Tootfinder

Better check your cloud cost forecasts … 🫣
#AWS
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/17/amazon-web-services-cust…

NJ Governor says a software error at DMV led to the improper voter registration of ~6,600 noncitizens between June 2023 and June 2024; 400 of those cast ballots (Tracey Tully/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/nyregion/noncitizen-voting-new…

D.M.V. Error Led to 400 Noncitizens Voting in New Jersey, Governor Says
A software glitch in 2023 at the New Jersey Department of Motor Vehicles led to roughly 6,600 noncitizens being registered to vote, Gov. Mikie Sherrill announced on Tuesday.

Patrons of Amazon Web Services have been landed with panic-inducing monthly bills running as high as
$1.5 trillion for subscriptions that usually cost less than the price of a cup of coffee.
From Bangalore to Bolsover, the bills have been causing alarm
after a computer glitch resulted in the astronomical invoices being dispatched around the world by Jeff Bezos’s company,
which provides data and cloud services to millions of customers, from students and small charities…

Amazon Web Services customers receive bills for up to $1.5tn after global glitch
One UK man whose bill is usually less than £1 says he ‘almost had a heart attack’ when he saw £5.8bn invoice

N.J. removes noncitizens from voter rolls after finding software glitch (Avery Lotz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/21/new-jersey-glitch-registered-noncitizens-elections
http://www.memeorandum.com/260721/p80#a260721p80

Amazon apologizes after some AWS users received bills as high as $1.5T due to "an issue with unit pricing within the estimated billing computation subsystem" (Robert Booth/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Amazon Web Services customers receive bills for up to $1.5tn after global glitch
One UK man whose bill is usually less than £1 says he ‘almost had a heart attack’ when he saw £5.8bn invoice

"the same company responsible for the glitch also works in federal agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration."
Trump's election security boogeyman revealed to be embedded across admin - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-election-2677259847/

Was ist eigentlich der Unterschied zwischen einer „normalen“ Mastodon Version zur Glitch Edition?
#askfedi #mastodon #glitch

I cannot recommend these stickers enough
https://masto.hackers.town/@X00001/115888402678209209

Radio Free Society 🗼 🏳️‍🌈 (@X00001@masto.hackers.town)
Attached: 1 image Ohayo, first #PortfolioDay of the year~ I’m X00001 and I’m a glitch artist and sticker maker. Here’s my top four stickers by sales. You can purchase these and more on ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/essbee/shop

#MurderDrones #video

System's working if they discovered the problem...
New Jersey software glitch registered thousands of noncitizens to vote | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/new-jersey-voting-error-noncitizens-b3019081.html

I'm seeing an odd rendering (?) glitch on mastodon at the moment - *sometimes* when I mouse over someones @example link the text in that toot 'jumps' slightly and then goes back just for a few frames; I'm not sure if it's mastodon version, firefox, or the phase of the moon.
(Firefox 152.0/Fedora/x86)

Hi @…! I love Theine and the recent update was an instant purchase. One glitch though: For full screen apps the theine menu is not shown (perhaps "behind" the full screen app). Maybe it will be resolve in a reboot. I am running macOS 27 beta. Also a second click on the menu bar icon should close the menu again.

Working on adding glitch mode to my “convert potato photos from Kodak DC59 and 120 to modern formats” library.

The slack "there's been a glitch..." page always brings a tear to my eye.

So, von der Glitch Edition wieder zur "Normalen" Mastodon Version.
Ist nichts für mich, leider.
Danke @… @…

A new system to screen millions of mail-in ballots for this November’s US midterm elections was thrown together so hastily, and tested so little,
that a single scanning glitch could see entire batches of ballots turned away, a whistleblower has told Congress.
The project
– a key part of Donald Trump’s new restrictions on voting
– is “perilously rushed and potentially unlawful”,
according to the US senator Richard Blumenthal, who disclosed the warning in a letter…

New system for screening mail-in ballots risks denying entire batches, says whistleblower
US senator says that project, a key part of Trump’s voting restrictions, is ‘perilously rushed and potentially unlawful’

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Expansions
Jazzanova:
🎵 That Night (FKA MASH Re-Glitch)
#Jazzanova
https://jazzanova.bandcamp.com/track/that-night-feat-vikter-duplaix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6sM5YcdX5iLMaF1rOc0TQK

the ‘Boys are too in sync 🤖 | @AmericanAirlines #DallasCowboys #glitch #matrix #glitches

A Solar Superstorm Caused a GPS Glitch Bad Enough to Crash Self-Driving Cars
(presumably self-guided missles and drones too?)
https://gizmodo.com/a-solar-superstorm-caused-a-gps-glitch-bad-enough-to-crash-self-driving-cars-2000806428

Finally caught up with this two-year-old archive (🫣).
It'sage isn't relevant, as it talks about things that are unlikely to change: Your data is only yours if you also have it on physical media in your possession. (And stored there in open formats.)
Because services will come and go, promises will be forgotten, data loss will not cause more than a shy "sorry". Especially for free online services, but it also happens for paid services.

Impacts of Mid-Latitude Ionospheric Dynamics on RF Applications During the November 2025 #Superstorm Event: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2026GL124645 -> A Solar Superstorm Caused a GPS Glitch Bad Enough to Crash Self-Driving Cars: https://gizmodo.com/a-solar-superstorm-caused-a-gps-glitch-bad-enough-to-crash-self-driving-cars-2000806428 - the massive eruption threw GPS readings off by more than 10 meters.

Ich habe die Instanz jetzt auf die Glitch Edition umstellen lassen und Libre Translate ist jetzt auch einegbunden.
Morgen schaue ich mir mal die hinzugekommen Optionen näher an.
Vielen Dank an @… @… für schn…

a bucolic glitch

Some weird glitch in the Matrix happened that I was reaching for vanilla ice cream and I ended up with wildberry ice cream.
But that’s okay, I needed them for iced coffee.