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Captainant

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  1. it's a soviet control and now putinist tactic, the "Firehose of Falsehoods" (here's some reading from RAND describing it if you care) is extremely effective in the GOP and with MAGA voters. If you flood the zone with bullshit, it's enough of a smokescreen to hide the rest of your malfeasance and give you cover for your true acts that are extremely antisocial
  2. DAE #bothsides?? JFC this plus your other posts in this thread have been whatever the opposite of "illuminating" is. You're falsely labeling reasoned and rational analysis of the unsustainable economics as "AI doomers" and asserting that "nobody really understands this" when that's only true among your MBA peers. There's not a huge groundswell of AI support, there's merely a monopsony in which openAI is (commited to) buying so many of NVDA's chips that it's distorting the market and causing massive inflation in other market segments. Power prices are through the roof, water resources are running dry, and companies like OpenAI, Cursor, Anthropic, et al are missing their profit targets by orders of magnetude. Stop handwaving so much and acting like it's unknowable. It's perfectly knowable just less so when you've got your head buried in the sand, DonkeyCigars.
  3. Because productivity gains have ALWAYS benefitted workers and not the oligarchs right?
  4. lmfao CZ got a fucking pardon https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-pardons-convicted-binance-founder-zhao-white-house-says-2025-10-23/ U.S. authorities said in 2023 that Binance had failed to report suspicious transactions with organizations including Hamas and al Qaeda and with websites dedicated to selling child sexual abuse materials. Zhao, a citizen of Canada who was born in China, personally paid a $50 million fine and served nearly four months in prison last year after pleading guilty to the same charge as his company. However, he kept his Binance stake, while one of his appointees was made chief executive. "I made mistakes, and I must take responsibility," Zhao said when he stepped down. The full and unconditional pardon could pave the way for him to return to the business he co-founded in 2017. It may also offer the chance for Binance to expand in the United States as the crypto industry booms under the Trump administration. ... Binance itself this year offered support to one of the Trump family's crypto ventures, World Liberty Financial. In May, Binance accepted World Liberty's USD1 stablecoin as payment for a $2 billion investment in the exchange by Abu Dhabi investment firm MGX. Binance's decision to accept USD1, which was launched only in March, provided a big boost to the World Liberty venture, and still accounts for most of the USD1 in circulation.
  5. We'll get the President right on that lmfao, right after he's done pardoning Maxwell.
  6. The full RCA got posted https://aws.amazon.com/message/101925/ TLDR - a DNS update with a race condition furked DDB, which it turns out acts as the service discovery mechanism for basically every service in us-east-1. This borked NLB healthchecks, EC2 provisioning (because of no network connectivity), and Lambda and Fargate execution environments (because of no EC2 to host on)
  7. Won't somebody think of South Austin's mom??
  8. You're not allowed to point out the national debt has risen by $2,000,000,000,000 (trillion) since January 2025, or that domestic agriculture and cattle is being bumble fucked by $40,000,000,000 of bailouts for foreign countries. Good thing we have DOGE on the case
  9. Hey man, he's a rich guy so by the law of the land he can do whatever he wants. Haven't you been paying attention? Something something job creation by destruction
  10. Reminds me of blocking COVID testing because if you don't know then it's not happening
  11. Heh, Elmo and SpaceX lost in the trespassing suit from the Cards Against Humanity folks https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/cards-against-humanity-gets-settlement-from-spacex-plans-pack-of-elon-musk-cards/ That'll be a fun set to pick up
  12. A ton of folks using SDK's to communicate with cloud services neglect to parametrize their region settings, resulting in their software using endpoints in an east region for doing DR to a west region. There were a few instances of regional anchoring for "global" services in AWS but those cleared up/failed over fairly quickly compared to the overall recovery time for compute. From reading AWS's outage explanation, when DDB shit the bed, it knocked over a ton of interdependent AWS services that took a while to come back to life. EC2 was back up for a few hours before serverless and other managed services stopped being marked as degraded. It'll be a few more days before they release a full RCA analysis but I'd bet a dollar they're gonna have some Correction of Error documents to release as well
  13. You would not have been impacted yesterday if you were running on AWS - you have reasonable multi-site DR configured and sensitive to DNS update. That's the biggest thing a lot of businesses overlook, really just because it's easier/cheaper to design around a single site/region
  14. Gotta love waiting until an outage to actually test a DR strategy
  15. TBH you're still subject to the same risk profile of single-source outage, you just (theoretically) have more control on the state of your single site. If you build a true multi-region architecture that doesn't hard-code its endpoints to region specific infra, it's pretty straightforward to recover. The big advantage IaaS gives is that you can burst/scale with zero opportunity cost, whereas in your own DC you're paying for that hardware for its lifespan. But if your operational model is pretty steady state, then yeah cloud is just paying for someone else's margin. If you don't want to deal with physical infra management it's a great deal - but yeah my NAS can't be beat by cloud in terms of price per GB or cost of IO operations, even including cost of power
  16. The AWS outage (simplified) in Haiku form: It's not DNS There's no way it's DNS It was DNS And this is a pretty good and easy to follow explainer, but a DNS failure caused dynamoDB to become unreachable in us-east-1, which made the shit hit the fan
  17. CO of US SOUTHCOMM resigned one year into a 3 year posting, seemingly over these strikes
  18. Sweatergawd more enterprises should take multiregion architecture more seriously. At least a pilot light backup would let you hit a 30 minute RTO to just fail over from use1
  19. Holy shit the CO of US SOUTHCOMM prosecuting the Carribean drug interdiction mission just resigned Pretty significant indicator that he resigned a year into a 3 year posting that's the pinnacle of a career. I didn't know that SecDef activated special forces assets to do the strikes after the Admiral refused on the basis of them not being legal combatants
  20. but seriously, that's the best way to watch games. I find a good stream on my phone/laptop/PC, and then cast it to my TV. EZPZ
  21. no, that's the commercial real estate market and RTO mandates
  22. surly never goes down, it's just borked sometimes
  23. [laughs in AWS] yeah even Amazon.com is down
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