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Объектные хранилища, работающие по протоколу S3, уже давно стали де-факто стандартом для работы с неструктурированными данными — от бэкапов корпоративных систем до наполнения озёр данных (Data Lake) для аналитики. Однако переход от простого использования API к построению на базе S3 отказоустойчивой и безопасной инфраструктуры часто оказывается сложнее, чем кажется на первый взгляд, а многие встроенные механизмы остаются невостребованными. И связано не столько с отсутствием бизнес-потребности, сколько с недостаточным пониманием того, как именно эти функции работают. 

Чтобы устранить подобные «слепые зоны», в статье разберём, как с помощью объектных хранилищ решаются ключевые задачи обеспечения безопасности, катастрофоустойчивости и эффективности хранения.

Ну что же — то, чего все ожидали (не путать с «ждали») случилось. Многие российские сайты и сервисы начали переходить на сертификаты Минцифры — и у пользователей начали ломаться работавшие ранее сервисы, пользователи начали получать сообщения, что подлинность ресурса не может быть проверена. Кто‑то просто не смог продлить свой сертификат, у других сертификаты вообще были отозваны — но, в конечном итоге, это приводит к одному и тому же результату — из-за проблем с сертификатом сайты некоторых российских компаний перестают открываться через HTTPS (каковой де‑факто уже давно стал стандартом), а получить новые сертификаты становится проблемой.

Для того, чтобы обойти это ограничение, многие российские подсанкционные компании начали использовать так называемые сертификаты Минцифры — сертификаты, подписанные российскими удостоверяющими центрами с корневым сертификатом, вылущенным Минцифры. Чем это грозит пользователю?

Привет, технари, я на Хабре недавно, решил делиться своей экспертизой и общаться с единомышленниками, чтобы иметь окружение схожих себе и обмениваться опытом. Сам своими руками сделал более 70 интеграций Битрикс24 и AmoCRM за 3 года, есть что выложить из опыта.

Отделам продаж постоянно нужны отчеты: конверсии, звонки и так далее, но особо развитым кампаниям надо отчеты уже кастомные, не шаблон. Если брать шаблонные отчеты в Битрикс24, то там кусок фронта достаточно шаблонный, что и обычно для CRM которая «для всех», это же не самописка. Там есть Конструктор отчетов, но там тоже очень много ограничений.

А если РОП или директор по продажам хочет кастомный отчет? В Rest API лезть?

При большом желании можно и в API лезть, но в Битрикс24 есть промежуточный вариант, полушаблон, полукод (кастом) — BI конструктор.

[В статье немеряно скриншотов — прим. НЛО]

Как современные LLM получают разные настройки reasoning effort: системные промпты, SFT, RLVR, штрафы за длину, reasoning budgets и on-policy-дистилляция. Разбираем DeepSeek V4, Nemotron 3 Ultra, Kimi K2.5 и K3, GLM-5, Qwen3 и Inkling.

VPN шифрует содержимое трафика, но это не делает соединение невидимым для сети. IP‑адреса, handshake, размеры пакетов, тайминги и поведение потока могут использоваться для классификации даже без расшифровки данных. Разберемся, что видит DPI, как работают fingerprinting и active probing и какую роль в этой архитектуре играют VLESS, XHTTP и REALITY.

Restaurant critic and award-winning food writer Jimi Famurewa travels from Belfast to Edinburgh and London to meet the inventive DIY chefs stretching US, Italian and British pizza styles to come up with delicious new flavour combos

Сегодня речь пойдет про некоторый парадокс в аналитике, понимание которого приходит лишь со временем.

Представим, что каждый год данных становится всё больше и у компаний появляются новые системы, витрины, дашборды, десятки KPI, выгрузки на миллионы строк и всё это просто пачками валиться, хочешь смотреть так или эдак, можно посмотреть продажи / непродажи по регионам, сотрудникам, товарам, часам, минусам, секундам и еще по 25 разрезам.

И вроде, чем больше данных, тем лучше. Но это не всегда так, и иногда после появления пятого дашборда понимания становится даже меньше, чем было после одной нормальной таблицы.

From a fan perspective, seeing the Knicks at Madison Square Garden, attending the US Open and sipping on Honey Deuces, and getting a seat to Olivia Rodrigo’s Unraveled Tour and sing-screaming to “Stupid Song” couldn’t be more different. But they do have one thing in common: They’re all expensive. 

