Notices by Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)

@packetcat ooof.

There is going to be a lot of stuff to learn from the post-mortem.

At this moment, please send #HugOps to folks at DENIC. They are dealing with a really bad and stressful situation and I am sure they are doing their best to resolve it as soon as possible.

#DNS #DENIC

Because it is DNS, everything is cached on multiple levels. Because there are nameservers in different TLDs (which is the correct thing to do!), combined with cache invalidation fun, this will keep looking like intermittent failures for a while most probably.

DENIC's status page:
https://status.denic.de/

Screenshot below in case you're not able to load it (as I said, stuff is going to be intermittently failing).

#DNS #DENIC #DNSSEC #InfoSec #SysAdmin

Here's a thought:

The fact that people are experiencing issues with DE sites and asking if CloudFlare is down speaks volumes about the stability of DE ccTLD and the broader DNS compared to big cloud providers.

:blobcatcoffee:

#DNS #InfoSec #SysAdmin

Looks like DE ccTLD is unresolvable due to DNSSEC issue:
https://dnsviz.net/d/nic.de/dnssec/

😬

#InfoSec #DNSSEC #DNS #Germany

If I am reading this correctly – and I might not, it's been a long day – the issue is not directly with DE itself, but with nic.de.

Which doesn't necessarily make it much better.

And that's why it doesn't make it much better:

;; ANSWER SECTION:
de. 86400 IN NS a.nic.de.
de. 86400 IN NS f.nic.de.
de. 86400 IN NS l.de.net.
de. 86400 IN NS n.de.net.
de. 86400 IN NS s.de.net.
de. 86400 IN NS z.nic.de.

If nic.de. is down, nameservers in nic.de. are down. Which will cause issues for DE.

@jon @pitrh trams are just "light rail" no?

:blobcatpeek:

@leadegroot @paco it was an interesting thought experiment and was somewhat useful for a while.

Remember it was created when computers started doing complex mathematical operations faster than humans could. People started making all sorts of "therefore computers think!" claims.

Turing test was useful in showing that computers of the day did not *actually* think.

Then somehow we ended up using this crutch as a definition of what "thinking" means. 🙄

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@paco/116504499864795870

Richard Dawkins, looking at a high-definition large-screen TV:

"If this is not a window, what more could it possibly take to convince you it is a window?"

#RichardDawkins #AI

Sigh, I wrote about exactly that five years ago, almost to the day:
https://tecc.media/claim-gpt3-is-conscious/

@paco whatever happened to his favourite "extraordinary claims require an extraordinary proof"?..

A lot of people are apparently happily running a script clearly marked as a root exploit from some random website using curl | bash :blobsweat:

Some do inspect the script, but then still run it using curl | bash anyway. :thaenkin:

Incidentally, this very relevant blogpost about detecting curl | bash and serving different scripts based on that is almost exactly a decade old:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230318063325/https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-bash-server-side/

#CopyFail #InfoSec

"assigned ipv6 at boot"

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116442362788989620

Funny how we're all going to be "left behind" because of "inevitable" slop generators… :blobcateyes:

…but somehow nobody is making the same claims about how those who insist on sticking to fossil fuels are already getting left behind by renewables. :blobcatthinking:

Shoe company pivots to AI, gets stock price boost of 600%. 🤡

This is not a bubble. :blobsweat:

After sale of its shoe business, Allbirds pivots to AI
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/after-sale-of-its-shoe-business-allbirds-pivots-to-ai/

#AI #Bubble #AllBirds

Watching a video on an ostensibly technical YT channel.

VPN provider paid promotion bit comes up, talking about how VPN protects you from getting "hacked".

How can I treat the rest of the video seriously if such BS is being peddled? Sigh.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@brian_greenberg/116397041642984392

New rule:

If a tech startup uses a name from the Tolkien universe, it is assumed evil until conclusively proven otherwise.

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116391881326692769

In order to unblock the Strait of Hormuz one must *checks notes* block the Strait of Hormuz.

🤡