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IP Address

4 hours ago 56.8K views 0 shares

Someone's playing "The Cheating Game" and getting busted by the most passive-aggressive error message ever written. The game literally snitched on the cheater by revealing their IP address: 199.214.367.3624. Plot twist—that's not even a valid IP address. IPv4 addresses max out at 255 per octet, but here we've got 367 and 3624 casually breaking the laws of networking. Either the game devs are trolling cheaters with fake IPs to make them paranoid, or they're so fed up with hackers that they invented IPv5 just to shame them. Either way, imagine getting caught cheating AND being roasted by impossible math at the same time. The digital equivalent of being told "I'm not mad, just disappointed" by your router.

I Lost Count At This Point

Cloud Networking Devops Gamedev AWS

18 hours ago 155.1K views 0 shares

Gaming platforms and their outages visualized as flatline heartbeat monitors. Every single service showing that familiar spike pattern—the digital equivalent of "not again." From ARC Raiders to VRChat, it's like they're all competing for who can go down more creatively. AWS is there too, naturally, because when AWS sneezes, half the internet catches a cold. The real joke is calling these "outages" when they're basically scheduled features at this point. Your multiplayer plans? The servers had other ideas.

Pulled A Little Sneaky

Security Webdev Networking

2 days ago 186.8K views 0 shares

HTTPS encryption is basically the digital equivalent of whispering your credit card number in a crowded room while everyone's wearing noise-canceling headphones. The man-in-the-middle attacker, who's been sitting there with their packet sniffer ready to intercept all your juicy unencrypted data, suddenly hits a wall of TLS/SSL encryption and realizes they're getting absolutely nothing. It's like showing up to rob a bank only to find out they've already moved all the money to a vault you can't crack. Sure, they can still see you're communicating with someone, but good luck reading those encrypted packets. All that effort setting up Wireshark and ARP spoofing, just to watch gibberish flow by. Fun fact: HTTPS doesn't just encrypt your data—it also verifies the server's identity with certificates, so even if someone tries to impersonate the server, your browser will throw up more red flags than a Communist parade.

Some But Not All

Windows Networking Microsoft Debugging

3 days ago 181.7K views 0 shares

Windows Network Diagnostics: the digital equivalent of a Magic 8-Ball that only knows how to say "Try again later." You click it knowing full well it's about to spend 30 seconds pretending to work, only to tell you it found nothing wrong while your internet is clearly dead. It's like calling tech support and having them ask if you've tried turning it off and on again, except the support agent is a progress bar with commitment issues. The best part? Sometimes it actually claims to have fixed something, but your connection is still broken. Truly the participation trophy of troubleshooting tools.

What's A TXT Record

Networking Security Devops Linux Backend

17 days ago 270.5K views 0 shares

Someone just asked what a TXT record is and now the entire DNS infrastructure is having an existential crisis. The rant starts off strong: naming servers? Pointless. DNS queries? Never needed. The hosts.txt file was RIGHT THERE doing its job perfectly fine before we overengineered everything. Then comes the kicker—sysadmins apparently want to know "your server's location" and "arbitrary text" which sounds like something a "deranged" person would dream up. But wait... that's literally what TXT records do. They store arbitrary text strings in DNS for things like SPF, DKIM, domain verification, and other critical internet infrastructure. The irony is thicker than a poorly configured DNS zone file. The punchline? After this whole tirade about DNS being useless, they show what "REAL DNS" looks like—three increasingly complex diagrams that nobody understands, followed by a simple DNS query example. The response: "They have played us for absolute fools." Translation: DNS is actually incredibly complex and essential, and maybe we shouldn't have been complaining about TXT records in the first place. It's the classic developer move of calling something stupid right before realizing you don't actually understand how it works.

What Really Makes A Programmer Insecure?

Security Webdev Networking Programming Frontend

17 days ago 230.2K views 0 shares

What Really Makes A Programmer Insecure?

Someone asked r/AskReddit "What screams 'I'm insecure'?" and the top answer is just "http://" — because nothing says emotional vulnerability quite like transmitting data in plaintext over an unencrypted connection. While everyone else is sharing deep psychological insights about human behavior, this programmer saw their moment and went straight for the jugular. The joke hits different when you realize we're all silently judging every website still running HTTP in 2024. That little padlock icon isn't just about security anymore; it's about self-respect.