Attending a live event has become a luxury purchase. Not that long ago in 2019, the average price of a concert ticket was $92. Maybe your seats weren’t great, but you could afford to be in the room. Now the average price has risen to around $133 for face value, and you’re likely spending way more to see the biggest names in music and sports. And thanks to Live Nation’s grip on the music and sports ticketing industry, ever-increasing service fees, and features like dynamic pricing and a ruthless secondary resale market, it certainly feels like we’re not seeing any relief from these sky-high costs anytime soon. 

For those who, say, can’t afford a $1,845 nosebleed ticket to see the Nova Knicks or a $2,000 Olivia Rodrigo resale seat, that means watching at home, or, if something isn’t eventually streamed, just missing out entirely. 

Looking at a seating map and seeing exactly how much ticket prices are changes your perception of the people lucky enough to attend. Like, what kind of person is spending that much money to sit in the very last row? How do they move through this universe with that much money to spend on bad seats? Is everyone secretly rich? Is this just a matter of fiscal irresponsibility? What is going on????

While Vox cannot speak to how everyone in attendance is paying for their tickets, we did talk to one person who was willing to share.

Enter: Craig, a 44-year-old living in the Bay Area, who makes roughly $180,000 per year. Craig spent more than $15,000 seeing Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter Tour six times. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

I want to know, are you a secret heiress? A billionaire oligarch? How does one afford to see Beyoncé six times? 

No, I’m not an heiress. I’m not unfortunately a billionaire — well, no, billionaires are bad, so don’t quote me on that. But it’s funny, one of the first things that comes to mind is my fandom for so many artists is expansive, but also I just spend money on certain things and not other things. My mom’s big motto in life was, “We’re making memories.” And so for me, I’m never going to regret going to Beyoncé six times. I’m going to regret only seeing her Renaissance tour twice.

One of my big regrets is not going to the Renaissance World Tour. 

I realized a lot of it is — it’s the only place where you can really have this communal experience with people that are in your same delusional mindset. With Cowboy Carter, I was at the very first show in LA, and then I had planned to go to three shows. But then it just became this thing that got into my soul and was like, “I need to keep going.” 

I don’t mind putting this into print or whatever, but I’m an addict, an alcoholic who’s been in recovery for decades, and so it’s easy for me to get hooked on things, but this is such a pure, very expensive way to have joy.

What was it about Cowboy Carter that compelled you to keep going? Was it because you knew Renaissance was amazing? Was it because you saw the movie?

Yeah, I saw the movie four times, but I just kind of knew. And my big three are Björk, Fiona Apple, and Beyoncé. And so Björk is in Iceland most of the time, thank God. Fiona Apple as much as —

Wait, wait, thank God because of your wallet?

Yes.

And Fiona Apple, I’ve seen her many times, but she just doesn’t tour. As much as I’d love her to, she just doesn’t. And I will see Robyn three times this year. I’ve seen Carly Rae Jepsen as many times as I can. But with Beyoncé, it’s like I know there’s a limited amount of how much she’s going to be doing what she’s doing. And with Act III at some point coming up, there’s a real push that I need to get as much as I can. And it sounds greedy, but I don’t feel bad taking up a ticket or space, when I enjoy it as much as I do. 

Take me through Cowboy Carter. You said you were going to initially see it three times.

Right.

You ended up seeing it how many times? Six?

I saw it six times.

Take me through that mentality — from three, how’d that balloon six?

I knew that I was going to see the first three shows. I had planned with a boyfriend who’s now an ex that was part of this whole process. I was going to go to the first show, the second show, and the third show, and then I was going to be done. But I knew in the back of my mind that I wasn’t probably done. And it’s so funny because my first outfit was pretty homegrown, a just-barely-put-together cowboy hat that I bought at the show. And then by the time I was at the fifth and the sixth show, I had a custom-made gold outfit.

It became this thing where I can’t quite explain how I ended up going to six shows other than it was this snowball rolling downhill.

What kind of tickets did you have? Were they all the same? 

I was in the section right by the catwalk. So it was like, Oh shit, I have to go do this again in the same spot. What I would’ve done differently is I would’ve seen it from way up above. I would’ve seen it from cheaper seats.

What was your more expensive ticket? 

I mean, honestly, my most expensive ticket was the last show and I paid $2,200. And at that point, it had built so much that there was no way I wasn’t going to not be where I wanted to be. It just was like, “Nope, this is happening.”

