Reddit used to be free for anyone to view without logging in, but now I get "Your request has been blocked due to a network policy." Sorry, but I'm not turning my ad blocker off.
Would it be possible to write an addon to use Perl's Finance::Quote [1] like GnuCash does? It supports scraping many financial websites, as well as paid AlphaVantage quotes.
Same. Brave on Linux, no VPN. I didn't at face value care too much, as I find the site cancerous, but it did make me realize how many times I click links into it.
https://lemmy.world isn't as big and it doesn't have active subgroups for as many things as Reddit, but for a bit of casual doom scrolling it's fully replaced Reddit for me.
They’ve gotten pretty strict if they think your IP is a scraper (i.e. coming from AWS or another cloud provider even inside a full browser environment).
I think it's time for AWS to pull the curtain back a bit and release a JSON document that shows a list of all internal service dependencies for each AWS service.
I don’t use AWS or any other cloud provider. I use bare metal since 2012. See, in 2012 (IIRC), one fateful day, we turned off our bare metal machines and went full AWS. That afternoon, AWS had its first major outage. Prior to that day, the owner could walk in and ask what we were doing about it. That day, all we could do was twiddle our thumbs or turn on a now outdated database replica. Surely AWS won’t be out for hours, right? Right? With bare metal, you might be out for hours, but you can quickly get back to a degraded state, no matter what happens. With AWS, you’re stuck with whatever they happen to fix first.
Meanwhile I've had bare metal be a complete outage for over a day because a backhoe decided it wanted to eat the fiber line into our building. All I could do was twiddle my thumbs because we were stuck waiting on another company to fix that.
Could we have had an offsite location to fail over to? From a technical perspective, sure. Same as you could go multi-region or multi-cloud or turn on some servers at hetzner or whatever. There's nothing better or worse about the cloud here - you always have the ability to design with resilience for whatever happens short of the internet on the whole breaking somehow.
+1, SREs can spend months during their onboarding basically reading design docs and getting to know about services in their vicinity.
Short of publicly releasing all internal documentation, there's not much that can make the AWS infrastructure reasonably clear to an outsider. Reading and understanding all of this also would be rather futile without actual access to source code and observability.
If you have a special project need, you might be able to get one-way IRIG time signal on fiber with guard boxes at both ends. There's really no technical reason why you couldn't do analog GPS baseband over fiber, but you do need approved equipment at both ends for policy reasons. (certified for no backflow)
However, it seems that extra SIBs aren't necessarily broadcast but may be available on demand... and it wasn't clear to me whether making a on-demand SIB request can be done without SIM card.
