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On 4 October 2023 at 07:00 UTC, the DNSSEC signatures in the version of the root zone from 21 September expired.

Two weeks and nobody noticed not a single update succeeded. This is tedu levels of availability monitoring.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/1-1-1-1-lookup-failures-on-october-4th-2023/

Corrections / additional:
- @alexhelvetica pointed out that I missed the carve out for Alpurrurulam NT (4825)
- @simon_w raised another fallacy that you can't treat postcodes as numbers (0872 would become 872)
- @Dangerous_beans mentioned that postcodes can't be mapped to other geographic coding schemes like LGAs
- @ChlorideCull / @devopscats points out that postcodes can move / change
- @whyrl fallacy: A postcode can be mapped to a geographical location (see e.g. defence force personnel codes)

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Programmers fallacies about postcodes:
- A postcode covers a small geographic area
- A postcode is good enough to locate an end user for generating location suggestions
- A postcode will be in a single timezone
- A postcode only has a single state
- A postcode has no exclaves/enclaves

I would like you to meet 0872. Australia's largest postcode (I think), covers 3 states, has two cut outs (Warbuton and Alice Springs), and even still some mail outside of this area is routed via 0872

In a lot of ways, Facebook has a classic IBM problem

1. Won big early, and accumulated a war chest that let them absorb hits instead of adapting
2. Facilitated genocide

normalize emailing strangers to tell them they did a good job

I am an #obsidian user, I've read about the #zettelkasten method, and so on (I'm also curious about Luhmann systems theory per se).
But what a rabbit hole it is!
I stumbled so often into people showing workflows and how-to's, without ever fixing in my memory what they were working on amd what they actually achieved through such workflows.
May we call it productivity porn?

I'd love to see some great examples of apps and projects enabled by those tools, that are not "Here's how I used Obsidian to write this longform on how to build a Zettelkasten".

[You'll maybe see one from me whenever I publish something...]

We have been made aware of #Nintendo's plans to shut down #NintendoNetwork in April. We have begun discussing our development road map internally to accommodate this.

Parent on Facebook: <shares smug post about how only people with children can understand tiredness>
Me: <comments with a screen-grab of my schedule of early morning meetings>
Parent: <replies, paraphrasing> "Don't spoil my smugness!"

antifascism in sport 

Glasgow Celtic are playing Lazio right now in European football/soccer. Celtic supporters tend to be Irish republicans. They fly Irish and Palestinian flags, oppose celebrations of the British state (poppies, monarchism, etc.).

Lazio supporters tend to be nazis. They fly swastikas, banners about sending their enemies to auschwitz.

Here's Celtic fans banner flown pregame:

re: positive, hospital stuff, but not medical 

It also really illustrates for me how much better things *could* be, when folks actually make an effort to accommodate

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re: positive, hospital stuff, but not medical 

I continue to be surprised by how relatively ND-friendly everything and everyone at this hospital turns out to be

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positive, hospital stuff, but not medical 

It only just now dawned on me how several of the hospital folks I've spoken with, have provided explicit instructions on communication preferences and assumptions, unprompted

Like, not just "it's best to reach me by ____, and then I'll usually answer within ____ time", but also stuff like "if I don't answer after ____ time, you should assume that I've overlooked it and send me a reminder"

This is... an uncommon experience for me, when communicating outside of my own social group

Heh, in case you were wondering how much code gets copy-pasted off MDN: there's code in React that comes from there (with attribution)

Hitler, nazis, modern police 

The house where Adolf Hitler was born is now being converted into a police station, "so that it doesn't turn into a place of pilgrimage for neonazis"

Do I have to explain what a horrible idea this is

www1.wdr.de/kultur/kulturnachr

queers forming polycules for mutual support instead of benefiting from generational wealth is us favoring composition over inheritance

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