This was special. A client’s Drupal site went down for nearly 24 hours Fri-Sat night because their Twitter feed view somehow triggered massive amounts of traffic in & out from Twitter’s API servers.

tcpdump was just streaming constant inbound & outbound traffic from the same /24 belonging to Twitter.

It was a Saturday night so I disabled the widget and will look into it more during the week. I would have imagined they’d have some kind of rate limiting on failure.

We have all this advanced technology but still Tinder can’t figure out that it is not 30 miles from New Haven to anywhere on Long Island.

I’ve had some wild multi-state first dates but I’m not getting on the Bridgeport/Port Jefferson ferry for Jessie from Huntington, sorry.

(Sorry Jessie from Huntington, I’m sure you’re a lovely person. It’s not you, it’s geography.)

Pretty impressive, honestly. #ChatGPT

(No, I'm not rewriting my telephony code in COBOL. Unless....)

Continuing my annual Thanksgiving tradition.

Dade?
Yeah ma?
What are you doing?
I’m taking over a TV network.
Finish up, honey, and get some sleep.

NYC followers, I hope you’ll join me and the CovertAction Magazine & CovertAction Bulletin team at The People’s Forum for our end-of-year holiday party on December 1!

So far our speaker list includes:
Benjamin Norton * Stephen Donziger * Eva Bartlett * John Kiriakou * Ray McGovern * Gloria La Riva * Randy Credico * Ashley Gjøvik * and more!

Tickets & more info: https://bit.ly/3t04ZVi