News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

seren1

Re:Fast on Thursday July 31, 2025 @09:07AM (#44745254)
Is this Terragon's offering, or does Cursor also have web-based background agents?
Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @07:19PM (#33713419)
Even discounting external changes, any reasonably complex system needs maintenance because time moves on and new interactions happen.

How many SSL certificates (internal or external) need re-issuing per month? Some of that can be automated, but in an organization as large as complex as Twitter some will be bespoke and manual, and a code freeze won't stop the clock.

How many new CVEs per month apply to Twitter's services and tooling? How many race conditions or other bugs are lurking, just waiting for the right time or traffic pattern to emerge? Twitter can't freeze inbound traffic without dire consequences.

Twitter is like your car, except that it's always running.

Re:Google rewrites many page titles on Thursday January 27, 2022 @01:03PM (#30103830)
TIL that indexing and crawling are different, and robots.txt prevents Google from crawling but not indexing.
Re:Dhcpcd Will Need a New Maintainer on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @12:17PM (#26493238)
Ugh, Paypal is still the worst. My transaction got flagged; maybe they think "DHCP" is some new street drug?

I really hope he doesn't have trouble withdrawing the funds. Paypal is known for freezing funds, sometimes for years.

From their email:

> On March 16, 2021, you sent a payment (xxxxxxxxxx ) for the amount of $xxxxx for "DHCP and DHCPd were significant in my early career. Best wishes." Please provide the following information: > > • An explanation of the reference to "DHCP ." > • The purpose of this payment, including a complete and detailed explanation of what is intended to be paid for.

Re:Null on Sunday January 17, 2021 @02:33AM (#25808952)
Having owned a diesel car, I can confirm this is actually the case. The nozzles where I live are are keyed to prevent mishaps.