SteveNuts

It turns out that a bunch of people checking if "XYZ is down" is a pretty good heuristic for it actually being down. It's pretty clever I think.

> Our static site has origins in multiple regions via CloudFront and didn’t seem to be impacted

This seems like such a low bar for 2025, but here we are.

> Companies affected by it might want to consider at least geographic diversity, if not supplier diversity.

Sure, it's worth considering, but for most companies it's not going to be worth the engineering effort to architect cross-cloud services. The complexity is NOT linear.

IMO most shops should focus on testing backups (which should be at least cross-cloud, potentially on-prem of some sort) to make sure their data integrity is solid. Your data can't be recreated, everything else can be rebuilt even if it takes a long time.

365 "eights" of uptime per year.

They seriously need to invest in a well engineered multi node cluster filesystem. VMFS made VMware into the behemoth it is.

Without that your options for HA shared storage is Ceph (which proxmox makes decently easy to run), or NFS.

What makes a meteorite more likely

Or anything made by Stellantis, in my case at least.

Without solid third party verification that promise isn’t worth the HTML it’s written in.

If you absolutely cannot live without running Windows for your home/work compute needs, consider Windows 11 LTSC.

It at least claims to have a lot of the bloatware disabled... but IMO it's only a matter of time until they "accidentally" enable some of this.

Vector is very simple to operate and (mostly) stateless, and can handle buffering if you choose.

Kafka and Redis is a "pick your poison" IMO, scaling and operating those have their own headaches.

Being temporarily unusable is not how I've seen "bricked" used, bricked means unrecoverable and the item is completely unusable except for as a brick/paperweight/door stop.

Where can you do all that without a social security number?

Yes, they’ll use bots to detect the bots. I guarantee it’s not hard to detect outliers (bots) via many different heuristics at this point. It’s going to turn into a perpetual game of whack a mole just like SEO and ad blocking.

> If the most advanced ad network can't figure out the language that I speak

The ad network absolutely knows you down to minute detail, but the only thing that matters is who bid the highest. Maybe the winner is the one with the most VC cash to burn?

I thought Walmart has been doing this with their vendors for many years

Sure but based on the history of the last 125 years or so, that only happens after tens of millions have died and entire countries are leveled. And that was done with… 125 year old technology.

> how can you operate?

It's much easier for huge, established companies to do this (easier to absorb because they already have huge teams of procurement specialists, lawyers, etc). I think that's at least part of the point in the first place.

I swear to god, every single day I have at least one app with a pop up tooltip asking if I'd like a guided tour of all their new features and latest UI shuffle musical chairs. Bonus points if I'm presenting my screen at the time.

Honestly software is almost infuriating to me on a daily basis to me nowadays, I don't know if I'm just curmudgeonly or if software just sucks now but I want everything to just get out of my way when I'm trying to do something.

I guess you could say I want to be left alone...

>this blog left me with more questions than answers

Probably because it's a thinly veiled ad, I agree the post is severely lacking details.

For airliners, it's critical for the aircraft to know when it's on the ground because it kicks on autobrakes, and unlocks the thrust reversers for landing.

I'm very curious what the reasons would be for a military aircraft

> And don't worry it's entirely used for extra redundancy so I won't lose data even if it dies.

Just make sure to still back up the data!

Last time I tried to use CF, the third party IAC tools were faster to release new features than the functionality of CF itself. (Like Terraform would support some S3 bucket feature when creating a bucket, but CF did not).

I'm not sure if that's changed recently, I've stopped using it.

> most modern browsers based on DNS information itself.

I went down this rabbit hole and was surprised how all over the place the behavior was against various http clients (not just browsers). Very little consistency in how the IPs in the dns response are retried, if at all.

It's amazing how it wasn't that long ago that you'd walk into an establishment and ask if they accept cards instead of cash only.

Going into rural areas it's still not a 100% given that all places will accept cards.

The part that always makes me chicken out is the electrical, did you have any issues with that part?

> all the fiber optic cables from drones left on the battle fields

Are they tethered? I thought these were all radio controlled

Exactly! Why cut your losses now when it’ll surely pay off in 10 more years

I have relatives that have spent $60/mo for a storage unit for 12 years for some furniture they "might want to use some day if they buy a new house". Even pointing out that the furniture will likely look extremely dated by now and they've spent almost $10k so far doesn't seem to click at all.

The VMWare merger is easily the worst tech disaster in my career. VMWare was the market leader basically since they started and they never really stopped innovating and making their product better (I’m talking specifically about vSphere not the desktop products).

It was expensive but worth every penny in my opinion, and it was literally everywhere. In enterprise IT it was just what you did, there was never really much of a question.

Nutanix will eventually eat the lunch that Broadcom doesn’t even care to try to eat.

Systemd has timers now which have way better error handling.