Not to spread concern or anything, but the electrical grid is managed and controlled by software. And that software may or may not be very reliant on AWS. I’m probably not allowed to say more than that.
Power company engineer here, it’s true that a lot of our supporting and analytics software went down during the AWS event.
However, most devices that actually control grid units (called bulk electric system cyber-assets) are air-gapped or utilize a data diode.
FERC Reliability Standards and NERC CIP
However-er, flipping through those standards just now, turns out it’s 100% permitted to connect your “bulk electric system cyber-asset” to a cloud integration if done compliantly.
It’s missing a Saddam Hussein hideout
I don’t want lore accurate cloud service I want biblically accurate cloud service
i’m afraid, is that a problem?
So you have chosen to blatantly sin in its presence? Bold maneuver… and ultimately unsurvivable. Roll for chance of mercy, then multiply by
0.00%to determine your odds of surviving this encounter.
What a horrible title. Maybe it’s time to start using git
Or Fossil😅😅.
For those people wondering, it’s an alternative to GIT created by SQLite devs. In fact their HomePage is actually a self-hosted Fossil repository
Don’t forget the cutest single point of failure!!
Looks like they’ll only be the cutest SPOF for another minute or so…
Relax, it is USB C and only a small charger, this is only 20v max, and changes are high that CC lines are the ones severed first, resulting power supply to turn of Vbus or at least downgrade to V5SAFE.
In all seriousness though, the core of the technical stack has become very robust in my opinion (DNS being the exception). From a hobbyist’s perspective, things work much better than when the Web was still young. I can run multiple sites (some of them being what are today called apps) on a domain with subdomains, everything fast, HTTP3-capable, secured via valid free TLS certs, reverse proxied, all of that running on a system deployed in minutes…
If you focus on the part of the Internet that you have control over, it’s a lot better than back in the simple days.
Imagine, we could kill all NAT/DNS/(reverse)proxy routing problems by adapting finally to IPv6
I don’t only run a reverse proxy because of having only a single public IPv4 address, but that probably is the best part
In general, I’d say reverse proxies make things somewhat easier to manage, especially when it comes to TLS. No need for every service to integrate it.
Usenet is still in use btw. And so is Nostr.
Haha especially the angry bird is genius
