ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

You didn’t notice a block of #mastodon instances go dark yesterday with the outage of a major European backbone host provider (OVH) because the #fediverse is so distributed and decentralized. But if you’ve got a flight in the USA today then you know exactly what happens when a centralized software service goes down. #FAA

#FAA has shut down ALL #flights in #USA & possibly #Canada & #Mexico (not sure, but they said #NorthAmerica so...) due to a system outage.

UPDATE for 9am EST: Systems are apparently coming back up and some flights will resume.

I wrote a post about how to set up basic Mastodon monitoring with Grafana and Prometheus, starting from scratch.

Many thanks to @nova @dma @IPngNetworks who provide lots more info and inspiration for this, you find links in my post.

https://jaanus.com/mastodon-monitoring-prometheus-grafana/

Here's your irregular reminder that MFA is so much more effective against account takeovers than teaching people that 'Polar_bear65' or 'Nationalparks2014!' aren't strong enough passwords https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/10/interior-department-watchdog-passwords/

Just throwing this out there, as unlikely as it probably is: Does anyone have any issues of MacWeek from late 1993? I need a scan of the November 29th issue, sadly it’s not on the Internet Archive.

“If I had a dollar for every time a Canadian flight crew ran out of fuel partly thanks to their own errors and then made an amazing gliding landing, I would have two dollars. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it’s happened twice.” - /u/Xi_Highping on reddit

Everyone enjoys a good happy-ending aviation incident report, right? This one has some human factors stuff in it too.

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/crisis-over-the-atlantic-the-near-crash-of-air-transat-flight-236-671d3a0c4b04

Twitter suspension of the DC transit system account may well have been an unintended goof, or a software issue, but it's one more reason to stress how important it is for public agencies not to rely on the Musk-controlled, highly centralized system. What I said about why journalists should migrate off the birdsite goes for everyone else who wants to control their online destinies: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/01/04/journalists-and-others-should-leave-twitter-heres-how-they-can-get-started/

Did you know? You can resume wget download and save time and bandwidth under #Linux, macOS/BSD, and #Unix -like systems.
wget url/21.gb.img
wget -c url/21.gb.img # resume broken download

https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/wget-resume-broken-download.html

Political compass with only two axes, "do you believe in the rights of the individual" and "how many individuals do you believe there are"

#Mastodon is hiring!

› Remote-only
› Full-time

Looking for:

› DevOps Engineer
› Product Designer

It could be you! Apply now:

https://joinmastodon.org/careers

Uh-oh, Lauren Boebert just took another shot at MTG, calling her "unhinged on Twitter." 😂

Keep that popcorn popping, folks! 🍿

https://secondnexus.com/boebert-calls-taylor-greene-unhinged?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=toot&utm_campaign=2N

Never forget, a 13-year study of a dozen cities found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.

ALL ROAD USERS.

And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. As for sharrows, it’s safer to NOT have them.

Via @Streetsblog, read article linked below.

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2019/05/29/protect-yourself-separated-bike-lanes-means-safer-streets-study-says/

#bikelanes #bikes #cities #sharrows #infrastructure #urbanism #cars

VLAN article finished. 🎉
Delightful 18 minutes of explaining VLANs in general, on Netgear switches, on OPNsense and on OpenWRT. And a bit about my "implementing VLANs" day.

https://blog.mei-home.net/posts/vlans/

#HomeLab #VLAN #OPNsense #OpenWRT

Petition for bunnings.com.au to geoblock the USA in retaliation for homedepot.com geoblocking Australians.

If enough people learn how to do something, it protects those that don't know how to, this is known as nerd immunity