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Droplet Creation

Aug 26, 20:01 UTC
Resolved - Our Engineering team has confirmed full resolution of the issue impacting Droplet creation in all regions. Users can now create Droplets without any issues.

We appreciate your patience while we worked to fix this issue. If you continue to experience any problems, please open a ticket from your account for further investigation.

Aug 26, 19:33 UTC
Monitoring - Our Engineering team has identified the reason behind the failed Droplet creates and implemented a fix to resolve the issue. Users should now be able to create Droplets.

We are actively monitoring the situation and will post an update as soon as the issue is fully resolved.

Aug 26, 18:30 UTC
Investigating - Our Engineering team is currently investigating an issue with Droplet creation in multiple regions. This is only affecting new accounts at this time. Existing users are not impacted.

Users with new accounts may experience an elevated failure rate when attempting to create Droplets during this time.

We apologize for the inconvenience and will share an update once we have more information.

Agricultura y turismo: el camino hacia la autosostenibilidad de la Comarca Ngäbe Buglé

21 August 2025 at 22:30

En Panamá, solemos hablar de la pobreza como si fuera un destino inevitable. Sin embargo, la verdadera pobreza no es solo la falta de ingresos, sino la ausencia de oportunidades para generarlos. La Comarca Ngäbe Buglé, una de las regiones más desfavorecidas del país, posee un potencial enorme para transformar su realidad si se enfocan nuestros esfuerzos en dos sectores estratégicos: la agricultura y el turismo.

La agricultura es, por naturaleza, una actividad que fortalece la seguridad alimentaria y permite generar ingresos de manera directa. No se trata únicamente de repartir semillas y esperar resultados, sino de implementar programas integrales que incluyan asistencia técnica, manejo sostenible de suelos y recursos, sistemas de riego, acceso a insumos y apoyo en la comercialización. Es necesario que las familias aprendan no solo a sembrar, sino también a vender con valor agregado y con visión de mercado.

Uno de los cultivos con mayor potencial es el café. Las tierras altas de la Comarca tienen las condiciones perfectas para producir un café de calidad, incluso orgánico, que podría posicionarse en los mercados internacionales como un producto único: “Café Ngäbe Buglé – cultivado de forma sostenible y cosechado a mano por comunidades indígenas de Panamá”.

Para maximizar este potencial, se podría instalar un beneficio de café en San Félix, junto a la carretera Panamericana. Desde allí, el producto podría procesarse, empacarse y exportarse directamente, generando ingresos constantes para las comunidades y empleo local en la cadena de producción. Hoy en día, palabras como “orgánico” y “sostenible” no solo agregan valor, sino que abren puertas a consumidores dispuestos a pagar más por un producto que cuida el medio ambiente y apoya a las comunidades.

El turismo cultural y ecológico es otra gran oportunidad. Capacitar a la población en atención al visitante, hospedaje, gastronomía local, guianza turística y venta de artesanías inspiradas en su herencia cultural puede abrir fuentes de ingresos constantes. Imaginemos rutas de senderismo por paisajes vírgenes, talleres donde los turistas aprendan a elaborar vestimenta tradicional o experiencias de convivencia donde los visitantes compartan un día entero con una familia Ngäbe. Este tipo de turismo, bien gestionado, es sostenible y genera ingresos sin destruir el entorno.

Esto no es un sueño. Es una realidad que la Fundación Nuestra Señora del Camino viene trabajando desde hace décadas, con escasos recursos, pero con un compromiso inquebrantable con la capacitación, la dotación de herramientas, la mejora de sistemas de producción, el apoyo en la comercialización y la formación humana cristiana. Panamá debería apoyar, ampliar y replicar este modelo, que ya ha demostrado resultados concretos.

Los Ngäbe Buglé son tan panameños como cualquier otro ciudadano de este país. Merecen ser incluidos en los sectores productivos y tener la oportunidad de contribuir al desarrollo nacional. No pueden ni deben ser vistos solo como receptores de subsidios y ayudas. Es justo que aprendan a ser autosuficientes, a producir para el país y a ser protagonistas de su propio progreso.

