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Sad to hear about death of author Simon Winchester. Must pick up his final book about the wind https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/nov/13/simon-winchester-obituary?
INT. REDMOND, BUILDING 34. 3:47 AM. A conference room that smells like cold pizza and regret.
Office 365 EVP: Talk to me. Why is Exchange still down?
MID-LEVEL MANAGER (Dave): So, good news and bad news.
EVP: Give me the good news.
DAVE: We found the service that's failing.
EVP: Great. Who owns it?
DAVE: That's the bad news. It's called auth-bridge-final-v2-REAL. The commit history says it was written by "Copilot" and approved by "Copilot."
EVP: Then get the engineer who prompted it.
DAVE: That was Priya. She was in the Q2 "efficiency realignment."
EVP: Her backup?
DAVE: Also realigned. So was her backup's backup. The whole team is a Slack channel now, and the only one in it is a bot that posts "🚀 LGTM" on every PR.
EVP: Fine. Then we read the code and fix it.
DAVE: We tried. It's 340,000 lines of Python that calls a Rust binary that calls a PowerShell script that curls a Gist. The Gist's README just says "dont touch this lol."
EVP: Documentation?
DAVE: One Confluence page called "Architecture (TODO)." Last edited in 2024. The only content is a Mermaid diagram that fails to render.
EVP: Jesus Christ. Can we roll back?
DAVE: To what? The rollback pipeline was also vibe coded. The last time someone ran it, it rolled back to a version that only existed in the AI's hallucination of what the service should look like.
EVP: So what the fuck have we actually been doing for nine hours?
DAVE: Rebooting servers one at a time and praying. Comms is calling that "restarting affected infrastructure."
EVP: ...Is there anyone left who understands how any of this works?
DAVE: Gary.
EVP: Who's Gary?
DAVE: Contractor. 61 years old. He wrote the original Exchange routing logic in 2003 and he's the only one who knows why there's a sleep(7) in the auth handshake. We let him go in January, but HR forgot to disable his VPN.
EVP: Call Gary.
DAVE: Gary says his rate is now $900 an hour, with a 40-hour minimum, and he wants it in writing that he was right about everything.
EVP: ...Pay Gary.
DAVE: Also, the board wants to know if this will affect the AI efficiency numbers for the earnings call.
EVP: Tell them the outage was caused by "an unexpected interaction during a routine change," and that AI agents are "actively assisting with remediation."
DAVE: Are they?
EVP: Copilot opened a ticket.
DAVE: What did the ticket say?
EVP: "Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
@puniko@mk.absturztau.be hi so hyped. hope you'll have fun
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PieFed v1.9 is released - Shared Blocklists, Auto-bans and TOTP
cross-posted from: piefed.social/…/piefed-v1-9-is-released-shared-bl…
Plus a lot more bits and pieces, browse the list of recent releases in the 1.8.x line at codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/releases for details.
git pull git checkout v1.9.x
Then,
./deploy.sh or ./deploy-docker2.sh
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How come pylova isn’t publishing these updates here too?
It is?
https://quokk.au/c/fediverse@lemmy.world/p/1237518/pylova-v0-4-1-customisation-performance-qol-bugs
https://quokk.au/c/fediverse@lemmy.world/p/1105596/pylova-v0-3-1-released-multi-image-post-support
https://quokk.au/c/fediverse@lemmy.world/p/1092867/pylova-v0-3-0-released
https://quokk.au/c/fediverse@lemmy.world/p/1077126/pylova-v0-2-2-released
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Please don’t just dump your user uploads on someone’s else’s infrastructure unless you’re paying for their upkeep.
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Testing & Feedback
(This is also what clutters my notifications a bit: every time I post something to a group/topic that I follow, I get a notification from the group/topic that someone posted something (which is me)).
@misha@bonfire.opentech-auc.org yeah that's the group's boost (the mechanism by which groups currently work), but I'll make it not notify you
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Do you want to find an audience for your content, or do you just want to upload your content?
The former can be achieved with where we are right now, the latter with a number of file uploading sites that allow hotlinking their uploads.
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You’ll need to specify what you’re looking for but YT is a global monopoly for online content creators
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Nebula.tv but it’s not a lead worth following. Nebula is great but they’re not going to take on a new creator who isn’t already established.
@robeeshepherd mine arrived yesterday! I’m a bit lost with the firmware options, any recommendations?
@tom @robeeshepherd depends on what you are looking for?
Things I liked: OberWave, FRASIL, JIANT FM, SLOOP
In the case of Google Search, the company has a history of rolling out new "features" that are less helpful to the searcher and more designed to keep you and your data within the Google ecosystem. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/11/google-summaries-arent-about-ai-theyre-about-lock
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Software? Dozens.
Content? Nothing.
Well not nothing, there are some other providers like nebula but that too one day will become a corporate money slop because that is what these companies do.
What I mean is that the problem is and always has been the content, the media.
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