Discourse realised that they had one site that had used a GIF of Rachel from Friends 246,173 times which made their backups 432 GB instead of 26 GB.
They fixed it with hard links only to break hardlinks as ext4 has a limit of roughly 65,000 hardlinks per inode.
blog.discourse.org/2026/04/how-...
You may have seen the announcement about AWS's "S3 Files" service allowing you to "mount" An S3 bucket on a filesystem. I've been struggling to find some good data on how it actually compares to something like `s3fs-fuse` or `mountpoint-s3`.
The short answer is the difference is HUGE (& expensive)
My “I’m not in the Epstein Files” T-shirt is inviting a lot of questions already answered by the shirt
In 4 months time AWS may start charging you almost double for the RDS database servers you have with them. If you are using RDS MySQL 8.0 Community Edition then you should read our latest blog post
Discussing Iran and the Strait of Hormuz on BBC Daily Politics.
The Tories and Reform would have propelled the UK into offensive action and embroiled us in this ill-conceived and illegal war.
Now the task is clear: de-escalation - and some serious British leadership.
A screenshot of a PDF that just reads "This document uses encryption powered by Microsoft Information Protection. You're seeing this page either because you are not authorized to view its content or are using an unsupported PDF viewer. To open this document, use a PDF viewer that supports Azure Rights Management or contact the document owner to grant you permissions."
Who DRM's an Invoice!? @vodafonegroup.bsky.social apparently! 🤣
This is the PDF VAT invoice that I just got from Vodafone... No Vodafone... bad Vodafone! 🤪
It seems someone actively tried to take over NTP (on IPv6) in the Philippines!
A great write up by an amazing team that work tirelessly behind the scenes.
community.ntppool.org/t/dns-config...
VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England.
I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Sad to see the Ides of March becoming commercialised like this. I really feel like we're losing track of the true spirit of the holiday. It's not about how many knives you can stick in a tyrant all at once, it's about the whole community coming together to stab the tyrant as many times as possible.
An interesting little blog post from someone that tried blocking all HTTP1.1 traffic. Spoiler: it's all bots! sheep.horse/2026/3/block...
Cohost post by rebane2001 secret ssh menu (and other tricks) hi cohost, ever get annoyed by ssh sessions hanging and forcing you to kill the process? it doesn't have to be this way, for there is a secret ssh menu the ssh industry has been greedily keeping for themselves! so how do you access this menu? from within an ssh session, press ↵Enter and type ~? you should see something like this: Supported escape sequences: ~. - terminate connection (and any multiplexed sessions) ~B - send a BREAK to the remote system ~C - open a command line ~R - request rekey ~V/v - decrease/increase verbosity (LogLevel) ~^Z - suspend ssh ~# - list forwarded connections ~& - background ssh (when waiting for connections to terminate) ~? - this message ~~ - send the escape character by typing it twice (Note that escapes are only recognized immediately after newline.) pretty cool!
These sequences are built into the ssh client itself, so they work even if the ssh server or your connection breaks! The most useful one here is ~. which exits the ssh session no matter what. Super useful if you have a session hang! The "command line" lets you set up port forwarding (type help after opening it). Most of the other options are pretty self-explanatory - if you need them you probably understand what they mean. What about nested ssh sessions? You can use ~~ to send the sequence to the inner client, here's an example: pinkie@stable:~$ ssh ponyvillestable pinkie@ponyville:~$ ssh manehattenstable > ponyville pinkie@manehatten:~$stable > ponyville > manehatten pinkie@manehatten:~$ Connection to manehatten closed.↵Enter~~. pinkie@ponyville:~$stable > ponyville pinkie@ponyville:~$ ssh manehattenstable > ponyville pinkie@manehatten:~$stable > ponyville > manehatten pinkie@manehatten:~$ Connection to ponyville closed.↵Enter~. pinkie@stable:~$stable neat!
Okay, a few bonus tricks: ssh -C enables gzip compression - even though the documentation states that this is unneccessary on fast networks, I've found that it does wonders for improving latency and responsiveness in many situations, especially when using TUIs or printing out lots of logs. ssh -v enables verbose logging (-vv or -vvv if you want more), which is useful on a slow connection or when connecting to a slow machine (eg a Raspberry Pi). It lets you figure out whether a connection is hanging (eg host down) or just being slow. ssh -D 1234 creates a SOCKS proxy on your localhost:1234 that lets you use the server's network. Quite handy if you need to mess around in the LAN of the server, or if you need a quick DIY VPN in a pinch. alright that's all, i hope you picked up something useful from this post! it's my first time posting anything of this kind so i hope you like it!
did you know that SSH has a little-known secret menu?
i wrote a post about this on cohost a while back, but since that site shut down i'm posting it here too
Don't snigger but I still miss using `finger` to check if my ISP's mailserver had any new email for me!
I'd still love to build a finger gateway when I have the time 🫠 #CloudflareChat
I admit being really excited for 4k but the amount of content I happily watch in 1080p and don't even notice is shocking.
It doesn't surprise me at all that 8k hasn't gone anywhere.
i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll
xikipedia.org
❤️
This is where we can make an impact 👇
❄️ snowflake.torproject.org
44% of the population of Denton and Gorton are ethnic minority, the majority of them born in the UK.
Reform's candidate says those people aren't British and are liable for deportation.
It's a bold electoral strategy: vote for me and I'll throw you into the sea.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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I highly recommend the film "Dust Bunny". It's like Wes Anderson made Léon The Professional and cinematically it's beautiful too!
Important
Alongside the #GenerativeAI for #Education summit in London yesterday, the DfE updated their ‘Product Safety Expectations’ for #EdTech developers, and for schools to consider when deciding which tools are safe to use. www.gov.uk/government/p... A quick thread on the updates (1/15)
purveyor of fine OSINT techniques, @harrris0n on twitter, is exposing insecure vibecoded AI slop apps in the Apple store & has put them in a database. all of these apps are exposed/leaking user data right now. you can check if anything on your phone is doing this by going to firehound.covertlabs.io
Only FOUR complaints against trans women using toilets
since 2022 and across 382 public bodies
#Labour #LibDems shame on you
You fell for the rights 'culture wars' nonsense
@pluslibdems.bsky.social
@pluslibdems.bsky.social
@labouruk.bsky.social
@libdems.org.uk
www.thepinknews.com/2026/01/06/t...
Oh yes! 😀
May I also recommend being really good at something that you think "I could start my own business doing this".... 15 years later and I'm starting to actually do what I love again 😆
@amyshirateitel.bsky.social (longtime follower, first time writer) I would love to see your response to this YT short from the amazing astro_alexandra about why the mortars on Apollo 14 were never fired.
youtu.be/pXXvJ1csbQk?...
Thank you for some awesome science content in 2025 and happy new year
deleting a white supremacist dating site live onstage while dressed as the pink power ranger has got to be one of the most cathartic hacker experiences
this really was prophetic wasn’t it
Good Law Project has setup up a system so you can find out if your local #NHS trusts have signed up to evil US tech giant #Palantir and email them to ask them to opt out
Do a good thing to #SaveTheNHS this evening and pop over here: notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
This is the good shit ⤵️
