A week of downtime and all the servers were recovered only because the customer had a proper disaster recovery protocol and held backups somewhere else, otherwise Google deleted the backups too...
They said the outage was caused by a misconfiguration that resulted in UniSuper’s cloud account being deleted, something that had never happened to Google Cloud before.
Bullshit. I’ve heard of people having their Google accounts randomly banned or even deleted before. Remember when the Terraria devs cancelled the Stadia port of Terraria because Google randomly banned their account and then took weeks to acknowledge it? The only reason why Google responded so quickly to this is because the super fund manages over $100b and could sue the absolute fuck out of Google.
Maybe when it comes to shows, but the Ancient Aliens doom wad is one of the best games I’ve ever played. Honestly deserves to be made into a standalone game.
Edit: fuck, I cannot stress enough how good that mod is. My jaw repeatedly hit the floor when I played it for the first time. Not because it uses some crazy modern GZDoom black magic, but because it’s just so. fucking. good.
MAP01 is the most memorable intro to a doom wad I’ve ever seen.
The visual theme of Culture Shock is such a tonal whiplash compared to the rest of the wad that I had to keep stopping to think about what I was playing.
The centerpiece of Illuminati Revealed infinitely spawns enemies and keeps you on your toes.
Wormhole Junction is just… chef’s kiss.
It’s all so fucking good.
And the teleporter effects. Oh my god the teleporter effects. I’ve never seen a game, ANY game, have the same kind of visual effect. Hell, the closest any game has come to having a similar visual theme is Uru: The Ages Beyond Myst, and that’s not even a first-person shooter.
I knew Ancient Aliens was considered a 10/10 by the doom community for a while, but I had avoided it because I thought it was gonna be kinda cheesy like Batman Doom or something. No. It’s fucking amazing.
The town reached out to Danielle SeeWalker in early January to offer the Lakota painter and muralist a studio and stipend, but backpedaled after residents complained about the politics of one of her paintings after it was posted to her Instagram....
I’m sad. People were saying you can see it in Texas (as far south as Houston!) if you have a phone with a really good night-mode camera, which I have. But it’s too cloudy.
:c
Edit: this was a picture taken by someone in Houston:
I want to leave the US but I honestly don’t know how. I have no idea if I have any skills that’d let me get hired by a non-us company, which is kinda what’s necessary to immigrate to another country, right?
I have a suspicion that Sony is going to try to reintroduce PSN in a month or two, which is why they won’t re-list the game. Either that or they’re spiteful as fuck.
Either way, I hope Arrowhead has an exit plan in the event that Sony tries to force their hands again, even if that means everyone walks out and starts a new studio.
How much you wanna bet they’ll just demolish them all out of spite? Bonus points if they build barely-maintained, high-rent apartments on the now-vacant lots.
A Belgian broadcaster interrupted its coverage of the Eurovision Song Contest semi-final on Thursday night to display a protest message condemning Israel’s war on Gaza. In an act organised by a trade union, the screen briefly went black ahead of the semi-final coverage on VRT, Belgium’s public-service broadcaster in Flemish....
A research team at Stanford is developing a new AI-assisted holographic imaging technology it claims is thinner, lighter, and higher quality than anything its researchers have seen....
A typing game like Mario Teaches Typing or Typing of the Dead except all the sentences are ad slogans or brand names.
Emergency phone lines have ads at the beginning of the call to help pay for emergency services (because the government won’t pay for them).
Revoke regulation that requires disclaimers on paid endorsements (in other words, you have no idea if someone is endorsing a product because they like it, or because they were paid to talk about it).
Digital piracy is now a felony on par with drug felonies.
Ad blocking is now digital piracy.
Copyright is now indefinite, applied retroactively. An agency is formed to pursue copyright infringement on behalf of deceased rights holders and defunct companies.
Criticism is no longer considered free speech if it leads to direct or indirect economic damage (“your rights end where mine begin!”)
Referencing or speaking about a copy-protected work in-depth constitutes copyright infringement. However, enforcement is up to the rights holder except in the case of deceased individuals or defunct companies.
The last three may seem tangential, but together it means companies can take action against you for talking negatively about their advertisements and products, regardless of how old they are. Now companies like Disney can use copyright to permanently erase things like The Song of the South or Walt Disney’s Nazi boner.
Advertising is allowed on voter ballots (the voting process can be expensive after all).
Politicians must publicly endorse companies which endorse them (it’s only fair). Failing to do so is considered a form of ad blocking.
Public schools may include advertisements in their curriculum to augment teacher salaries. There are no restrictions on how many advertisements are presented, how they are presented, or the extent of their presentation. Choosing not to present an advertisement that is part of the curriculum is considered a form of ad blocking. "You have to pay teachers somehow, and I’ll be damned if it comes out ofmypocket".
I could probably come up with more, but this is making me depressed.
When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...
I think it makes sense to have a general discussion thread to build this community and for you to be able to interact more with each other and talk about stuff....
Applying for jobs in L.A. (lemmy.world)
Google Cloud accidentally deletes a financial institution account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ (www.theguardian.com)
A week of downtime and all the servers were recovered only because the customer had a proper disaster recovery protocol and held backups somewhere else, otherwise Google deleted the backups too...
let me have my sloppp 😭 (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Don't google 'solar flare' (lemmy.world)
Vail cancels residency program for Native American artist over painting referencing Gaza (coloradosun.com)
The town reached out to Danielle SeeWalker in early January to offer the Lakota painter and muralist a studio and stipend, but backpedaled after residents complained about the politics of one of her paintings after it was posted to her Instagram....
Aurora, Killbuck Ohio
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Donald Trump says he'll revoke Joe Biden's protections for trans people 'on day one' (www.advocate.com)
If you're cold, they're cold. Let him in. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
T H E S O U R C E
3 more countries (Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia) added into the delisted region. [Update] (steamdb.info)
CEO have no idea what's going on....
Wall Street has spent billions buying homes. A crackdown is looming. (www.wsj.com)
Lawmakers say investors that scooped up hundreds of thousands of houses to rent out are driving up home prices...
Belgium broadcaster interrupts Eurovision semi final to condemn Israel's war on Gaza (www.middleeasteye.net)
A Belgian broadcaster interrupted its coverage of the Eurovision Song Contest semi-final on Thursday night to display a protest message condemning Israel’s war on Gaza. In an act organised by a trade union, the screen briefly went black ahead of the semi-final coverage on VRT, Belgium’s public-service broadcaster in Flemish....
The McLaren is Inviting you in~ (i.imgur.com)
Milton Diamond, Sexologist and Advocate for Intersex Babies, Dies at 90 [CW: Descriptions of medical abuse] (www.nytimes.com)
Archived version without paywall
Based on recent events (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
~500 comments about our instance and admins in the past week. Talk about needing to touch some grass…
Did Stanford just prototype the future of AR glasses? (www.theverge.com)
A research team at Stanford is developing a new AI-assisted holographic imaging technology it claims is thinner, lighter, and higher quality than anything its researchers have seen....
What happened with the sphinx though? (aussie.zone)
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I used resume spammers to apply for 120 jobs. Chaos ensued. (www.businessinsider.com)
After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year (www.billboard.com)
When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...
MFW it's dark outside and I'm hungry and kinda cold and lonely and I just wanna come in for snacks and blankets but the human doesn't let me in. (rule) (pawb.social)
Sauce...
General Eurovision discussion thread
I think it makes sense to have a general discussion thread to build this community and for you to be able to interact more with each other and talk about stuff....