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tjaskoon Three million malware-infected smart toothbrushes used in Swiss DDoS attacks

This article is strange & many details are lacking. All the big smart toothbrushes use BLE and are not WiFi-connected. Tried to fact-check the article, but nothing.

A bunch of BLE chips are also WiFi capable, so not ruling out that someone compromised the firmware to enable WiFi functionality, but I wonder how they were able to connect to WiFi to trigger a botnet in the first place.

Quite skeptical of this article, while the premise of the danger of IoT devices still remains, nonetheless.

tjaskoon Three million malware-infected smart toothbrushes used in Swiss DDoS attacks

Why does it matter? Embedded Java is quite popular. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_Java

tjaskoon Recycled laptop screen as a second PC monitor

Found this on Reddit and thought it belonged here as well... I actually wanted to do this some years ago but gave up as I couldn't figure it out.

tjaskoon Ask HN: How do you name your servers?

Haha, good ol' Star Wars planets here :p. I usually have them all start with the same letter... http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_planets

tjaskoon How We Achieved a .50s Page Load

Hehe, it's my favorite! Solarized Dark is a beast in the terminal too.

tjaskoon How We Achieved a .50s Page Load

Thanks! We use WP Engine to host the site, which they have a pretty nice system set in place to host WordPress. They have a page on their system architecture here: http://wpengine.com/our-infrastructure/

Basically, it just comes down to caching in a brilliant way. But other than that, we did not do anything special to WordPress itself.