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Totally. The fact Microsoft got Three Mile Island to reopen[1] to train AI is unbelievable. 1: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/20/three-mi...

The trademark infringement claim is interesting. Is there any precedent for a company doing something like "Redis Service" or "Coca Cola Reseller" and getting away with it?

Absolutely. It's even been remarkable stable--programs written 20 or 30 years ago work without any kind of modification.

I was invited to a project that uses "notion.so" a couple weeks ago. It seems to work pretty well for what you're described.

Check out Hetzner (Germany) and Entrywan (US). They have good prices and a no-nonsense approach.

Me too. Was there some regulatory change that makes spraying SMS more difficult? It'd be great to hear from someone that works there or at Vonage which sees to have suffered the sa…

Getac and Dell are active there, particularly for law enforcement. There's a good youtube channel[1] that compares them all from time to time. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/@Bobjohn…

AlmaLinux is a perfect replacement for scientific agencies. It's got the fastest turnaround time for security patches, an open community, and sustainable funding sources.

Exactly. There was the famous quote from a US presidential candidate who couldn't even remember what the DOE was called, even though he wanted to abolish it[1]. [1]: https://time.c…

Stealing copper cables from electricity posts is common throughout much of the world. Here's an example[1] robbery. It usually amounts to a gain of a few days' wages for the thief,…

My irc bouncer and two kubernetes clusters are running there. So far the service has been good.

Hetzner and Entrywan are pure-play cloud companies with good prices and support. Hetzner is based in Germany and Entrywan in the US.

Yes, the new channel, even with the bridges in tact, is still much quieter. Here's an sample from my client logs: $ wc -l tcl 2023* | awk '{s+=$1} END {print s/NR}' 116.333 $ wc -l…

At work, we upgrade when there's a compelling reason (structured logging in 1.21 came close; we haven't finished migrating from our old logger yet). Before deploying that version, …

Came here to say the exact same thing. chi has been reallly great for a couple projects--in fact, it's easy to forget it's even here. Moving them into the stdlib means they'll alwa…

This is definitely a hard problem. One technique is to never upgrade clusters. Instead, create a new cluster, apply manifests, then point your DNS or load balancers to the new one.…

The government of Russia, home to the world's largest forest reserves, is trying to subsidize wood-frame buildings. Most modern buildings are made from stone, though, because of fi…

> Native Americans routinely burned the landscape—to foster the growth of useful plants, to clear space for farming, and to improve the conditions for hunting. > ... > In addition …

The author describes the alerting and notification workflow really well. We use IRC at work for this purpose. Prometheus alerts flow into channels that anyone is free to join or le…

Same here. ZNC on Debian (apt install znc) on an Entrywan instance. The freenode debacle impacted a handful of my favorite channels. #tcl is noticably quieter and a couple others a…

> For example, a bundle may provide 200 minutes of calling during a 7-day period for a discounted price. To avoid losing unused minutes, we learned that as people near the end of t…

Yes, present tense is more appropriate. Best of luck to you on what's next.