That doesn’t help if they have software that assumes it can reach all sites. I remember a few years ago AWS had a EC2 outage in eu-central-1 because of 1 of the Availability Zones went down and the service that allocates instances threw a 500 when it failed to get that AZ’s capacity instead of just allocating the instances to the other 2 AZs.

Instagram was already forcing people to self-censor before TikTok became a thing

Social media forcing people to see self-censorship as normal has to be in the top 5 of the most harmful things they are doing.

500 million justifies using some very fancy data recovery means, as long as he’s sure it’s the right drive.

They also kicked Jack to the curb went he tried to go full Musk on content moderation.

They will always have slave labour as an “unfair advantage” (to use management-speak euphemisms), so prices might remain low.

Ireland systematically trying to make the EU a race to the bottom is hilarious /s

It was a joke to make the point that vim can be the easiest tool to use if you are trying to do a complex task.

Easy is relative. What are you trying to do? Replace a value in an yaml file? Then nano is easier. Trying to refactor a business critical perl/brainfuck polyglot script in production? Then you probably want to use vim (or emacs if you are one of those people)