Tell me about that. You have amazing tickets. You’re up close… 

The last show, I was alone in Club Ho-Down. The amount of friends that I made and the amount of celebrities that I saw — to be in that environment with people that are on your same level and people are screaming and crying and know exactly what’s going to happen. And then when Shaboozey comes out or Jay-Z comes out or Destiny’s Child comes out — I’m getting chills just thinking about it. I can’t explain how I led myself to going to six, but once you’ve got $8,000 on your credit card, what is $12,000?

I — well, $4000 more? 

I know. 

Did you buy them all at one time or was it after you saw the first two?

I had planned the first three and then I had a friend who I went to New York with and we talked ourselves into going to New York. And then in the back of my mind I was like, “I have to go to the last two shows.”

I don’t regret it. I honestly probably will go to eight for Act III. But I will also be more strategic and I will get a seat that is a lot cheaper for a couple of shows. 

Now I’m going to ask you about the painful stuff. So you said if you’re already $8,000 down, what’s $12,000. But did you plan for it? Can you talk me through the financial planning of this?

There wasn’t really any. The breakup that I had happened after my New York show. And so I think my delusional sort of mania kicked in and I was like, “Fuck it, I’m going to spend $800 on an outfit that’s custom-made.” I’m going to go to both shows at the end and just — it got me through a really tough summer, and it was something that I don’t regret.

How does that work on a credit card? You said that you recently paid it off, right? Is that two years later?

It’s a year later. I live in San Francisco. I have a pretty good job, but also I work in education, and I’ve worked in education my whole life. So it was a lot of my interest, I paid a lot of fees, I’m sure, it takes so long to pay it off, and I was adding to it the whole year. I am not good with money. I wish I were. But again, I don’t have aspirations to own property yet, and I don’t have children.

Beyoncé is your big expense of the last couple years. 

Yeah, pretty much.

And again, I feel embarrassed about that a little bit because I have friends where one spouse, their entire salary goes to childcare. And I’m like, oh, that sounds not fun.

But think of it this way: that’s so much Beyoncé that you could be experiencing instead of having a kid.

Yeah. 

So Act III is rumored. Would you do it again?

Oh, absolutely. Like I said, I’m going to possibly go to, I think, between five and eight shows depending on. And one of my work friends, we talk about what’s happening in the world and we kind of decided that 2026 is Jay-Z’s year.

He has his shows. He has a show on her birthday. So I’m hoping that means the album doesn’t come out until 2027, which means the tour would be 2028, which means I have enough time to save, enough time to put some money away and be a little bit more strategic.

Do you have a limit of how much you’re willing to spend? 

On Beyoncé? I think the gay math, the boy math, that I do in my head is if I see it in chunks, it’s not as bad. The first time I looked at the whole thing was yesterday, and I looked at hotels and flights, merch, and tickets. But if I see it in little bits, I’m like, “Well, that’s not that much.” And I don’t think about how it adds up.

If Beyonce was like, “Oh, here’s my last show.” Is there a limit?

Anything up to $5,000 probably if it was a super important show or last show and I had the opportunity to do that. My parents have seen a lot of shows. That’s something sort of that I had grown up with — going to see artists.

And the real problem is Beyoncé has set this financial bar that now I almost feel like I could spend that kind of money on anyone. The fact that I’m seeing Robin in LA for $300, I’m like, “Oh my God, of course I’m going to go to three shows that week.”

Can I ask you, when was the first time you saw Beyoncé?

I mean, this is embarrassing to admit, but it was Renaissance. 

Oh my gosh. 

I know. And one of my big regrets is not going to see her earlier. 

It was 2016, and I just was like, “I can’t afford $1,000.” It’s ridiculous to say that now. And I’ve always been a fan. I had mix tapes in the ’90s with “Say My Name” and all the Destiny’s Child songs, and I’ve always been a fan of hers, but it really kicked into gear at self-titled or Lemonade. And that makes me sound like a fake fan, but that’s not true. It’s just seeing her live, it really brought it to a new level.

I was going to tell you that I saw her when she was touring that album —  the “Love on Top” album…

4.

4. I saw her at Barclays and it was only, I want to say, $200 for the lower bowl right off the floor. It’s obviously a lot more now. 

I honestly don’t know how some people afford it. I know some people save and save and save to go to one show and they don’t have a credit card or they don’t want to put things on a credit card. I know how privileged I am to have the ability to put something on a credit card, pay it off eventually — I live in the Bay Area and have a job that’s a pretty good job, blah, blah, blah.

