Mirror, Mirror 2024: A Portrait of the Failing U.S. Health System
David Blumenthal, Evan D. Gumas, Arnav Shah, Munira Z. Gunja, and Reginald D. Williams II,    -  The Commonwealth Fund

_Stephan: As we prepare to be a nation whose healthcare, already the worst amongst the developed democracies, is about to be taken over by incompetent weirdos, I thought it might be useful to readers to see how really bad the American illness profit system already is. By March I … ⌘ Read more

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U.S. gets poor grade for maternal, infant health care outcomes
Marina E. Franco,    -  Axios | March of Dimes

Stephan: Yet another miserable report about the inferiority of America’s illness profit system. While the two parties in Congress whine and rant about each other no one other than Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren seems to give a damn about the grim healthcare social outcome data that failed, yet so expensive, system produces year after year.

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GOP Takes First Steps To Shut Down Climate Groups
,    -  The Lever

_Stephan: I have already covered the first failure of The Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, which failed but still earned, to the astonishment of many including myself, 15 Democratic votes. But it will be back. This is about taking away the nonprofit status of organizations Trump and the MAGAts in Congress do not like. It was because I saw this coming that I did not make SR a … ⌘ Read more

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(#fmnhewq) @bender@bender Yeah tell me about it 🤣 I don’t even know why the networking fails at random times to be honest. The CI runner r …
@bender Yeah tell me about it 🤣 I don’t even know why the networking fails at random times to be honest. The CI runner runs in Vultr on a VM connected to the Mills DC via Wireguard VPN. I have no fucking clue why things just fail intermittently at the network level 🤦‍♂️ ⌘ Read more

(#fmnhewq) @bender@bender Fuck 😅 CI job failed to publish the new OCI image:
@bender Fuck 😅 CI job failed to publish the new OCI image: https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/yarn/actions/runs/525 ⌘ Read more

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@bender@twtxt.net I try to avoid editing. I guess I would write 5/4, 6/4, etc, and hopefully my audience would be sympathetic to my failing.

Anyway, I don’t think my eccentric decision to number my twts in the style of other social media platforms is the only context where someone might write ¼ not meaning a quarter. E.g. January 4, to Americans.

I’m happy to keep overthinking this for as long as you are :-P

Fix the “Failed to Personalize Software Update” Error in MacOS
Though not common, some Mac users are encountering a strange error message that says “Failed to personalize the software update. Please try again.” when attempting to update their Mac to MacOS Sequoia, and sometimes even with other MacOS software updates too. This is a frustrating error since it prevents the installation of a major system … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2024/10/30/fix-the-failed- … ⌘ Read more

AI-powered observability: picking up where AIOps failed
Member post originally posted on the Logz.io blog by Asaf Yigal GenAI promises evolutionary changes in how we use observability tools, but meeting expectations means heeding the lessons of our AIOps mistakes. The emergence of generative… ⌘ Read more

Apple Banned From Selling iPhone 16 Models in Indonesia
Apple has been blocked from selling iPhone 16 models in Indonesia after it failed to meet the country’s domestic investment requirements (via Bloomberg).

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RINO platform to close down on October 31 2024: ‘we have to cut our losses’
The RINO1 team has announced2 plans to shut down their enterprise-grade Monero multisig browser wallet3 project on October 31st 2024, due to failed attempts to monetize the product, after 2+ years of operation4:

[..] our attempts to monetize the product never bore fruit to a point where the product could sustain itself, and at some point we have to cut our losses. As a consequence, … ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Why do systems fail? Tandem NonStop system and fault tolerance
If you’re an Elixir, Gleam, or Erlang developer, you’ve probably heard about the capabilities of the BEAM virtual machine, such as concurrency, distribution, and fault tolerance. Fault tolerance was one of the biggest concerns of Tandem Computers. They created their Tandem Non-Stop architecture for high availability in their systems, which included ATMs and mainframes.

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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org on this:

3.2 Timestamps: I feel no need to mandate UTC. Timezones are fine with me. But I could also live with this new restriction. I fail to see, though, how this change would make things any easier compared to the original format.

Exactly! If anything it will make things more complicated, no?

Good writeup, @anth@a.9srv.net! I agree to most of your points.

3.2 Timestamps: I feel no need to mandate UTC. Timezones are fine with me. But I could also live with this new restriction. I fail to see, though, how this change would make things any easier compared to the original format.

3.4 Multi-Line Twts: What exactly do you think are bad things with multi-lines?

4.1 Hash Generation: I do like the idea with with a new uuid metadata field! Any thoughts on two feeds selecting the same UUID for whatever reason? Well, the same could happen today with url.

5.1 Reply to last & 5.2 More work to backtrack: I do not understand anything you’re saying. Can you rephrase that?

8.1 Metadata should be collected up front: I generally agree, but if the uuid metadata field were a feed URL and no real UUID, there should be probably an exception to change the feed URL mid-file after relocation.

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EU Consumer Group Summarizes How Apple Fails to Comply With DMA
There are a number of ways that Apple, Google, Amazon, Meta, ByteDance, and Microsoft are failing to comply with the Digital Markets Act, according to an analysis published by the European Consumer Organization (BEUC). The BEUC advocates for consumer rights and provides guidance to European lawmakers.

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Sam Whited: Luddism in Becky Chambers’ Monk & Robot Series

Without use of constructs, you will unravel few mysteries.

