#catastrophicfailure — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #catastrophicfailure, aggregated by home.social.
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@aj @mike805 @zbrown @worik @timbray
#SoftwareCosts don't end at deployment.
2001: An engineer adopts a French #OpenSource bulk mailer, running on mostly unsecured SMTP. Over the years it's extended ad hoc — eventually managing security group permissions. The company grows; the #software (now at 100× planned #capacity) falls over daily.
2009: After the original engineer leaves, a contractor-turned-hire inherits it. Memory leaks fixed, algorithms rewritten that had pre-cached the universe for "efficiency." Redundancy established and tested. Deployment documented. The upstream package has been rearchitected twice since 2001, and after being pulled off the project twice to restart, the replacement engineer maps all integrations to the new architecture with a proper API — replacing direct database queries. The max supported mailing groups turns out to be tied to filesystem limits: 32k+ groups (now at 300× original capacity thanks to fixing the memory leaks and hourly restarts) each with a directory, capped by hardlink counts on the inode. A campaign encourages responsible use and better security. Archiving aligns with retention policy. And nearly daily, a manager insists someone didn't get their email, so the engineer traces it by SMTP ID.
Then the company moves to Gmail, which won't tolerate internal mailers forging external domains. Data and management migrate to Google Groups with a new front-end preserving the old permission controls. Legacy API users are tracked and urged to migrate before "the end." And the heart of corporate communication for 15+ years is decommissioned.
Every stage has real costs:
• #Maintenance
• #Upgrade
• #CatastrophicFailure
• #DailyOperations
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How Canada’s farmers are producing record crops despite droughts and floods
By Ed White WAWANESA, Manitoba, Dec 15 (Reuters) – When farmer Simon Ellis first drove his combine int…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #adaptationstrategies #bumpercrop #Canada #Canadiangovernment #catastrophicfailure #changingclimate #cropyields #manitoba #Science #ScottMowbray #SimonEllis #springwheat #tiledrainage #Wawanesa #WesternCanada
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How Canada’s farmers are producing record crops despite droughts and floods
By Ed White WAWANESA, Manitoba, Dec 15 (Reuters) – When farmer Simon Ellis first drove his combine int…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #adaptationstrategies #bumpercrop #Canada #Canadiangovernment #catastrophicfailure #changingclimate #cropyields #manitoba #Science #ScottMowbray #SimonEllis #springwheat #tiledrainage #Wawanesa #WesternCanada
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How Canada’s farmers are producing record crops despite droughts and floods
By Ed White WAWANESA, Manitoba, Dec 15 (Reuters) – When farmer Simon Ellis first drove his combine into…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #adaptationstrategies #bumpercrop #CA #Canada #Canadiangovernment #catastrophicfailure #changingclimate #cropyields #manitoba #Science #ScottMowbray #SimonEllis #springwheat #tiledrainage #Wawanesa #westerncanada
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/234313/ How Canada’s farmers are producing record crops despite droughts and floods #AdaptationStrategies #BumperCrop #Canada #CanadianGovernment #CatastrophicFailure #ChangingClimate #CropYields #Éire #Environment #IE #Ireland #manitoba #Science #ScottMowbray #SimonEllis #SpringWheat #TileDrainage #Wawanesa #WesternCanada
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Nuclear Expansion Sparks Concerns from Scientists of '#CatastrophicFailure'
Story by Jordan King
June 19, 2024"A group of scientists has spoken out against a new bill that aims to accelerate the development of #nuclear energy.
"The U.S. Senate passed the #ADVANCEAct on Tuesday, which, among other things, makes it easier and quicker for companies to apply for permits and creates new incentives for advanced #nuclear reactor technologies.
"It was passed with bipartisan support (88-2 votes), with Democrats getting behind it for environmental reasons and Republicans seeing it as a way to ensure electricity supply and create jobs.
"An example of how the bill could be applied is with the Bill Gates-backed company #TerraPower, which has so far been unable to secure a permit to build a $4 billion #Natrium Reactor on an old #coal plant site in Wyoming, Reuters reports.
"But the Union of Concerned Scientists, a science advocacy nonprofit, is worried about the #safety implications of the bill, which is now on its way to President Joe #Biden to sign into law.
"The organization's director of nuclear power safety Dr. #EdwinLyman compared the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's [#NRC] relaxing of rules to the Federal Aviation Administration doing the same with air transport."
#BigOilAndGas #Greenwashing #NoNukes #NoNewNukes #UnionOfConcernedScientists #NuclearPowerPlant #NuclearPlants #Greenwashing #NuclearIsNotCarbonFree