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Cloud, devops, data, and AWS geek. Wannabe armchair policy wonk.
Another week, let’s do this.
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The year is 2024: the future is grim.

America has elected a criminal to high office and Swift-Syntax is still being compiled in release mode.

I hope that an organization as massive as Meta adopting #ActivityPub will send a signal that pushes Tumblr and other platforms that have been considering it over the edge in doing the same. Perhaps even Bluesky would consider replacing or at least supplementing their custom protocol with the @w3c standard for interoperability.

I have a friend who’s really into lossless audio.

I give her a lot of FLAC for it.

@BlackAzizAnansi Not infrequently, during action movies, I will wonder at what the insurance claims might look like.
Everything Continues to Be Going Just Great at Twitter

Link to: https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/03/tweetdeck-suffers-as-musk-enforces-read-limits-on-twitter/

Daring Fireball
So, weekend tally: The number of active users across Mastodon rose by 294K, and posting activity roughly tripled. Lots of new sign-ups, but also many returning users. Fun times!

If I can give one piece of life advice:

Whenever someone geeks about something in front of you, or admits an 'embarrassing' interest, just say:

"That sounds AMAZING. I don't know anything about that. Tell me about it."

Then just listen.

Not once in my life have I regretted it.

The latest post from @Quinnypig about the public cloud customer's perspective is great. I highly recommend reading it.

#AWS #cloud

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/ftc-request-answered-how-cloud-providers-do-business/

FTC Request, Answered: How Cloud Providers Do Business

Chief Cloud Economist Corey Quinn answers the Federal Trade Commission's Request for Information about the business practices of cloud computing providers.

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