The ravens are looking a bit sluggish. Tell Malcolm they need new batteries.
Monday, May 27
We're Back
Well, at least it wasn't a fire.
At roughly 6:20am EST the facility where [name of hosting company] operates its DAL1 data center ... lost utility power. Redundant power sources, UPS and generators, did not operate as designed thus causing the entire facility to lose power.
A few hours later:
All [name of hosting company] servers and infrastructure now have power fully restored. If you are experiencing any issues with your server(s), please open a support ticket so that we can troubleshoot the problem.
This server needed some manual intervention before the blogs were accessible again.
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It's amazing how frequently data centers and hosting companies are failing at what are supposed to be their competencies the last few years. Redundant backups not actually being redundant or even not actually existing. Power outages taking down facilities that supposedly had multiple redundant power sources. Configuration errors that are propagated simultaneously to primary and secondary redundant sites taking them both down...
My company is still in the process of transitioning from a combo of locally hosted and off site hosted but self managed servers to the Microsoft cloud. In the roughly two years since we spun up our first apps, we've been hit by three total outages, one of which took three days to recover from. Our IT director had to stand in front of the board and defend continuing the Azure migration, and his defense basically boiled down to "our current hosting company is going to cease operations next quarter, and as bad as Azure is proving to be, it's more reliable than any of the other options we've got available."
Posted by: David Eastman at Monday, May 27 2024 02:32 PM (rmrII)
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Data centers. Boeing. Etc.
I'm about ninety percent sure that a lot of seemingly unusual patterns of industrial safety/reliability issues are downstream of shutting down as much of the economy as could be shut down.
Industrial quality, safety, and reliability processes are kinda on top of having your existing process going. There's a baseline you need, that you lose when you are not operating, or when you fire or drive off or alienate or demoralize the people that make up your institutional memory. There's some margin that you need, above the bare minimums, to avoid the combinations of oversights that cause incidents.
There is also diversity hiring, hiring managemetn from universities, and the like. Which is probably weaker. Yes, some of those people are crazier and less constrained than they were before. But, we have had that sort of crazy all along, but had more functional manpower willing and able to route around.
'Essential' means screwing over everyone, but the geniuses at the universities think that they are safe where the first order effects are concerned. This is mostly hirign and promoting idiots, because there are non-specialist thinkers at universities who can manage to tie their own shoes, and see that the idiot leadership have obviously screwed up.
Some things are also outright malice. (The Russians were planning some degree of the Ukraine war for a while. (It was not something that Biden forced them into. Biden was a weak idiot, and provided the opportunity. The Russians were stupid and crazy enough to think that they could not pass up the opportunity. Now they feel like they were outsmarted.) The pipeline hack was the Russian government. It was a strategic operation in support of a war in Europe. The lock down, our idiots, gave them the opportunity for the hack.)
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Thursday, March 14
Daily News Stuff 14 March 2024
What's This Edition
Top Story
- Hello, what's this? (Liliputing)
2024 HP Pavilion Plus 14
AMD CPU: Check, 8845HS (8 cores, 5.1GHz)
High-resolution screen: Check, 2880x1800 120Hz OLED
Upgradeable RAM: No
At least 32GB then: Check
USB-C: Check, two of
USB-A: Check, two of
HDMI: Check
Headphone jack: Check
Four essential keys: Check
Micro-SD slot: No
Actually available to buy: Yes, at least in the US
It's not perfect, but close enough.
Pricing starts at $850. That's not particularly cheap, but it's $250 less than the new MacBook Air while providing twice the memory and storage.
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- If an 8 core 5.1GHz laptop CPU just doesn't do it for you anymore maybe the Cerebras WSE-3 is more your speed. (Tom's Hardware)
900,000 cores. Yes, on one chip. Yes, it's a very big chip.
The chip also contains 44GB of RAM with a bandwidth of 21 petabyte per second, which is a lot.
Cerebras says you can link up to 2048 of these chips together in a single system, which would let you train a 70 billion parameter LLM in, uh, three minutes.
- SpaceX has scheduled the third test flight of Starship - the most important advance in spaceflight since Robert Goddard - for March 14. (WCCFTech)
Yes, today.
- Epic Games is back in court seeking a contempt order against Apple for violating its existing injunction. (Reuters)
Godspeed. You're also assholes, but to a lesser degree.
- The FBI and DHS are targeting extremist gamers... In Roblox. (The Intercept)
I'm bulldozing the whole of DC into a river of lava... In Minecraft.
- The M3 MacBook Air received a 5 out of 10 for repairability. (WCCFTech)
That's 5 points for not gluing the battery in place.
