[-] Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 61 points 2 weeks ago

The year is 2024.
It's weird out there for developers. Some of barely scrape by, others live in prosperity.

I myself found a discord server, where I was given 10 grand to flame Kim Jong Un. The contract ended shortly after for I cannot program.

Now I am sitting here in the dim light of my PC, scouring the web for another grand opportunity of flaming some asshole for money.

[-] Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 177 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Imagine paying money to see 2 fucking ads before a video.

[-] Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Wow, this meme has layers.

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The day the phones went down (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de to c/talesfromtechsupport@lemmy.world

This story is a few tears old, but I'll try to remember all the fun parts.

Back then I was working with a company that among other stuff also outsourced telephone services to customers. So they would get their phones from us, all the infrastructure, we did all the technical stuff with the ISP, got everyone their extension and call groups etc.

We had only a hand full of customer who used this service from us, but or company itself of course also relied on it.

Most parts of the infrastructure were customer specific except one. The main entrance/exit server (+backup) into/out of our datacenter. But for our cause, they were so oversized, that no amount of traffic would even be closely able to bring them down. (Or were they)

On usual days we would handle maybe 50-100 external calls simultaneously. Cause remember, those servers were to the outside. All other traffic would not touch them. The servers were (according to the specs) able to do 4000 simultaneous calls.

To the day of the incident. It began around 8 in the morning. We would get a few incidents reporting calls not being established, which we brushed off at first, cause it was more probable that the other site was at fault.

Later one of our customers also opened up incidents reporting this in mass. At this point, we were getting a little worried and looked into the logs. What we found was not fun. Much to our dismay, we saw that we had around 7000 simultaneous calls trying to bomb our system. Most of which were trying to reach one specific customers call center.

After a while we found out that this customer had a countrywide mandatory survey they didn't tell us about. For this survey an external call center was hired to handle all the calls.

We hopped into a call with them and found out a few things: They were expecting about 15-20k calls a day, and their contract said something about "up to 2k" and when questioned, how that would work, they told us about a specific rule in their contract with their ISP. This rule meant that all calls above the 2k limit would get a "number is busy" kinda answer and had to wait or hang up.

We called the ISP. They just told us (and the customer in the same call): "Yeah, we sell that feature, but that doesn't really work and mostly isn't even used..."

So the ISP broke their contract but were to big to fail and the customer didn't tell us enough, but was angry our stuff didn't work.

End of the story was, that we rerouted all the calls directly to the call center and then the call numbers dropped back to a few hundred.

Edit: Survey was mandatory.

[-] Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 41 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

How do you have 25 upvotes? Everything you wrote is wrong.

Linus said, that the rust infrastructure is not stable, is positive about AIs future and happy, that NVIDIA had to step up their open source game.

And even the interviewer mentioned, that the "I only care about the kernel" quote WILL be taken out of context.

And he answered even implied questions...

[-] Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 49 points 4 months ago

Once had a coworker come to office an hour later than planned saying "Sorry, had to say goodbye to my gf".

[-] Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 4 months ago

I can't even use Reddit anymore wince they don't allow VPN users in. (I won't turn it off for them)

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de to c/dach@feddit.de

Die CDU macht grade eine offene Umfrage zum Verbrennerverbot. Keine Anmeldung erforderlich. Da könnt ihr ja auch mal abstimmen, vielleicht bringt es was.

Diese Umfrage ist massiv manipuliert worden. Zehntausende Stimmen sind automatisiert abgegeben worden. Das ist völlig inakzeptabel. Die Umfrage ist daher abgeschaltet worden. Wir stehen als CDU für einen fairen Wahlkampf

[-] Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 40 points 6 months ago

I absolutely hate people naming their program with a word that existed before. At least call it Allpaca ffs. How should I search for errors or stuff in general?

[-] Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 57 points 6 months ago

VSCodium is the open source part of VSCode, so I prefer to use that.

Mull is firefox on android without the proprietary parts. Heliboard is a good android keyboard.

[-] Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 7 months ago

Mozilla VPN vor Mullvad

I mean, Mozilla VPN is Mullvad, so yeah. You can trust Mullvad.

[-] Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 7 months ago

Yeah, it's not too helpful, but maybe they have no more data. If you want to know more, go to https://haveibeenpwned.com/ and enter you e-mail. They maybe know, where your data came from.

Otherwise: Do you have a different and random password for each site? If yes, change your gmail password (in as it was gmail itself) and then watch the news, if a site you use was hacked. If you don't have different password for each site... Well then you are gonna have a fun day changing all you passwords to new ones. And use a password manager and a new random password for each site this time, please.

https://www.fairphone.com/en/about/about-us/?ref=footer

10 years old and greater than ever.

Also the Fairphone 3 is already 4 years old. So they only need to "be here" another 3 years.

[-] Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Use !s for startpage! It's essentially a Google proxy with more privacy.

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