Notices by Bálint Szilakszi (szbalint@x0r.be)

They say Austrians are unfriendly, but here is proof

The best thing about reading a lot is that I don’t remember some of even good, great books beyond a decade _that_ much, so I get to reread them after 7-10 years.

I mean I remember they were great, and get to discover _why_ from scratch.

If you even wanted to see what a hatchet job looks like, here is a great example of it: https://www.ft.com/content/73a1836d-0faa-4c84-b973-554e2ca3a227

Look, life is complicated but trying to sell the story that "democrats shifted too far to the left, including dem leadership", then you are on crack.

Mastodon is not a healthy software project.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/graphs/contributors

A couple of thoughts:

- Eugen is clearly contributing at a decreased rate
- There are between 2-5 main contributors for most of the last few years

Recent posts about how contributions are welcomed and who gets to add ideas and thoughts would seem to have merit here.

I don't believe that there would be so little energy in the fediverse or that this would be about competing visions.

I think I’ve not just left Twitter behind (years ago), but also the _idea_ of twitter.

The following of world events from a commentator point of view, the viral rage or despair or funny cycles, the sniping.

This is also why the vibe on Bluesky feels off for me - I have no interest in getting back to this type of network, especially not one in the hand of venture capital based in the US.

What are good european email providers?

So I’ve had a very long experience dealing with something similar as I’m originally from Hungary and watched that country exist in autocracy for 14 years.

My advice: if you’re not in the US - tune it out.

TUNE IT OUT.

You are not a low-information person, since you’re reading this here.

You know the general direction of things, no need to beat yourself up on a daily basis about all the atrocities. It will help no one.

Ok it’s late here on Sunday, so let's talk about Viktor Orban.

Specifically, his second term.

What second term? You might be surprised to learn that he did not launch his dictatorship the first time he came into power in 1998.

No, him narrowly losing in 2002 and then spending the next 4 years seething with resentment produced his system.

In 2006 a russian-leaked recording of then-PM Gyurcsany basically toppled the government.

Only, Orban was more strategic than Trump, he did not want a quick win.

He deliberately crafted his strategy to keep the discredited PM in power for four more years, so that in the end in 2010 he could - and did - take power with a very large majority.

Oh, and also his election message before 2010 was a “blank cheque”. No manifesto of promises, nothing beyond “trust us”.

Do not confuse any potential 2nd Trump term with his first one.

@GossiTheDog 20k isn’t even a large number of systems, i regularly see probing ddos attempts with many multiples of that

Councils definitely can’t self-manage ddos mitigation

I’m not opposed to trying to settle in space stations or on Mars eventually (they are about the same propositions from a habitat point of view)

But I’d like to see around a thousand people live in a self-contained habitat at the South Pole without regular resupplies for years at a time first.

@hanno not if major news orgs don’t even get the company name right:

@GossiTheDog Crowdstrike / SOC managing Crowdstrike is saying that there is no possibility to pause these type of updates (we asked). “It would not have prevented this incident.”

@jalefkowit in retrospect i’m not sure what the alternate universe with President Al Gore would have looked like, probably a 1 term president with then McCain next

People like to call Obama centrist these days but he was an adult feeling real responsibility for a wide range of topics

@ElleGray I don't get it

Doctor Strange before the accident vs Doctor Strange after the accident?

@thomasfuchs @codinghorror super strange reading this in Vienna (when i was born on the eastern side of that border)

and yeah, things can turn to bad really fast

@GossiTheDog two weeks is quite impressively fast

Assuming that people have deployed eg HAProxy, there are like a dozen different timeout options that you can specify to deal with edge cases.

When you have enough clients those edge cases start to matter quite a lot.

So assuming you’ve configured all those timeouts in HAProxy, are you safe?

No. What HAProxy docs do not sufficiently emphasize is that you need to set a bunch of kernel/tcp level settings as well in order for HAProxy to behave reasonably.

@fulelo or as they say it regarding the war, “the russian spacecraft successfully intercepted the Moon and prevented it from reaching its operational objectives”

@doot not sure if you're aware but someone is spreading content of you on https://blog.duck.rodeo/