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After nuclear weapons testing began in 1945, atmospheric radiation contaminated new steel production worldwide.
For decades, scientists needing radiation-free metal for sensitive instruments had to salvage steel from pre-war shipwrecks.
Scientists called this steel
"low-background steel."
Graham-Cumming sees a parallel with today's web, where AI-generated content increasingly mingles with human-created material and contaminates it.
With the advent o…

Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel; now we’re hoarding pre-AI content
Newly announced catalog collects pre-2022 sources untouched by ChatGPT and AI contamination.

https://futurism.com/elon-musk-cuts-funding-for-internet-archive

Updating my CloudNativePG Clusters to postgresql:17.5 broke wal archiving to my Ceph S3 Object Store. Here's a new blog post describing the fix:
https://www.beyondwatts.com/posts/debugging-barman-xamzcontents…

beyondwatts | Debugging Barman XAmzContentSHA256Mismatch error after upgrading to postgresql:17.5
In an effort to keep my home cluster up to date, I upgraded CloudNativePG to v1.26 and the associated database clusters to cloudnative-pg/postgresql:17.5. All seemed ok with the upgrade until a couple of days later when the cluster primary instance PVCs started to run out of space. wal archiving had stopped working with the error message: