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Re:Fastly Outage by zkldi on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @06:18AM (#27432768)
Mediation is a real word though?
Re:Fastly Outage by smcl on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @06:19AM (#27432800)
That is true, but the typo is because they presumably meant to reference this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Meditation
Re:Fastly Outage by Jenk on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @07:01AM (#27433427)
...and naturally someone has already updated the page today to include (and highlight) its use and mispelling on Varnish.
Re:Fastly Outage by richrichardsson on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @07:51AM (#27433885)
Someone (I can't unfortunately due to IP block) needs to change that. The part about the spelling is false, apparently [1] it's an intentional change by Fastly so that they can tell if it's their own Varnish or a customer's Varnish that is throwing an error.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27433139

Re:Fastly Outage by nkozyra on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @06:55AM (#27433362)
That wiki references the Varnish version.

I think it's an intentional alteration of the original, given the context.

Re:Fastly Outage by Jenk on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @07:01AM (#27433434)
That edit was added after today's fastly outage began.
Re:Fastly Outage by nkozyra on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @07:07AM (#27433485)
Even so, mediation makes sense in this context given fastly's business model.

It could be a typo or an attempt to be clever.