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A DNS issue (it’s always DNS) in AWS US-East-1 regional endpoint caused a 16 hour outage across a host of services from Snapchat to Roblox.

We’ve gone from an internet that could survive a nuclear strike to one that can’t handle a DNS issue from a single web host. Time to update those disaster recovery plans.

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/1…


A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions

A DNS manager in a single region of Amazon’s sprawling network touched off a 16-hour debacle.
Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)

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@Friendica Support I have customized my instance to my liking, and I have tried to make a backup of my theme, but when I do a git pull to update my theme gets ruined, I replace all the theme files with my backup files, but Friendica serves the updated without my custom theme, I am wits end trying to figure out what's happening, can some one explain very slowly and elementary how to update Friendica core while leaving my custom frio theme alone, and no I have not renamed it.
@Friendica Support

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Resurrecting the ghost of Reagan turns out to be unexpected political dynamite. Since Republicans no longer believe in facts, but they do worship deities, this puts them in the irreconcilable position of having two of their gods issuing unequivocal and diametrically opposite decrees. Feel like we may be hearing more from the Almighty Ronny in the days ahead.
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Are you using Ironfox as PWA to surf Mastodon?

Get push notifications to work with Ironfox on Android (There's no Librewolf for Android) using UnifiedPush.

unifiedpush.org

You would need to download and install Sunup for this to work (no account required)

unifiedpush.org/users/distribu…

Then in Ironfox setting, enable UnifiedPush. Push notifications option will now appear from Mastodon, enable them and voilà.

#Ironfox #Sunup #PWA #UnifiedPush #Android

Sunup - Android

We created Sunup as a quick and easy way to use UnifiedPush that doesn’t require signing up for an account. This quickstart guide will walk you through the steps to get it up and running on your Android device.
UnifiedPush
#android #UnifiedPush #pwa #sunup #ironfox
in reply to André Polykanine

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Gina

@menelion @vol4life8657 @EdenLinnea I used to use Explorer++, but I had a bitch of a time getting off my system. Especially when I had it replace for all files. I had to go into the registry editor to get rid of it. And I don't feel comfortable messing with that. I suppose I could try it and not have it replace the Windows File explorer though. Maybe that'll give different results.
@André Polykanine @Darrell Bowles @Eden Linnea
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Erion

Total Commander was never released for Dos, its first release was under the name Windows Commander in 1993 for Windows 3.1.

The reason why people like it is because it is the best file manager on Earth, period. Speed, features, the 2-pane tabbed interface gives you unprecedented power and ease of use. This really sounds like some kind of a marketing hype, but there is simply nothing else that tops it on any operating system. People have tried.

in reply to André Polykanine

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Erion

It's definitely a strong fact, which can be proven via any benchmark, comparing any other file manager, including Windows Explorer (which is incredibly slow since Windows Vista mind you). It takes time to get used to it, but trust me, once you do and put in the effort, you will never look back. I have used Total Commander since 1998, I have tried almost every file manager accross Mac and Windows, even under Linux and when I had an android phone (up till around 2012) and nothing ever came close. It's the one program I wish I could still use, but not on Mac and not without a VM. You don't have to trust me of course, you are more than welcome to look at speed tests, compare features, how well other file managers are optimised to handle thousands of files and directories within one single directory, etc.

I wouldn't state something like this so lightly without a good reason.

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in reply to André Polykanine

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Erion

You might not need all the features, and it's perfectly fine if you use what works for you, but once you're past the initial hurdle and realise that you can actually work with an infinite amount of source and destination directories, perform operations even inside archives like a 2-way sync where changes are synced accross tabs, panes, etc, when features like search works anywhere, no matter if it's an archive, an ftp or SSH or cloud server, or even an AVI file which you can also treat as an archive and extract the audio of btw, have your own start menu with custom menu commands (which Total Commander has around 4000 of and that's just without plugins), it's just pure maddness. Never mind verifying files, testing archives, creating self-extracting zips just by renaming them to .exe, the list goes on and on. I'm not even paid lol

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In cooperation between @vhsky and @openalt we'd like to demonstrate that even a large-scale conference can be live streamed without #YouTube. An initial stress test showed that 7 concurrent streams in multiple resolutions exceeded the capabilities of the server Vhsky.cz runs on (32core i9-13900 and 96 GB RAM).

