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danmactoughon Making the Internet the Web Again

Funny you should mention both RSS and BlueSky/Mastodon as a return to the web, since Dave Winer (who pioneered RSS) has written about how BlueSky/Mastodon etc. are very much NOT the web. http://scripting.com/2024/12/21.html

> Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon are the IBM, Microsoft and Apple of 2024. It's ridiculous if they think this is a web.

danmactoughon EC2 Maintenance Update II

We noticed that all of our instances -- in 3 different availability zones in US East -- all cycled at the same time. That was pretty disappointing. Kind of defeated the purpose of having things in different AZs.

danmactoughon EC2 Maintenance Update II

I would like to be able to have alerts go right into SNS.