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It's almost a running joke at my company that around 15:00 UTC we're going to get the weekly Github actions outage.

I'm assuming it's something to do with the USA users getting their first work in?

Personally the experience getting tickets at the moment is horrible.

Endless queues, scalpers grabbing tickets within a second. Having to wait days/weeks periodically checking to see if a ticket is available.

The only platform I’m aware of that does guarantee a ticket can be purchased if available is Dice once you join a wait list. You get given a reasonable time to purchase it in too.

So I can see why people would prefer to defer this to an agent and not care about the implementation, I personally would. In the past I’ve been able to script notifications for it for myself and can see more people benefiting from it.

As long as your workload can handle resuming again and your instances aren't heavily in-demand (looking at the eviction rates), the cost saving for us is substantial enough to take the occasional interruption.

I do wish Azure gave more than the 30 second eviction warning (like AWS) but still useable.

The pricing may need to have a revisit! Enterprises would probably be the most keen and also find better alternatives for the cost.

I know some of the LG domains should probably begin with a wildcard, as I’ve seen gb.lg etc that’s not in the list.

When I bought my first smart TV (mainly due to lack of dumb screens), immediately grabbed a Pi-Hole and started blocking everything I could find.

Also, one of the only occurrences where I’m skeptical even updating the tv software.

So you know it will consistently fail in some cases and yet still use it?

Would like to do the same myself.. sadly my domain regsitrar is Google, not too sure if I'll need to register another name (a .dev tld) or if there's an easy route of changing registrars.

This isn’t the free service though? It’s for the Google Maps API which does have a cost?

I remember trying to find some sort of point of interest API and having to quickly rule out Google after reading their terms. Stuff like “no caching” is somewhat painful.

Other platforms allow caching from a few weeks to a few months, they don’t have the reach of Google but at least have fairer terms (I’m not trying to build a competing Maps product here!).

This is relatively normal standard operating procedure for this Government.

Throw out loads of policies at the exact moment something bad for the cabinet is starting to gain traction.

Whenever I need to make an argument against IoT, I just point to Shodan and the vast amount of broken/open but still connected devices.

Really doesn't take long to find some industrial automation there.

I’m surprised by how much of the “internet” seem to be affected by a single AZ going down.

Speaking for London, although many feel safe in the city. Most people (including me) aren’t stupid enough to get involved in a violent altercation if you happen to stumble across one.

It’d be foolish to get between 2 gangs fighting.

Alternatively if someone just collapsed on the street during rush hour, many will come over to help.

Something I can finally contribute to on HN!

There’s probably a few causes for how we abuse alcohol in the UK.

1. Most pubs close relatively early (11pm-1am), so after work you don’t have too much time to spend before you have to decide between a club or home.

2. Anecdotally, although most people know their limits. I see people in my circles tend to drink at the rate of the fastest drinker and “catchup”, especially if doing rounds.

3. We do have a bit of a binge drinking culture. Our culture (in my opinion) tends to encourage getting drunk (as long as you don’t cause harm to others).