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…
This was a nice ride. Some sections involved pushing the bike. And some steep parts came a bit surprising. But overall it was nice with some quite challenging sections. It was a loop that I wanted to try since quite a while.
And it's a new elevation record since I own the Garmin 🎉
Just my #garmin now suddenly refuses to connect to my phone. 😵💫 Factory reset, all suggestions fro…
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: Anthropic has initiated early-stage development of a custom AI server chip and held preliminary discussions with Samsung about manufacturing the chip (Qianer Liu/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-talks-samsu…
In news related to the "oh crap this disk seems to be failing" issue, my mini PC is now running Ubuntu 26.04. Had to do `do-release-upgrade -d` to get it, and I wouldn't run 26.04 on a production server just yet. But I figure toying with it on a very standard piece of kit would be fine.
Ticket, please!
#RIPMichaelByrne
I had a weird dream where I was talking to someone at some kind of ceremony, I think a funeral, where I had timidly painted my face with clay as part of some ritual. This person was talking about how far society has come while our brains have not caught up.
Imagine if your ancient cave dwelling ancestors were dropped into this world of cars, office hours, budgets, climate change, and AI. They would be absolutely freaking out and struggling to understand things all the time... Just like you are now.
Society teaches us to suppress these emotions. You're supposed to be OK with giant metal boxes flying around you in rumbling stampedes, but you feel it in unexplained anxiety. You're supposed to just fit your life into tight little bounds that ignore weather and season, but you feel it in more unexplained anxiety and depression. We are all part of something so big and complicated we can't make sense of it, we cannot possibly comprehend it all, it is simply too much to fully grasp the implications of our individual actions within global capitalism. Should we be surprised by our urge to simply destroy it, by the anger and desire to simply "smash" something far more complex than can be met with simple violence?
Some part of my brain was trying to remind me to be compassionate to myself. Perhaps that reminder can be useful to you as well.
Top 10 free agents for Raiders needs following NFL Draft https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/04/28/top-free-agents-available-unsigned-raiders-team-needs-follo…
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…