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tweedge

@tweedge@cybersecurity.theater

Security goon at an online-bookstore-slash-server-rental company, adjunct professor at RIT, janitor for r/cybersecurity, and sporadic FOSS contributor. Cat person. Generally cheerful ^_^

Always trying to learn new things, and I'd rather be corrected than be correct. I try to be correct the first time anyway though!

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This is going to burst some bubbles, but traffic levels on #Reddit (AFAIK) appear to be close to normal, including mobile traffic. Data is from r/cybersecurity and may not be representative, would love to see other mods post data.

Those that left will be paving the way for a content-filled threadiverse - we'll see if the next wave of enshittification is as-tolerated if there are more lively alternatives.

tweedge, to random
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"The average consumer just doesn't need symmetric upload bandwidth" - ISPs

Mhm mhm yep yes and you've repeated that for 30+ years, creating a wider and wider moat between download and upload speeds, and now my parents are backing up 1.6TB of family photos/videos over a "10 Mbit" upload connection that shits itself if you push 8 Mbit. But at least they have 300 Mbit download, of which they rarely utilize more than 20%.

ugh.

tweedge, (edited )
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Adequate upload bandwidth isn't something normal folk might need in the future. It's something that kills their internet experience TODAY, straining their ability to smoothly work from home, making appropriate backups a struggle, etc.

tweedge, to random
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@varx swapping to new S3 provider to try improving media performance and reliability, should be a blip

tweedge,
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@varx Done. Moved to iDrive E2 all-SSD storage due to a longish tail from their existing storage. I noticed I'm having trouble reading about 0.25% of files from the source bucket, will figure that out with their support.

tweedge,
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@varx ...aaaand I also found another source of long tail latency in the CDN, which may have been the true problem all along. But god damn if things aren't loading fast for me right now. Hopefully the performance improvement on your end is as noticeable - very happy with this personally!

tweedge, to random
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can I get like a celebratory plaque

tweedge, to random
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For folks here with posting histories on r/cybersecurity, the community is being polled to determine what the community wants to do for the next couple weeks. https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/149bo23/whats_next_for_rcybersecurity_poll_please_vote/

If you are a contributor to r/cybersecurity, especially a longtime contributor, please make your voice heard.

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    tweedge,
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    @GossiTheDog a friend is passing through (was supposed to be on a connecting flight, is now stuck for at least a day) and seems to be in good spirits about partaking in the traditional pastime of queueing

    tweedge, to random
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    Cutting down the cost of some personal projects - today I've nuked $22/mo off my bottom line and the replacements are either equal or superior to the originals.

    • Swapped S3 providers to a lower cost option (Wasabi -> IDrive E2)
    • Killed one EC2 instance and replaced it with a microVM on Fly.io
    • Expanded use of Google Cloud to run a small instance covered by their free plan in us-central1

    Pretty sure I can do the same by tomorrow but we'll see...

    tweedge,
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    @mttaggart Nice! How do you like Azure functions? I haven't mucked about with Azure much, tbh - been sort of looking for a reason to dip my toes in

    tweedge,
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    @mttaggart Hmmm, will give it a look! Looks like good Python support and first-class container support too? Nice nice nice

    tweedge, to random
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    For a handful of reasons, I now have more devices than I know what to do with. Already have primary/backup/remote backup keys. For various reasons I would be uncomfortable giving them away. Are there any fun projects that a Yubikey could be useful for?

    Maybe slot it into a server at home and touch to open SSH for a fixed period? Touch-on-boot to unlock disk encryption? Anyone built something cool here before? Looking for "interesting hobby project" more than "security excellence" :)

    tweedge, to random
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    This I have a little something special. Source material.

    Everyone reading: "What?"

    Source material - that is to say, 30.3 GB of whole genome sequencing results for my cat, Aida.

    tweedge,
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    I am not joking. Magnet below. Creative Commons licensed. Done up in the style of a warez release.

    magnet:?xt=urn:btih:f30779ee80a2282f9705da33a59e81c6f5e37aad&dn=Whole%20Genome%20Sequence%20-%20Aida%20(cat)&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=dht%3a&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.torrent.eu.org%3a451&ws=https%3a%2f%2fgetright.tweedge.net%2f

    tweedge, to random
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    r/cybersecurity discusses joining the US military:

    tweedge, to random
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    Hey everyone, time. I'm Chris, a small voice in the big world of InfoSec.

    You might know me from:

    • Helping to break down emerging information about Spring4Shell
    • Tracking the impact of pro-Ukraine DDoS attacks
    • Trying to figure out why a 2,000-IP botnet was torrenting Ubuntu

    I'm going to be microblogging about the research I have in progress before it's as mature as the stuff I mentioned above.

    I hope you have fun reading and I look forward to learning from folks here! ^_^

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