They have more work to do to be a role model, yes, and the great firewall is a PITA and is used for (fake news) propaganda as well as for protecting its national interest and identity. They do seem to have lost significant focus under Xi, and I doubt it will change for the better under his leadership.
Even if China were to become a leader in soft power and a role model in the future, systems don't tend to be transplanted wholesale.
If only they'd stop supporting russia's war of aggression... imagine if China would lead the world in peaceful growth and respect for international law, rather than supporting despots and antagonising neighbours' fishing boats. The choice of siding with US or China could be relatively simple, rather than a reluctant necessity.
End wars, Xi, and you might even get a nobel peace prize to share with your countrymen and the people of the world.
The US has well and truly abused their position over the years, and is currently unhinged under trump. Give the world a viable alternative, both economically and politically.
They had a big us-east-1 S3 outage back in ~2018 (docker hub went down then too), and another us-east-1 DynamoDB outage ~3 years ago..
On the whole, they do an amazing job. But when they have a big issue, it will be something tricky and painful ... they tackled the low hanging fruit years ago.
And in 2 years, it will be back in the headlines! Because us-east-1 always goes down, and AWS and its customers are destined to repeat the same mistakes, and reporters will rinse & repeat.
Honestly - the worst part was that the AWS web console was affected. Even companies & teams that have multi-region failover and DR plans struggle when they can't use the console.
Honestly, for human friendly queries, I would have taken a Splunk-query like approach, like KQL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/kusto/query/?view=microsoft-fabric
It's less likely to annoy an entire industry of SQL users, while appealing to those who use Splunk and similar tools for incident response and ad-hoc analytics.
Whether they really need their own DB for event data.. perhaps.. but these days you want to get this kind of data into your data lake sooner rather than later. Perhaps it can help with that.
It's not perfectly aligned with your comment, I'll give you that.
The republican party is still the best fit for space laser lady, only because it is the only party where conspiracy nutjobs stand a chance.
She doesn't give a flip about fixing the republican party, but purely about her polling and chances in the future. That she is capable of this pivot suggests that there is more sleazy politician to her than nutjob. Neither is praiseworthy.
I did ... and I am aware of additional reporting outside this article, that suggests she has ambitions beyond her current station.
Censorship / free speech is hard to get right, especially in the online world.
I'm for an individual standing on a pulpit and expressing their views, so long as they can be held to account. If they put the lives of others at risk, spread dangerous lies or harrass others unjustly, and there is legal recourse through an independent legal system(s) .. no problem, because there are checks and balances. Many countries have a healthy foundation to support free speech.
OTOH, I am for restricting mis/dis-information campaigns by governments (also my own), corporations, special interest groups, and billionaires. We know it's possible to effectively manipulate people and it's really just another form of psychological warfare. The challenge is how to police such things (and when/what/how to educate/censor/fine/ban), with so much money and influence working against it ... all without infringing on citizen's rights.
It is nothing new to her. Like many/most politicians, she is an opportunist. She found a way to make it into the house, and now she has other ambitions, she is looking for another way to achieve that.
I wouldn't be surprised if the russian influenced far right talking point feeds (and indirect but related funding) aren't influencing this change too.
Nah.. she wants a future political career outside the house, but apparently the crazy laser woman game only works in her current district of burn-the-world-down rednecks...
Now that she helped set the world on fire and the polls are in, she'll change tack like an everyday boring sleazy politician.
There is surely enough waterfront real estate going for bargain basement prices these days. Make a deal, donnie t.
If I understand it right, the last time the democrats had a majority in both the house and senate was in Obama's first two years. The ACA was the result of that, and it was still watered down due to pressure.
Without control of both houses, the dems are forced to heavily compromise to avoid government shutdowns and just to keep the USA plodding along, food on the table, and kids in school. Fighting just to end up with more or less the status quo was still better than the lurch to the right and insanity that is seen now.
I fear it's too late for the US now though... at least without some military intervention come voting time. I'm sure they'll be too busy though. It's perversely still in china and russia's interests to keep trump in power, and flare ups will almost certainly be well timed... as they say, never interrupt your enemy while they are busy making mistake after mistake after mistake.