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See discussion from yesterday too (with a much less alarming title) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40304666

Indeed. My gut feeling is that most companies using AWS, Azure or Google Cloud are not going to be making backups elsewhere. I wonder how much data would've been lost if they didn'…

The title I'm seeing is > Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ which is a lot more alarming. I've heard of sudden and…

Below is an email that I (the OP) received a few hours ago titled "A letter from the CEO": > Dear dualscyther > I am writing to provide you with an update on the disruption to our …

Their FAQ says 1. Scale-to-Zero: don’t ever pay for idle again; So I believe this is true? Where are you seeing a pricing page anyway?

Right, but that's why the article is telling donors not to restrict their donations, as opposed to telling charities to prohibit restricted donations.

I couldn't figure out how to email the author and I don't have twitter, but I found a few mistakes in the "More power" section that tripped me up a bit as I followed along, so just…

Yes, you can licence it however you want because you are the copyright holder. See mongodb. IANAL. Licences are to restrict those who do not hold copyright.

From TFA > FreeNAS and TrueNAS have been separate-but-related members of the #1 Open Source storage software family since 2012. FreeNAS is the free Open Source version with an expe…

I've found that returning 200 with errors seems to be the sane way to do things, since sometimes it's difficult to tell whether a server error belongs in the http later or graphql …

You're agreeing with parent

Kotlin has sealed classes (enums), when expressions (switch checking) and absolutely does have null safety. It also reinforces null safety when using Java libraries if they have nu…

But it's not really meant to be used as a pattern for writing actual code in an actual programming language. It exists as a way to implement recursion when we can't refer to named …

For some reason, Firefox reader view removes all section headings and some random paragraphs. Made for a confusing read until I went back and reread it.