@angusm Ah, got it! Am a little slow on the uptake, but appreciated the line.

@angusm To wit: "As of March 2026, AWS is experiencing significant service disruptions in the UAE (ME-CENTRAL-1) and Bahrain (ME-SOUTH-1) regions following direct drone strikes on data centers."

@dvsoest @rupert @cstross Same...read that chapter last night...the details were SO spot-on. Felt like it either was an actual movie or was based on one.

@cstross Need to doublecheck my sources, but that seems...crazy. The picture is of a manic man with a jug of tea. He is all but buried in a room full of books but hyperfocused on the computer screen as he polishes...like a paragraph an hour? Only saved from the complete screaming jeebies by the random occasional interruptions of his cat? Somewhere between laughing manically and face-in-hands depths of crushing despair?

@babe Envious! Put my pick through our gas line last week digging our French drain. Still facing getting back out there.

@scream @angusm
Shock Doctrine? Ridiculous...doesn't existaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

@nixCraft This should have been a poll, maybe? No OS with more than 100 million users is secure.

@maxalmonte14 I'm...kinda down for that salad restaurant. Straightforward, no interminable questions on how you want everything. Just..salad.