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**anna_lillith** @anna_lillith@mas.to · 1d *

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anna_lillith @anna_lillith@mas.to

#infrastructure #cars #Paris

Good news this week

Cars are set to be banned on 500 more roads in Paris

Sketch of a car
amii.illustrates

**PUPUWEB Blog** @pupuweb@mastodon.social · 3d

PUPUWEB Blog @pupuweb@mastodon.social

DOGE plans to migrate all Social Security Administration systems off COBOL in months, risking the integrity of SSA infrastructure. #DOGE #SocialSecurity #TechNews #COBOL #GovernmentTech #SSA #Infrastructure #ITNews #TechChallenges

**Esk** @esk@hachyderm.io · 4d *

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Esk @esk@hachyderm.io

howdy, #hachyderm!

over the last week or so, we've been preparing to move hachy's #DNS zones from #AWS route 53 to bunny DNS.

since this could be a pretty scary thing -- going from one geo-DNS provider to another -- we want to make sure *before* we move that records are resolving in a reasonable way across the globe.

to help us to do this, we've started a small, lightweight tool that we can deploy to a provider like bunny's magic containers to quickly get DNS resolution info from multiple geographic regions quickly. we then write this data to a backend S3 bucket, at which point we can use a tool like #duckdb to analyze the results and find records we need to tweak to improve performance. all *before* we make the change.

then, after we've flipped the switch and while DNS is propagating -- -- we can watch in real-time as different servers begin flipping over to the new provider.

we named the tool hachyboop and it's available publicly --> https://github.com/hachyderm/hachyboop

please keep in mind that it's early in the booper's life, and there's a lot we can do, including cleaning up my hacky code.

attached is an example of a quick run across 17 regions for a few minutes. the data is spread across multiple files but duckdb makes it quite easy for us to query everything like it's one table.

screenshot of a console with a duckdb command that is selecting data from multiple parquet files in an s3 bucket across multiple folders.

the resulting table has many rows with a timestamp, unique client ID, region, host it was querying, and the results provided by the DNS server that was queried.

#sre #devops #mastodon

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**Cycling on Rails** @cycling_on_rails@mastodon.social · 4d

Cycling on Rails @cycling_on_rails@mastodon.social

I went to check out Sofia's central railway station to scout for trains. Even though it was last renovated in 2016, it felt quite empty at the moment new rails are being deployed on as half of the tracks. As such, many trains end in Sofia North (Sever) instead. #Bulgaria #railway #infrastructure

Station entrance from the metro. A big column stands in the middle of some kind of roundabout, one floor underground without ceiling. Paved with orange tiles.

Inside of the main station building, looking like an airport but very empty.

Electrified tracks without rails between platforms. The platforms are outside and covered.

Underground complex to access the platforms. It's wide but only 1 person is visible. Stairs and elevators are available.

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**Cycling on Rails** @cycling_on_rails@mastodon.social · 5d

Cycling on Rails @cycling_on_rails@mastodon.social

I then moved on to the daily (as far as I found) bus to Sofia. We first had to cross a very congested bridge from New Belgrade to the old Belgrade. Thankfully the bus could skip the queue somehow. But clearly that's a great example of poor planning and of the inefficiency of car dependency.

If you're gonna build a new city across the river, make sure to build a mass transit system like a metro. Otherwise you'll have to build a lot of bridges... #urbanism #infrastructure #Serbia

Bus using the emergency lane while 2 lanes on the left and 2 more merging soon on the right are completely jammed.

View of some of Belgrade's bridges, from the bridge we take. Front one appears to be the former railway bridge. Next one is a cable-stayed bridge with 2 pillars. Last one is a larger but further cable-stayed bridge with a single pillar.

Car with a motorcycle in the half-open trunk.

**J. Ellsworth** @jellsworth@mastodon.social · 6d *

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J. Ellsworth @jellsworth@mastodon.social

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#Democracy #Resilience #Solidarity

**openSUSE Linux** @opensuse@fosstodon.org · 6d

openSUSE Linux @opensuse@fosstodon.org

Curious if a service is down or undergoing #maintenance?
Stay in the loop with real-time updates at: https://status.opensuse.org
Your go-to hub for #openSUSE #infrastructure status.