La Doctrina Social de la Iglesia Católica nos recuerda que el trabajo no es solo un medio de subsistencia, sino un deber y una forma de dignificar la vida humana. Dios nos llama a producir con nuestras manos, a transformar la tierra y los talentos que se nos han confiado para sostenernos y servir a los demás. Ayudar a la Comarca Ngäbe Buglé a ser productiva no es un acto de caridad pasajera, sino de justicia social.

La meta debe ser clara: que las comunidades sean autosostenibles, que produzcan sus propios alimentos, que generen ingresos con su trabajo y que sean parte activa de la economía panameña. La pobreza no se combate con asistencialismo eterno, sino con herramientas, capacitación y oportunidades para que cada persona pueda decir con orgullo: “Esto lo logré con mi esfuerzo”.

Panamá tiene la obligación moral, social y económica de acompañar a la Comarca Ngäbe Buglé en este camino. Si lo hacemos bien, no solo estaremos mejorando su calidad de vida, sino construyendo un país más justo, más próspero y más unido. #TodosSomosUno

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SFO2 Power Maintenance

Aug 22, 04:54 UTC
Completed - Our Engineering team has confirmed that the issue caused by the unexpected power event has been fully resolved. Droplet connectivity in SFO2 should now be completely restored, and events like powering on/off should work as expected.

We apologize for any inconvenience caused. If you continue to experience any issues, please open a support ticket from within your account.

Aug 22, 01:25 UTC
Update - Our Engineering team has mitigated the issue with the unexpected power event and will continue to monitor this closely. Droplet connectivity in SFO2 should be restored, and events, such as powering on/off, should complete successfully now.

We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused. We will post updates if any further unexpected issues arise, and once this maintenance is fully completed. Thank you for your patience.

Aug 22, 00:35 UTC
Update - Our Engineering team is still working on the issue with some nodes in SFO2 going offline. Some users may still experience connectivity and event processing issues in SFO2.

We apologize for the inconvenience. We will post an update once we've confirmed that this issue is resolved.

Aug 21, 23:29 UTC
Update - During this maintenance, an unexpected power issue has occurred, which has caused multiple nodes to go down. Some customers with Droplets in SFO2 may notice that their Droplets are experiencing connectivity and event processing issues.

Our Engineering team is working to resolve this immediately, we will post an update here once we have more information.

Aug 21, 21:00 UTC
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.

Aug 21, 20:50 UTC
Scheduled - We are initiating an emergency power maintenance in one of our data center cages. This maintenance is critical and must be performed immediately to ensure infrastructure stability.

Expected Impact:

All devices run on redundant power. We do not expect any customer impact during this maintenance. If the redundant power feed experienced an issue during the course of the maintenance (which is unlikely), customers could see impact to existing resources housed in the affected cages, including Droplets, rDNS, and Object Storage. We will post updates if any unexpected outage occurs.

To help ensure a safe operation, we've temporarily reduced Droplet capacity in our SFO2 region. Customers who deploy Droplets in SFO2 may see some sizes unavailable or run into capacity errors for large deployments. This is temporary, so if you do encounter an error, we encourage you to try to deploy once more once the maintenance is complete.

Our engineering and operations teams are onsite and will be monitoring affected systems closely throughout the maintenance. Emergency notifications will be sent promptly if any critical impacts arise.

We appreciate your understanding as we work to resolve this situation as quickly and safely as possible.

If you have any questions related to this maintenance please send us a ticket from your cloud support page. https://cloudsupport.digitalocean.com/s/createticket

FreshRSS 1.27.0

18 August 2025 at 11:03

A few highlights ✨:

  • Implement support for HTTP 429 Too Many Requests and 503 Service Unavailable, obey Retry-After
  • Add sort by category title, or by feed title
  • Add search operator c: for categories like c:23,34 or !c:45,56
  • Custom feed favicons
  • Several security improvements, such as:
    • Implement reauthentication (sudo mode)
    • Add Content-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors
    • Ensure CSP everywhere
    • Fix access rights when creating a new user
  • Several bug fixes, such as:
    • Fix redirections when scraping from HTML
    • Fix feed redirection when coming from WebSub
    • Fix support for XML feeds with HTML entities, or encoded in UTF-16LE
  • Docker alternative image updated to Alpine 3.22 with PHP 8.4 (PHP 8.4 for default Debian image coming soon)
  • Start supporting PHP 8.5+
  • And much more…

