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2025-11-06

• 10:39 UTC What the hell have you built. – What the hell have you built. ? Did you just pick things at random? ? Why is Redis talking to MongoDB? ? Why do you even use MongoDB? A single-use-site update for the classic, now-12-year-old architecture shitpost Tags: shitposting funny architecture riak redis mongodb ouch scalability

2025-11-05

• 12:52 UTC Ireland was a key founder of the UN Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons – Ireland was a key founder of the UN Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons TIL that Ireland was a key founder of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty: Within the framework of the United Nations, the principle of nuclear non-proliferation was addressed in negotiations as early as 1957. The NPT process was launched by Frank Aiken, Irish Minister for External Affairs, in 1958. (via Gerard Cunningham) Tags: via:faduda history ireland un nuclear nukes non-proliferation frank-aiken

2025-10-30

• 12:26 UTC Aisuru botnet switches from DDoS to “Residential Proxies” – Aisuru botnet switches from DDoS to "Residential Proxies" Aisuru, the botnet responsible for a series of record-smashing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks this year, recently was overhauled to support a more low-key, lucrative and sustainable business: Renting hundreds of thousands of infected Internet of Things (IoT) devices to proxy services that help cybercriminals anonymize their traffic. Experts say a glut of proxies from Aisuru and other sources is fueling large-scale data harvesting efforts tied to various artificial intelligence (AI) projects, helping content scrapers evade detection by routing their traffic through residential connections that appear to be regular Internet users. Tags: aisuru botnets proxies residential-proxies ai scraping iot infosec security
• 11:50 UTC Tips for stroke-surviving software engineers – Tips for stroke-surviving software engineers James Padolsey suffered a stroke at the age of 29, but has been able to continue his software engineering career despite this. This is a list of some key advice he's collected since then, and is well worth taking on board, even for those of us who are still well but who'd like to reduce cognitive strain in general Tags: programming health strokes brain coding work how-we-work

2025-10-24

• 12:23 UTC episodic-memory plugin for Claude Code – episodic-memory plugin for Claude Code "a memory system for Claude that gives it perfect recall of everything it's worked on as far back as you have logs" Tags: memory llms claude claude-code plugins
• 12:22 UTC asg017/sqlite-vec – asg017/sqlite-vec "A vector search SQLite extension that runs anywhere" -- this is nifty. Vector embeddings in an embedded database! Tags: sqlite databases sql search vectors vector-embeddings fuzzy-matching
• 11:27 UTC Citywest riot raises questions for social media giants – The Irish Times – Citywest riot raises questions for social media giants – The Irish Times This is a huge, huge social problem. People are being paid to hate -- regulation is desperately needed to deal with this: This week’s violence has raised serious questions for some of the main social media platforms. Livestream content depicting violence outside Citywest was broadcast on YouTube, TikTok and Twitch, with streamers rewarded by viewer donations, as they captured protesters shouting racist expletives towards Citywest. In one eight-minute segment of an hour-long livestream I watched on YouTube that night, the user broadcast the burning of the Garda van, referred to migrants in horrific terms and proclaimed they were there to show people “the real truth”. During the video, they received the equivalent of €56 in donations from viewers around the world. The notion that violence can be monetised on social media illustrates a glaring failure of platforms to adequately enforce their own community guidelines around violence. Individuals from the UK and Canada travelled to Ireland specifically to attend and create content from the protest. Other international agitators followed events online. [...] In recent years we have witnessed the mainstreaming of anti-migrant hate and extremism in this country. That has been facilitated, in part, by platforms failing to enforce their own community guidelines. Amid the anger and outrage that follows an alleged sexual assault, it is now a recurring pattern that online platforms will play host to attempts to publish and promote incitement towards hatred and violence. Tags: hate racism monetisation streaming video tiktok youtube facebook twitter x social-media livestreams twitch citywest far-right
• 09:34 UTC soedinglab/MMseqs2 – soedinglab/MMseqs2 MMseqs2 (Many-against-Many sequence searching) is a software suite to search and cluster huge protein and nucleotide sequence sets. MMseqs2 is free and open source software implemented in C++ for Linux, MacOS, and (as beta version, via cygwin) Windows. The software is designed to run on multiple cores and servers and exhibits very good scalability. MMseqs2 can run 10000 times faster than BLAST. At 100 times its speed it achieves almost the same sensitivity. It can perform profile searches with the same sensitivity as PSI-BLAST at over 400 times its speed. I was just remembering using BLAST to discover anti-spam rulesets the other day! If I was still working on rule discovery for SpamAssassin these days, this would be very nifty tech. (via James McInerney) Tags: mmseq sequences bioinformatics algorithms oss blast discovery search fuzzy-matching rules antispam

2025-10-23

• 15:10 UTC Adrian Cockroft’s take on the AWS outage – Adrian Cockroft's take on the AWS outage "n my opinion the root cause of the recent AWS outage is their architectural decision to have everything depend on the same instance of DynamoDB, including operation of DynamoDB itself. This is a circular dependency, and the ability to observe and fix the failure as it happened also failed. The ability of customers to file service reports failed. So the engineers trying to figure out what was happening were completely blind. It took them an hour to figure out what had broken and another hour to fix it, then the pent up demand rushing in broke other key services for another 12 hours or so. If DNS had been misconfigured on a different non-critical service, I think it would have been obvious to detect and quick and easy to fix. However, anything going wrong that also takes out the ability to see it going wrong and fix it, is a liability. To break the circular dependency, I think there needs to be a separate, internal only, set of services and data stores that the most critical AWS services use, and which are designed to come up without dependencies on public interfaces. Maybe an internal region, inside each public region, but with a simpler implementation that has few carefully managed dependencies. Otherwise, it’s just a matter of time until this happens again." Tags: adrian-cockroft outages post-mortems aws amazon us-east-1 dynamodb circular-dependencies depe
• 15:09 UTC Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region – Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region Postmortem writeup of this week's massive AWS us-east-1 outage. tl;dr: DynamoDB runs into a consistency failure in an internal DNS optimization service; EC2 provisioning depends on DynamoDB and craps out; Network load balancers screw up due to impact of EC2 outage. Tags: dynamodb dns aws ec2 nlb outages post-mortems cloud-computing amazon us-east-1

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