Love the article and agree with you but the normal persons take is exactly right - "isn't .zip a file extension and couldn't the average person think that it just leads to downloading a zip file or something like that? Aren't zip files kinda weird?"

However I would read luke's articles anytime, no matter the tld.

There's very little money in running a browser for users who want ad blocking, performance, and features but don't want to let the browser company make money the same way most of the internet does - advertising. Most people don't care about seeing ads.

If killing ad blocker support is what keeps Firefox alive, I understand the move and would probably make the same call.

Dramatic headline. They're probably not sharing Ukraine-specific planning info but will continue sharing everything else. My theory is that they can't trust Trump to keep Ukraine stuff secret and I agree with them.

Ehh I trust the reporting and generally agree that RTO was/is executed hamfisted but I dunno if this particular incident "makes" the narrative. IIRC LSE rate has been increasing for many years, maybe most of AWS's existence. This is part and parcel of building something so complex that continues to grow and evolve.

I do expect much better of them and they certainly have problems to solve but this is a big company evolution thing and not an Amazon-specific thing imo.

The real story from this incident is that Amazon’s “aws” partition doesn’t actually have multiple regions - effectively, it’s all IAD in a trench-coat.

This is a big deal. My employer has already started to look at bringing back our old racks from storage and switching back to on-premises. Cannot imagine he’s alone in that.

Can you elaborate what convinced you of this? We were running mostly in us-west and saw almost no impact, despite using a broad spectrum of AWS infrastructure and tooling.

We had business as usual today.

i don't think i have enough "karma" or whatever to flag this but title is bad and doesn't match the content that appears.

Are you talking about your PhD? As I understand it, most CS bachelors students don't write a thesis (or theses).

No. As a consequence of the Bologna process all cycles of higher education (Bachelor, Master, PhD) ends with thesis work in most European universities. However it is called different things on different countries. Diplomarbeit in Germany, mémoire de license in France, etc.

This is a really badly written headline and should read "Three Ubisoft chiefs found guilty of sexual harassment and abuse".

Read the article! This isn't boys being boys- it's actual abuse.

The verdicts:

> Thomas François, 52, a former Ubisoft editorial vice-president, was found guilty of sexual harassment.

> Serge Hascoët, 59, Ubisoft’s former chief creative officer and second-in-command, was found guilty of psychological harassment and complicity in sexual harassment.

> The former Ubisoft game director, Guillaume Patrux, 41, was found guilty of psychological harassment

Only one of them was found guilty of sexual harassment. If you're going to pull out the read the article bit... you know...

This is a really good move. It's been abused for so long.

Now for NY and NYC to kill SEQRA and CEQR...

None of these moves will fix blue state's inability to build, but they'll help and move us in the right direction.

It's the right move and authors + publishers should be rooting for it. Either your work lives in the corpus of human knowledge which AI's will increasingly reflect more perfectly over time or you're forgotten. You've also got precedent that they have to pay for access to your work like any other human.

As long as they're not violating copyright laws in output, it's fine and good.

You have a nice book there. It would be a shame if something happened to it!

I love Derek Lowe's writing. I think I've read most of his articles but this series is my favorite.