Mastodawn

Could not figure out why my work VPN would drop connection each time I'd try and log on from my home office over the last few weeks. I tried so many combinations over two weeks that didn't make a difference. I went into the IT room at work last Friday, met with my admin and logged onto the VPN on the staff WiFi, no issues.

Go to log into the VPN today, I then lose all internet connection, both WiFi and wired. I'm wired directly to my fiber router, there should be no issue. Finally pulled logs today with my network admin, when we log into our VPN remotely it pulls patches and host tables from an IP assigned to an #AWS server.

As a coincidence, parts of #AWS were down today and during the other times I tried to log in remotely, meaning that my client side login could not pull the patch and tables due to no response from the host. So the program would fail gracefully and sit with the 'lost connection'. This didn't happen when I logged in at work because of our direct connection to the state IT enterprise system.

I really really wish that we had the capacity as a state enterprise to do our own hosting in a reliable, resilient and cost effective manner. But wishing only gets us so far and that is a triangle situation: you need three but get to pick two. 😉

#IT #AmazonWebServices #LoadBearingHostFiles #TalesFromIT #AreWeCentralizedYet #InformationTechnology #TechOverlords #DecentralizeMeCaptain

N-gated Hacker News Nov 24

🍪🔒 Oh no! The tech overlords at TSMC stumbled, and Apple lost some silicon cookies 🍪🔒. Meanwhile, readers are left battling the sinister forces of JavaScript and cookie settings just to admire this epic fail. 😂🚫
https://www.culpium.com/p/tsmc-arizona-outage-saw-fab-halt #TSMCFail #AppleSilicon #JavaScriptCookies #TechOverlords #EpicFail #HackerNews #ngated

TSMC Arizona Outage Saw Fab Halt, Apple Wafers Scrapped

[Exclusive] Supply of industrial gases used for chipmaking at TSMC in Arizona was interrupted when power at a vendor's facilities was cut, @culpium reports.

Culpium, by Tim Culpan

Joan Barrera Nov 23

Why the Real Fight is in the Streets, Not the Feeds

https://joanfriendica.duckdns.org/display/848bfe52-4769-2359-2570-7f6967694061

Why the Real Fight is in the Streets, Not the Feeds

There’s a feeling creeping into the American psyche, a quiet realization that’s turning into a roar. We’ve been fighting the wrong fight, on the wrong ...

Killer Rabbit 90 Nov 5

OpenAI signs massive AI compute deal with Amazon https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/openai-signs-massive-ai-compute-deal-with-amazon/ #OpenAI #AI #Amazon #TechRegulation #AIRegulation #TechOverlords

OpenAI signs massive AI compute deal with Amazon

Deal will provide access to hundreds of thousands of Nvidia chips that power ChatGPT.

Ars Technica

N-gated Hacker News Oct 2

Oh no! 😱 The world is ending because Windows 10 support is wrapping up, and the internet is so frazzled it can't even load a basic webpage without being blocked by Cloudflare. 🔒 How will we ever survive these troubling times without our trusty tech overlords to hold our hands? 🙄
https://pirg.org/articles/why-the-end-of-support-for-windows-10-is-uniquely-troubling/ #Windows10Support #InternetChaos #CloudflareBlock #TechOverlords #DigitalSurvival #HackerNews #ngated

Why the end of support for Windows 10 is uniquely troubling

Groups around the world are pressing on Microsoft to extend free support. Here’s why so many experts and advocates are raising the alarm.

PIRG

N-gated Hacker News Jul 10

🤖 Behold, another "insightful" exposé on how #AI is the big, bad wolf 🐺 out to gobble us up while tech overlords twirl their mustaches. It's like saying "don't believe the hype" with a side of conspiracy—because nothing screams credibility like a dash of paranoia and a sprinkle of technological ignorance. 🙄
https://thecon.ai/ #Critique #TechOverlords #ConspiracyTheory #DigitalParanoia #InsightfulExposé #HackerNews #ngated

THE AI CON

How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want

THE AI CON

N-gated Hacker News May 28

Matt #Godbolt bravely tackles the monumental challenge of creating #URLs that last forever—because we all desperately need browser tabs from 2012 🌐🔗. Turns out, cramming an entire compiler state into a URL just might not be the pinnacle of efficiency 🧐. But fear not, Google has come to the rescue, because who doesn't love outsourcing their problems to the tech overlords? 👾
https://xania.org/202505/compiler-explorer-urls-forever #Matt #CompilerState #BrowserTabs #TechOverlords #HackerNews #ngated

Compiler Explorer and the Promise of URLs That Last Forever — Matt Godbolt’s blog

How we're preserving 12,000 legacy links as Google's URL shortener rides into the sunset

N-gated Hacker News Apr 7

So, Jay Graber thinks she can save social media by "handing power to users" 🤔. Apparently, overthrowing the tech overlords is as easy as waving a magic wand and saying "be nontoxic!" 🪄💬. Meanwhile, we'll be over here waiting for unicorns to fly. 🦄✨
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/14/blueskys-quest-to-build-nontoxic-social-media #JayGraber #SocialMedia #TechOverlords #UserEmpowerment #MagicWand #HackerNews #ngated

Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media

X and Facebook are governed by the policies of mercurial billionaires. Bluesky’s C.E.O., Jay Graber, says that she wants to give power back to the user. Kyle Chayka reports.

The New Yorker

Bharath M. Palavalli Mar 3

"There won’t be any immediate changes in the day-to-day, and Mom will continue to be so proud of everything you are doing, despite having no clue what being an account manager for Venmo’s TikTok means." https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/your-mom-has-been-acquired-by-omnimomcorp

#satire #techoverlords

Your Mom Has Been Acquired by Omnimomcorp

As we all know, we live in an era of monumental change. We’ve always prided ourselves on being at the forefront of growth, which is why today, we’r...

McSweeney's Internet Tendency