pyvpx

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by pyvpx 11y ago
if there is one thing I've learned from being in the OpenBSD community for the past 10+ years it's that current hype is of little to no interest to the folks writing code.
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by pyvpx 11y ago
abstinence ? it has flags to tailor the number of connections, bandwidth, message rate, etc. or are you speaking to malicious use?
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by pyvpx 11y ago
I'm a network engineer with a strong interest in container networking -- where does anycast come into play in your immutable infrastructure? I am highly curious!
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by pyvpx 11y ago
thanks. I'm familiar with Vultr and always on the look out for alternatives :)
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by pyvpx 11y ago
how easy is it to boot/install your own OS on these bare metal servers? some of these offers look interesting for unikernels.
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by pyvpx 11y ago
"unmetered" is a popular dedicated hosting company marketing trick. things are generally oversubscribed to horrifically oversubscribed and you'll be very hard pressed to sustain 100Mbps 24x7 for a full day, let alone a full m
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by pyvpx 11y ago
great engineers who can also articulate the technology in a polished, publishable form? not saying it's impossible, or that you didn't just setup a marketing team. but please pass my regards to whomever is editing before publishin
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by pyvpx 11y ago
having a slight understanding but no direct knowledge of their network infrastructure, that's probably for financial not technical reasons (they can handle the largest volumetric attacks and then some)
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by pyvpx 11y ago
when DDoS prevention (traffic scrubbing, really) was just becoming a thing, many of the smaller and less scrupulous players in the market did precisely that.
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by pyvpx 11y ago
there is a reason some folks call them blogflare. They have great engineering talent and a marketing team that knows exactly how to acquire customers and more engineering talent. and that's through their blog posts.
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by pyvpx 11y ago
smart edge, dumb core. if edge networks implemented uRPF, it would put a huge dent in the ease of mounting DDoS attacks. unfortunately, the economics aren't there.
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by pyvpx 11y ago
submarine cables are significantly different than terrestrial fiber networks. a fault will be detected in/from both directions, immediately and automatically. it has been suggested that the USS Jimmy Carter can tap submarine cables wit
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by pyvpx 11y ago
I got really excited reading about c2, and then saw on github the last update was two years ago. :(
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by pyvpx 11y ago
can anyone recommend a good overview of Raft vs. Paxos?
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by pyvpx 11y ago
there was a time public opinion thought alcohol should be illegal. there was also a long stretch of time where public opinion thought jews and people of irish descent shouldn't have certain jobs. public opinion is useless. the US is a
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by pyvpx 11y ago
I just came across Airfy which apparently gets around this by tunnelling (I assume) all traffic and taking all legal liability and risk. I've also read that this Stoererhaftung law is set to change this year, specifically to allow thin
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by pyvpx 11y ago
what do you think makes it expensive? I can assure you that the fiber cable itself is cheap, the equipment to install the cable is inexpensive, and even the labor required is not that expensive. lawyers and red tape/delays/time ar
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by pyvpx 11y ago
>Our typical modus operandi was to go into MDUs (Multi Dwelling Units) and offer the property owner revenue share contract in exchange for exclusive rights to the property; something the incumbents don't do. This only works with MDU
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by pyvpx 11y ago
I am wrestling with it now, because I cant justify spending 150EUR/month _and_ 1500EUR at year end to keep books and file returns. I have but six to ten invoices a year, and only myself as an employee; but such an animal doesn't s
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by pyvpx 11y ago
pypy still has the GIL.
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by pyvpx 11y ago
I flew from JFK to LAX to DEN with eight 9mm, hollow point rounds in my carry on bag. Denver TSA finally caught it and was very, very nice about it all (being white, having recently trimmed my beard, and having a non-foreign name definitely
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by pyvpx 11y ago
perhaps folks will now take 'intelligent' NICs more seriously than "we tried offloading once and it went poorly so thanks but no thanks"
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by pyvpx 11y ago
are you suggesting it is Verizon's responsibility to ensure 300Mbps to every destination on the internet? if not, then why some over others?
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by pyvpx 11y ago
musl isn't very obscure to those who are..."into" (for want of a better term) libc alternatives
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by pyvpx 11y ago
while Amazon itself uses Mark Monitor from CSC.
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by pyvpx 11y ago
ahh but you can't pay yourself entirely from dividends. at least, if you are speaking form the standpoint of a US citizen/tax payer. there is a vague but very well litigated stipulation that your wages must be "fair" and
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by pyvpx 11y ago
the you spend some time defining what a typical 2G and 3G connection looks like to your end users, and then you replicate that with existing tools. There are very, very many open source solutions to adding latency, jitter, throttling bandwi
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by pyvpx 11y ago
pfSense is FreeBSD with a clunky web interface that does some "magic" with PHP using XML. now, that characterization won't be as accurate in the future (I'm genuinely curious to see what happens with python, dpdk, and ot
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by pyvpx 11y ago
I particularly like the inclusion of DNSCrypt
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by pyvpx 11y ago
I don't know -- I think we're all pretty lucky to have had the advances in optical technology and associated manufacturing of said technology that allowed 641A to exist.

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