I'm subtooting Telegram but honestly anything that fits that description should be shamed
Liebes Elbphilharmonie Publikum. Das sagt die Geigerin, deren Konzert durch die Letzte Generation gestört wurde: https://www.juliafischer.com/news/article/80-julia-fischer-on-the-recent-incident-with-climate-activists-in-the-elbphilharmonie.html
the Star wars space shooty game is free on epic https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/star-wars-squadrons
Covid
German media are falling over themselves reporting how the (absolute) #covid numbers in #China are farther away from zero than ever, and how China has failed.
Strangely enough, they never report *relative* case numbers, at best mentioning the population size.
Shall we compare, dear Germans?
WTF is this, a propaganda campaign to also make China suffer as much as we did?
some further explanation from a reply thread (long)
well yes, any moderate to large server, or god forbid, a fleet of servers (such as a CDN or load balancer/etc) can absorb such a load with no issue — I certainly have no issues with the load imposed by such a request flood
but especially as surplus metal becomes cheaper and cheaper (you can get a dedicated server from OVH for $6/mo, not even to mention how little you can get a VPS for now, or running a server on your home connection with a raspberry pi) there are a lot of sites out there with no real brunt that are nonetheless expected to be able to handle loads comparable to large organizations
mastodon is supposed to be a form of champion of the indie/decentralized web, but its design instead abuses and punishes those that create it
in this very thread I've had someone talking about their experiences having their wiki that's linked in their bio constantly taken offline just from people replying to them or boosting their posts
not even to mention the effect this can have if someone links an expensive endpoint. for example I run a rendering service, which up until now didn't have much in the way of caching/etc because it was a fairly tough problem to design a solution for, and to finally implement
if someone were to link that old version of the service on mastodon with even a modest following, it would go offline immediately, and not recover for an hour from the backlog — what do you think happens if the request fails?
if someone wanted to keep that service offline for any reason, they would only have to post a link to it, and keep editing that post every hour, or making new posts every hour. the backlog would only grow, and grow. after enough time, instances do give up, but you only need to put a new job in the top of the queue...
"The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart."
- Iris Murdoch #quotes
Something I don't think a lot of people realize unless they lived through the XMPP incineration: Google didn't just one day turn the federating stuff off. They broke it, and left it broke for months.
For a large swathe of time, if you were a gtalk user, you saw your externally hosted buddies online, but messages were dropped; same the other way around. Google didn't announce when they did this, they just pushed a nebulous "One day soon we'll turn this off" EOL announcement.
It stayed this way until they sunset Talk entirely for Hangouts. It was deliberately, invisibly broken.
Fascinating thread about looking at the original Intel 8086 chip under a microscope and finding… a late-added fix for a bug. https://oldbytes.space/@kenshirriff/109412325323089208
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