Some recent Apple products have received a score of 0, because you can't even open them without causing permanent damage. This might be grading on a scale, but at least it's an improvement.
- Let's ban TikTok! (Tech Crunch)
Thinks of the result of 170 million delusional TikTok users infesting every other social network.
Let's ban TikTok users from the rest of the world!
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ship 28 has failed
In a strictly narrow sense.
They seperated this time, and maybe got all the way to the middle stages of reentry on the space vessel.
Then they lost data link. They have just decided to officially call the loss of the vehicle.
They were even able to test the payload doors. Anyway, I missed all of the successful portions of the flight.
Very cool. Thank you for the heads up.
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Monday, December 04
OopSSL
Oops.
When Namecheap says "FINAL NOTICE" for an expiring SSL cert, they mean it.
Back now.
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Saturday, July 08
Pest Test
Testing...
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Humm, hrm. I could see the embed from home (chromium-something-linux), but can not from work (edge-something-winders10).
O! but I can see it if I use chromium under WSL2. Freaky.
Disclaimer: no nuts were harmed in the making of this comment.
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I can see this embed.
Whether or not I can see embeds from Twitter changes over time. I recently went to a different VPN so that may have some impact, but it general sometimes sites choke on the VPN, sometimes they choke on the particular exit node I'm using, and sometimes it seems to be random
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Well, it's twitter, and I really feel like you get what you pay for.
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Monday, June 12
Pest Test
Just testing for pests...
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Monday, March 20
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Saturday, February 11
Daily News Stuff 11 February 2023
Holocure 0.5 Edition
Top Story
- Google is planning to implement opt-out telemetry into its Go programming language. (The Register)
That means that not only will Google's own apps phone home to Google - they already do that - but every program written by anyone running anywhere if it uses Go.
Programmers have, not surprisingly, told Google to get fucked.Now you guys want to introduce telemetry into your programming language?" Weisz said. "This is how you drive off any person who even considered giving your project a chance despite the warning signs. Please don't do this, and please issue a public apology for even proposing it. Please leave a blast radius around this idea wide enough that nobody even suggests trying to do this again."
He added: "Trust in Google's behavior is at an all time low, and moves like this are a choice to shove what's left of it off the edge of a cliff."
The moral lepers over at Mastodon are upset that anyone would object to this latest expansion of the Panopticon:"This is a large unconventional design, there are a lot of tradeoffs worth discussing and details to explore," he wrote. "When Russ showed it to me I made at least a dozen suggestions and many got implemented."
"Instead: all opt-out telemetry is unethical
Correct.Google is evil
It is indeed.this is not needed.
Go has existed for 13 years without this; other programming languages for more than 60.No one even argued why publishing any of this data could be a problem."
Because the default in any networked system is not to send any data you don't need to send.
It doesn't matter how useful it is to Google. I don't care. It has to be useful to me.
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Sunday, December 04
We're Back
Well, that was exciting.
We've moved to the new server. Well, two new servers, since the designated new server had weird issues.
The migration was complicated by the old server disappearing for 24 hours just before I was set to start doing this.
But... We're back.
We were actually back for a while earlier (as some people noted) but that was with three weeks of data missing. In the end I was able to recover everything up to the Scheduled Maintenance Window of Doom, and the only person who posted anything after that was me (and a couple of commenters) so that's close enough to everything.
Also, looks like I can stop paying for that backup server, since it's kind of deceased.
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Checked a few hours ago and site was stopped somewhere in late November. Good to see things are mostly back to normal.
Posted by: Lump the Chump at Sunday, December 04 2022 04:15 PM (1WyDN)
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What movie was it where the executive said, after a display of brilliance by some employee "Double his salary." "Sir, we don't pay him." "Well, triple it then!"
Thank you for all your hard work and long hours. If you had a tip jar link, I'd hit it.
Posted by: David Eastman at Sunday, December 04 2022 05:49 PM (D6Mju)
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Hm, I just noticed that Wonderduck's site gives a 502 bad gateway. Perhaps a difference between mee.nu and mu.nu?
Posted by: David Eastman at Sunday, December 04 2022 05:56 PM (D6Mju)
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Yes, I'll need to fix the mu.nu sites separately - I'll get that done tonight.
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Just waiting for the DNS update to propagate and Wonderduck and the other mu.nu sites should be working.
Good thing I checked - one of the mu.nu DNS servers had migrated datacenters (this is why the server move suddenly became urgent) so if/when the other one did all those sites would have stopped resolving. Fixed that too.
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Wednesday, September 28
Poop
Server took an unscheduled nap.
Again.
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