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If the average Amazonian washes out in under two years, I think it's pretty fair to say most amazonians only get two weeks.

I work in tech in Seattle. AWS is notably worse then its peers. And even still, your experience is not typical for AWS.

Say what you will about GCP or Azure, at least those folks get to see their families.

What about, "treat AWS workers better"? Pay your people for their on call hours! Let them work on side projects and games in their spare time! Give them more than seven paid holidays. Give them more than two weeks vacation!

Only six weeks of paid parental leave?

I would absolutely be willing to pay more for AWS if I knew that amount was going to treating the poor folks who built it all better.

What are you publishing that has a binary that big but can't use a container image?

The actual reason is that long running invocations run synchronous workflows, typically requiring holding threads and sockets open for the entire duration of execution.

Lambda is a complex system, and holding those sockets for long times across many services could cause resource starvation issues. You've got load balancers, data plane, control plane, tenant vms, and a whole bunch of caches, and support services that all need to be ready to roll over the lifetime of the invocation.

And you have to consider the use case for draining and patching lambda pools. If someone is running a two hour function and you need to take down any server that's currently holding a thread or socket for it, you need to wait for the function to complete. You can't start a new load, so you are really inefficiently using resources until the function completes.

Yeah, I tend to agree, though I come down on "everything is political; but not everything needs to be strife".

Like, sports, long considered the go to water cooler talk, have LOADS of politics. From how the players are treated, to who can afford to see a game, to how we treat uninterested or rival fans.

Movie stars are productive members of our society too?

Entertainment is valuable.

The reason you aren't finding police comments is because you aren't looking.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/sorrenti-keffals-swatt...

The police confirm the swatting and confirm it was a mistake.

Posting video of the Christchurch massacre is illegal.

And if you don't think the London police department didn't put out a fact based narrative about three swatting, you are straight up unwilling to engage in any sort of reasoned discussion, and are appealing purely to your emotional attachments to your ideals.

It's not new speak. It's a more accurate set of words to describe what we used to call "lone wolves". Stochastic means random, statistically measurable but not predictable.

The term "stochastic terrorism" means terror attacks like school shootings, swattings, and driving trucks into protestors that happen with a certain statistical likelihood, but whose individual events cannot be predicted.

Incredible.

The London police arrested a trans activist and later apologized after she was targeted by kiwi farms.

https://london.ctvnews.ca/doxed-transgender-activist-twitch-...

There's one citation.

Byuu/Near, the author of the incredible bsnes project, was harassed to suicide by kiwi farms.

https://kotaku.com/the-brilliant-snes-emulator-creator-known...

The site posted the video and manifesto of the Christchurch shooting.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/website-kiwi-farms...

So there, three different citations that, themselves link out to other news and reputable primary sources showing the site, including the owner of the site, are involved in stochastic terrorism and, quote, "the exploitation of the mentally handicapped for amusement".

You realize the fallacy here, right? Terminating commercial agreements with three origins of stochastic terrorism is not some ratchet towards new speak. It's just three cases where Cloudflare decided that sheltering terrorism wasn't in their best interest.

And 2001 Nights.

I'm not trying to encourage ddos, I'm saying only that Cloudflare doesn't need to protect them from ddos. You might argue that those things are a distinction without a difference, but I would disagree.

Imo, kiwi farms will be the target of ddos no matter what, that's table stakes. So to me, the only thing I see is "is Cloudflare stepping in to help kiwi farms (at their own expense) or not".

Kiwi Farms has killed and swatted people and had resulted in many direct threats of violence to individuals. It's not really a slippery slope at all. All three sites are way, way beyond the pale.

Calling it harassment is like calling the moon a "space rock" - technically true I guess, but missing the magnitude.

So wait, they don't get paid, meaning they are happy to provide protection to these sites at their expense? You see how that's worse, right?

There's a discussion that could be had about whether it's appropriate for ISPs to block sites that are strongly associated with terrorism.

I don't think that discussion can reasonably happen on this forum, but I think there are interesting philosophical positions that are valid that we should put against one another.

Any other CDN that will host then will not be as smooth and as capable and as well advertised as Cloudflare.

It will be harder to get protection, so fewer sites will be able to succeed.

I can see no reason why the owner of kiwi farms would want to believe that kiwi farms wasn't directly responsible for suicides (and terrorism via swatting). /s

Of course kiwi farms caused those suicides.

It's really not that tricky. Few sites are peers of 8chan, kiwi farms, and the daily Stormer. When you become their peer, you have a serious discussion about whether you want them as customers with several people in the company, and you can choose "no".

They can absolutely drop kiwi farms and still be in the clear, ethically. It's not like kiwi farms is even remotely close to some sort of slippery slope. It's the goddamn burning trash pit on a FOB of internet sites.

I use a gender neutral restroom, but our office has none. ... Political?

I use they/them pronouns, and I ask politely for others to use them... Political?

Cause I've been told that being a queer person is political. I don't think it is, it's just... Who I am.

People who say no politics at work generally have never had to think about how some identities are perceived as innately political.

It's carbon offsets for hate. And just like carbon credits, it's not really solving any problems. It's the minimum they could do that was literally not zero.

Is Cloudflare buying.... Hate offset credits? It's like buying carbon offsets for the carbon you emit. Except they are donating to offset the evil shit they protect?

That's not the causality the parent is drawing. They are saying these two events are likely because an increase in temperature increases moisture in the air, increases flooding. We're seeing more floods as an effect, not a cause.

But you still have to build additional safeties into the craft if it's rated for humans. A refueling craft is more complex than a non refueling craft. A crewed craft is more complex than an uncrewed craft (even if no one is aboard). A crewed, refueling craft is more complex still.

What do they mine, and what do they do with the mined resources? Usually, extractive industries result in resources flowing to former colonial powers (because those powers tended to have strong economies, which were often a result of colonialism).

Just like how making redlining illegal didn't immediately fix the problems it introduced, moving to a post colonial government doesn't immediately address problems and systems introduced by a colonial past.

This thread is full of people hoping it fails to launch.

Ok, get a falcon heavy configured to launch a mission around the moon by, say, Friday. When the SLS is on the pad.

You cannot just wave your hand and say SpaceX. As much as I think it's the better option to use falcon heavy, it's not ready this week.