Notices by Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)

Bluesky's model of decentralization continues to be "we'll get to it one day, trust me bro."

Awwwwwws!.. :blobcatcoffee:

The day the world stood still.

Because the world keeps putting all service eggs into the same infrastructure provider basket. 🤡

Line go up! :blobcatpopcornnom:

#AWS #AWSOutage #SysAdmin

Wow this is going to be massively, massively expensive for AWS due to all the contractual penalties they'll have to pay out to their clients based on their five-nines SLA contracts and hahahahahaha nope just joking why would Amazon agree to any such thing! :blobcat:

If you're wondering what AWS is, it's kinda like the operating system of the corporate Internet.

I call it bezOS.

:blobcatpeek:

This would be a good time to ask Amazon how much of their stuff is vibe coded.

#AWS

AWS: Your honor, we do not believe we are bound by the SLA punitive clause in our contract with the plaintiff in this case.

Judge: Care to explain?

AWS: Certainly. The direct cause was tracked down to a bit of AI-generated code.

Judge: How does that…

AWS: It was an act of God, your honor.

Well whaddya know, Amazon AWS fired hundreds of people in their cloud computing unit in July:
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazons-aws-cloud-computing-unit-cuts-least-hundreds-jobs-sources-say-2025-07-17/

> …just a month after CEO Andy Jassy warned that adoption of generative AI tools would trigger a workforce reduction.

Clown Computing! 🤡

#AWS #AWSOutage

@lxo well you can't spell Debain without AI! :blobcatpeek:

Windows 11? Wow, Microsoft is really behind the curve, aren't they. I'm already running Debian *13*!

@TrillionB @Em0nM4stodon that's why it's important to design the protocol in a way that Bad People also can't connect these dots. And there are ways to do just that.

@Em0nM4stodon I agree this is bad in general, but this:

> there will be no way to use any social media without associating the account with a legal identity

...is not true.

One could devise a protocol where the only thing that is certified to the website is age, without any identity information.

For a somewhat imperfect example that gives an idea, see here:
https://rys.io/en/178.html

Add zero-knowledge proofs to the mix and it becomes much more solid. It's totally something that could be done.

@Tutanota are you implying hackers are the same thing as cybercriminals? That's kinda un-excellent coming from a company whose services are promoted by hackers to their peers, friends, coworkers, families. Seriously disappointing.

@Tutanota thank you, I appreciate that.

So, when are you editing the image in the original toot that still promotes that misconception? :blobeyes:

just a few short months ago people kept explaining to me how the US military "will not stand for this"

a few months before that I was being explained to how "the courts will stop it"

about a year ago it was "he will never win the election"

after his first term it was "the guardrails held"

and during his first term I remember all the "you don't understand, the checks and balances will..."

*sigh* 🙄

#uspol

> [Microsoft] would “disable” access to services that supported the Unit 8200 surveillance project and suspend its use of some AI products
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/25/microsoft-blocks-israels-use-of-its-technology-in-mass-surveillance-of-palestinians

This is good news and we should celebrate! 🎉

But just to be clear:

👉 This is *only* about Unit 8200's access to *some* of the services.

👉 Microsoft services are extensively used by other Israeli military outfits.

👉 Microsoft will try to use this to hand-wave all of that away, and it must not be allowed to do so.

#Microsoft #Gaza

All eyes on Gaza and on the Global Sumud flotilla:
https://jacobin.com/2025/09/gaza-sumud-flotilla-israel-attacks

> In the middle of the night, our fleet was attacked with a swarm of lethal drones: the largest and most terrifying attack yet, hitting thirteen boats with loud explosions, incendiary devices, chemicals weapons, and direct attacks to damage the bows of the sailing boats.

This is an act of piracy.

#GazaFlotilla #GlobalSumud

When anti-fascism is made illegal by the state, the state can only be called fascist. :antifa:

> #Meta has used back-to-school pictures of schoolgirls to advertise one of its social media platforms to a 37-year-old man

> The man noticed that posts encouraging him to “get Threads” (…) were being dropped into his Instagram feed featuring embedded posts of uniformed girls as young as 13 with their faces visible and, in most cases, their names.

> The children’s images were used by Meta after their parents had posted them on Instagram to mark their return to school.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/20/parents-outraged-meta-uses-photos-schoolgirls-ads-man