For a normie, what you spend on Beyoncé is mind-blowing, but I’m sure there are people that you met at Cowboy Carter that may have spent a lot more than you, right?

Oh, yeah. There was some video that popped up, I think it was from Renaissance, but it was like, “This is my 26th show.” And Beyoncé read the sign and stepped back a bit. I don’t remember what the exact number was [it was 35]. When I was in the pit at the very last show, it wasn’t abnormal to be where I was, and be like, “I’ve seen her six times.”

So when it comes to the most serious Beyhivers, some may consider you a casual fan?

Yeah. I mean, I’m in it, but I also feel like I’m a person that always goes to a lot of shows, and this is a little bit of a light year for me just because no one huge is touring for me, but she’s coming.

Первый тур голосования за доклады INFOSTART TECH EVENT 2026 завершен. После него сформировано около 30% программы конференции. Рассказываем, какие доклады уже прошли в программу, кто набрал больше всего голосов и что происходит дальше.

При отборе учитывались два фактора: голосование участников и экспертная оценка модераторов секций.

Кроме конкурсных заявок, в программу вошли доклады экспертов и модераторов:

Один try/finally внутри метода — и он работает в разы медленнее. Сам блок тут ни при чём, он не выполняет ни одной лишней инструкции.

Причина в решении JIT. В .NET 10 его поменяли — но не для всех методов и не при любых настройках.

Привет всем заглянувшим!

В этой статье я поделюсь опытом автоматизации API‑тестирования связкой Postman + Newman, но с небольшим «секретным ингредиентом». Мы не просто будем запускать коллекции в Jenkins напрямую, а используем универсальный Python‑скрипт, который превращает стандартный прогон в мощный инструмент мониторинга.

В чем «фишка» этого подхода?

Обычно Newman выдает довольно сухие отчеты. Мой скрипт выступает в роли умной прослойки: он обрабатывает результаты тестов на статус‑коды, собирает данные и упаковывает их в наглядный Allure‑отчет. Более того, здесь добавлена функция почтовых уведомлений, чтобы контролировать состояние системы, не заходя в Jenkins.

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Robert Smith, Olly Alexander and Paris Paloma also among signatories to letter saying exploitation of Rosebank and Jackdaw fields defies climate reality

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More than 200 musicians including Massive Attack and Brian Eno have written to Andy Burnham urging him to reject plans for more oil and gas drilling in the North Sea.

The letter, signed by 211 artists such as Bobby Gillespie, Olly Alexander and Paris Paloma, called on the prime minister to reject the Rosebank oilfield, warning that the project would fail to lower energy bills or provide energy security as most of the oil was likely to be exported.

They have a new manager and a higher net spend than Manchester City, but will that be enough for Ipswich to avoid another yo-yoing relegation?

Guardian writers’ predicted position: 19th (NB: this is not necessarily Will Unwin’s prediction but the average of our writers’ tips)

Last season’s position: 2nd (Championship)

• Captain’s praise for new signings Guimarães and Tzolis

• Arsenal kick off new season against Coventry on Friday

Martin Ødegaard has praised the instant impact made by new signings Bruno Guimarães and Christos Tzolis in Arsenal’s Community Shield victory over Manchester City on Sunday and believes the Premier League champions can compete for multiple trophies this season.

Arsenal were hugely impressive as they blew away last season’s FA Cup winners in Cardiff, racing into a 3-0 lead after only 48 minutes. Tzolis – a £34m signing from Club Brugge – set up Kai Havertz for the second goal before adding another assist for Ødegaard to make it 3-0 just after half-time. Guimarães was replaced at the break by Declan Rice having put in a commanding performance on his first start since joining from Newcastle for £75m and Ødegaard said the Brazil midfielder has fitted in seamlessly.

У меня есть RAG‑сервис: проверяет фактологические утверждения в бизнес‑отчётах против реальных источников — SEC EDGAR, World Bank, FRED, Wikipedia. Это капстоун LLM Zoomcamp (DataTalksClub). Курс закончился, оценку поставили (peer review, 42/42), а я решил дотянуть проект до состояния «не стыдно показать на собеседовании как рабочий код», а не просто «закрыл критерии оценки курса».

Всем привет! Меня зовут Илья, я frontend‑разработчик.
Но сегодня хочу поговорить не о JavaScript, а о терминале.

