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Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
US-Gericht: Zugriff von DOGE-Agenten auf Behördendaten war illegal

US-Gericht: Zugriff von DOGE-Agenten auf Behördendaten war illegal
Ein New Yorker Gericht hat entschieden, dass die Weitergabe sensibler Mitarbeiterdaten an das Effizienzteam unter Elon Musk gegen US-Bundesgesetze verstieß.

Axel Springer's Telegraph begins layoffs, pledging to become an "AI-powered" global business; sources: up to 100 jobs will go, with culture and sports hit hard (Esther Addley/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/20…

Telegraph cuts 100 jobs as new owner promises to turn paper into ‘AI-powered’ global business
Redundancies come after paper was bought in June by European media group Axel Springer

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I’m thrilled to be teaching a class next week with the amazing Sarah Kokernot, fiction writer, essayist, dharma friend, and author of the monthly, Your Wild and Radiant Mind.
The class, More Than Seeing: Writing From Art, will meet online next week Thursday (August 27).
I’d love to see you there!
#Art #writing

@… Why?
If there's 1 new item, obviously there's 1 unread. Why are you wasting precious space with redundant information?
#mastodon #mastodonfeedback

Yesterday, @… "jumped" me into the #HamRadio CW enthusiasts, by giving me my first ever 2m CW QSO. Now I have a membe…

More capitalists freaking out about Trump would be extremely helpful right now — even if it’s for sad reasons.
If the oligarchs decide that Trump and fascism are a bad investment after all, I’m all for it. Doesn’t mean they’re redeemed and we’re friends now. Just means I’m all for it. I’d happily take that win.
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More capitalists freaking out about Trump would be extremely helpful right now — even if it’s for sad reasons.
If the oligarchs decide that Trump and fascism are a bad investment after all, I’m all for it. Doesn’t mean they’re redeemed and we’re friends now. Just means I’m all for it. I’d happily take that win.
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“Polite Society” is a delightful, mildly unhinged, martial arts/Bollywood mashup about sisterhood, marriage, and the perfect uterus.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/polite_society

At this point, I started to look deeper at performance. Compute instance startup was taking over 30 seconds, and each generation propagation was about 55-75 seconds
I worked this from a few angles:
- parallelize actions (health checks, integrity checks, propagation initiation, and terminating ancestors) [30% gain]
- rebuild and reduce the AMI below Ubuntu minimal to fit in 2GiB EBS volumes (reduced cost and increased speed by also bundling the glider daemon and boto3 SDK in the AMI) [30% gain]
- switched from AWS CLI to boto3 SDK [5-10% gain]
- switched from CloudFormation creation stacks to using EC2 API directly with LaunchTemplate [under 5% gain total, surprisingly, but the time to initial instance startup is faster so I might be able to do better somewhere here]
- WIP: further refactoring of the daemon propagation steps especially around initial health/integrity checks
I still think I'm missing something major that's extending propagation times, despite benchmarking phases through several trials
I also optimized for cost (reduced DDB calls, abandoned KMS, reduced log & audit retention to the latest run, etc), and it's about a penny for a 10 generation run (and it scales sublinearly, mostly, since the instances are terminated afterwards)