**Coach Pāṇini ®** @paninid@mastodon.world · Mar 25

Mar 25

Coach Pāṇini ® @paninid@mastodon.world

#insight #infrastructure #norms

**Fishercat** @Fishercat@kolektiva.social · Mar 24

Mar 24

Fishercat @Fishercat@kolektiva.social

How will infrastructure work in an anarchist society?

I'm in agreement about the need to burn it all down now. I'm wondering how the survivors rebuild to basics.

I haven't read any anarchist theory or philosophy. I'm totally on board with mutual aid, which seems to me to be easy to enact for things like food, shelter, and clothing. Lots of people know how to forage and garden, repair and build structures, and turn raw fibers into something wearable.

Very few people know how to maintain or build water systems and electrical grids. Or make solar panels.

I've got hope, and want to learn about the way forward from people who've been thinking about this far longer than I have.

#Anarchism101 #solarpunk #infrastructure

**Emeritus Prof Christopher May** @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us · Mar 22

Mar 22

Emeritus Prof Christopher May @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us

A fire at an electricity substation closes Europe's busiest airport for a day.... what does this tell us about the UK's infrastructure resilience?

The clear & straightforward answer is the lack of redundancy in key service provision.

Time was when systems would have back-up in place for emergencies, but once this started to be treated as a cost rather than a necessary investment in service continuity out the 'spare' capacity went!

One more cost of financialised management!

#infrastructure

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**Adam Steer** @adamsteer@mapstodon.space · Mar 22 *

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Adam Steer @adamsteer@mapstodon.space

Seriously - free #strategic advice for every government: Do not build infrastructure on systems over which you have no control.

"but we have a contract"

Cool cool are you able to change business decisions within the contracted party? Probably no. You have a risk you simply cannot control or mitigate.

This is why #FOSS should be at the heart of all national digital infrastructures.

#FOSS4G #infrastructure #risk

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**petersuber** @petersuber@fediscience.org · Mar 21

Mar 21

petersuber @petersuber@fediscience.org

Update. "A group of US researchers funded through federal grants who wish to document the damage to our scientific #infrastructure. Our #data #archive is for use by journalists, academics, and the general public."
https://theresearchwelost.com/

The Research We LostThe Research We LostArchiving the Science that Could Have Been

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Preservation

**vascorsd** @vascorsd@mastodon.social · Mar 21

Mar 21

vascorsd @vascorsd@mastodon.social

FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies - https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/

LibreNews · Mar 20FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companiesLLM scrapers are taking down FOSS projects' infrastructure, and it's getting worse.

#enshitiffication #capitalism #opensource

**Nonilex** @Nonilex@masto.ai · Mar 20

Mar 20

Nonilex @Nonilex@masto.ai

‘People Are Scared’: Inside #CISA as It Reels From #TrumpPurge
Employees at the #Cybersecurity & #Infrastructure #Security Agency…are struggling to protect the #US while the #Trump admin dismisses their colleagues & poisons…partnerships.
#MassLayoffs & weak leadership are taking a severe toll on the US govt’s #cyber #defense agency, undermining its ability to protect America from…adversaries bent on crippling infrastructure & #ransomware gangs…bleeding #SmallBusiness dry.
https://archive.is/2025.03.13-143433/https://www.wired.com/story/inside-cisa-under-trump/

**𝕂𝚞𝚋𝚒𝚔ℙ𝚒𝚡𝚎𝚕 (ô¿ô)** @kubikpixel@chaos.social · Mar 20

Mar 20

𝕂𝚞𝚋𝚒𝚔ℙ𝚒𝚡𝚎𝚕 (ô¿ô) @kubikpixel@chaos.social

When the greed becomes automatist, something like this happens here:

»Open Source World – FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies:
LLM scrapers are taking down FOSS projects' infrastructure, and it's getting worse.«

https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/

LibreNews · Mar 20FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companiesLLM scrapers are taking down FOSS projects' infrastructure, and it's getting worse.

#foss #opensource #llm

**Strypey** @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz · Mar 19

Mar 19

Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

"We're aware, we don't have a Ministry of Works, so the government always contracts with the private sector to build things."

#BarbaraEdmonds, Labour finance spokesperson, 2025

So your policy is to rebuild the Ministry of Works, so Aotearoa has the capacity to build out own public infrastructure again, right? Without handing over millions of dollars in private profits to an oligopoly of giant construction corporations.

Oh you're not? Why?

#infrastructure #construction