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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

in reply to Gidi Kroon

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.


American lives in Europe for 13 years and gives an update about the differences.
youtu.be/M1QvVnjiegE?si=_WvT8r…
in reply to Gidi Kroon

He just posted a follow-up to that one regarding some of the moronic American responses. Pretty amusing in a horrifying kind of way.


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
in reply to Gidi Kroon

She brings such a strong physicality to her roles that goes beyond the beauty actresses are often selected for.
#JoséphineJobert

IMDb: Joséphine Jobert



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…

#Doobydobap #London #Food



Today is Jenna Ortega's 23rd birthday, Happy Birthday!

I am at the moment not able to do the usual birthday rewatch, but will make up later this week.




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.


Stephanie Lin about feeling like an NPC in her own life, the comfort zone shrinking until it's a tiny bubble, and how she got out of that.

youtu.be/Or1U-ZDP1OE?si=bQhDjw…



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.

youtu.be/yt4S6_Uw884?si=VBT9Fs…



McAfee products are surprisingly difficult to remove from your computer.


By car: 13 minutes.
By public transport: 54 minutes.

Well there's your problem.



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