There are no truly automated status pages. It's an impossible problem. I mean that seriously. At scale you're collecting 100s of thousands (or mms) of metrics/spans/logs across 10s or 100s of loosely coupled systems. Building a system that can accurately analyze these and assess what the status page should say, in real time, without human intervention, is just not possible with current technology.
Even just the basic question of "are we down or is our monitoring system just having issues" requires a human. And it's never "are we down", because these are distributed systems we're talking about.
If service X goes down entirely, does that warrant a status page update? Yes? Turns out system X is just running ML jobs in the background and has no customer impact.
If service Z's p95 response latency jumps from 10ms to 1500ms for 5 minutes, 500s spike at the same time, but overall 200s rate is around 98%, are we down? is that a status page update? Is that 1 bad actor trying to cause issues? Is that indicative of 2,000 customers experiencing an outage and the other 98,000 operating normally? Is that a bad rack switch that's causing a few random 500s across the whole customer base and the service will reject that node and auto-recover in a moment?
I can answer that - once the lawyers take interest in your SLAs, you need to check with them if this is really an incident. Otherwise, you might lose some contract money and nobody wants that.
Isn't Steam (or more specifically steamwebhelper.exe) using Chromium Embedded Framework for web views? It's already a 64-bit process for me on Windows.
I also do wish they'd upgrade the client completely, but WoW64 isn't going anywhere. It's probably discussions like this on Linux side that would move their hand, if anything.
That's what it smells like but this is still a weird way to disclose something like that. I imagine some people with free afternoons are taking a stab at auditing atop's PR history right now. I'm not personally up to the task, but the fact that the top 3 contributors other than the original author are ByteDance employees might cause some to jump to conclusions.
Does atop have any legitimate need to connect to the network? I can’t think of any legitimate accidental security holes that might show up in something like atop, but then, these utilities often have funky features I don’t know about!
Ukraine did have Soviet-era nuclear weapons at the time of their independence, which they let go of in exchange of US, UK and Russia security guarantees in 1994. It is amazing to me how this fact is being memoryholed.
The only assurance of assistance built into the agreement is that parties would complain to the UN security council.
The Obama administration let Russia violate the agreement when they took Crimea. Putin's justification that Ukraine isn't a nation but a historically Russian territory only works if Russia pretends it was never a signatory, since recognition of Ukraine as an independent and sovereign nation was a part of it.
In short, pieces of paper do not trump the fear of nuclear weapons.
The essentials for me are private email, calendar & cloud storage. Here is my post-Google setup:
https://tuta.com/ is a German privacy-focused alternative that I'm currently using for email & calendar. Easy switch, although I was already using web clients rather than IMAP before the switch.
I settled on a 5€ / month VPS from Hetzner and using Syncthing instead, but this requires some minimal amount of technical skills to set up and maintain.
There is no alternative to YouTube, unfortunately.
Right, yes, YouTube is the big outlier. After I’d deleted my old Google account I created a new YouTube-specific account, and run it in a Firefox container to keep me logged out everywhere else.
"Locked to Amazon unless you jailbreak" is overselling it imo. You've always been able to (very easily) sideload DRM-free ebooks and read them on your kindle.
Since "reading ebooks" is ostensibly why you'd buy a Kindle in the first place, I'm not sure what more you need.
Kindles don't really support epub. If you copy an epub into your Kindle it cannot read it. If you use the "send to Kindle" app, it sends the epub to Amazon, which converts it to their proprietary format and ships it down to your Kindle.
What is it grandpa is capable of doing, if not plugging the kindle in the computer and dragging and dropping a file onto the "kindle" device that is now mounted in his file explorer?
A wise leader surrounds themself with people they can truly trust in. In this message we see a glimpse into the dynamic between Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold, and my main takeaway is that Bill truly trusts Nathan here, enough to be vulnerable and speak openly about his worries.
While it's humorous and perhaps even enlightening to think of him as a "child king", I don't think he was only "seeming hurt" here or manipulating (unless you count all forms of emotional appeal as manipulation). Being honest and straight is a very effective way to lead those close to you.
It's also the leader's job to worry about threats like this and direct the attention of his advisors.
I'm just not seeing your pangloss-like explanation in the real world. Gates' words are very carefully crafted. He's not being vulnerable, he's being a leader and that means engaging in the Machiavellian action of manipulation and dishonesty to get the outcome he wants. Nathan knows he's being yelled at without being yelled at, its face-saving for both of them. This is saying "Why the fuck are you sleeping on Java, your future here depends on fixing the Java problem and telling me how you're going to do it," without saying that.
That's what I was trying to point out in my original comment. The "nice" and "hurt" leader is a common ploy and it gets results.
I see where you're coming from in the general case; I think it has been well established that leadership positions attract people well described by the dark triad. However, I don't agree that being a leader has to revolve around manipulation and dishonesty, and I've certainly seen this in the real world.
Even if Bill Gates has the dark triad traits I do not think they were on display in this particular email exchange. I truly don't think they were engaging in any "face-saving" here -- Nathan had been working for Microsoft for 10 years at this point, leading Microsoft Research and rising to the first ever Microsoft CTO. They coauthored a book called "The Road Ahead" in 1995. Bill has called him the greatest hire he made at Microsoft.
From every single source I've come across it seems clear that Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold are friends and share a deep mutual respect. No wonder they are still working together in 2021! You'd think after a lifetime of supposed abuse Nathan would have stopped working with him after becoming a billionaire, right?
