I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA Summary A part-time DBA, “Derek”, looked after two MySQL instances mirrored by symmetrical replication — one…
Rick Beato vs UMG: Fighting Copyright Claims Over Music Clips on YouTube Summary Music educator and YouTuber Rick Beato has received a string of copyright Content ID claims and strikes…
Summary Who: Brian Kernighan, co-creator of Unix (age 83), speaking at InfoAge in New Jersey. What: He described trying to write a single Rust programme and found the experience frustrating…
Former US Government Site Climate.Gov Attempts Relaunch as Non-Profit Summary The U.S. government climate information site climate.gov has been effectively sidelined after its production team was dismissed earlier in the…
400 ‘Tech Utopian’ Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State Summary Nearly 400 students and entrepreneurs have gathered in Forest City to attend Network School, founded by Balaji Srinivasan, to test ideas…
Lawsuit Says Amazon Prime Video Misleads When You ‘Buy’ a Long-Term Streaming Rental Summary A lawsuit alleges Amazon Prime Video misleads customers by labelling long-term streaming licences as “buy” or…
Overview Five indie bands have removed their music from Spotify in response to news that Spotify founder Daniel Ek led a €600m fundraising round for a German defence company developing…
Summary Music educator and YouTuber Rick Beato is publicly contesting a series of copyright Content ID claims and strikes from Universal Music Group (UMG). Some claims target very old uploads…
Former US Government Site Climate.gov Attempts Relaunch as Non-Profit Summary The U.S. government climate site climate.gov — long a public resource for climate science — saw its production team dismissed…
400 ‘Tech Utopian’ Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State Summary Nearly 400 students and entrepreneurs have gathered in Forest City to attend Network School, an initiative from Balaji Srinivasan that blends…