Without knowledge of mysteries, your constructs will fail.

Find the strength to pursue both, for these are our prayers.

And to that end, welcome comfort, for without it, you cannot stay strong.

Becky Chambers has always been known for her political science fiction.
Whether it’s criticisms of the overly-bureaucratic and often classist, but
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@bender@twtxt.net 404 could be indeed a temporary error if the file resides on a mounted remote filesystem and then the mount point fails for some reason. With a symlink from the web root to the file on the mount, the web server probably will not recognize the mount point failure as such. Thus, it might not reply with a 503 Service Unavailable (or something like that), but 404 Not Found instead. (I could be wrong on that, though.)

The right™ way is to signal 410 Gone if the feed does not exist anymore and will not come back to life again. But that’s hard to come by in the wild. Somebody has to manually configure that in almost all situations.

But yes, as @falsifian@www.falsifian.org points out, exponential backoff looks like a good strategy. Probably even report a failure to users somehow, so they can check and potentially unsubscribe.

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X Training Grok AI On Tweets Without Notifying Users
Social network X (formerly Twitter) recently activated a setting that gives it permission to train Grok AI on user tweets. All X users are opted in by default, with X failing to notify customers about the change.

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The hidden setting gives X permission to use all posts, interactions, inputs, and results for “training and fine-turning” Elon Musk’s Grok AI model.

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@prologic@twtxt.net hm, I installed latest go (vps did not have that intalled), I then did make deps, then make server, when I use the last command it said minify was not installed, I assumed minify package was the one to get, but it fails with that. (debian).

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Massive outage shows the vulnerability of the global tech ecosystem
The CrowdStrike episode is chilling because it highlights how a single, flawed update from a trusted source can cause large parts of the global system to fail. ⌘ Read more

scientific nomenclature never fails to stun lock us 🙃 who’s on team MACHO and who’s on team WIMPS? ⌘ Read more

The “Matrix Experiment”, i.e. running a Matrix server for our family, has failed completely and miserably. People don’t accept it. They attribute unrelated things to it, like “I can’t send messages to you, I don’t reach you! It doesn’t work!” Yes, you do, I get those messages, I just don’t reply quickly enough because I’m at work or simply doing something else.

I’ll probably shut it down.

Nobody cares about privacy. The reasons I bring up in discussions are “too nerdy”. They put all their stuff to Google or Apple, so why would messaging be any different? (We’re not even using all those Matrix crypto stuff … That would be insane.)

It’s a lost cause. I’m frustrated.

Will I give in and use WhatsApp instead? Not sure yet.

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I have a question for the IndieWeb community: What can we do against Webmention spam, except filter it out, when it fails validation? I receive hundreds of invalid Webmentions a day, and even using a filtering DNS server doesn’t seem to help much. But I also don’t want to waste network traffic to access all those spam sites. Is there any good block list I can check first before doing the request for validation? I thought about Akismet, but the API has no such option to only check the submitted URL. ⌘ Read more

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@prologic@twtxt.net Correct… epic fail 🤣 Been a long day and I just wasn’t thinking, nor backing up properly. Oops indeed. My usual errors still exist though.

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I Failed to Make Tomatoes Explosive… ⌘ Read more

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Today’s project: Put 2 failing hard drives in RAID 0 and boot from it. What could go wrong?

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@mckinley@twtxt.net I have a custom .tmux.conf that makes it very easy to use the multiplexer, but I agree, Zellij seems pretty robust, and intuitive. I like it! Tried compiling it, as with everything Rust, it failed miserably. Good thing there is a binary release I could download to try!

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MS-DOS 4.0 Source Code Fails to Compile
Plus: Source comments, by Microsoft, calling the creator of DOS “brain-damaged” get censored. ⌘ Read more

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@bender@twtxt.net ha! He goes his “poem”:

A string of letters, a forgotten name,
An email crafted, a message to claim.
We hit send with a click, a hopeful sigh,
But a bounce-back arrives, a tear in our eye.

“Delivery failed,” the message reads cold,
The address it seems, is a story untold.
A ghost in the system, a memory’s trace,
Lost in the void of cyberspace.

:-D

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Thousands of academic workers at York University strike for better wages
Around three thousand academic workers at York University walked off the job on Monday after their union and the school failed to reach a deal on a new collective agreement. Union members are calling for wages that they say reflect the current cost of living. ⌘ Read more

Nassau County called to do more with opioid settlement
The families of drug overdose victims on Long Island are accusing the Nassau County government of failing to distribute more than $92M that they received as part of opioid settlements. ⌘ Read more

Battle over border bills continues in Congress
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are planning to visit the U.S. border on the same day, separated by just 300 miles as a bipartisan group in the House is working to provide an alternative to the Senate’s failed national security bill. ⌘ Read more

Here comes the boom: Townsville property market set to heat
The Townsville property market is tipped to see a price boom in coming years as a growing population competes for dwindling supply while new builds fail to keep up with demand. ⌘ Read more

GOP laments 2021 ‘failed coup’, vows to ‘continue pushing to end democracy’, with Trump at forefront
Former President Donald Trump cast November’s presidential election as “judgment day” and declared himself a “proud political dissident” during a speech before conservative activists outside of Washington Saturday as he again cloaked his campaign in religious imagery. Speaking at the Conservative Political … ⌘ Read more