I felt bad about not using redundancy features in what I'm running online. Well, only a little bit bad, I'm only a single person doing unimportant stuff. But apparently major corporations are also not running redundancy either, so I feel a bit better.
What is worrying about the AWS outage in New York however, is that it seems to have affected critical things in EU and UK as well. And wordle. #AWSOutage
I don’t know the details, but it’s easy to do stuff like this when it’s DNS. The DNS infrastructure might not be down or non redundant. If you publish the wrong DNS record, or you accidentally delete a record that is vital to a lot of services, it looks like this. The infrastructure can be up and running perfectly, but just providing the wrong answer.
Justine's experiments with film photography: 'The art of getting it wrong'. Includes the quote: "If you're deep in the phase where nothing is working, stay there a little longer". youtu.be/yl7CqKggMYo?si=vEPjLZ… #Photography
Still recovering, but happy I did a better time than expected this year on the quarter marathon, at the Eindhoven Marathon event. 1:17:10, though friends did almost the same time on double the distance... Anyway, for me it was ok. #EindhovenMarathon
I really love seeing Joséphine Jobert in Saint-Pierre. Almost makes up for her not becoming the inspector in Death in Paradise. #JoséphineJobert #SaintPierre
Doobydobap does London and it's an amazing multicultural food experience. She finds all the special places. What I would like to know from people that know London, did she cover some foodie experiences that you didn't know yet? youtu.be/nXeFDt1_Ud0?si=B9-mn5…
Today was the first time I forgot to put a cup under the Senseo and tested the efficiency of the collection tray, despite fearing to do that many times before. The test results: that collection tray works really well, holds at least a full cup of coffee, and its design is such that there is no coffee splashed anywhere. Much impressed.
Ruri Ohama talks about the effects of AI on the economy and on jobs. I don't think she covers what the current video title says, but that's just because apart from a smart woman she's also a smart youtuber. It's very interesting nonetheless.
Just found out that the ASML Marathon Eindhoven will no longer provide a secure area where you can hand over your bag and valuables, but require you to rent a locker for €6,50. These are the extra costs for travelling by public transport I guess, which apparently is not promoted...
Sometimes I have posts on my mind for so long that I need to do a search to check I haven't posted it already... Sorry for duplicates if the search failed. (Meta if this is the duplicate)
YouTube thumbnail: How to do "x" YouTube title: Tips to learn doing "x" Actual YouTube video: Subscribe to my course to learn doing "x" Course, presumably: Buy my book
When people say "What is the worst thing that can happen?" to motivate you to do something, it is just an utter failure of the imagination on their part. And shows the cushy life they lived so far.
This is one people here will like I think: find out if you will survive the zombie apocalypse in 28 questions, by Crystal: youtu.be/uvUF6f4gey4?si=GQoNXj…
In the Netherlands there's one point where two highways cross with traffic lights. To solve this, they are "pushing a tunnel for the A59 underneath the A27", within 100 hours.
I mean, what?
Apparently they dig a gap in one highway, drive the concrete tunnel in that gap, and restore the highway over that new tunnel...
All these steps happen in one weekend, this weekend. This is a time lapse of the tunnel being driven into that gap, which has just finished. It's quite amazing.
Dit weekend kom je op de #A27 in beide richtingen afsluitingen tegen bij knp. Hooipolder. We voeren namelijk werkzaamheden uit, waarbij we in 100 uur een onderdoorgang in de A27 schuiven. Benieuwd hoe dat eruitziet? Volg het via een livestream en liveblog: a27houtenhooipolder.nl/project…
I've disabled the Activitypub feature of my WordPress while I investigate the regular server overloads over the past few days. I'm not really suspecting these plugins to be the problem, but the only increased traffic I can see is of Activitypub. Even though that is still only a few requests per minute, a pittance in normal server terms, it may be too much for a simple WordPress on the smallest shared hosting.
These Activitypub requests are always coming from the same Mastodon server, and don't seem to relate to normal interactions with my posts. So blocking that server on the firewall is another thing I can try.
There are of course a lot of requests from search index and ai bots, and blocking these is also a next step, but that doesn't seem increased lately.
Cleared cache and reconfigured the caching, also blocked some crawler IPs that did more storming than crawling. With that, even after reenabling the Activitypub features, it hasn't had a new outage.
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Canon R10, RF-S 10-18 and RF 24 F1.8.
#Photography #Glow2025 #GlowEindhoven