Archive for the ‘Infrastructure’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/29
Besides the August 2025 XKCD infrastructure dependency inspired cartoon on the right, the more recent and great [Wayback/Archive] XCKD: Dependency derivative below is a monumental piece as it combines the recent:
- fiber outage of the Internet Archive
- DoS of Cloudflare by itself
- AWS us-east-1 dependencies outage
- Crowdstrike DoS of Windows machines
- framework-du-jour mentality in the JavaScript world
- many more¹
Image [Wayback/Archive] 36247840bf294a9d.png (1080×1389) from [Wayback/Archive] xyla 🐀🪇: “someone pls alt text this shit…” – buy shitpost cheap:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/19
[Wayback/Archive] Thread by @cyb3rops on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App
If your agent gets flooded – detect the flooding.
If code gets obfuscated – detect the obfuscation.
If ETW gets silenced – detect the silence.
If the EDR gets killed – detect the killing.
If logs get cleared – detect the clearing.
The act of hiding is often more suspicious than what’s being hidden.
It’s like a surveillance camera going black or freezing.
That is the signal.
I’ve been doing this successfully for years.
I detect obfuscated crap all the time.
People ask, “What is it?”
I say, “No fucking clue. Could be:
– a Themida-packed sample with a Microsoft copyright,
– a UPX-packed ELF with a 1-char filename,
– a PowerShell script that looks like static noise, or
– a fake svchost.exe with no Microsoft copyright.”
I don’t need to know what it is.
It’s obviously shady.
That’s enough to detect it – and deal with it.
There’s a Chinese saying that fits perfectly: 欲蓋彌彰
The more you try to hide it, the more obvious it becomes.
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/14
The plan was to run a Postfix secondary MX inside a docker container.
Below are many links that might help me to get that going.
For now, I think this is the shortlist of solutions to try:
- Docker Mailserver
- Mailcow
- Mailu
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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Cloud, Communications Development, Containers, Development, Docker, Infrastructure, Internet protocol suite, Kubernetes (k8n), postfix, Power User, SMTP | Tagged: 254, 29, 52, 787, DMARC, domains, set | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/04
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/22
It was only a few years back that I was reminded there was in fact a methodology for cloud-based apps: Twelve-Factor App methodology – Wikipedia
Despite me following most of the factors there already (similarly that I have been doing agile software development using extreme programming techniques since the mid 1980s, long before it before they got formal in the 1990s and early 2000s), it helps to have a good vocabulary, so below are some links
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/31
For my link archive [Wayback/Archive] Out of Control. An essay on paradigms, refactoring… | by Kevlin Henney | Dec, 2020 | Medium.
Neither because Kevlin describes how to refactor a basic algorithm to convert Roman numerals into Hindu-Arabic numerals (in part by using the fact that an if statement can be considered a bounded case of a while loop), nor because he splits the resulting algorithm in coded data and coded statements, or because he mentions the [Wayback/Archive] Gilded Rose Kata but because well, you should just read it in full.
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