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Actions to take to oppose Google's new restrictions on installing software.

Why KDE no longer posts on X:
"...4. Most of the new followers we were getting were nazi-propaganda spewing bots (7 out of 10 on average) or just straight up nazis. Our community is not made up of nazis and many of our friendly contributors would be the target of nazi harassment, so we were not sure what we were doing there and stopped posting and left."

How to donate to the Python Software Foundation

"In the end, however, the PSF simply can’t agree to a statement that we won’t operate any programs that “advance or promote” diversity, equity, and inclusion, as it would be a betrayal of our mission and our community. "

They had a grant approval for work on security from the NSF, but the contract required them to reject any efforts to promote diversity, equity, and inclusivity - even if it wasn't funded by the grant money - and gave the NSF the right to claw back money even after it had been transferred. Having integrity (and recognizing the trojan horse in the offer), they declined.

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 Delays resulted in multiple DNS Enactors rewriting the same configs and deleting each other's "outdated" changes, breaking routing *and* the re-balancing process, requiring manual intervention.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.