Microsoft’s official @dotnet sent its first Mastodon post today.
Pay attention to the domain: dotnet.social.
Which means Microsoft is officially connected with a Mastodon community server.
@dotnet account was registered in November, but it became active today.
Clearly, Microsoft sees the Fediverse as core to marketing to developers. I wonder what other brands they’ll bring to the Fediverse as well.
https://dotnet.social/@dotnet@dotnet.social/109990127969245035
"…only one site reliability engineer has been staffed on the project…On Monday, the engineer made a “bad configuration change” that “basically broke the Twitter API” according to a current employee."
One of the fundamentals of #SiteReliabilityEngineering is that "human error is never the cause of outages". By this we mean that if a human /can/ make a mistake which takes out a system, it's not their fault.
A no blame culture is important for a well-functioning team.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/6/23627875/twitter-outage-how-it-happened-engineer-api-shut-down
Your character must do something they know will annoy everyone.
A year ago, many people said this would never happen.
“The Fediverse can’t be monetized,” they said.
Now @medium has come along and monetized their Mastodon server.
Not only can the Fediverse be monetized, it’s being done by Twitter Co-Founder @ev (though @coachtony, amongst others, probably drove this initiative).
That’s symbolism for you!
If Twitter is sinking like the Titanic, then Mastodon community servers are the lifeboats. And there are not enough lifeboats. 🤷🏿♂️
Don't just call people still on the Titanic foolish as you row away. Make more lifeboats, and make them easier to climb into! 👍🏿
"Painted on sidewalk as part of the street. The actual sidewalk was converted for parking."
submitted by u/Mittelmassig
https://redd.it/11jzwv1
#fuckcars
Jupiter and Venus from Earth
Image Credit & Copyright: Marek Nikodem (PPSAE)
this is incredible. Hanging solar panels a few meters above crops of tomatoes and jalapeños multiplied their yield 2-3x, used substantially less water, controlled temperatures, and increased the output of the solar panels https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2301355120 #science #solar #environment #agriculture