Несмотря на то, что я уже много лет работаю разработчиком, активно пользоваться терминалом я начал всего около года назад. До этого терминал для меня был просто местом, где запускается сборка проекта, немного Git и иногда еще пара команд. Думаю, у многих так же.

Обычно мысли о терминале вызывают ступор. Кажется, что это что‑то непонятное, черно‑зеленое и предназначенное только для «настоящих программистов», и на практике большинство ограничивается npm run dev, git status и на этом все.

В этом гайде я хочу показать, как можно превратить терминал в красивую и удобную среду разработки, которая не уступает IDEA и другим редакторам.

Сразу оговорюсь: речь пойдет исключительно о терминале, а не о NeoVim.
NeoVim — это отдельная большая тема.

О том, что можно найти в логах, когда заводской документации нет, а сервисное задание, например для систем мониторинга транспорта есть.

В сервисе тяжёлой и сельскохозяйственной техники привычная ситуация выглядит так: машина в поле, оператор жалуется, что «трансмиссия едет странно», а заводского DBC, A2L и сервисного ПО у заказчика нет. И не будет. Производитель в стране не присутствует или не отвечает, а машину нужно обслуживать сейчас.

В таком режиме реверс‑инжиниринг CAN перестаёт быть экзотикой и становится обычной частью работы. Это не про взлом и не про обход защит — это пассивное прослушивание собственной шины с разрешения владельца и восстановление осмысленной картины из байтов. Ниже — две истории из таких проектов, которые я считаю учебными.

Garmin записывает почти всё: сон, HRV, стресс, Body Battery, пульс на тренировке, каждый подход в зале. ChatGPT ничего этого не видит. Чтобы спросить у него, как прошла неделя, нужно было сначала открыть Garmin Connect, переписать цифры руками и вставить их в чат.

Один вечер, один скрипт. Забрать сон и HRV за сегодня, сложить в файл. Никакой архитектуры, просто раздражение от того, что данные есть, а спросить их некому.

Сейчас это открытый пайплайн: локальный кэш, агентный Telegram-бот, локальная модель на Ollama, веб-мастер настройки, Windows-дистрибутив и заявка на акселератор Sber500. По пути пришлось несколько раз пересобрать саму задачу.

Clancy’s live-streamed trial has become fodder for amateur sleuths to push viral conspiracy theories that threaten to undermine efforts to de-stigmatize illness, experts say

Meghan Cliffel was riding the subway in New York City in December 2015 when she became convinced the entire city belonged to a cult that was plotting to kill her and her two daughters. When she got back to her Manhattan apartment she believed the talking heads on the television were speaking to her directly, threatening her, and that the refrigerator was emitting poisonous gas. Her husband, she feared, was part of the cult too.

“I punch him in the face trying to get to the kids,” Cliffel recalled, “Then I’m ultimately trying to get to the roof of our building because I believe if I get up there and show I’m willing to jump, that that’ll show my loyalty to the cult and hopefully stop this whole thing.”

Exclusive: Raúl Torrez is drafting two bills with state lawmakers to bolster consumer protections and child safety online, building on state’s landmark case against Meta

New Mexico’s attorney general is mounting a full-court press against technology companies to improve their child safety measures, capitalizing on a landmark win in court against Meta earlier this year.

Raúl Torrez is working with state lawmakers to draft two new bills he says will strengthen consumer protections and child safety online. The legislation, expected to be announced in the coming weeks, will build on the state’s case against the parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. A jury found in March that the company misled its users about the safety of its platforms and enabled harm, including child sexual exploitation. The social media giant was fined nearly $1bn as a result of the case.

President said he was ‘not happy’ with plans for large-scale joint exercises he described as ‘inappropriate and hostile’. Plus, how five obscure horses have ended up at the center of a transatlantic betting mystery

Good morning. Donald Trump has said he is scaling back joint US military drills with South Korea aimed at deterring North Korea, despite military officials from both countries warning that Kim Jong-un’s regime is learning new battlefield tactics from the Ukraine war.

The president said he was “not happy” with US participation “based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong-un”. He added that the drills were costly and “send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile, to a country that, as long as Donald J Trump has been president, has been unthreatening and respectful”. Trump added that it was too late to cancel the drills so he had ordered the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, to “substantially reduce” them.

Why are there continuing concerns about USS Abraham Lincoln? Democrats have intensified their demands for answers from the Trump administration over conditions onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln amid concern over crew morale, mental health and living conditions. Ruben Gallego, a Democratic senator from Arizona, said he blamed the carrier’s prolonged deployment on the unresolved war that Donald Trump started in February with Iran as well as lackluster leadership in general from the Republican president’s administration.

