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You've all heard of the viral AI ChatGPT by now. I'm not in the AI business and hadn't planned to write about it — but people from every industry kept asking me how to register ChatGPT, how to use it, and what it costs. So here's a dedicated post.
On December 18 Alibaba Cloud's Hong Kong Zone C suffered a massive service outage; on December 25 Alibaba Cloud published a post-incident analysis. Let's look at how this epic-level failure came about.
At the UOS Ecosystem Conference on December 20, Liu Wenhuan, General Manager of UnionTech Software Technology Co., Ltd., formally announced the company's new 2023 strategy and released a free usage license for the UOS V20 server operating system.
On December 19, 2022, I got a call from Alibaba Cloud's ICP filing review telling me that the forum I ran on a subdomain didn't comply with laws and regulations, and required me to either close it for rectification or cancel my filing with them.
It's not just the ICP filing that got revoked — checking cnBeta.com's WHOIS, the domain has been placed under clientHold, halting resolution worldwide. A shutdown like this doesn't come from a small mistake: with the domain itself set to clientHold, they clearly crossed a red line.
On October 5, 2022, still during the National Day holiday, MacWk — the Mac cracked-software site — went offline. I'm in the official Telegram channel too, where everyone was muted. Word from all sides is that it went broke.
Webmasters know Alexa well. It has long focused on worldwide website ranking stats — alongside the old Google PageRank, Alexa rank was one of the metrics we used to judge whether a site was successful. Now Alexa is shutting down.
The China edition of GitLab, operated by JiHu Information Technology (Hubei) Co. and branded "JiHu", focuses on enterprise DevOps. I was lucky enough to join the SaaS beta — here's my look at the domestic version of JiHu.
Why am I griping about Gitee on my own blog instead of reporting it to Gitee? Because that's one of the things I'm griping about. Their issue workflow is broken too: I filed an issue, an official replied and rejected it, and once rejected I could no longer respond — so here I am, griping on my own blog.
On April 6, Debian published a security update fixing a cross-site scripting vulnerability found in the Python HTML sanitizing library bleach. python-bleach is an allowlist-based Python library that sanitizes HTML text by escaping or stripping tags and attributes.
