arcza

11 ms·

91.
by arcza 3y ago
No ads, no tracking, unbelievable. Just downloaded. Thanks
92.
by arcza 3y ago
Why is there absolutely nothing cached by default? How many times does the topology of the Atlantic Ocean change every day that an outline cannot even be shown? I get not caching high zoom levels, but there is literally zero optimisation he
93.
by arcza 3y ago
Yeah, those Maps ads... that's just going to be a feature technology historians will cringe over in 50 years
94.
Why do maps apps have essentially no caching?
20 points by arcza 3y ago|41 comments
95.
by arcza 3y ago
I made some ufw/firewalld rules to block all inbound traffic to my servers from cheaper VPS providers like Contabo, OVH and DigitalOcean, to filter out bots and scrapers. I have repeatedly seen attacks originating from these providers
96.
Ufw and firewalld rules to block VPS bots and scrapers(blog.abctaylor.com)
3 points by arcza 3y ago|1 comments
97.
by arcza 3y ago
i know it might sound like something from an alien movie but my setup is 100% on premise with no Azure or O365. I did some googling which says an "HTTP PING" is kept going like a long running socket essentially. I think I'd s
98.
by arcza 3y ago
how does on prem Exchange ActiveSync send notifications to iOS?
99.
by arcza 3y ago
Pretty much a non story and hence MS didn't bother entertaining Akamai's rage bait post here. A lot more things can go wrong with a default AD install as others said. Yawn.
100.
by arcza 3y ago
Yet another thing irrelevant to me by spending 2 hours learning BIND and spinning up my own resolver... :)
101.
by arcza 3y ago
What point are you trying to make?
102.
by arcza 3y ago
Navigated back the moment I saw it was Medium. RIP
103.
by arcza 3y ago
+1 for not using GMaps
104.
by arcza 3y ago
"tens of millions"? you must specify what. hosting mail with 20GiB average mailboxes? Or a publicly accessible file share with a million monthly hits? Big difference. I would not productionise Nextcloud for a large organisation. F
105.
by arcza 3y ago
Of course XTX is sponsoring this
106.
by arcza 3y ago
thanks
107.
by arcza 3y ago
Its not, because the same infrastructure doesn't crap out when through a tunnel (same routers and same ISP network, same MTU on my VDSL router etc)
108.
by arcza 3y ago
good point. what's the alternative? I like 1.1.1.1/8.8.8.8 etc as its memorable.
109.
by arcza 3y ago
If this didn't work for you earlier, the blog is now behind a CDN. Any good technologist would put practicality before pride :)
110.
by arcza 3y ago
* UPDATE * pride has been swallowed and Cloudflare is fronting the site. Yes, it's ironic. Still sort of self-hosted and not on EC2 :)
111.
by arcza 3y ago
don't even :) well, a second copper connection is getting installed on Monday with a less awful provider.
112.
by arcza 3y ago
Correct, my crappy VDSL2 connection is not cut out for this level of traffic. I am grateful for the traffic from HN nonetheless :)
113.
by arcza 3y ago
I already have an AAISP line coming on Monday! Very excited. AAISP = the new Zen.
114.
I discovered caching CDNs were throttling my everyday browsing(blog.abctaylor.com)
220 points by arcza 3y ago|150 comments
115.
by arcza 3y ago
A short story on how I diagnosed half the Internet being broken for me, but the rest would be perfectly fine. And no, it's not DNS for once.
116.
Should I virtualise my firewalls?(blog.abctaylor.com)
2 points by arcza 3y ago|1 comments
117.
by arcza 3y ago
A short post on stuff I've learnt the painful way running bare metal and VM firewalls. Anything obvious I've missed please comment and I'll update with attribution.
118.
by arcza 3y ago
I will "sticky" this comment at the end of the blog. This is pretty much the entire point of these questions, to assess culture.
119.
by arcza 3y ago
Uhh... Win 2008 DCs as well I assume I should be grateful for, right? Right?
120.
by arcza 3y ago
I assume you work in edge case testing :)

More ›