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Eurogamer Closes Its Forums And Moves Its Readers To Discord kotaku.com/please-stop-closing-forums-and-moving-people-to-discord-1847684851Tue 28 Sep 2021
« Users aren’t being moved from one similar thing to another, they’re being shifted to platforms with fundamentally different ways of approaching discussions »
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Your Disaster Recovery Plan is a Joke Written by Clowns www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/your-disaster-recovery-plan-is-a-joke-written-by-clowns/Wed 22 Sep 2021
« If you’re in AWS’s us-tirefire-1 and you test your plan to make the poor life decision of migrating to Ohio, that’s going to work pretty well during your DR exercise. It’s likely to work far less well in the event of a regional AWS outage because roughly half of the internet will be attempting to do the exact same thing »
Indeed
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DDoS botnets, cryptominers target Azure systems after OMIGOD exploit goes public therecord.media/ddos-botnets-cryptominers-target-azure-systems-after-omigod-exploit-goes-public/Tue 21 Sep 2021
« Microsoft addressed the bug by releasing version 1.6.8.1 for the OMI client […] However, Microsoft did not automatically install this update for OMI clients deployed across its infrastructure »
a.k.a. patate chaude
@campuscodi
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NYC subway SNAFU probably caused by someone turning it off accidentally, say reports www.theregister.com/2021/09/13/nyc_subway_power_outage/Tue 14 Sep 2021
« Their suspicions in this regard were strengthened by the discovery that a plastic cover over the emergency power off button – designed to prevent exactly this eventuality – was missing »
"Molly was there" 😅
@TheRegister
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Two private satellites just docked in space in historic first for orbital servicing www.space.com/private-satellites-docking-success-northrop-grumman-mev-1.htmlSat 11 Sep 2021
That's an interesting way to limit space junk by extending life of satellites