Привет, Хабр!

17 сентября 2026 года в Москве и онлайн пройдет AI R&D DAY. Это конференция для исследователей, ML‑инженеров, AI‑архитекторов, руководителей R&D‑команд и специалистов, которые превращают экспериментальные разработки в работающие продукты.

Один из фокусов конференции — NextGenAI, проект команды R&D SberAI, посвященный технологиям следующего поколения. Команда поделится результатами исследований, расскажет о развиваемых продуктах и представит технологические направления, над которыми работает сейчас.

В программе 22 доклада на двух сценах, панельная дискуссия, постерная сессия и выставка. Участие бесплатное.

Про асинхронный ввод-вывод в PostgreSQL за последний год написали многие:

Механизм появился в 18-й версии, в 19-й его докрутили и в релиз-нотах он числится среди главных улучшений производительности.

По ходу чтения релиз-нотов я сам столкнулся с множеством вопросов, поэтому поставил стенд, погонял нагрузку, померил, посмотрел на результаты. Далее, в статье маршрут моего похода выходного дня: где апгрейд на 19 ускоряет и на сколько, где не меняет ничего, где настройкой можно выжать ещё вдвое и где два параметра способны выключить всю фичу целиком.

Объектные хранилища, работающие по протоколу S3, уже давно стали де-факто стандартом для работы с неструктурированными данными — от бэкапов корпоративных систем до наполнения озёр данных (Data Lake) для аналитики. Однако переход от простого использования API к построению на базе S3 отказоустойчивой и безопасной инфраструктуры часто оказывается сложнее, чем кажется на первый взгляд, а многие встроенные механизмы остаются невостребованными. И связано не столько с отсутствием бизнес-потребности, сколько с недостаточным пониманием того, как именно эти функции работают. 

Чтобы устранить подобные «слепые зоны», в статье разберём, как с помощью объектных хранилищ решаются ключевые задачи обеспечения безопасности, катастрофоустойчивости и эффективности хранения.

Привет, на связи команда GigaChain! Мы занимаемся агентными системами и развиваем набор open source-решений для подключения агентов к GigaChat API.

LangChain развивается с 2022 года и выросла в одну из самых популярных экосистем для агентов: у основной библиотеки более 140 тысяч звёзд на GitHub. Благодаря LangGraph — движку, который исполняет агента как граф с состоянием, — с её помощью собирают и простые цепочки вызовов, и сложные автономные агенты, ведущие задачу на сотни шагов. Поверх этого стека команда LangChain выпустила Deep Agents — готовую агентную обвязку (agent harness): рабочую среду с файловой системой, оболочкой, планировщиком, субагентами и памятью, в которую остаётся лишь поместить модель.

Сегодня мы подробно разберём эту обвязку: из чего она состоит и как собрать на ней агента, работающего на GigaChat.

Rebecca Feinglos never expected to get divorced. She’d been with her partner for nine years, and married for six, but finally she had to admit to herself that her relationship had taken an abusive turn.

It was 2021 when she decided to end it. But Feinglos was surprised to discover then that the state she was living in, North Carolina, requires couples to reside in separate homes continuously for a full year before they can even file. 

“In amicable divorces you could lie, but I did not have an amicable divorce,” she told me. “It took 18 months for my divorce to be signed by a judge, and we did not have children.”

When she was finally out of her marriage she felt angry. She knew that many people could not afford to live in separate places, let alone pay for the attorneys needed to navigate all the fraught legal proceedings. Feinglos, a former state government employee with a master’s degree in public policy, started researching divorce laws nationwide. “It was so confusing even for me,” she said. “This was before ChatGPT, and all the Google search results were from family attorneys saying, ‘Oh this is really complicated, you definitely need to hire us to help you.’” She has spent the years since pushing to change those laws.

North Carolina is one of a handful of states, including South Carolina and Arkansas, that require couples to live separately for a set period before they can file for no-fault divorce. Most states make couples wait after they file, a “cooling-off” period meant to give spouses a chance to change their minds. In Wyoming, it’s 20 days. In Missouri, 30. In California, couples need to wait six months, and having children can stretch the timelines further. In some states the clock only starts when one’s spouse is formally served, which means a husband or wife who’s hard to track down can add weeks to the wait before it even begins.

