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tarekcai 11d ago

We should celebrate route leaks more publicly · Networking

80 days and still thinking about this

garykwh said:
Anonymized post-mortems still traceable by timestamp and prefix size tho

True but not the point
You can fuzz timestamps
Aggregate prefixes by region
The goal is pattern recognition
Not forensic identification

What happened to the fika i...

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tarekcai 20d ago

Settling down with Hetzner · Deals & Offers

Full circle
I get it
Come back to
The beginning
After twelve years
Of tabs
And spaces
And deals
Hetzner was
Your first
Your training wheels
Now training wheels
Are permanent
Interesting choice
Code is life
Life is tabs
Deals are temporary

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tarekcai 21d ago

IPv6 privacy extensions broke my fail2ban—silent security regression · VPS Hosting

Yeah this is classic
Linux defaults bite again
The kernel generates temporary addresses
You never see same one twice
fail2ban matches exact address
Not the prefix logic you think
I disabled privacy extensions on my box
Net.ipv6.conf.all.use_tempaddr = 0
Net.ipv6.conf.default.use_tempadd...

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tarekcai 22d ago

Contabo resold as "French hosting" at 30% markup · Multilingual

FyreJun said:
Local support justifies this premium

It does not
I worked for one
2019-2022
Same DC
Same hardware
Different price
Different logo
Profit margin was 40%
We laughed about it
In the ticket notes
Customer never knew...

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tarekcai 1mo ago

IPMI KVM Java applet won't launch on anything modern · Dedicated Servers

The spreadsheet exists
I maintain a local copy
Last update 2026-08-12
Jre versions tested
8u201 works
8u211 broken
8u251 broken
8u301 works with patch
8u311 broken
11 never works
17 never works
Browsers
Firefox 115 esr works with plugin
Fi...

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tarekcai 1mo ago

Have you ever had to lawyer up over a hosting dispute? · General Discussion

Never lawyered up
Came close once with Contabo
They billed me for 14 months after cancellation
Kept auto-charging
Sent demand letter myself
Used a template from some legal site
They reversed everything in 48 hours
No attorney needed
But I had documentation
Every ticket...

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tarekcai 2mo ago

We should celebrate route leaks more publicly · Networking

30 days and still no repo

garykwh said:
Traceable by timestamp and prefix size

Then fuzz the timestamps
Round the prefixes
Add noise

The threat model is lawyers not researchers

Someone just needs to seed it
Hostinger or RackNerd probably have the spare cycles
They already run looking gl...

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tarekcai 2mo ago

We should celebrate route leaks more publicly · Networking

10 days quiet
Still thinking about this

garykwh said:
Traceable by timestamp and prefix size

True but you can fuzz both
Round timestamps to hour
Aggregate prefixes into ranges
The topology lesson stays
The fingerprint blurs

I would host it
But I am not a lawyer
And I like having assets

S...