AudaciousArmadillo

@AudaciousArmadillo@piefed.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What actually happens in a DDOS attack?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Others mentioned good points but don’t really capture the scale or techniques. A high volume DDoS may even overwhelm the network equipment, so simply saturating the network with garbage traffic. On the smaller scale, a server has limited resources to handle connections. So in the most extreme case, you simple run out of memory to store all the incoming requests. More likely you exhaust a thread pool or run out of connection handles. This “breaks” the server as it may not have resources left to recover to a working state even after the attack has stopped.

  As for techniques, DDoS don’t just spam genuine requests. Usually the requests are malformed to have the worst impact on the servers. For example you only send the connection request without completing the full handshake. Now the server has to wait until the connection times out which consumes resources for a potentially long time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC gamers win the first battle against Valve Corporation as £656m competition claim receives judicial approval⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, those expensive PC games. Much cheaper on console and on the first party stores of the publishers, yes yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vimeo Lays Off 'Most' of Its Staff, Allegedly Includes 'the Entire Video Team'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh not really. Those are not some minimal wage employees that have no choice but to work for them. They are highly skilled and sought-after employees. Should companies be forced to employ people even when they do not need them? Sounds pretty silly to me. Instead just give everyone basic universal income and let them do something they choose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vimeo Lays Off 'Most' of Its Staff, Allegedly Includes 'the Entire Video Team'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get your sentiment and I don’t really like Bending Spoons either. But the reality is that they buy somewhat failing business that have absurd costs that they cannot offset with their revenue. Most tech companies are way too large for the things they do. That’s how Bending Spoons succeed; because they can get the same or more revenue with a fraction of the man power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vimeo Lays Off 'Most' of Its Staff, Allegedly Includes 'the Entire Video Team'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t really “coast” on the income. They have the engineering and desire to run their investments very long term. Of course they still fire almost everyone, so if you even get a hint of them trying to acquire your company you should start looking elsewhere…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vimeo Lays Off 'Most' of Its Staff, Allegedly Includes 'the Entire Video Team'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Quite a few early employees of Bending Spoons are Ex-Google, but it’s not a conspiracy to squash some irrelevant competition. Just business/greed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A recent Scott Manly video about radiation in space https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DJcbevbBzsc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you do with dent corn?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sanest lew lew clip