EvanKnowles

I'd say to say "Yeah, this was a long time ago"... but this could probably still happen.

They shouldn't have, a lot went wrong here.

We had a prod case where a server was being flooded with requests, and a downstream server kept falling over. We figured it was an attack of some sort and investigated, eventually traced it back to a computer inside our own network (we're a big computer, five floors of computers).

It had an open file share, containing some Delphi books and from which we got the computer name too. So we walked over to the Delphi team's side, and kept yelling the computer name until some dude said "Hey, that's me!"

Turns out he was running a test-case, in an infinite loop until it worked (because that's how test cases worked), and he thought he was pointed at QA, but he somehow had it set up to target Prod.

Our job was done at that point, we left the rest to management (who made sure he didn't get fired but didn't do it again).

Following a comment I saw on HN, we now have several code snippets that we ask them to read through (biggest is like 12 lines) and tell us, at a high level, what it's trying to do. Great results, we've found people who learnt all the lingo completely failed when it came to reading and interpreting code.

Yeah, my team of experienced devs were all surprised by this. To the source they went, and found it was true. Not that we'd generally end up hashing a URL, but still.

Whew, hopefully Europe has banned all travel to North America.

Accounting for imposter syndrome, I Am Maybe Not A Mathematician

And South Africa is still masked, sanitized, curfewed, and travel banned. Weird.

Israel just detected some cases, I assume travel from there will be banned too?

This is entirely it - we have plenty of vaccines, there's no queue at vaccination centres, people just aren't getting vaccinated.

I think we all want the Metaverse, we just don't want it controlled by anyone.

Anyone who likes this will probably like: https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingInOneWeekend.ht...

Looks like it has CORS issue.

Pretty awesome, select not working on my side (which is obviously a core component of MSPaint muckery, when you hold down shift and paint your selection like a brush)

Well, I mean the system clearly works? Not sure it's a CI/staging thing, some date just expired in prod.

Ah - that explains a lot, I was expecting to understand a lot less of it ;)

My PHP is poor, but it looks like it was being changed to check for a string coming in via a "typo'd" HTTP_USER_AGENTT header, that started with zerodium, and then eval the string without the zerodium prefix on the server.

Reminds me of that Linux compromise years ago where they picked it up because the change was directly on the build box, except at least that one was hidden behind an apparent `=` vs `==` "bug" - this one has a bit less style.

Don't believe in magic - learn how things work.

Yeah, mute button not working in Chrome either.

Apart from the awfulness of it all, anyone else get EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus vibes from the photos?

Indeed, if you already know everything you don't need to learn anything.

Anyone know of something similar that ships to more countries? I've been looking for something like this, but I'm in South Africa.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

They'll probably be grumpier about the bad bots thing.

Xcode - watch it freak out over clicking 'Upload to app store'

Illusions, by Richard Bach.

Wow, Facebook has changed a lot - only thing that tipped me off that this was an older (but still relevant) article.

Just write it in Markdown and render it out?

What a massively blanketing title. I've never had this issue, that apparently affects an entire continent.

I just clicked continue about 10 000 times and I still have no idea what this is.