This release has been made by @Alkarex, @Inverle, @the7thNightmare and newcomers @Deioces120, @Fraetor, @Tarow, @dotsam, @hilariousperson, @pR0Ps, @triatic, @tryallthethings

Full changelog:

  • Features
    • Implement support for HTTP 429 Too Many Requests and 503 Service Unavailable, obey Retry-After #7760
    • Add sort by category title, or by feed title #7702
    • Add search operator c: for categories like c:23,34 or !c:45,56 #7696
    • Custom feed favicons #7646, #7704, #7717,
      #7792
    • Rework fetch favicons for fewer HTTP requests #7767
    • Add more unicity criteria based on title and/or content #7789
    • Automatically restore user configuration from backup #7682
    • API add support for states in s parameter of streamId #7695
    • Improve sharing via Print #7728
    • Redirect to the login page from bookmarklet instead of 403 #7782
    • Clean local cache more often, when refreshing feeds #7827
  • Security
    • Implement reauthentication (sudo mode) #7753
    • Add Content-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors #7677
    • Ensure CSP everywhere #7810
    • Show warning when unsafe CSP policy is in use #7804
    • Fix access rights when creating a new user #7783
    • Improve security of form for user details #7771, #7786
    • Disallow setting non-existent theme #7722
    • Regenerate cookie ID after logging out #7762
    • Require current password when setting new password #7763
    • Add missing access checks for feed-related actions #7768
    • Strip more unsafe attributes such as referrerpolicy, ping #7770
    • Remove unneeded execution permissions #7802
  • Bug fixing
    • Fix redirections when scraping from HTML #7654, #7741
    • Fix multiple authentication HTTP headers #7703
    • Fix HTML queries with a single feed #7730
    • WebSub: only perform a redirection when coming from WebSub #7738
    • Include enclosures in entries’ hash #7719
      • Negative side-effect: users of the option to automatically mark updated articles as unread will once have some articles with enclosures re-appear as unread
    • Fix cancellation of slider exit UI #7705
    • Honor disable update on update page #7733
    • Fix no registration limit setting #7751
    • Fix XML encoding of sharing functions #7822
  • SimplePie
  • Deployment
    • Docker default image (Debian 12 Bookworm) updated to PHP 8.2.29 #7805
    • Docker alternative image updated to Alpine 3.22 with PHP 8.4.11 and Apache 2.4.65 #7740, #7740,
      #7803
    • Start supporting PHP 8.5+ #7787, #7826
      • Docker Alpine dev image :newest updated to PHP 8.5-alpha and Apache 2.4.65 #7773
    • Docker: interpolate FRESHRSS_INSTALL and FRESHRSS_USER variables #7725
    • Docker: Reduce how much data needs to be chown/chmod’ed on container startup #7793
    • Test for database PDO typing support during install (relevant for MySQL / MariaDB with obsolete driver) #7651
  • Extensions
    • Add API endpoint for extensions #7576
    • Expose the reading modes for extensions #7668, #7688
    • New extension hook before_login_btn #7761
  • UI
    • Improve mark as read request showing popup due to onbeforeunload #7554
    • Fix lazy-loading for <video poster="..."> and <image> #7636
    • Avoid styling <code> inside of <pre> #7797
    • Improve confirmation logic with data-auto-leave-validation #7785
    • Update chart.js to 4.5.0 #7752, #7816
    • Various UI and style improvements: #7616, #7811
  • I18n
  • Misc.

Cloud Control Panel and API

Aug 15, 15:42 UTC
Resolved - From 14:40 UTC to 14:52 UTC, users may have experienced errors when trying to use the API or while accessing our Cloud Control Panel at https://cloud.digitalocean.com.

Our Engineering team has implemented a fix and confirmed full resolution of the issue. Users should be able to access the API and Cloud Control Panel without issue now.

If you continue to experience problems, please open a ticket with our support team. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Silicon Valley is sucking up Singapore’s tech talent

15 August 2025 at 05:00
Singapore is known for channelling its best talent into the public sector and with GovTech it’s no different. The government aims to staff the agency with the same calibre of...

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A staff member of GovTech demonstrating the use of facial verification technology in Singapore.
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