Saw this on Reddit earlier

It was DNS! According to the news anyways. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/20/amazon-web-services-outage-takes-down-major-websites.html

Gonna plug one of my favorite YouTubers now lol https://www.redshirtjeff.com/shop/p/it-was-dns-shirt

And here too! https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Roblox

How is codeberg?

Couldn’t agree more. Some of my best work and learning recently has been me on my back porch under shade with a box fan. While I have solid WiFi and power there, I also pack a portable monitor and can work without internet on much of what I do.

Wait, Clippy was not helpful but at least pulpy and funny. I honestly miss that sorta stuff in software. Everything is so minimal and sterile these days. I mean, I use Neovim and prefer finding ways use my terminal for things, but I love my themes to be fun and still useful at least. I wish there was a local LLM you could run with Clippy as the animated face of it lol.

For targeted location-based ads of course! Lots of revenue there

Installed Vivaldi and Brave from the MS Store on work laptop from the official pages. Got a Trojan in each that IT had to remove. Yeah no

Yeah, I am one and can confirm that lol. Literally have designed systems of managed cables in power industry for a living and tried to make it clean. lol

My refurbished 2011 Lenovo W530 Thinkpad with 24GB from college has been running as a proxmox cluster node for the last year at least! No battery, the replacement died years ago. 🤣

Omg, you’re so right. I didn’t read it that way until you pointed that out.

Got this email last night and felt validated for never uploading any code to GitHub because I don’t trust Microsoft. lol I don’t have any big coding projects, but I self-host a ForgeJo server in my mini rack at home behind a Twingate VPN.

Gosh, I recently deleted my Meta accounts and X after coming here and Mastodon. Posts like this validate that decision! (even though I don’t want to be on those other platforms anyways these days lol)

My spouse and I work for a contractor that is having trouble hiring experienced people like us, so they have been hiring fresh grads outta school. There is a limited pool of experience here, so when management throws a fit one of us is overloaded or gets sick and can’t meet the budget or deadline, it ends with nothing because they can’t afford to lose us. We work on the power grid and it’s a relatively small pool of engineers doing the work we do. Also, I’m rocking two work laptops with a home setup of 4 monitors and an office setup of 3, but still feel pretty important!

Yeah, I deleted all my Meta accounts several months ago and have never felt better or looked back honestly. lol The most I miss is getting funny memes from my spouse on Instagram, but she can just show me in person and that’s real connection anyways.

I can relate to this. A much more senior and older engineer in the department I used to work in was lead over much of my projects. He would call me on Teams over and over until I picked up or harass me via chat messages. 75% of the time it was an “IT issue” he had and it was like changing the channel for my grandparents lol. Dude is wicked smart/experienced at electrical engineering, but computer illiterate and abusive to younger engineers like me that are tech literate. While he stressed me out a lot, I felt obligated to helped him d since I sorta reported to him. I recently moved departments to work on stuff I’m much more passionate about. He did it again at 4:52pm on a Friday night and was like nah bro lol.

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If this were to pass the Wisconsin Senate, would the outcry from the commercial space alone not reverse this? (I’m a privacy advocate, just curious)

I think will actually start using this “master” and “apprentice” now. Love it lol

Didn’t read the article, but honestly who cares what they say regarding this? Money talks and they invested $$$$$$$$ into these shenanigans.

Unless they’ve got an equally intensive use for all those expensive data centers built (and being built) for Ai, how on earth would they similarly profit by taking Copilot out of more things when it collects so much marketing data for them to sell? Their stock value dropped probably from the backlash, but I highly doubt they care about their users. It’s the money and image clearly.

My job has me working on the power systems supplying some upcoming data centers for multiple clients. Everything is constantly changing deadlines in engineering, but max throttle to get everything done. I’m certain this kind of rapid expansion is for Ai provisioning.