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> And while Hetzner's price-performance is exceptional, its limited presence in the US was a consideration; for this staging workload, it wasn't an issue, but it's a factor for production services targeting US users.

What is this referring to? Concerns about capacity if you need to scale up quickly? Or just "political"/marketing considerations about people not being used to being served by a Hetzner server?

That's probably not the Glacier most people are using now. I still have it from ancient times so I got this email:

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Hello,

After careful consideration, we have decided to stop accepting new customers for Amazon Glacier (original standalone vault-based service) starting on December 15, 2025. There will be no change to the S3 Glacier storage classes as part of this plan.

Amazon Glacier is a standalone service with its own APIs, that stores data in vaults and is distinct from Amazon S3 and the S3 Glacier storage classes [1]. Your Amazon Glacier data will remain secure and accessible indefinitely. Amazon Glacier will remain fully operational for existing customers but will no longer be offered to new customers (or new accounts for existing customers) via APIs, SDKs, or the AWS Management Console. We will not build any new features or capabilities for this service.

You can continue using Amazon Glacier normally, and there is no requirement to migrate your data to the S3 Glacier storage classes.

Key Points: * No impact to your existing Amazon Glacier data or operations: Your data remains secure and accessible, and you can continue to add data to your Glacier Vaults. * No need to move data to S3 Glacier storage classes: your data can stay in Amazon Glacier in perpetuity for your long-term archival storage needs. * Optional enhancement path: if you want additional capabilities, S3 Glacier storage classes are available.

For customers seeking enhanced archival capabilities or lower costs, we recommend the S3 Glacier storage classes [1] because they deliver the highest performance, most retrieval flexibility, and lowest cost archive storage in the cloud. S3 Glacier storage classes provide a superior customer experience with S3 bucket-based APIs, full AWS Region availability, lower costs, and AWS service integration. You can choose from three optimized storage classes: S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval for immediate access, S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval for backup and disaster recovery, and S3 Glacier Deep Archive for long-term compliance archives.

If you choose to migrate (optional), you can use our self-service AWS Guidance tool [2] to transfer data from Amazon Glacier vaults to the S3 Glacier storage classes.

If you have any questions about this change, please read our FAQs [3]. If you experience any issues, please reach out to us via AWS Support for help [4].

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/glacier/ [2] https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/04/new-aws-s... implementation-amazon-s3-glacier-re-freezer/ [3] https://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/#Storage_Classes [4] https://aws.amazon.com/support

If Biden had done it, SCOTUS would have struck it down as a violation of the Takings Clause or any made up theory.

The whole point of equity is that it can go to zero. Profit sharing means that the government had an upside (if Intel became profitable) and no downside. Now, if Intel loses money or goes bankrupt, 10 % of those losses automatically get socialised.

Yes, if you believe the New York Times: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/28/the-ny-times-lawsuit-aga...

I believe this was already brought up in the court proceedings, and Brewster Kahle already addressed it in April 2024: «Trying to blow protections we have put on files, for instance, does not help us– and usually hurts».

https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1bswhdj/commen...

Can you suggest an alternative action?

EDRi. https://edri.org/about-us/victories/

You mean the Council of the EU. The EUCO is a separate body. SCNR.

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/council-eu/decision-makin...

> The data shows that of 82 traffic deaths in Milwaukee County last year, 63 were in the city of Milwaukee.

https://www.wpr.org/news/milwaukee-county-data-address-traff...

For reference, Milwaukee is roughly comparable to Antwerp in population and size.

Already happening. The UK is confiscating books for not being aligned with the government's foreign policy. https://www.monbiot.com/2025/08/01/legal-limbo/

Yes, it takes some education. I've founded a cooperative in Finland and, although the legislation here is very favourable to cooperatives, it took me months to convince PRH (the public register) to certify our bylaws which included an option for investment shares. But we did it!

Do seek professional help. It doesn't need to be expensive lawyers, there may be gratis support from the cooperative network. https://ica.coop/en

Indeed

> Adjusting for long-term ridership trends on each system, seasonal effects, and inertia (the tendency for ridership totals to persist from one month to the next), CBO estimates that the same increase of 20 per- cent in gasoline prices that affects freeway traffic volume is associated with an increase of 1.9 percent in average system ridership. That result is moderately statistically significant: It can be asserted with 95 percent confidence that higher gasoline prices are associated with increased ridership.

https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/110th-congress-2007-...

Make it a cooperative. https://tech-coops.xyz/

Does this reduce the access and influence of the USA copyright industry at UNESCO and the UN?

It's conceivably part of the reason.

Earlier reporting on Windows MAU noted "400 million Windows PCs vanished in 3 years" (https://www.zdnet.com/article/400-million-windows-pcs-vanish... ). As Windows 11 wrecks havoc on older PCs, many may just sit unused or get discarded, thereby increasing the relative share of the surviving PCs (including Linux PCs).

Indeed. I found it strange that the paper (https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/acbwg_v1 ) doesn't even mention the experiences from other social media and discussion fora, nor alternative tactics such as blocking users. The experiment was conducted until March 2024 so it's already outdated; nowadays, even if you unfollow Elon Musk's preferred accounts, you will be exposed to them anyway.

Hopefully there will be follow-up studies.

The title is funny. Yes of course it's all the fault of a few people, mostly big tech billionaires. (This holds true even if you like billionaires. Those with the most money have the most power, so they ought to be accountable for the results.)

Mastodon v4+ replicates some of the issues with Twitter by giving prominence to highly followed accounts. This is considered "easier" for new users coming from elsewhere (in the sense it's easier to be bombarded with posts you didn't need, than to go look for what you actually need).

The issue is tracked at https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/18128 .

So, even on Mastodon you still need some self-care. Avoid following popular accounts, block and silence generously.

Link to the actual paper on OSF (CC BY 4.0): https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/acbwg_v1

I would at least mask those IP addresses from the blog post...

It only takes 17000 bittorrent users with 100-200 old torrents each in their clients to get here:

> it peaked at about 1.7 million distinct torrents across 3.1 million peers

Most people don't regularly prune their torrent library.

I had looked at the monthly activity. Indeed on a longer timespan it looks different, thanks.

Nice that GitLab is active upstream! Do I see correctly that the most active contributors to git are currently GitLab employees?

Indeed. This is only a problem because software companies try to classify most of their expenses as "R&D" only to look more profitable than they really are, but at the same time they don't want to pay taxes on those supposed profits. For honest companies which don't capitalise their wage expenses, nothing substantial changes.

I've never understood Pocket. What's wrong with Zotero?

Indeed. Wikimedia wikis' language selection feature relies on Unicode CLDR language-territory data. This is very complex to maintain (and there are still many mistakes to fix), because reliable data is expensive to collect.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/F...

"watch thousands of micro-service providers bloom"

I'm confused. Are you saying this as if it were a bad thing?

As noted by others, this is irrelevant unless Redis actually uses AGPL as the primary license for the software (that is, in an inbound=outbound fashion). https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2014/jun/09/do-not-need-cla/