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tdp_org

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Lead Architect @ BBC. Snowboarder, skateboarder. Oxfordshire, UK. Opinions mine. He/Him.
Interested in #serverless #nodejs #googlecloud #terraform #bigquery #analytics #web #cdn #http #tls #http2 #http3 #security #infosec #privacy #webperformance #webperf etc.

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tdp_org, to random
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BBC Websites are officially blocked in Russia & China.

China blocks via DNS (returns incorrect answers). They probably also monitor for connections outside of China (e.g. using hosts file), I assume they block foreign DNS resolution.

Russia blocks mainly via TLS SNI snooping & connection termination, done by their major ISPs.

There's a big discrepency between the volume of requests we see between the two countries. I honestly don't know why.
Odd.

icing, to random
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Obvious: keyboards should have all the keys on one side, so that we can type everything with one hand comfortably.

tdp_org,
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@icing Just rotate your keyboard 90 degrees. Problem solved 🤣

tdp_org, to infosec
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If you run a public web service, do you attempt to attribute DDOS to an attacker?
If so, how do you do it?

Interested to see what other folks/orgs do.

tdp_org, to webdev
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I made a change on our NEL/Reporting API report collector earlier which changed the response status from 500 to 403 when the client fails to send a valid/any Origin request header on the POST.

This caused a ~2x increase in reports.
(ignore the spikes, they're known)

I then changed the response from 403 to 201 and the reports returned to their previous level. No other changes were made.

Anyone know why this'd be? Would browsers retry on 403?

Edent, (edited ) to random
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Hello friends! I'm still testing out my personal ActivityPub server - and I need your help 🙂

If you click this link → @example ←

Do you see the user's account or a page of JSON code?

If you do see the code, could you please let me know which platform / app you're using?

THANKS GANG!

tdp_org,
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@Edent @example I get a "try original site" error (this is a generic issue with Elk).
If I remove "@mastodon.social" from the URL, it works.
Elk 0.11.0 on Firefox latest, Mac.

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tdp_org, to random
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Dang, Terraform is persistent!
2 hours and 40 minutes to deploy a CDN change.
Thanks for sticking with it TF!

tdp_org,
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@markwalker TBH, I forgot about it after the first 20 minutes 🤣

ianRobinson, to Geology
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The lava from the latest eruption has crossed over a road. I think this is just north of the thermal power plant and the Blue Lagoon. But I could be wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/live/nngyB6sSOYQ?si=KW-ZRWWFyPBV0aKU

tdp_org,
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@ianRobinson It's amazing how fast the lava moves! Looks like the protective berm is still holding at the moment..🤞🏻.

tdp_org, to random
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Just had a look at our logs and in 2 days, there were 81.3 million requests to www.bbc.co.uk and www.bbc.com from clients with "bot" in the user-agent string.
There were just under 10,000 unique user agents.
Seems a touch excessive.

tdp_org,
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@michael Not sure exactly but low single digits percentage

tdp_org, to random
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TIL Yandex is owned by a Dutch company (not for much longer though)
https://therecord.media/yandex-sells-russian-assets-netherlands

tdp_org, to random
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My wife's great aunt died yesterday, aged 104. Fortunately she didn't suffer and was well looked after by the NHS.
She was absolutely hard as nails, fiercely independent - she outlived her husband by about 30 years and still did just about everything herself until the day she died. She was up with the times, did her shopping online, on social media etc. What an awesome lady, she was a real inspiration. Still is.

tdp_org, to random
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A terrible situation but surely rather than burning the trees they could be donated to tree-planting charities?
Wondering if perhaps @Philsturgeon's network of contacts might know someone who'd take the saplings if necessary?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68133750

sil, to random
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Just had the idea of going to all the pubs in the city and running fast.com on their WiFi and then publishing the results, along with whether they make you give up data to connect. Could be a useful resource. The Great British Pub WiFi Guide.

tdp_org,
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@sil Would be ace if it was a website which people could submit data to. That'd be a handy resource for people planning meetings/meetups

tdp_org, to random
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Imagine, if you will, a world where everyone is 100% honest.
There'd be no need for any people to do R&D, design, manufacturing, sales, marketing or support/doign of a massive chunk of everyday goods/services e.g.:

  • Locks & keys etc.
  • Surveillance
  • Policing/Security guards
  • Encryption
  • Military & weapons
  • ...
    It's nuts when you think about how much of what people/buy do results directly from dishonesty.
tdp_org, to github
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If you use Google Cloud Build triggered from a GitHub repo, you can now get the build job logs sent to GitHub (it'll appear in the "details" page for each build job).
You just need to add include_build_logs = "INCLUDE_BUILD_LOGS_WITH_STATUS" to your Cloud Build job config YAML file.

https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/google/latest/docs/resources/cloudbuild_trigger#example-usage---cloudbuild-trigger-include-build-logs

Screenshot of the GitHub details page which shows the Cloud Build logs

chris, to mastodon
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Mastodon really needs to work on how it kills small websites with previews…. my website right now. :(

tdp_org,
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@chris Is the problem the volume of bandwidth it pulls or the request rate?
The former is probably obviously much harder to solve on a budget, caching will help with the latter. A federated cache would be awesome but complex, I assume.

tdp_org,
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@chris If you haven't already, it's probably worth putting the Google cloud CDN in front of the bucket. Should be cheaper that way.

tdp_org, to webdev
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I've only just noticed that GitHub has a "Download SBOM" button on repos, e.g. https://github.com/bbc/simorgh/network/dependencies

It's in SPDX format (https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/v2.3/introduction/) which seems pretty reasonable to me from a machine-reading PoV.

Hopefully being a standardised format means it can be ingested into standardised tooling.

tdp_org, to random
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OK, who's the comedian?

tdp_org, to random
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So here's a new one.
I was crossing the street in front of our local petrol station/shop and a car was pulling out of the same, opposite me.
The driver wasn't indicating and was taking ages so I started walking over the road. The driver then pretty much drove into me so I gestured to him to indicate.
He got out of the car, super aggressive & pushed me. I told him, "if you can't be arsed to indicate, I can't be arsed to wait for you".
He backed down & drove off.
Don't be this guy, people.

tdp_org,
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Once he'd pushed me, I looked in the car and saw his partner and 2 children. What a terrible example to set for your kids. I don't get the need to be so aggressive.
I assume he thought he was being the big guy in front of his family. In reality he just looked stupid.

tdp_org,
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@davehay Oh nice. Yep, that would definitely have applied. Thanks for the info🙌
I'm hoping he reflects on his behaviour and doesn't do it again.

deno_land, to node
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1️⃣ pick a node project
2️⃣ run it with
3️⃣ screenshot the output (success or failure)
4️⃣ share on twitter with
5️⃣ be eligible for prizes 🎁

more details 👇🏻

https://deno.com/blog/node-to-deno-challenge

tdp_org,
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@deno_land Can't people share it here, rather than twitter?
I suspect you'll find that lots of folks here don't use Twitter, including me.

tdp_org, to random
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Waiting for my work computer to do update type stuff so I can work again. Bored. AMA

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