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The outage list at the top is up to date, but the main status page is nearly three months old - the last updated date at the end is April 20, 2026.

Yes, there are multiple competing providers - all the electricity comes from a single grid but competition in how you are billed for usage.

Many people choose a single fixed or variable rate tariff, but there are also off-peak tariffs that are very cheap at night but slightly more expensive in the day (designed for EV users), or even tariffs where the rate changes every 30 minutes depending on what is being generated - in this case when there is excess solar and wind generation then sometimes the rate even goes negative and you are paid to use the excess power.

Big Clive is currently livestreaming to celebrate the 555's birthday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzNjFJdaw_I

In larger UK venues this has been happening for some years now, there is a campaign against it: https://thefac.org/venuedirectory

This has been followed up by similar action in the US as well: https://weareumaw.org/my-merch

It sounds like a combination of the Download Monitor plugin plus a misconfiguration at the web server level resulted in the file being publicly accessible at that URL when the developers thought it would remain private until deliberately published.

This comment reminded me to check whether https://www.distributed.net/ was still in existence. I hadn't thought about the site for probably two decades, I ran the client for this back in the late 1990s back when they were cracking RC5-64, but they still appear to be going as a platform that could be used for this kind of thing.

I also wonder how many of the numerous AI proponents in HN comments are subject to the same effect. Unless they are truly measuring their own performance, is AI really making them more productive?

Similarly, Mistabishi's Printer Jam from 2009 sounds much like you might expect from the title.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALNV4ZW33fA

It seems this is because the string "autoregressive prior" should appear on the right hand side as well, but in the second image it's hidden from view, and this has confused it to place it on the left hand side instead?

It also misses the arrow between "[diffusion]" and "pixels" in the first image.

This smells like an advert. Over the last year I've spent less money on energy by being on Octopus Tracker (which requires a smart meter) over any fixed tariff.

Tabs now show a preview on hover since Firefox 129, which is a nice improvement, but it's not actually mentioned on that page.

If this is true does this mean we don't need fingerprint scanning hardware any more, but we can just use a microphone and software to unlock a device when the user runs their finger over any convenient surface?

I used this many, many years ago but switched to Borg[0] about five years ago. Duplicity required full backups with incremental deltas, which meant my backups ended up taking too long and using too much disk space. Borg lets you prune older backups at will, because of chunk tracking and deduplication there is no such thing as an incremental backup.

[0] https://www.borgbackup.org/

This site has seemingly solved both of those problems. So isn't HN the modern StumbleUpon, albeit with more focus on technical topics?

I love it when kids shows do things like this. The BBC show Hey Duggee has an episode called The River Badge which is a homage to Apocalypse Now, recreating a number of similar scenes and pieces of dialogue. Other episodes have references to other movies that kids won't know but that are great fun for adults when they notice.

I wonder why they can't reject the flight plan for an aircraft that's already in the air?

You need to know everything that may be in the air - if you skip the details of a flight that may be in the air, you risk routing another flight through the same space and the possibility of collision? So if you can't do that safely, the only option is to shut down; existing flights can continue but no new flights can be routed until the anomaly is resolved.

Jesse Armstrong also co-wrote Four Lions and Peep Show, amongst others. It's amazing how a very small group of people can have such an influence on a vast amount of cultural output.

Armando Iannucci is the link here; he produced and wrote for The Day Today, all the Alan Partridge shows, and also Time Trumpet.

Yeah, I was getting 500s for about three minutes before they posted the status update. I guess it's good that they at least update the status page in a timely fashion, but the third day in a row of downtime is not exactly good service.

The failure mode seems different to yesterday - then I was seeing failed pushes, today push works but Actions fail with "GitHub Actions has encountered an internal error when running your job." - but it is still irritating having your workflow interrupted on what seems to be an increasingly frequent basis.

I agree. There is mouse lag during high CPU load in Wayland that I never had in X11, but if I switch back to the X11 desktop then mouseover/hover cursor changes are broken in Firefox. I can't find solutions to either of these issues, so I'm seemingly stuck with one or the other, unless I reinstall and downgrade to 20.04.

I hope there is a public postmortem that explains this. I have Cloud SQL instances with high availability enabled that have been down for over 5 hours with no workaround, when (according to docs) they should have failed over to the unaffected zones within minutes.

I have HA Cloud SQL instances in europe-west2-a that are stuck in failover state but haven't failed over.

I assume this is due to the heatwave - the UK has broken temperature records today, hitting over 40°C (104°F) in London for the first time.

Oracle Cloud is suffering similar outages due to cooling infrastructure issues: https://ocistatus.oraclecloud.com/

It appends another sleep each time you start a new shell, so it subtly slows down over time.

It's more likely an overnight batch job was accidentally re-run.

The bulb was accidentally off for nine hours in May 2013 due to a faulty UPS - originally installed to ensure the bulb would not go out in the case of a power failure - but fortunately it did not blow when power was restored.

If I remember correctly Econet was only clocked at 200kbps and sharing that between 30 machines in a classroom doesn't give much for each of them!

I got one, at 1:01pm. I explicitly enabled the two "test" options in Emergency alerts on my Android phone beforehand, however I don't know if that is why I saw it.

You can write custom VCL snippets directly in the Fastly control panel. Migrating all existing customer VCL to another language would be an enormous task.

They already have:

  $ host m.media-amazon.com
  m.media-amazon.com is an alias for c.media-amazon.com.
  c.media-amazon.com has address 99.86.119.84