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Let's Encrypt prepared to issue 200 million certificates in 24 hours.
https://letsencrypt.org/2021/02/10/200m-certs-24hrs.html
saved 2021-02-10

Preparing to Issue 200 Million Certificates in 24 Hours
On a normal day Let’s Encrypt issues nearly two million certificates. When we think about what essential infrastructure for the Internet needs to be prepared for though, we’re not thinking about normal days. We want to be prepared to respond as best we can to the most difficult situations that might arise. In some of the worst scenarios, we might want to re-issue all of our certificates in a 24 hour period in order to avoid widespread disruptions. That means being prepared to issue 200 mill…

Tracxn: global edtech funding fell from $16.7B in 2021 to $2.6B in 2025, while the number of startups launched dropped from 10,491 in 2021 to just 645 in 2025 (Ananya Bhattacharya/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/edtech-funding-collapse-k12-startups…

The global edtech boom is fading as investors look elsewhere
Venture capital is moving away from K-12 edtech worldwide as investors prioritize AI tools and workforce training with clearer returns.

The Department of Justice is acknowledging it has removed from its website news releases about criminal cases related to the 6 January 2021 Capitol attack, -- calling the information about the prosecutions “partisan propaganda”.
The purge of news releases documenting criminal charges, convictions and sentencings is the latest step by the Trump administration to dramatically 💥rewrite the history of the assault on the US Capitol,
when hundreds of supporters of Donald Trump stormed t…

If y'all into sim games and you like cars well then I got some good news for ya. Car Mechanic Simulator 2018 is currently free on Steam for its 8th anniversary. Don't wait tho, this offer ends on the 27th. I happen to have Car Mech Sim 2021 and can absolutely rec that one (excellent podcast game btw). Never played the predecessor but it looks to be fundamentally the same. (also there's a new one coming this year woo)

the non-news of the solstice is that, surprising no-one, there will not be a leap second at the new year
the difference between UT1 and UTC remains very close to zero and the earth is rotating at very close to 24h per day
BUT LOOK
since i previously posted these charts in march, the length-of-day line (green) has popped upwards
https…