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- Reports of seniors falling ill or dying after getting dose of COVID-19 vaccine don't tell the whole story 20-Jan-20 10:11 pm EST
- Federal, provincial officials to discuss ways to counter anti-Indigenous racism in health care 27-Jan-21 09:00 am EST
- Mystery guest takes over Jasper Park Lodge — the entire hotel — for 9-week booking 26-Jan-21 08:13 pm EST
- French court orders Hassan Diab to stand trial in terrorism case, 3 years after he was set free 27-Jan-21 09:00 am EST
- Burnt out but booming: Canada's TV and film sector plows ahead during the pandemic 27-Jan-21 09:00 am EST
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- BBC Online Uses Serverless to Scale Extremely Fast 27-Jan-21 02:30 pm ESTIn a series of blog posts published recently, BBC Online's lead technical architect explains why BBC Online uses serverless and how they optimize for it. According to the author, BBC Online uses AWS Lambda for most of its core implementation due to its ability to scale extremely fast. When a breaking news story erupts, traffic can increase 3x in a singl […]
- Article: Learning from Incidents 27-Jan-21 01:00 pm ESTJessica DeVita (Netflix) and Nick Stenning (Microsoft) have been working on improving how software teams learn from incidents in production. In this article, they share some of what they’ve learned from the research community in this area, and offer some advice on the practical application of this work. By Jessica DeVita, Nick Stenning
- Google Updates Its Cloud Run Service Support for Websockets, Http/2, and Grpc Bidirectional Streams 27-Jan-21 12:00 pm ESTCloud Run is a managed compute platform that enables developers to run stateless containers invocable via web requests or Pub/Sub events. It is serverless, meaning all infrastructure management is abstract away, and developers can focus more on building applications. By Steef-Jan Wiggers
- Facebook Open-Sources Multilingual Speech Recognition Deep-Learning Model 26-Jan-21 02:00 pm ESTFacebook AI Research (FAIR) open-sourced Cross-Lingual Speech Recognition (XSLR), a multilingual speech recognition AI model. XSLR is trained on 53 languages and outperforms existing systems when evaluated on common benchmarks. By Anthony Alford
- driftctl : A Tool to Detect Infrastructure Drifts 26-Jan-21 12:00 pm ESTThe CloudSkiff team released an open source tool called driftctl which can detect drift in Terraform managed infrastructure. By Hrishikesh Barua
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CBC Censorship Out of Control!
It wasn’t the first time today when the 3rd post I’d made to a CBC News article in the past 2 months got censored for some unknown reason. I was responding to another comment by “John Thomas Cromarty”, who posts quite regularly to CBC’s news story comments about the article entitled “Should people take Russia’s new COVID-19 vaccine? Increasingly, experts say it’s probably just fine” and I’d responded with the following:
I am unsure what the rationale was, but apart from one word which (arguably) could have been disallowed due to the use of an expletive – the entire article was censored about 10 minutes after being made available publicly.
In fact, I’ve twice taken the time to write letters to both the CBC ombudsman and CBC content folks about the censorship issue without so much as the courtesy of an automated reply. And I’ve started to question whether CBC even takes such comments and questions seriously. I’ve certainly taken the time to read the posting rules and other pertinent literature and can find nothing in any of the aforementioned posts that was technically “out of bounds”, according to my reasoning. Also according to that reasonsing, either I’m missing relevant information or something in CBC’s process is flawed. If they don’t want end-users commenting on stories, why provide a “fake” comments section where 30% of the posts are disabled for some unspecified reason? It feels a little arbitrary and contrary to the public transparency so often decried as the fault of governments to provide when the CBC doesn’t even adhere to that same standard itself.
And I, for one, tend to disdain hypocrisy…
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