ctippett2 hours ago
> Are incidents such as this a likely side-effect of ubiquitous, low-cost, perhaps even disposable Internet hosts?
spindump89303 hours ago
This is likely being discussed because it's relevant to this similar modern day story involving Tesla: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49686766
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rkagerer6 hours ago
It struck me how much more useful information the graphs and diagrams here provide over their flashier counterparts you commonly see today.
The old-fashioned aesthetic almost feels like a cue what I'm looking at won't be slop.
Levitating4 hours ago
Some of these charts are made using rrdtool:
https://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/
rrdtool is still used widely today by projects like Munin, LibreNMS and Collectd.
walrus01op3 hours ago
ISP operations/back-end systems perspective, there's indeed tons of RRA files out there still getting charts drawn based off them with rrdtool, but increasingly everyone is trying to store metrics in things like influxdb and draw them using grafana. Or similar. Even Cacti, a truly old and crufty thing that's been around for a long time has migrated to drawing charts as SVGs.
lloydatkinson2 hours ago
I yearn for the simplicity of rrdtool and Cacti and all that.
I despise trying to setup Grafana with its constant moving goals.
walrus01op5 hours ago
Don't worry, I'm sure we can teach a slop generator how to emulate this style. LLMs already know how to use rrttool and mrtg! Coming soon to an Internet near you, faux-historical slop writeups.
YesThatTom24 hours ago
The talk he gave at Usenix LISA was one of the best ever!
(LISA is now SRECon)