You're Amelia!
You're late!
Amelia Pond! You're the little girl!
I'm Amelia, and you're late.
You're late!
Amelia Pond! You're the little girl!
I'm Amelia, and you're late.
Monday, April 01
Daily News Stuff 1 April 2019
Adventures In IPMI Babysitting Edition
Tech News
- Reddit's /r/games has shut down for April Fool's Day to chastise its readers insufficient wokeness. (One Angry Gamer)
The brilliant thing about Reddit is that if the moderators of one subreddit are idiots, everyone just goes elsewhere. There's constant churn as the infection moves about, but it's so quick and easy to set up a new, competing subreddit that there's little incentive to move off-platform.
- Twitter is playing stupid games for stupid prizes with bigger accounts than mine. (One Angry Gamer)
@UnplannedMovie at least got unsuspended - but with 200,000 followers missing.
This might not be as nefarious as it seems, because I can tell you from the inside that Twitter's suspension mechanism is complete nonsense on a technical as well as an administrative level. I believe what happens is:
- The account gets suspended.
- All followers are moved off to some sort of holding bucket, a process that is fairly slow.
- The Twitter distributed cache picks up these changes, a process that is stochastic.
- Follower count now shows as zero.
- The account gets unsuspended.
- Everything starts getting reversed.
- Because of the distributed cache, not only is the follower count increasing slowly back up to its previous value, but the number displayed is inconsistent depending on where are - or even on whether you are using mobile or desktop Twitter.
- Adding to that, some cache nodes are broken and have stale results for some accounts that never seem to get refreshed.
- The EU is breaking the internet in three. (TechDirt)
The free internet, China's prison garden, and Europe's padded cell. Russia is of course envious of China's garden and wants to build its own.
- Australia wants to fine internet companies up to 10% of global revenue and impose up to 3 years jail time for corporate officers if violent crimes are streamed on their platforms. (ZDNet)
There's an election coming up. Time for these imbeciles to lose. The opposition are no better, but sometimes you have to send a message.
- Craigslist has 50 staff and makes around $500 million in gross profit per year. (The Spring)
And for the most part, it does it without any public fuss.
- Maybe I won't try ProxmoxVE. Maybe I'll give up and move to DigitalOcean like I originally planned. DigitalOcean doesn't give me weird IPMI errors. DigitalOcean gives me new and entirely different errors.
Disclaimer: This is not an April Fool's joke.
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