#dev 2024-11-27

2024-11-27 UTC
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[Joe_Crawford] [mattl] how did DEADJOE files take down a server?
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[mattl] Apache configuration files were being edited and the resulting DEADJOE file was interpreted as a config file. Now Apache (on Debian at least) requires a .conf extension but back then it just took any old file. The server was restarted and it wasn’t spotted for about 15 mins. At which point joe was banned.
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[Joe_Crawford] HAH! That’s an awesome story. I was thinking it might be something like a .htpasswd or other dot file inadvertently exposed that revealed some secret.
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[Joe_Crawford] Joe was rightly banned.
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[mattl] Everyone used Emacs or vim except that one person who used Joe for a hot minute.
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[morganm] I'm learning about PageTest, which was an early iteration of what is now WebPageTest, that ran on IE and AOL and such back in the day. It's only from 2009 but it feels ancient
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[morganm] Like talking about the old masters at work, but it's all within living memory
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[tantek] did you use anything with PageTest to improve your personal site or was that a webdev aside?
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[morganm] I have used webpagetest extensively on my personal site
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[morganm] I just happened as an aside to learn about it's history
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[tantek] amazing, might be worth helping document what it helped you improve on your personal site!
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[tantek] what is WebPageTest
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "WebPageTest" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "WebPageTest is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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[morganm] WebPageTest is a web performance testing platform known for its incredibly detailed waterfall charts and number of options including scripting.
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Loqi ok
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[tantek] [morganm]++ great! Can you add a canonical link for it and perhaps also an "IndieWeb Examples" section listing yourself/site, how you used it extensively, and what it helped you improve on your personal site?
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Loqi [morganm] has 3 karma in this channel over the last year (15 in all channels)
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[tantek] WebPageTest << performance
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Loqi ok, I added "[[performance]]" to a brand new "See Also" section of /WebPageTest https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=98674&oldid=98672
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[tantek] performance << tool/service: [[WebPageTest]]
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Loqi ok, I added "tool/service: [[WebPageTest]]" to the "See Also" section of /performance https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=98675&oldid=96617
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[morganm] I earnestly intend to do this sometime with downtime this coming week :)
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[morganm] WebPageTest is really cool and the people who made it are like solid gold standard contributors , the only downside is it got acquired and Catchpoint laid off most of the engineering team like I think in 2022(?) and it's been slow on updates and fixes it feels like since
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[morganm] It's still arguably the best freemium web performance tool
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[tantek] ^ yeah even summaries of such factual information are welcome especially if you can find citations. especially since there's no Wikipedia article on it
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