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Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS

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Post by tharmas »

ImJasonH wrote: post #23
piker wrote: post #16

Though this outage may be more related to the copy.fail upgrade cycle, it reminds me of a thought I've had recently in respect of agents. In the UK they have this issue called "TV pickup" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup ). TV pickup is where everyone in the UK watching a popular TV show gets up to boil a high-powered tea kettle at the same time on an ad break. This causes a temporary surge in electricity de…

In the US we have the Super Bowl Flush: https://medium.com/nycwater/the-big-flush-on-super-bowl-sund...

Half time break for Coronation Street in the UK saw a power surge due to people putting the kettle on.

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Post by joecot »

mayhemducks wrote: post #29

Maybe they could use this DDoS attack as their 17th round technical interview. Any candidate who successfully mitigates the attack would then make it to the 18th round. Win win!

Is their interview process Dungeon Crawler Carl? Do you just apply to work at Canonical, and at the 3rd interview you get to pick what position you're applying for?

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Post by lproven »

tgv wrote: post #28
ImJasonH wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the US we have the Super Bowl Flush: https://medium.com/nycwater/the-big-flush-on-super-bowl-sund...

It's literally the plot of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flushed_Away

Watched that just a month or 2 ago with my 6YO. It's great, a very underrated film.

But it's not set during the Superb Owl flush isn't because the film is set in London, and most Londoners do not watch American football.

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Post by lproven »

esseph wrote: post #68
zyga wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

snaps work on anything that has systemd so I don't quite know where you got the idea is that it is mostly limited to ubuntu.

IDK just using Linux for like 30 years. They're the only main distro I know of that uses it at all by default. Red Hat, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, etc. Ubuntu is the only one.

> Ubuntu is the only one.

I have to say that I really do not understand the point of comments like this.

The reality of user-facing Linux is this:

Most of it is Android. It sells billions of units per year.

Of the rest, something like 90% is ChromeOS. That recruits 2-3 hundred million new hardware sales a year, which is roughly 10x as many users annually as the entire history of the Linux distro world. ChromeBooks sell more than desktop PCs and more than Macs by value although Macs cost at least 5x as much.

But of the remaining, oh let's be generous and say 10% of Linux users, most is Ubuntu.

Debian-based distros are 2/3 to 3/4 of all traceable measurable Linux usage, and 2/3 of Debian-family use is Ubuntu.

Red Hat and its fantastic valuation is like 1% of the Linux world.

So what you are saying is "only the Linux mainstream uses snap, and all the weird little hacker/hobbyist distros that have like ten users don't use it."

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