However, the Fediverse community helps each other. @bycx loaned us a real beast machine which we now use as an external runner for transcoding jobs. It passed today's stress test with flying colors.

Thank you @archos for the work on the runner and @Bashynx on the stress test. Fingers crossed for the next weekend. 🤞

#PeerTube #OpenAlt #OpenAlt2025

#peertube #youtube #openalt #openalt2025 @Archos @OpenAlt @🔩 Adam Štrauch @VHSky.cz @Bashy
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in reply to Michal Špondr

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Jiří Eischmann

@michal určitě pomůže. PeerTube dělal stress test s 1000 diváky sledujícími video z instance na průměrném hardwaru a Webtorrent ušetřil 75 % trafficu u live streamu a 98 % u VOD:
joinpeertube.org/news/stress-t…

Ale distribuce videa je spíš ta jednodušší věc. OpenAlt má max vyšší desítky diváků naráz. Pokud se budou streamy v pořádku uploadovat a transkódovat, pojede to v pohodě.


PeerTube stress tests: resilience lies in your peers! | JoinPeerTube

We have many admins or uploaders wondering how many concurrent viewers a PeerTube instance can handle and how much its P2P feature can help the server...
JoinPeerTube
@Michal Špondr

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Zatímco v Česku máme už odvoleno, v Nizozemsku to ve středu propukne. Přestože v tomto případě volit nemůžu, proces voleb mě fascinuje tím, jak moc se liší od toho českého.

xn--ondej-kcb.v.nizozemsku.nl/…


Nizozemsko volí červenou tužkou

I Nizozemsko brzy čekají volby do poslanecké sněmovny. Na každém rohu je vidět obrázek červené tužky coby nástroje, kterým voliči určí další směřování země. Ačkoli se voleb nemůžu účastnit jako volič, jejich organizace mě zajímá.
Ondřej Caletka (Ondřej v Nizozemsku)

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If you, like me, only discovered today that yt-dlp exists, you might find it confusing. It's a powerful video downloader and converter, but it has a LOT of command line options. Oh, and there's no GUI. I found this page to be a great way to find commands for what I wanted to do and get started more easily: ostechnix.com/yt-dlp-tutorial/

Edit: here's a link to YT-DLP itself: github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp


Yt-dlp Commands: The Complete Tutorial For Beginners (2025)

This comprehensive yt-dlp tutorial lists the most common yt-dlp commands for downloading videos and audio from YouTube and various other websites on Linux.
sk (OSTechNix)
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U.S. to photograph Canadian travellers when they enter and exit at all land borders, airports cbc.ca/news/business/u-s-photo… CBC by Sophia Harris - Just in case you needed another reason to avoid travelling to the United States #USA - now all #canadians will be included with other international travellers in having their photographs taken for #biometric scanning. You have right to refuse until December 26th after that the new rule stands. #privacy #authoritariannation #cdnpol #uspoli
#privacy #USA #biometric #uspoli #canadians #authoritariannation #cdnpol
in reply to Hubert Figuière

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Hubert Figuière

@stephanie True story.

In the customs line at CDG to leave Schengen some airport staff told "You can go to the automatic line"

Me: "not with that passport"

Her: "all you need to provide your fingerprint"

Me: "So absolutely no"

Her: "Oh. You are one of these..."

See. Be militant about privacy, get push back. It's like environmentalist... It's hard to not be cynical when you get asked to comply...

