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   minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 08:39:16 JST minute

   > The Border Gateway Protocol was sketched out in 1989 by engineers on the back of "three ketchup-stained napkins"

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     Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 08:39:08 JST Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

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     @nblr @miah anyone not scared of bgp does not understand it

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     Miah Johnson (miah@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 08:39:10 JST Miah Johnson

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     @serapath @nblr @mhoye @mntmn We're lucky its working. Remember when L0pht spoke to the US Senate about Internet security, and much of "we can break things" involved BGP.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVJldn_MmMY

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     ~n (nblr@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 08:39:10 JST ~n

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     BGP is among the top things on the "only few people understand but many are scared about" list. 🙄

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     𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓹𝓪𝓽𝓱【ツ】☮(📍🇬🇧) (serapath@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 08:39:11 JST 𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓹𝓪𝓽𝓱【ツ】☮(📍🇬🇧)

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     great, but that can always be said about every working system i guess.

     i would argue trchnical debt is killing us on all fronts. ...it's how oil and coal were holdomg things together for so long and even old timers still work ... yay

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     ~n (nblr@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 08:39:13 JST ~n

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     @serapath @mhoye @mntmn So far BGP has kept the Internet together and El Torito still boots what‘s now considered vintage hardware.

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     𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓹𝓪𝓽𝓱【ツ】☮(📍🇬🇧) (serapath@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 08:39:14 JST 𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓹𝓪𝓽𝓱【ツ】☮(📍🇬🇧)

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     @nblr @mhoye @mntmn
     and also, we will all suffer the consequences for decades to come. yay 🫠

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     ~n (nblr@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 08:39:15 JST ~n

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     @mhoye @mntmn The standard was even named after the restaurant: El Torito :)
     More napkin-engineering please. It seems to be a good ingredient for success :D

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     mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 08:39:16 JST mhoye

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     @mntmn That's where booting from CDs and later USB keys got its start too.