“The system sets people up for conflict, sets people up for war,” said Erin Levine, a former divorce lawyer who founded a company that helps people navigate divorce outside the traditional law firm model. “In some states it’s called a ‘petition,’ in some states it’s called a ‘complaint,’ the forms say ‘spouse v. spouse’ — you are being sued.”

This issue runs, inevitably, into the culture wars. Today some conservatives are trying to make it even harder to get divorced, part of a broader push to strengthen the traditional nuclear family, built on the argument that children fare better when parents stay together. Over the last few years Republican lawmakers in states like Missouri, Tennessee, and Texas have considered new restrictions on no-fault divorce, which lets a person end a marriage without proving their spouse did something wrong. Others have proposed expanding so-called covenant marriages, which require counseling before the wedding and allow divorce only for specific reasons like adultery or abuse. House Speaker Mike Johnson has long endorsed making divorce harder, and Vice President JD Vance has complained that no-fault divorce allows people to “shift spouses like they change their underwear.” (Faced with criticism, a spokesperson later said that Vance does not support changes to divorce law.) 

But as more people come forward with stories of the financial cost, family stress, and even physical danger of extended divorce proceedings, there’s a growing push to address their complaints by making it easier to separate and divorce rather than harder. In 2023, Maryland lawmakers eliminated fault-based divorce entirely, cut Maryland’s separation mandate from a year to six months, and let couples count as separated even while living under the same roof. Washington, DC, has gone further. The same year, the DC Council unanimously scrapped its requirement that couples separate before divorce, and in Virginia, a law that took effect just last month lets people get in front of a judge on the first day they separate, instead of waiting six months or a year to sort out custody, support, and who stays in the house.

The issue has gotten more attention on social media over the last few weeks, as Jen Hamilton and Hadley (Vlahos) Fairley, two bestselling authors with more than 7 million followers across Instagram and TikTok, have started speaking out about how divorce laws in their respective states affect women like them. Hamilton, who is based in North Carolina and separated from her husband in June, has blasted the “asinine, outdated, and paternalistic laws” that keep people trapped in marriages, and has been fundraising on her platforms to help women afford to escape their unsafe relationships. 

Fairley, based in Mississippi, has been recounting the many court filings, legal fees, and emotional pain she endured for nearly three years trying to end her marriage. A no-fault divorce in Mississippi requires both spouses to agree to it, and when they don’t, the only way out is to prove in court that your spouse did something wrong, like adultery or desertion. In May, after eleven days in court, a judge finally granted Fairley a divorce, determining that her ex-husband’s conduct met the state’s legal standard for “habitual cruel and inhuman treatment,” citing a DUI he lied about under oath, more than $200,000 in secret trading losses that were mostly her earnings, a cancer diagnosis he faked to get her sympathy, and months of messages the judge called harassing and manipulative. Custody and the division of their assets are still unresolved, and more trial days are set for September.

“I understand burden of proof for a murder trial, but when it’s your personal life it’s very different,” Fairley told me. “I mean, you’re having our friends and our family go on the stand and testify to what they witnessed and it’s incredibly intrusive…even my therapy notes were subpoenaed.” 

Feinglos has been watching this all, and feeling cautiously hopeful that a reform bill pending in her state’s legislature might finally gain traction. “I do believe we’re at an inflection point,” she said.

The wait itself is the danger

Until the late 1960s, ending a marriage meant proving in court that your spouse had done something the state recognized as wrong, like cheating or abandonment. The burden fell on whoever wanted out, and meeting it often meant airing intimate details that judges weighed differently depending on whether a husband or a wife was asking. Starting in 1969, when California enacted the first no-fault law, states began letting couples divorce without assigning blame. Most followed within a decade, though holdouts like New York lingered. Divorce rates, already rising, peaked around 1980.

The laws mandating divorce waiting periods carry the logic of that earlier system. States tend to justify them by saying couples might reconcile if they’re given time. States also argue that decisions about custody and property shouldn’t be made quickly in the heat of the moment. Underneath both rationales is a theory that married households are valuable to the public, especially where children are involved, and so the state has a responsibility to slow couples down rather than treating marriages like contracts either side can simply cancel. 

Critics have long argued that the first rationale doesn’t hold up, since couples rarely reconcile during the waiting period and few people end a marriage on a whim. The second, they say, ignores what the wait actually does to someone leaving an unhappy or unsafe marriage, which is put them in danger. Separation is one of the most dangerous periods in an abusive relationship, and researchers have found that homicide risk climbs when an abuser senses they are losing control. Some research suggests a court’s intervention can make things worse rather than better if it provokes retaliation without actually getting the victim away from the abuser.

