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257 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 22 Oct 24 12:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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TeMPOraL ◴[22 Oct 24 13:40 UTC] No.41914165[source]▶
In which people forget that computers have other purposes beyond being boxes for CTF competitions. Shared mutable global state isn't always bad.
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trollied ◴[22 Oct 24 21:10 UTC] No.41918739[source]▶
I serve 1Gb of /dev/null to every scraper that tries known CVE endpoints. Fuck 'em.
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1. anyfoo ◴[22 Oct 24 21:39 UTC] No.41919012[source]▶
How much is 1 GB*0 bytes? Better serve 1GB of /dev/zero instead! (Or even better, /dev/urandom, because zeroes compress very well and are easy to spot.)