Lil Guy Got A Switch For Christmas

Networking Hardware

18 days ago 222.7K views 0 shares

The kid asked Santa for a Nintendo Switch and instead got a network switch. That's what happens when your parents work in IT and have a twisted sense of humor. Nothing says "Merry Christmas" quite like 24 ports of Ethernet connectivity and VLAN support. Sure, he can't play Zelda on it, but he can now segment his home network like a proper sysadmin. The look on his face perfectly captures the soul-crushing disappointment of receiving enterprise networking equipment when you just wanted to catch Pokémon. Plot twist: in 10 years he'll be making six figures configuring these things while his friends are still gaming in their parents' basements.

It Happened Again

Cloud Webdev Networking Devops Backend

19 days ago 265.9K views 2 shares

Ah yes, the classic "workplace safety sign" energy. You know that feeling when your entire infrastructure has been humming along smoothly for over two weeks? That's when you start getting nervous. Because Cloudflare going down isn't just an outage—it's a global event that takes half the internet with it. The counter resetting to zero is the chef's kiss here. It's like those factory signs that say "X days without an accident" except this one never gets past three weeks. And the best part? There's absolutely nothing you can do about it. Your monitoring alerts are screaming, your boss is asking questions, and you're just sitting there like "yeah, it's Cloudflare, not us." Then you watch the status page refresh every 30 seconds like it's going to magically fix itself. Pro tip: When Cloudflare goes down, just tweet "it's not DNS" and wait. That's literally all you can do.

Always Write Documentation Before Quitting

Programming Networking Backend

21 days ago 150.1K views 0 shares

Always Write Documentation Before Quitting

When your colleague quits without leaving any docs and you're stuck maintaining their cursed codebase, you find yourself staring at blank pages with notes like "This page was left blank because the previous engineer quit before writing documentation." But then you flip to the next page and discover they somehow had time to write a full academic paper on "Image Transfer Protocol Delivery Methods for Sending Pocket Rocket Pictures to Tinder Matches." Complete with an abstract, keywords, and what appears to be legitimate protocol analysis (UDP, TCP, HTTP, SSL) for... optimizing dick pic delivery. The priorities here are chef's kiss . Can't document the actual production system that generates revenue, but can absolutely produce a peer-reviewed paper for EdgartsPocketRocket.com. The dedication to the wrong things is honestly impressive. Pro tip: If you're gonna rage quit, at least leave a README. Your replacement doesn't deserve this chaos.

Zero Trust Architecture

Security Networking Devops

23 days ago 268.3K views 0 shares

When your nephew just wants to play Roblox but you see "unmanaged, no antivirus, no encryption" and suddenly it's a full penetration test scenario. Guest VLAN? Check. Captive portal? Deployed. Bandwidth throttled to dial-up speeds? Absolutely. Blocking HTTP and HTTPS ports? Chef's kiss. The beautiful irony here is spending 45 minutes engineering a fortress-grade network isolation for a 12-year-old's iPad while your sister is having a meltdown about family bonding. But hey, you don't get to be an IT professional by trusting random devices on your network—even if they belong to family. The punchline? "Zero Trust architecture doesn't care about bloodlines." That's not just a joke—that's a lifestyle. Security policies don't have a "but it's family" exception clause. The kid learned a valuable lesson that day: compliance isn't optional, and Uncle IT runs a tighter ship than most enterprises. Thanksgiving might've been ruined, but that perimeter stayed secure. Priorities.

Cloudflare

Cloud Webdev Networking Devops Backend

24 days ago 269.1K views 2 shares

So this is how they keep half the internet running. Two guys literally praying to the server gods because when Cloudflare goes down, it's not just your site that's broken—it's like 30% of the entire web. No pressure though, just a casual Tuesday in the data center where one wrong cable pull could take down your favorite crypto exchange, your bank, and that obscure API you depend on for production. The fact that this is probably more accurate than we'd like to admit is both hilarious and terrifying.

What Is Your Opinion Is This True Or Not

Networking Devops Hardware Backend Cloud

24 days ago 205.8K views 0 shares

What Is Your Opinion Is This True Or Not

Cloudflare protecting the entire internet from DDoS attacks while their own infrastructure is held together by technicians literally praying to the server gods. The gap between "let's start coding" and production reality has never been more accurately documented. Those cables look like they're one sneeze away from taking down half the internet. But hey, if it works, it works. Nobody tell management.

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