Daniel Cid @dcid@noc.social

DNS matters ... here is a song to help bring that point home.. seems like an appropriate time to share this..

https://soundcloud.com/ryan-flowers-916961339/dns-to-the-tune-of-let-it-be

Apparent root cause for half of the internet being down… https://edgedns.status.akamai.com/

Apple also has 16.7 million IPs. And AT&T has the same. And the US postal service - they don't even deliver email (nor real mail anymore). The US DoD has 233M IPv4 addresses ($9B in market value). That's like 5% of all IPs ever available. And small ISPs struggle to get 250.

IPv4 addresses used to be gratis. Today they're selling for ~40 USD each. Ford (!!) got 16.7 million IPs for free, hardly using them. Today they're worth $670M, a better value increase than any crypto currency. At the same time new ISPs can't be started because lack of IPs.

"Devs be like"

submitted by Navid_Shams

So the Stripe API docs show you the actual data from your last test call as the documentation example.

What a thoughtful feature.

#design

Interesting story from a Chrome extension developer about how bad actors try to get their malicious code inserted into the extensions or even try to buy the extensions outright.

https://micahcantor.xyz/blog/extension-developer-emails/

@dcid
I've heard multiple stories like this, but I also know 2 persons working 't Amazon calling it an amazing employer. I guess they work in a department where margins don't matter and are on the good side. It saddens me that stories like these exist in 2021, slavery shouldn't exist but clearly it does

@dcid I still remember the stupid conversion at the CA/B forum where Google reps were adamant that their “super secret” analysis said this was the way to go …

New feature at NOC allows you to optimize the relationship between the CDN and your cluster of origin servers..

How cool is that? Specifically designed for admins running GCE / AWS clusters for their origins and also using a CDN..

Check it out : https://noc.org/2021/06/09/optimized-origin-with-the-noc-cdn/ #cdn #networking #authdns

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Automattics JetPack plugin overrides user defined controls to stop auto-updates...

Am I the only one that things there is so much wrong with this? https://noc.org/2021/06/03/automattics-jetpack-plugin-for-wordpress-abuses-user-defined-settings-calls-into-question-auto-updates/ #security #wordpress