At this point, he’s an out of touch billionaire. He’s been so rich for so long he’s completely out of touch with reality. I remember thinking this when I heard his recent interview with Matt Farah on the Smoking Tire and he went on a tangent about transcendental meditation.

https://xkcd.com/327 the original is even better :)

Don’t check out the violin family… They don’t have sound holes, they have F- holes.

Y’all need high availability in your lives.

Giant shirtless executioners then, I guess.

As an operator, this who thread reads like a bunch of devs who don’t understand networking and refuse to learn.

Sure, for smaller applications or small dev teams it doesn’t make sense. But for so many other things it does.

I like how people assume they bought them to make games instead of buying them to eliminate the competition.

They know, they just don’t give a shit beyond short term gains.

Best way to make the switch is by immersion. I’d also like to add it’s best to do it when you’re not being forced on a timeline, and you have time to deal with it. All my personal machines made the jump 7 years ago and I don’t regret it.

Agreed, IaC has helped that process a lot. I just used to curse.

I agree. However… I do have a public repo with my helper scripts in case I need to set them up on a new machine. best of both worlds!

If I had to guess after managing enterprise WAF across hundreds of domains…

It’s either a crowler or vulnerability scanner, and may be scanning by IP address. I don’t think you configured anything wrong.

You may want to add some form of captcha or user agent based filter to get rid of it. Good news is that it’s not necessarily something to worry about.

I’d avoid IP based blocking. It’s only temporarily effective.

I’m personally using Mint for this exact purpose. It just works and I don’t have to think about it much.

I love Mint for the simplicity. My only complaint is the lack of Wayland support for cinnamon.

Nor should it be.

I’m in this comment and I don’t know how to feel about it.

I see 803 forks currently, keep up the good work!