Ben Affleck once cut the standby line ahead of me and others, leaning on the airline employee by leveraging his celebrity. The worst part? He pumped his fist at us who were left behind as he boarded. So please stop with the incessant hot takes. He's not that cool. Thanks.

SpaceX is increasing the price of Starlink Standby Mode to $10/month (from $5/month). Standby Mode allows users to "pause" their service for a reduced fee while maintaining a, low-speed, 500 Kbps connection for essential, low-bandwidth tasks. SpaceX: "Strong demand for Starlink reflects the value customers continue to see in the service. This adjustment supports ongoing improvements and investment in affordable, high-performance products and services as global operating costs continue to rise."

North Korea will place anti-South Korea loudspeakers on standby along the entire border within days and has put unspecified new countermeasures on alert, Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korea's leader, said

Tokenization makes every dollar more efficient. Head of Franklin Crypto @perkinscr97 explains why institutions hold collateral on standby to prepare for long weekends, and how those dollars can be put to work in a tokenized world. via @RealAllinCrypto

Best conditions for your deepest sleep tonight: - Room at 65 to 67 degrees Fahrenheit - Complete darkness including all standby lights - Phone in another room, not on silent next to the bed - 300mg magnesium glycinate taken now - No food in the last three hours - Three slow nasal breaths before closing your eyes - Consider sleeping on your side for better glymphatic brain clearance Monday is built right now. Not tomorrow morning.

New blog on building a disaster recovery strategy for Kafka: We cover: 1️⃣ How to approach Active/Standby disaster recovery for OCI Streaming with Apache Kafka 2️⃣ What components are involved 3️⃣ How MirrorMaker 2 handles consumer offsets 4️⃣ What operational decisions to make before calling the design production-ready