Chris Williams

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"This is what your life is: whatever it is you get up to do every single day." https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-trap-you-set-for-yourself/
The Trap You Set For Yourself

The Dan Ariely books, Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality, profoundly influenced the way I design my massively multiplayer typing games. These books offer science in the small about human behavior, and stark insights into user behavior – and by that I mean our own behavior. All detectives are by

Coding Horror
Kubernetes in the 80s
Joined ACM 21 years ago. Love to see this! https://www.acm.org/publications/openaccess
Open Access Publication & ACM

Open Access Publication & ACM

“Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten” https://www.oncontracts.com/monster-cables-picked-the-wrong-guy-to-threaten/
Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten

Monster Cables, which makes extremely high-priced stereo cables, has apparently sent a cease-and-desist letter to Blue Jeans Cable, alleging various kinds of infringement. Bad move – the pres…

On Contracts
linux top explained

{turnoff.us} is a webcomic that explores the worlds of programming, operating systems, and tech professional life.

turnoff.us
Neil deGrasse Tyson on climate change https://youtu.be/tRA2SfSk2Tc
How I Think About Climate Change

YouTube
Gotta admire judges who stick to the law even when the powerful are watching—like referees calling penalties on their boss’s kid.

For the past 4.5+ years, MasterCard has had a typo in its DNS records, where one of its domains was named as a22-65.akam.ne, instead of a22-65.akam.net (Akamai).

Fortunately for MasterCard, the person who figured this out is one of the good guys, and he's actually here on Mastodon: @titon. I interviewed @titon -- Philippe Caturegli, founder of the security firm Seralys, in a story last year on domain name collisions.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/08/local-networks-go-global-when-domain-names-collide/

Curiously, a look into the passive DNS for this domain via DomainTools indicates that someone in Russia registered this domain akam.ne in 2016 and had it sporadically resolve to an IP address in Germany for a few years (185.53.177,31). May have also involved the email address [email protected].

Just a reminder to check your DNS records for typos. Because if you don't control the domain name that your name servers are pointing to, there is virtually no end to the world of hurt that crooks can visit on your organization.

Local Networks Go Global When Domain Names Collide – Krebs on Security

The Evolution of SRE at Google

USENIX