@Stéphanie
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Hubert Figuière

I think it should all start by pushing the cowards in our Government to apply reciprocity... But Europe hasn't even done it. They should have by 2004 started fingerprinting any US passport holder entering Schengen. I'm sure Americans would have been outraged. And impose the same passport requirements. (it's another story that had it been in 2025 I have been put on ICE, in orange jumpsuit)
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Tarmageddon is a great example of why RUSTSEC tracks unmaintained crates/libraries and why such unmaintained projects are very much security-relevant: edera.dev/stories/tarmageddon

#rust


TARmageddon (CVE-2025-62518): RCE Vulnerability Highlights the Challenges of Open Source Abandonware | Edera Blog

Edera uncovers TARmageddon (CVE-2025-62518), a Rust async-tar RCE flaw exposing the real dangers of open-source abandonware and supply chain security.
Edera
#rust

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I don't know who needs to hear this, but the very idea of Open Source was always a radical left leaning ideological stance.

You're GIVING AWAY labor to the tune of millions of dollars because of some notion that we'd all be better off together if we didn't have to re-write the same dang components over and over again.

Of course members of the Open Source community are going to get political. We always have been.

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Explaining why I push back so hard on the question: "Why do you want millions of people on the Fediverse?"

If I ask people "Are there racists on Twitter?" People will say "Yes, lots!"

If I ask, "Does the owner of Twitter have the power to define moderation rules that allow racism but ban criticism of they choose to do so?" People say yes.

If I ask people, "Do the owners of Twitter have the possibility to algorithmically control what people see, and what gets amplified / shadow-banned?" People will also say yes.

If I ask, "Do you believe that the Fediverse offers an alternative to centrally controlled, algorithmically defined, social media?" People agree.

If I ask, "Do you think Black people that don't want to be on Twitter, deserve access to a better form of social media than what is available on Twitter?" People agree.

So far, so good! 👍🏿

But then when I say, "Are you aware that at peak, 1 in 5 Twitter users was Black, and 1 in 5 Black people in the US was a monthly active Twitter user?" Fewer people know that stat.

There were ~300,000 Black trans Twitter users that used the service monthly. Almost none of them are on the Fediverse.

Black people deserve safety. Black people deserve access to more choice in social media.

Decentralized social media is not zero sum. Adding Black people and making the Fediverse safer for them, does not need to take away from your experience.

Your instance doesn't need to go from 100 people to a million people to accommodate the influx of new users.

That's the logical explanation of why we should make the Fediverse safer for everyone. But... why push back so hard?

One of the problems with the world in general, and the US in particular, is that we often prioritize white *feelings* over Black *safety*. I am not gentle about pointing this out. Tiptoeing around this phenomenon is tiring for Black people, and I won't do it.

Black people are not safe on Twitter or Mastodon. The difference is that we as a community of people of all backgrounds, have agency to improve Mastodon.

We can make Mastodon safer without breaking the experience for existing users.

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“Hi! Your OS here! See that red badge demanding your attention?”

"What is it?”

"It's sports news! Isn't that great?”

"I don't give a shit about sports. How do I turn it off?”

"If you're not interested in sports, you can customize the alerts to show something you ARE interested in.”

"I'm interested in an OS that does what I tell it. One that works for me. That doesn't track me or try to ‘maximize engagement’ or sell me crap or nag me about using AI or whatever. Got anything for that?”

“…”

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I really want to test this

Emily Velasco

2025-10-24 00:12:35

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For a few years I've been aware of this website that purports to be able to unlock shopping cart wheels using the speaker on your phone, but i finally had an excuse to try and and i remembered in the moment.

A woman was outside the grocery store struggling to move her shopping car that was stuck because two of the wheels were locked

I remembered the website! So I put my phone near the wheels and played the sound. The wheels unlocked like magic. She was very happy. So cool.

begaydocrime.com/


Hack this Shopping Cart

www.begaydocrime.com

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Whenever you see one of these terms, or derived ones, stop and think: Does the writer actually know what they mean and use them in their literal meaning, or just to spice up the text or headline? And if the latter, how much else of their text might then just be made up? Sure, the initial use might be ironic, but quotes from the text might spread as factual.

(Edit: I will continue editing this list for a while according to my thoughts and your comments and suggestions.)

equation
exponential
industrial strength
metric
military grade
quantum leap
state of the art
tactical
theory
weapons-grade
zero-tolerance

More? Must be lots of these in Economical Sciences, Psychology, Medicine, etc.

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