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In a post on X on May 18,
Elbridge Colby, the under secretary of defence for policy at the Pentagon,
announced that the United States would pause its participation in the Permanent Joint Board on Defense (PJBD)
to “reassess how this forum benefits shared North American defense.”
The under secretary pointed to Canada failing to make credible progress on its defence commitments as well as to Canadian rhetoric,
a jab at Prime Minister Mark Carney’s speech in Davo…

Canada and America Are Drifting Apart. The Pentagon Just Made It Official | The Walrus
A surprise defence decision reveals the depth of the political rupture

Any idea about why, sometimes, DNS over UDP might fail with a specific ISP?
So, I have been having random problems with the network at home and, you won't believe that, after hours researching it, turns out it was DNS. Surprise. The problem is that, apparently, my ISP, or my ISP's router, is dropping UDP packets, or failing.
PS: I have already tried checking in my router's configuration if there is anything like "UDP flood prevention". I cannot find anything…

Just pulled a now empty PDU and tidied up a few cables. Main IT rack is looking pretty good now.
Everything below the 1GbaseT switches (except the PoE injector) is pulling a combined total of just under 1 kW; the rest isn't metered yet.

Q&A with Bryan Jacobs, creator of TomWikiAssist, a NanoClaw Clawbot built to edit and write for Wikipedia, on the mostly negative reactions of human editors (Bill Adair/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026…

“I was surprised how upset some people got”: A conversation with the creator of TomWikiAssist, the bot that edited Wikipedia
"It's almost like people were really quite disoriented and terrified by it. And to some extent I get it and I'm trying to empathize with how they're feeling."

Microsoft has released emergency software updates to fix issues that disrupted some Windows Server systems following its latest monthly security patches.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2…

Microsoft issues emergency fixes after Windows Server failures
Microsoft has released emergency software updates to fix issues that disrupted some Windows Server systems following its latest monthly security patches.

surprise! i'm on @… from now 'til 6pm ET, filling in for scott williams & feeding new music to live human brains! joiiiiiiin us. https://wfmu.org/playlists/JJ/260504

Servers operated by Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical have been down for more than a day, following a "sustained, cross-border attack" (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/ubuntu-infrastructure-ha…

Ubuntu infrastructure has been down for more than a day
The outage has hampered communication concerning a critical vulnerability that gives root.

Trying to geocode some of my old holiday pictures with #immich
Pages and pages of log messages like this:
"LOG [Microservices:MapRepository] Empty response from database for city reverse geocoding lat: 64.978553, lon: -21.063319. Likely cause: no nearby large populated place (500 within 25km). Falling back to country boundaries."
Clearly, the queue has reached my picture…

I've got the growing feeling that DevOps/SRE Microservices was a surefire way to slow down any business almost to a halt.
If you followed that route you likely have many small teams that need to coordinate with each other for every change you make. Nobody can make decisions or talk authoritative on overall things anymore because everything has been decomposed and shifted left to the poor developer doing everything now.

Sources: OpenAI appoints new leaders to oversee Stargate after deciding to rent more AI servers from cloud providers, and splits its computing effort in three (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op

OpenAI Names New Infrastructure Leaders Following Stargate Strategy Shift
OpenAI has appointed new leaders to oversee its Stargate computing initiative after deciding to rent more AI servers from major cloud providers rather than build its own data centers, according to two people familiar with the changes. As part of its reorganization, OpenAI has divided its ...