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fab23··on AWS Restored My Account: The Human Who Made the Difference
He has given his AWS account out of hands.

I have read both his article in full. As I see it the issue is that he has given his account out of his own hands. But I guess he did not understand the consequences of this.

He put his own AWS account as a member into another companies "AWS Organizations" (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/), so they could pay his bills. As I understand if the so called Management Account gets deleted (reason may not matter), this will also delete all the member accounts, probably as they don't have any payment setup active any more. A good overview gives "Terminology and concepts for AWS Organizations"(https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/latest/userguide/o...).

I had done this setup in the company I worked for. We "merged" two independent accounts (one from the company we acquired) as members into an AWS Organization with consolidated billing below a newly created management account. We let our AWS account manager take care of transferring the payment settings (we already payed with invoice and bank transfer) from our own (now only a member) account into the (newly) management account. With this we had only one invoice per month and everything is legally owned by the owner company. With this also some discounts or savings plans can be used from all accounts. Over the years we also created several new member accounts out of the management account, which is easy and does not need the setup of any payment information at all.

fab23··on Every Mastodon user has an RSS feed
In Firefox use the RSSPreview [1] add-on to get the RSS feed rendering back.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/rsspreview/

fab23··on Post-processing is ruining iPhone photos
I may have missed something and had the impression that this was a "new" feature for iPhone 14 Pro only. But as the linked support documents mention, it is available on iPhone 12 Pro and later Pro models since iOS 14.3.
fab23··on Post-processing is ruining iPhone photos
It seems that not all iPhones do have this setting available. Not sure if this is related with the availability of RAW images, which is only supported on iPhone 14 Pro.
fab23··on Bash retry function with exponential backoff
It does also matter where the plus signs are:

  $ i=0
  $ echo $((++i))
  1
  $ echo $((i++))
  1
  $ echo $((++i))
  3
  $
((++i)) does add 1 before the command is run, and ((i++)) does add 1 after the command is run.
fab23··on It's time for an RSS revival (2018)
I am using the RSSPreview [1] Addon in Firefox, which works for me also on Youtube. The addon brings back the nice RSS Icon in the URL Bar. You can also change to color back to orange so you can spot it easily when a site has an RSS feed.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/rsspreview/

fab23··on A configuration management system for computers that are pets, not cattle
Each system has a text file where I note down the steps I did to install and configure something new or also when doing major changes. Also the steps for less often routine jobs (like major OS updates) get entries. On one hand it is kind of a log book what changed on the systems and also is a wonderful sources for when you need to do it the next time.