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Cake day: April 29th, 2025

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  • Amazon invested heavily in cloud services (AWS). They make much more profit from that than they do their utter destruction of the consume goods sector. So they don’t need to rely upon content distribution networks like the rest of the modern internet does with the notable exception of Google (whatever their garbage product is - I refuse to use google products to the point I dont even educate myself on them) and Microsoft (azure). The rest of the internet uses Cloudflare and NextCloud and a few other big named “Content Distribution Networks” or CDNs. Those are great because it lets a few big service providers set up all of the hard to maintain internet infrastructure that then is used to dynamically host webpages for much, much quicker global access and it provides a very large layer of security on top all at once.

    But it does mean if they have an outage, it can affect a large swath of the internet. And it also means if your DNS is malfunctioning (which is probably the case here) then you also can’t access a ton of resources on the internet.

    Clear your dns cache. Reboot your machine if necessary. If you have access, reboot your router.


  • Holy crap

    “Surveillance shows a male exiting a black BMW carrying an M4 rifle in his right hand. The building security camera footage shows the shooter entering the lobby, turning right, and immediately opening fire at an NYPD officer. He then shoots a woman who took cover behind a pillar. He makes his way to the elevator bank, where he shoots a security guard who was taking cover behind the security desk. One additional male was shot in the lobby, per his own statement.
    “The shooter then calls the elevator that opens in the lobby. A female exits the elevator, and he allows her to pass him unharmed. He goes up to the 33rd floor and begins to walk the floor, firing rounds as he travels. One person was struck and killed on that floor. He proceeds down the hallway and shoots himself in the chest,” she said.

    So it sounds like she was the woman hiding behind a pillar, not whoever was targetted on the 33rd floor.

    edit: and another article mentions he blamed the NFL for a brain injury. It looks like he was targetting the NFL’s headquarters but went to the wrong floor.