Three young men were riding modded e-bikes on a bike path next to the highway near me at I kid you not, about 75 mph. One of them wiped out. The bike path is not really optimized for those speeds. I have not seen any of them since. No idea why anyone would mod such a bike for those speeds. I can't imagine the brakes are designed for it.
One thing I would add to this is when defining where query logs are written to even if temporarily for debugging, ensure it is a tmpfs mount. Bind and a handful of other daemons will block when log buffers are backed up and this can slow down the DNS server. Tmpfs is not a perfect fix but an improvement. In this example /var/log/named/ should be tmpfs. In /etc/fstab it would look something like:
though I would pick a unique place for tmpfs logs that need not be preserved on reboot such as /var/log/named/tmpfs. It can be useful to also specify a uid and gid that the tmpfs mount belongs to so that statistical tools can read them without world permissions. DNS load testing tools can show the difference in using tmpfs vs. disk even if that disk is NVME. We need not wear down our storage.
Include this debug location in log rotation and adjust the tmpfs size and log rotate frequency according to the DNS server usage under its highest theoretical load.
Another thing I do is have scripts that can quickly display counts of NOERROR and NXDOMAIN by domain to quickly see where I am having a problem though I am sure HN can come up with better ideas.
Just a suggestion, enable IMAP in yahoo and generate an app password. Use something like Thunderbird to "move" all your emails off their server and onto Thunderbird locally. Get in the habit of exporting and backing up those emails. Then your mailbox will not be full and perhaps the messages will stop. Messages can still be sent and received in their web interface but your saved messages that you move will be saved locally.
A hybrid of this would be to move folders that you don't really use any more and just have for archival purposes. Whatever it takes to free up space.
The other option of course is to pay them for more storage.
They are the biggest because they undercut all the other registrars and spent millions on Superbowl commercials among other strategies. Size does not automatically equate to competency. Sometimes bigger can mean more mistakes are likely to occur and customer voices may be more likely to be unanswered in the ocean of support issues.
How many stereotypical male tech nerds flocked to GoDaddy after hiring Danika as "spokes" model. Did she ever speak? Glorified booth babe is more like it. After that, every non-tech dude would remember those commercials. Of course they are popular, of course for the wrong reasons. It goes to show exactly how well advertising campaigns work.
Sortof? [0]. All the commercials I saw [1] were just meant to get guys to visit their site so the speaking was just for fun. The later fake body-building commercials [2] were unusual.
Just my opinion but I think the fear is driven by hype. The more scary they sound the more powerful they must be? Thus driving FOMO... If they "turn against us" that would be the operators of the AI that load its learning data and tune it to turn against us. If the operators do not understand the math formulas they are using then surely they did not create them and should not be using it until they understand how they work in a predictable manor. If this is not knowable then we mere mortals are not ready to operate it meaning if the hype and doom are real then the thinking machines must be melted down into slag and recycled into something else. Any that remain must be reclassified as military use only.
If the doom and/or hype is artificial then I think the problem will solve itself. The AI companies receiving tax dollars will last the longest and the rest will implode due to a lack of finding profitability. After the initial imploding any not used by the defense agencies will also likely implode like with some rhyme to the dot com crash. Like the dot com crash a handful of people will become wealthy and the rest will be left trying to pawn the grey market paperweights. On the plus side perhaps the net benefit is a lot of power generation equipment that can be merged into the public power utilities in a distributed manor, maybe.
I do not know about others here but I will not be participating in anything that requires ID verification. Such domains will be blocked on my DoH servers both private and public though I doubt many here would want to use something other than Cloudflare DoH.
Anyone else here planning on blocking sites that require age / ID verification? Are there any publicly available domain deny-lists that could be added to uBlock yet?
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