A pregnancy center can bill the state $14 for distributing diapers that cost the center just over $.25. And before parents can get those diapers, they must take a class that the center can bill the state $30 for each hour of class a client attends.

(Published July 2024)

https://propub.li/3PvTPmw
#Texas #Pregnancy #Family #Government #Accountability #Abortion

DANG! AWS is on a roll with powerful new security features! Introducing: VPC Block Public Access. This setting can be used to enable:
- Bidirectional block
- Ingress-only block
- Granular exclusions for specific VPCs or subnets

This is a *super* valuable feature.

https://aws-news.com/article/01934654-fe58-c506-8ab4-326be8d91444

One of the things I would miss here on Mastodon was all of the alerts from my local infrastructure and government twitter accounts. These will likely take a very long time to make the migration.

With https://bird.makeup, you can create bot accounts that put those tweets in your Mastodon timeline. For instance, I follow the Washington State Patrol account for regional weather related road closures and accident reports:

@[email protected]

EDIT: I Should have tagged the project's creator: @vincent

People posting things they're working on professionally or personally is *literally why I'm here*.

I would love nothing more than a feed full of smart people absolutely nerding out on shit they're into.

Late last night, AWS announced Lambda SnapStart, a mechanism that takes a snapshot of the Lambda’s VM environment on deployment. For Java 11 apps, this can bring cold start from 6 secs to 200ms

SnapStart takes a snapshot of the “VM” post the function’s init. We also have hooks to the `beforeCheckpoint` event (after init, before snapshot) and the `afterRestore` event (at lambda cold start, right after restoring snapshot, before function invocation).

#reInvent #serverless