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For (2), AWS _also_ has now shipped a change that makes those requests non-billable permanently: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/08/amazon-s3...

From the linked regulation:

> Technical information received by the Commission and validated by ECAC States and laboratories, shows that the existing configurations of standard C3 EDSCB equipment to which the Commission has granted the ‘EU Stamp’ marking or the ‘EU Stamp pending’ marking need to be revised in order to improve their performance

Sounds like this might be a software problem of some sort, although it’s surprising if that’s affecting multiple vendors. Maybe an issue with the certification process?

> some airports don't comply

This is not true, airports with upgraded scanners are complying with the law just fine.

This appears to be a temporary technical problem:

> This precautionary measure is not in response to any new threat but addresses a temporary technical issue, undertaken in alignment with the EU’s international partners

And:

> Technical information received by the Commission and validated by ECAC States and laboratories, shows that the existing configurations of standard C3 EDSCB equipment to which the Commission has granted the ‘EU Stamp’ marking or the ‘EU Stamp pending’ marking need to be revised in order to improve their performance

How long did your therapy take to get to this point?

Sonos Voice Control is better for any multi-room control, and it seems to work near flawlessly - probably because of the small domain it operates in.

Never heard of an umlaut being used for a ditto mark, usually it’s a double quote: "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ditto_mark

Guessing maybe there’s some keyboards which were missing quote/prime characters but had umlauts?

macOS does this too; if you trigger Siri while your fans are spun up, it’ll temporarily spin them down to hear you more clearly.

I just tested and a song that works fine normally failed as soon as I turned Airplane Mode on.

From what I’ve read previously, Apple has a special licensing deal already as they were part of founding Arm, although I don’t know if there’s any details on exactly how that works.

Case law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co.

Original story looks to be https://www.uber.com/en-AU/blog/migrating-from-dynamodb-to-l...

> Also, butchers usually have less selection since they're a smaller operation.

That’s curious; I’d have thought you’d have more selection since the butcher is, y’know, doing the butchering, so any cut is possible. In the past if I’ve needed an “exotic” cut, the butcher would be where I’d go.

As someone who’s not American, I’m unclear; is going to a butcher not an option? Have they been competed out of the market by supermarkets?

I mean, the passing the bag through without scanning is facetious, but Australian (domestic) security is much lighter than the US. You don’t need ID, you don’t need a ticket, and until recently it was only metal detectors everywhere rather than full body scanners.

Also, it wouldn’t be uncommon to joke around (although there are some hard-asses); if they legitimately did recognise a YouTube, I could see them getting a selfie together.

It’d likely be a technical stop rather than separate legs, so passengers wouldn’t deplane. https://simpleflying.com/aircraft-technical-stops/

And with more complex ballots with preferential numbering.

(Aside: it’s actually pencil and paper since pencils are more reliable. https://www.aec.gov.au/faqs/polling-place.htm#pencils)

Automattic is primarily four core businesses:

1. WordPress.com - Hosted SaaS for building websites. Very cheap to run, includes ads on free sites, and they sell users upgrades like custom domains or removing ads from their sites.

2. Jetpack - Services for self-hosted WordPress sites, like backups, social media integration, image CDN, antispam - mostly paid services, again very cheap to run.

3. WooCommerce - Open source ecommerce service. They sell add-ons like payment gateways, and have their own with a percentage fee of each transaction.

4. WPVIP - Enterprise and high-scale hosting service. Expensive ($25k/yr+) but worth it for large companies who run their business off it, like newsrooms and marketing sites.

To my knowledge, they're each independently profitable. Automattic also has a lot of additional smaller services which support these, and various Other Bets.

(I don't work at Automattic, but have many friends there.)

Automattic very rarely shuts down any products they acquire, so I'd certainly be less concerned with them as the buyer compared to another company. (Their failure mode for acquisitions tends to be underresourcing them and letting them stagnate, not actually shutting them down.)

Unreal Engine 5 is a combination of a few technologies:

* Virtualised geometry (Nanite) allowing very detailed models

* Very high quality models and textures from photogrammetry (Megascans)

* Real-time global illumination (Lumen)

Combining these is what allows the very high fidelity demos, as they’re each step changes from the previous techniques in Unreal. Megascans (and the Quixel library) are a big part of the “photorealness” of these demos, because they’re basically literally photos.

The Australian Greens (one of the earliest Green parties) were founded basically off the back of opposition to dams in Tasmania: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Dam_controversy

Sydney Metro is being expanded out to it; construction's already underway, and is targeted at opening at the same time as the airport: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Sydney_Airport_line

> my understanding is its current incarnation of Glitch is just your typical mid-sized tech co

Glitch was acquired by Fastly, so it's not a fully independent mid-sized tech co, but it does seem to be doing well and seems reasonably independent still.

Is this using SSM’s raw port forwarding support? From what I’ve seen, their protocols seem to lack binary safety (we get weird encoding issues).

> But in many other ways, Parliament asserts its independence from the monarchy

The implication here is that The Government and The Parliament are the same, which isn’t true. While it’s not quite so delineated as in countries with formally separate executive and legislative, the two are separate entities.

The executive is also commonly called “The Crown”, so it’s an appropriate logo. (Albeit, that’s also a nebulous term.)

> Not using Terraform Cloud

We adopted TFC at the start of 2023 and it was problematic right from the start; stability issues, unforeseen limitations, and general jankiness. I have no regrets about moving us away from local execution, but Terraform Cloud was a terrible provider.

When they announced their pricing changes, the bill for our team of 5 engineers would have been roughly 20x, and more than hiring an engineer to literally sit there all day just running it manually. No idea what they’re thinking, apart from hoping their move away from open source would lock people in?

We ended up moving to Scalr, and although it hasn’t been a long time, I can’t speak highly enough of them so far. Support was amazing throughout our evaluation and migration, and where we’ve hit limits or blockers, they’ve worked with us to clear them very quickly.

The cast format is effectively line-oriented JSON, which adapts well to being streamed directly to CloudWatch, with each line being a single entry in the CW log stream. It's then fairly easy to pull back out and replay as needed.

It's published up at https://github.com/rmccue/cinemastream if you're interested in trying it - it works, but still very early days, as it was just a holiday side-project. That said, likely to become a production tool for work, so will be cleaning it up a bit soon and squashing some bugs.

Worth noting that asciinema is not directly usable as a crate currently, so I did need to fork it to add a lib.rs, but the code was so well-structured that there's not much to do there: https://github.com/rmccue/asciinema/blob/rust-lib/src/lib.rs - Marcin did say he's open to it once 3.0 stabilised though.

I’ve already been using asciinema 3 as a Rust library to build tools - specifically, a tool that runs a command and streams the output logs directly to AWS CloudWatch.

So far, apart from some minor bugs which mostly didn’t affect me, things have been working perfectly - so much so that it’s kind of surprising really. Kudos to Marcin (and my thanks for being so engaged on Mastodon when I had questions!)

I have a foldable shopping bag which is smaller than my wallet, you don’t need a full backpack. If I think I might want to pop into the shops while out, I’ll chuck it in my pocket.

Sure, if you want to do a big family shop then it’s a bit different, but that’s more of an event anyway.

With Broadcom’s plan for VMWare, Oxide certainly seems to have had excellent timing here.

Not to be too negative, but this seems quite inaccessible to anyone using a screen reader or other non-visual output device. Unlike with SVGs or images, there seems to be no way to provide an alternative representation?

Similar to the inaccessibility of icon fonts, but those tend to use private use character codes rather than actual readable text; reading the example page [1] with a screen reader is... not a great experience.

[1]: https://dy.github.io/linefont/scripts/