recover.
1 minute ago, immamac said:IaaS is a solved as fuck problem and anyone still claiming the cloud is a competitive advantage or does something for TCO has rocks for brains and may not know how computers work.
The big advantage IaaS gives is that you can burst/scale with zero opportunity cost, whereas in your own DC you're paying for that hardware for its lifespan. But if your operational model is pretty steady state, then yeah cloud is just paying for someone else's margin. If you don't want to deal with physical infra management it's a great deal - but yeah my NAS can't be beat by cloud in terms of price per GB or cost of IO operations, even including cost of power
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The AWS outage (simplified) in Haiku form:
It's not DNS
There's no way it's DNS
It was DNS
And this is a pretty good and easy to follow explainer, but a DNS failure caused dynamoDB to become unreachable in us-east-1, which made the shit hit the fan
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CO of US SOUTHCOMM resigned one year into a 3 year posting, seemingly over these strikes
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Sweatergawd more enterprises should take multiregion architecture more seriously. At least a pilot light backup would let you hit a 30 minute RTO to just fail over from use1
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Holy shit the CO of US SOUTHCOMM prosecuting the Carribean drug interdiction mission just resigned
Pretty significant indicator that he resigned a year into a 3 year posting that's the pinnacle of a career. I didn't know that SecDef activated special forces assets to do the strikes after the Admiral refused on the basis of them not being legal combatants
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1 hour ago, gofuckyourself said:
So how is everybody watching the season?
Is there a Spurs-centric streaming package?
but seriously, that's the best way to watch games. I find a good stream on my phone/laptop/PC, and then cast it to my TV. EZPZ
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21 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:
Self-licking ice cream cone?
no, that's the commercial real estate market and RTO mandates
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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:
So, what is the phrase for AI that feeds on itself? Yeah, I know its cannibalism and whatnot, but I recall a perfect phrase/name for the phenomenon, but can't remember it now.
Hapsburg AI
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4 minutes ago, immamac said:
Surly isn't down.
surly never goes down, it's just borked sometimes
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24 minutes ago, Incredulity said:
Ally bank is down.
Reddit is fucky too.
16 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:Robinhood aint right either
[laughs in AWS]
yeah even Amazon.com is down
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1 minute ago, Vegas64 said:
What does that look like in your mind as it pertains to the government shutdown and how to get out of this jackpot? (Also I read Trump is going to take billions from tariff slush funds and pay the military, so pretend that an upset military is off the table)?
this is quite literally unconstitutional, so if you're cool with tearing that document up it's all a bit of a moot point. Congress controls taxation and spending. In the constitution, at least.
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Just now, Vegas64 said:
Regardless it looks like this whole fight and shut down has settled fully into ACA vs No-ACA.
If ACA was already gone (lulz) the fascists would have found another bone to chew on. Read a fucking history book, this is exactly what fascists do.
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11 minutes ago, wong said:
Oh look, I was right.
You're not right, you're wong.
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https://www.wsj.com/business/ballmer-clippers-leonard-sanberg-aspiration-49924b19?mod=mhp
QuoteIn December 2021, Sanberg told a high-ranking Aspiration executive that the Clippers had approached him about doing a deal with Leonard, their injured star. The executive recalled Sanberg saying: “This is important to the Clippers.”
Aspiration executives learned that Sanberg was advocating for a four-year, $48 million deal with Leonard. Sanberg didn’t control such agreements, but as the largest stockholder and a board member, his preferences carried weight.
Inside the company, jaws dropped at the terms, with one executive telling a colleague that Aspiration could purchase seven Super Bowl ads for the contract price.
“If you want a talent deal…maybe we should shop around. Do some research. Consider a different team,” one top executive told Shuckerow, the general counsel, in a text message reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “You can’t just commit to a $48M spend without talking to people in the company. I don’t get it.”
“Totally agree,” Shuckerow responded. “Kawhi is a regional star. He doesn’t have the charisma of a Steph Curry, Lebron etc.”
CEO Andrei Cherny “judged the deal not to be worth doing.”
Sanberg then agreed to give Leonard shares from his own holdings, telling executives in an email that they would come to see their error: “The benefits that you…will get from this partnership are subsidized by MY $20 million of stock.”
This is pretty close to a smoking gun from WSJ, especially if Clippers execs were pushing this on Sanberg
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51 minutes ago, Bevo said:
Trump tells Ukraine: Accept Putin’s demands ‘or be destroyed’
US president, shouting and swearing, pressures Zelensky to surrender the Donetsk regionOk, so not quite a Chamberlain. Mea Culpa.
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20 minutes ago, Carl Spackler said:
But if you're suggesting that the offensive woes are solely Manning's fault because of his problems with accuracy, then I can't agree with you.
I'm definitely not arguing that this large complex failure is solely one person's fault. That's ridiculous. But of all the issues, Arch's sad QB performances cause the most secondary and tertiary problems.
The o-line gets more heat because they can sell out to stop the run with very little risk. Because Arch has dogshit accuracy.
Play calling is forced to be more vanilla and predictable to have a reasonable chance of getting positive yards. Because Arch has dogshit accuracy.
It's not SOLELY his fault that the team is playing like hammered dogshit on offense, but he's high up the totem pole of shit flowing downhill. All the other units don't really make a shit while Arch is shitting all over them.
Sure if Arch stops shitting, the team still has big issues. But that IF is entirely theoretical and a moot point at this time in the season
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5 hours ago, Carl Spackler said:
The problem is NOT just Manning. He's a significant part of the problem, esp. with his accuracy issues, but by no means is it all on him.
That's like Mrs Lincoln saying the "play was fine except for the interruption". Accuracy is one of THE MOST important traits for a quarterback and without it, you should not be getting paid more than twice what Joe fuckin Flacco is getting paid
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Good lord the peace deal didn't even last a full Scaramucci
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Markets still falling like whoa
in Business and Markets
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You're not allowed to point out the national debt has risen by $2,000,000,000,000 (trillion) since January 2025, or that domestic agriculture and cattle is being bumble fucked by $40,000,000,000 of bailouts for foreign countries. Good thing we have DOGE on the case