That is also the title I see clicking through into the page, although it seems to be 24 characters over the limit, so that _some_ change to OP would have have been required to submit it.

Not just these three. OP mentions also Cloudflare, and additionally Downdetector also has AWS, Azure, and Google (both search and Gemini) listed as having spikes about the same time: https://downdetector.com/

The problem with the down detector main reporting page is that all of the graphs are scaled to the same size. The OpenAI spike was nearly 40,000 and the Google spike was just over 100 (just over 400 for Gemini). They look the same in the reporting page.

A sidenote, but that is not a typical Amish opinion of technology:

"Amish do not view technology as evil, and individuals may petition for acceptance of a particular technology in the local community" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish_way_of_life#Use_of_moder...

See also https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-the-amish-let-technol... about some Amish use of cell phones with adapters to be more payphone/landline-like and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21349989 was a discussion about the use of pneumatic machinery by the Amish.

I know that and I am sorry if I offended anyone (would be wild to meet a real Amish here!), but that was the only example I could find that met approximately the behavior of the OP. I thought about ludites as well but that was worse still.

Joel Spolsky wrote that about "large scale commercial applications", which Monica definitely is not.

Why is a large non-commercial app somehow immune from the concepts Joel speaks of?

Surprised there's not a specific mention of learning by doing, which means probability of success is not static, when this is _just_ under the surface of the content of this post. They did kind of hint at this with the "Each attempt... a little better than the last."

While I know "if they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic", I feel this is especially unusual due to the gap between the level of coverage (mostly regional at this point, like WGN) and the impact. Currently, poweroutage.us is showing 234459 customers out in Indiana, with elevated outages in Illinois and Ohio as well.

How is "Fix the WAL-reset database corruption bug" downplaying this? https://www.sqlite.org/changes.html

> The bug is a data race with tight timing constraints. It is unlikely to occur in common use. The developers have never been able to reproduce the bug organically and had to add special testing logic to SQLite that deliberately triggers the circumstances of the the bug in order to verify that the issue has been fixed.

I read that and it feels like some theoretical thing versus causing impactful outages for workloads shaped like tailscale’s.

Very cool. If I can point out an alternative use and audience for this: there are quite a few game marketing data websites for sussing out which games are similar to each other and how they've performed within their genre. This is, AFAIK, a unique approach to the first part.

Thank you! I'll check out if there are more forms of data I can get through Marketing websites

Release notes are at https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#3.5.0

Steam Achievements are trivially to cheat at for most games, especially single-player like Ecco, for example via SAM.