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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I rent a botnet?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can outsource things like ddos protection to my cdn provider, but that would still be just kinda hoping I didn’t have any attackable surface I didn’t think of prelaunch.

  In that case, I wonder if your money would be better spent on contracting a security review. If you’re worried about unknown attack surface, I’m not sure that funding organized crime to rent a botnet would help. Botnet operators rely on you to tell them what to attack, so you’re unlikely to discover anything new here. Better to hire a professional and get a fresh opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I rent a botnet?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this something you’re self hosting for fun, or is it some kind of business?

  If you’re running web services for a business, you should look into existing load test tooling/infrastructure. Some of it can be fully managed, or other solutions might have a degree of setup involved (eg spinning up worker nodes in AWS or whatever). The hard part is designing your load test to match IRL traffic patterns, but once you have that down you can confidently answer questions about service scalability.

  A load test is not a DDoS test. Load tests tell you how much legitimate traffic your services can take. DDoS consists of illegitimate traffic which may not correspond to what your web services expect.

  Usually you don’t test your systems for something like a DDoS. You would instead set up DDoS protection through a CDN (content delivery network) to shield yourself and let someone else handle the logistics of blocking unwanted load. It’s a really hard problem to solve.

  Depending on what you want to learn, running your own DDoS is unlikely to be very instructive. Most “DDoS as a service” networks are not going to tell their customers how anything works, they just take your bitcoin and send some traffic where you tell them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When I tell people I don't know the answer but where they can find it and they don't go and read where I told them to read.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe they once read the thing and got an answer, but now they forget what the specific answer was.

  This happens to me often with technical documentation or history books.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would it mean for the world if America was confident they developed a technology that would act as a fool prove deterrent from nuclear attacks what would that mean for the rest of the world?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably more war:

  1. Depending on the country who developed it, the risk of nuclear war could go up.

  If I don’t have to worry about nuclear retaliation, maybe I’m very confident in engaging in war. After all, my nukes will still work, and everyone else’s won’t.

  2. If the technology is shared equally to all countries at the same time, the risk of conventional war could go up.

  Imagine the nuclear armed countries who are enemies of another nation with a bigger military. North Korea vs USA, Pakistan vs India. In these cases, nuclear weapons are a deterrence against the stronger opponent. Without this, the country with a stronger conventional force may be more likely to they think they’ll win a war unscathed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You look like an adventurer with some unusual opinions.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  • Dunmer inhabitants of Vvardenfel generally dislike foreigners, so there’s a base level of racism whenever the player interacts with them (even as a Dunmer yourself, you’re too cosmopolitan for them)
  • Slavery (plantations and mines) is the driving economic force on Vvardenfel. There is extra racism when the player is a Khajit or Argonian
  • Everyone lives under a stagnant theocracy
  • One faction, the Telvanni, are powerful wizards who ignore the government and believe that might makes right

  All of these mean that there’s a certain subset of players who are into this ancap racist stuff IRL and get excited by “roleplaying” Dunmer racism on Reddit threads and the like.

  But for any normal person, these are just aspects of a setting that make for interesting conflict and stories. It’s such a great game, and OpenMW is the best way to play it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me when I zoom past traffic on my e-scooter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Bought an eBike last weekend because I’d rather be soaked by rain than sitting in traffic to/from work. It feels damn good to finally be the person in an otherwise empty bike lane, passing countless cars that are going nowhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The server code could also be released as a binary blob under a proprietary license. No different from distributing any other piece of software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Chrome only?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s probably using WebView, or whatever it’s called where an android app brings up a browser window. If you have Firefox as your default web browser, apps will use it instead of chrome. It’s usually pretty nice, because if you have adblock in Firefox you also get adblock in the app.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Chrome only?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s trying to talk to a device over Bluetooth or USB, it’s not supported in Firefox. Mozilla refuses to implement WebUSB because they think the danger of letting people accidentally flashing malware onto a physical device outweighs the benefits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨infected by the fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  want to get away from big tech uses a filesystem that’s patent encumbered by Oracle

  /s (ZFS is fine, not here to argue about license compatibility)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Least extreme biophysics phd⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand what you’re saying, but his experiment allowed the embryos to come to term and be born as human babies. Scientists have worked with human embryos before and avoided similar outcry by not allowing them to develop further (scientific outcry, not religious). Calling his work an experiment on human embryos ignores the fact that he always intended for his work to impact the real lives of real humans who would be born.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else suddenly itching to blast Nazis in Wolfenstein for no reason at all?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I recommend The Dirty Dozen. It came out in the 60s, so you’re not getting Tarantino level gore. However, it gets so close to that line anyway.

  spoiler

  A horde of Nazis and their wives/mistresses get burned to a crisp and exploded while hiding out in a wine cellar. American soldiers are dropping grenades and pouring gasoline down the air vents.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Killing Games Petition to UK Relaunched⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. Such a transaction would be legally classified as a service: You pay publisher a one-time fee for access to the right to play their game over a known period of time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you ever have the nerve to do THIS?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t have done this, but I do kinda get it.

  We had a 100 person wedding. Friends, close family, and Aunts/Uncles (no cousins, extended relatives). There definitely were people interested in giving us gifts even though they weren’t invited. I told them basically the same thing as this card. It was annoying having to field those requests at the same time as prepping for the wedding, so I could see why someone would send this card preemptively.

  I feel like it would only be trashy if you were really expecting money from these people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I washed my black underwear and now one of my black socks looks brownish on one side. How do I return the sock to its original black?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You should use hcaelb in your next wash. Hcaelb is a waste product generated during the synthesis of bleach. Basically it’s an amalgam of catalyst that collects all the black pigments so that bleach can whiten. Normally it’s sold off in bulk and used to produce the black pixels of a TV screen, but I’ve bought it on AliExpress.

  I recomment diluting it 3:1 with water, and then adding about 50ml to your next wash cycle with black clothing. If that doesn’t work, you can always try coal tar.