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Texas Has 'No Real Protections' Against Data Center Impact, Says Gina Hinojosa

Democrat candidate for Governor in Texas Gina Hinojosa said that Texas voters are concerned with the impact of the data center 'gold rush' that has descended on the rural part of the state and that incumbent Governor Greg Abbott has left Texans with 'no real protections.' Hinojosa also discussed immigration policy in the state and said that Texans across both parties want 'something that makes…

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Implementing Feature Management in .NET: The Lazy Way

Microsoft did the hard work so you don't have to. The Microsoft.FeatureManagement library integrates directly with .NET's configuration and dependency injection systems, which means you can get…

  • Microsoft released Microsoft.FeatureManagement library for .NET
  • Library integrates with .NET configuration and DI systems
  • Feature flags configured in appsettings.json with IsEnabledAsync check

·dev.to

RDS High Availability and credential rotation without downtime

I got an AWS question and implemented it to make sure that the option is correct. A critical financial application runs on RDS for PostgreSQL.

  • Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployment ensures high availability with <60-second failover.
  • AWS Secrets Manager automates 30-day database credential rotation without downtime.
  • RDS Proxy maintains database connections, enabling seamless credential updates.

·dev.to

You Can Finally Buy a Fairphone In the US

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Your iPhone, SamsungGalaxy, andGoogle Pixel have a 1-year warranty. Unless you cough up extra dough for an extended service plan, you'll pay a hefty fee…

  • Fairphone now available for purchase in the US
  • Features modular design with 12 replaceable parts
  • Priced at $650, available on Amazon and Fairphone.com

·mobile.slashdot.org

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