My cat alerted me to a DDoS attack
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My cat alerted me to a DDoS attack
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Re: My cat alerted me to a DDoS attack
#2So that's why they want us to microchip our pets!
Re: My cat alerted me to a DDoS attack
#3And here I thought your somehow hooked up a cat feeder to alerts.
Regardless, very cute - what’s your cat’s name?
Re: My cat alerted me to a DDoS attack
#4I thought it was going to be a home server that went into overdrive, heating the room your cat was in or knocking out the aircon.
Anyway, better experience than being woken up by a dozen SMS alerts.
Re: My cat alerted me to a DDoS attack
#5As always it’s easy to overlook the insider threat. Grammatically dubious extortion emai? Bitcoin ransom? Did it not occur to you that the cat was the one behind the attack?
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#6And I often wonder if on call is justifiable “because you make more money than most professionals”.
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#7And I often wonder if on call is justifiable “because you make more money than most professionals”.
as with most roles, I think it is negotiable. You have your professional leverage, expected pay and grit. you need to balance these things.
Also, if you can get an equivalent role with less requirements such as being on call, then I guess it is just a question of grabbing it!
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#8As always it’s easy to overlook the insider threat. Grammatically dubious extortion emai? Bitcoin ransom? Did it not occur to you that the cat was the one behind the attack ?
Yeah, cats are notoriously bad at grammar.
Re: My cat alerted me to a DDoS attack
#9It's so easy to crush ddos with token buckets that usually the only thing I need my cat to wake me for is when my Discord gets raided.
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#10> we didn’t have a formal on-call rotation yet. That was a deliberate decision, since being on-call is painful, and the team was good about just collectively keeping an eye out for urgent alerts.
That seems like a terrible solution. Yeah, being on-call is painful, but at least I know beforehand when I'll be on-call and get compensated for it. Always being expected to keep an eye out for urgent alerts just sucks all around.