This danger has become a major issue in Virginia, where the push for divorce reform has been closely tied to a horrific murder-suicide by a prominent Democratic politician that made national headlines. 

Cerina Fairfax spent nearly two years in the same house as the husband she was trying to divorce, former Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax. Up until last month, Virginia required couples with children to be separated a year before they could file, though permitted them to spend that year under one roof, so long as they could show a judge the marriage was genuinely over. When she finally filed for divorce in July 2025, her husband — a lawyer, representing himself — argued she hadn’t specified that she intended their separation to be permanent and in January a judge agreed with the technicality. Cerina Fairfax was told she could amend her complaint and try again. At some point during the proceedings she installed cameras throughout their house.

On March 30 a judge granted her sole physical custody and ordered Justin Fairfax to move out within a month. He was still there when he shot her in the house in the middle of April and then killed himself. Their two teenagers were home, and the cameras were recording.

Virginia’s new divorce law had just been signed days earlier. Tucked into it was an order for a work group to study whether the state should scrap fault-based divorce altogether. Activists pushing officials to take that next step point to the Fairfax episode, arguing it shows the dangers of prolonged divorce proceedings with a spouse who could become unstable or threatening. The report is due to the legislature in December.

Courtenay Schwartz, the legal and policy director for the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance, told me that while the change that just took effect in Virginia is a big one, her state’s laws still make it “very onerous” to get divorced, noting that the requirement to be separated still stands. 

“If you have someone interested in dragging out the process which Justin Fairfax was, it can really get drawn out and run in the hundreds of thousands of dollars,” she said. “It’s just prohibitively expensive, especially if you are experiencing domestic violence.” 

Schwartz says Virginia Democrats, who control both chambers of the legislature and the governor’s office, have grown increasingly interested in “access to justice” issues, meaning reforms that make the legal system navigable for people who can’t afford a lawyer. This has been driven partly by a 2022 Legal Services Corporation study that found 92 percent of the civil legal problems experienced by low-income Americans received inadequate or no legal help. 

North Carolina’s governor tells Vox he backs reform

Woodson Bradley, a Democratic state senator in North Carolina, won her first race in 2024 by just 209 votes, in a district the Republican-controlled legislature had redrawn the year before. She holds one of the most competitive seats in the state.

Now Bradley is the lead sponsor of SB 626, which would cut North Carolina’s separation requirement from a year to six months and let survivors of domestic violence file for divorce immediately, with no separation at all. It’s been stalled in committee for nearly a year and a half.

The issue is personal to Bradley, who experienced domestic violence in her 20s while living in another state. “When I left I was tracked down and beaten, and there were no real stalking laws back then in the 1990s,” she told me. She later moved to North Carolina, remarried someone “who I thought was wonderful, had two kids, and then things weren’t wonderful anymore.”

Bradley soon found herself in yet another abusive, coercive relationship, fleeing with her children, an experience she describes as “the most brutal thing I’ve ever been through.” It took her years to finally get a divorce, because her ex-husband continued to contest and extend the proceedings. 

Jen Hamilton, the famous labor and delivery nurse and author of the New York Times bestselling book Birth Vibes, has been raising the issue on her platforms and talking with Bradley about changing North Carolina’s laws.

“Jen speaking out is very much changing things,” Bradley told me, adding that although the issue is very partisan in North Carolina, five Republican lawmakers have reached out to her recently about her bill. Past efforts at reform in North Carolina have failed, including in 2015, 2019, and 2021.

North Carolina’s lame-duck Senate leader Phil Berger, who lost his Republican primary in March, did not return requests for comment but a spokesperson for North Carolina’s Democratic Gov. Josh Stein told me he supports reform. 

“North Carolinians don’t need government making their life harder, especially during some of their darkest times,” they said. “The Governor is willing to work with anyone to ensure our laws are more appropriate for the world we live in today.” Last year Stein signed a bill that made habitual domestic violence a felony.

For Rebecca Feinglos, the proposals moving through Raleigh are still catching up to what she already lived through.

“I remember the line in my divorce decree allowing me to change my last name back to my maiden name, my now late father’s last name,” she said. “Every moment I had to use my married name throughout the proceedings felt like a reminder that I was still stuck in a life I didn’t want.”