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@cwebber How am I supposed to have a parasocial relationship with you? You don’t even have a podcast!

(Wait. Do you? I would listen to that.)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Stefan_S_from_H/115803400054803398

Happy “half your Java programs are confused about the year” week!

RE: https://discuss.systems/@ricci/115749408454628002

There is a file called “:q”!

Proof that even before IRC, people typed vi commands in the wrong window.

I had totally forgotten about this!

This is a note to myself to never buy from them again. @ansuz https://social.cryptography.dog/@ansuz/115689341027888358

It is 2003. Black Friday sales are the Friday after Thanksgiving.

It is 2015. Black Friday sales are from Thanksgiving, to the next Monday.

It is 2025. Black Friday starts one week before Thanksgiving.

It is 2032. Black Friday starts on 1st November.

It is 2036. Black Friday ends on 24th December.

It is 2039. Black Friday starts on 5th July.

It is 2042. Black Friday starts on 15th February.

It is 2045. Black Friday starts on 27th December. All is Black Friday. Black Friday is all.

Writing a blog article about why the children are wrong and back in my day, programming was better.

I am sorry.

@glipari @oblomov Now this, I can agree with!

Small services, paid for, please.

@glipari @oblomov I would not agree with this. There are plenty of reasons not to pay (including “I made an account to raise an issue, I’m not hosting any code there”, for example). I am just asking for people to pay *if they can*.

Here’s what a monopoly is.

If your corporation is a monopoly (or part of a duopoly, or a triopoly, or whatever), you can fire all your best staff, let your services degrade to hell, and you’ll still keep all your customers (and all their money) because there’s nowhere else to go.

I don’t really care that all the big cloud providers are corporations beholden to the USA. I care that there’s 3–4 of them. It wouldn’t matter where they were based if there were 100.

Azure is broken. They are “experiencing DNS issues”.

https://azure.status.microsoft/

Soon, people will be shouting, “It’s always DNS!”

And not for a second asking, “Who put a stupid value in DNS?”

They definitely won’t ask why we never test our DNS entries in a way that’s safe to fail.

Isn’t it fun how “DNS failure” means “we put the wrong value in DNS”?

I shall refer to all screw-ups as “Kubernetes failures” henceforth, as this seems to be the protocol.