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Regarding last week's 16-hour partial AWS outage:
"In this case, the race condition resided in the DNS Enactor, a DynamoDB component that constantly updates domain lookup tables in individual AWS endpoints to optimize load balancing as conditions change." Delays resulted in multiple DNS Enactors rewriting the same configs and deleting each other's "outdated" changes, breaking routing *and* the re-balancing process, requiring manual intervention.

The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin, edited by So Mayer and Sarah Shin

Article about an upcoming exhibition and book featuring the many maps Ursula K. Le Guin used when building her stories.

"Everyone knows what an email address is, right?"
A quiz on edge and corner cases in what counts as a valid email address. You'd be surprised.

"How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?"
A quiz on how JS handles edge and corner cases. Which is rarely how you would expect it to.

"Apple’s new Liquid Glass interface design can be hard to read in certain situations. If you encounter any issues, here’s how to adjust the transparency and other visual effects across macOS, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS to suit your needs."

I didn't even remember there *was* a Linux Mint Debian Edition. Version 7 is out, based on Debian 13.
"Its goal is to ensure Linux Mint would be able to continue to deliver the same user experience, and how much work would be involved, if Ubuntu was ever to disappear. LMDE is also one of our development targets, to guarantee the software we develop is compatible outside of Ubuntu."

"The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer."

People who'd rather win an argument (or just disagree to be contrarian) than be right.
Not surprisingly, it tends to correlate with an authoritarian mindset. Which means those who want to be authoritarian leaders can use it to manipulate those who are willing to be authoritarian followers....because none of them actually care about the truth, they only care about the "win."

"On his way out of the studio Abetz noticed a photograph of Guernica. “Ah, Monsieur Picasso,” he said, adjusting his monocle, “so it was you who did that.” “No,” replied Picasso as he closed the door, “you did.”"