catminou

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by catminou 3y ago
"ddos" via DMCA requests is an actual thing. There are actual methods that a few ddos-as-a-service providers provide (aka booters or stressers) that will fling tons of DMCA/abuse reports at your hosting/cloud provider to
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by catminou 3y ago
I wonder how many folks learned of tcl/tk cause of eggdrop.
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by catminou 3y ago
I remember in the 90s a classmate in my junior high lived across the street from the house that Ted grew up in (evergreen park, il). When all this was going down he mentioned how before it went public that there was a suspicious amount of p
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by catminou 3y ago
At the time I recall a lot of drama around Fincher taking it on ("mtv music video director takes on alien project"). Also there is the case of how did the egg get on the sulaco, which isn't clear.
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by catminou 3y ago
I didn't see it mentioned here but if you watch the documentary on Alejandro Jodorowsky attempting to make Dune - the collection of folks he brought together (for a project that didn't happen) ended up being key folks in making Al
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by catminou 3y ago
For botnets, yes. For L7 request floods - they spin up a few dozen machines and use open & private proxies to funnel http requests thru. Sometimes those proxies are misconfigured squid, sometimes it's private proxy services, someti
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by catminou 3y ago
Security updates is the important part. Particularly when dealing with vulnerable equipment which can be compromised and botnet malware dropped on it. A 0 day in a popular DVR/NVR or home router can lead to tens of thousands of devices
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by catminou 3y ago
Is it going to be Beetlejuice goes Hawaiian like originally planned? (That was the actual pitch for several years)
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by catminou 3y ago
India is well known for blocking CDNs IPs for a variety of reasons (don't like the content, or because you can VPN on top of them). I've seen some CDNs who don't use anycast and rely primarily on DNS to cycle thru the IP pool
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by catminou 3y ago
Folks sometimes start as consumers of ddos services and at some point realize they can run their own service and make money, buy API access into other booters to begin (reselling but the customer doesn't know) and then they figure out
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by catminou 3y ago
I recall looking at the various charts and from what I recall the "discolored water" notation was sourced from a chart several decades before and was offset by a few miles (incorrectly charted in the first place).
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by catminou 3y ago
Don't forget the VPN providers who turn their customers machines as egress nodes without making it obvious they're doing so.
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by catminou 3y ago
My recollection is that they're still selective in the US. Maybe that's changed.
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by catminou 3y ago
Ok you're being sent to pops in northern Virginia, that's a big problem. Lemme reply back with some other commands to figure out which DNS resolver public IPs you are coming from..
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by catminou 3y ago
I agree in that the Canadian ISP market has had a rough ride for a long time. Until the mid 2000s when Cogent and other folks (GTT) rolled into Canada, TELUS, Bell and other companies were charging obscene rates for IP transit. For several
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by catminou 3y ago
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/story/2019...
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by catminou 3y ago
What are you using for DNS?
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by catminou 3y ago
Are you near Utah? The fact you are being routed to a cloudfront pop in IAD is kinda broken. What are you using for your DNS resolver?
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by catminou 3y ago
Because they believe you are customers. This is no different than me approaching Verizon or at&t and demanding they peer with me.
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by catminou 3y ago
This has nothing to do with torix. This has to do with bell and telus sees you as customers, not peers.
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by catminou 3y ago
Yes a few ISPs actually do this (not just for Netflix, but for other sites in general).
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by catminou 3y ago
Cpdlc is primarily used for oceanic clearances and follow ups (going off track due to weather, speed changes etc.).
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by catminou 3y ago
Pilot but trained for ATC in my 20s. I assure you the mental picture you need to keep in your head as a controller is far more taxing than single pilot operation when you are primarily concerned with your own separation. A controller can be
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by catminou 3y ago
I believe during the shutdown there was a period they weren't receiving compensation for hours worked. Keep in mind that due to understaffing - folks were already working additional hours/days on top of that. I believe they eventu
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by catminou 3y ago
Just a few years ago during the government shutdown controllers were legit concerned about being paid (and from what I recall - they weren't. Airlines were literally sending pizzas to control towers and facilities).
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by catminou 3y ago
Canada already has a usage fee for using ATC services fwiw. Based upon type / weight and distance traveled you get charged per flight. Same thing could be used here - not sure it's going to fix some of the fundamental issues of la
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by catminou 3y ago
Implying flying planes is the same as controlling is kinda wrong.
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by catminou 3y ago
GA folks generally aren't taxing the atc system. Most are vfr and not on a plan.
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by catminou 3y ago
When you hear stories from controllers both in the US and other nations about the constant pressure to cut corners and operate with fewer people I think you do need an organization to advocate for them. Look at that midair in Europe (euro c
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by catminou 3y ago
US military filled some of it up (air force and navy are two big training pipelines for controlling). Then a lot of new hiring afterwards.

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