x.x.x.x - - [10/Nov/2024:00:02:37 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 301 162 "-" "okhttp/4.9.0"

You know what’s interesting about this log line? It repeats 56,686,963 times in www.kernel.org logs for yesterday, across 4 nodes. That’s about 700 times a second, and this has been going on for months.

These requests aren’t intentionally malicious – they issue a simple GET /, receive their 301 redirect, and terminate the connection. From what I can tell, this is some kind of appliance or software installed on mobile clients that uses “can I reach www.kernel.org” as a network test.

This wouldn’t be that big of a deal – a single plaintext “GET /“ that triggers an immediate 301 is very cheap for us to generate, but the number of these requests has been steadily growing.

If you have any idea what this is and how to make it stop, please reach out?

Update to Fedora-41 was completely uneventful.

Not now honey. Daddy's checking to see if anyone liked the stupid joke he posted on the internet.

So, if mirrors.kernel.org went away...

The good news, they just keep a-coming, eh.

I guess we'll need to find a new home for kernel.org frontends by 2026.

I haven't been the most productive person over the past few days, but I think that describes most everyone's state of affairs. I'll try to catch up soon -- sorry if you've been waiting on me.

Today's program was sponsored by Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt.

#StarTrek

As a German, I’d recommend against voting for a dictator if there’s still another option.

#StarTrek

Canada, the America's pressure cooker lid.

I'm learning so much about everyday life in Brazil. Thank you, Duo!

Wow! Python has passed Javascript and is now the number one language on GitHub!

Depending on the context, a "billion" can either mean "two million" or "half a million."

STOP DOING HOMEWORK

CHILDREN WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO SPEND TWELVE HOURS A DAY DOING SCHOOLWORK

YEARS OF BUSY WORK yet NO REAL WORLD USE FOUND for replacing free time with MORE SCHOOL

Wanted to learn during your free time anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: it was called "THE LIBRARY"

"The assignment is due tomorrow. It is worth 50 percent of your grade." - Statements dreamt up by the utterly deranged

"Sorry can't go out tonight, I have homework"

They have played us for absolute fools

I can't give money to US politicians, but I can give money to Pizza to the Polls. Please go and vote against fascism when it's your turn, and maybe even enjoy a tasty slice of pizza.

The amount of time I've spent dealing with ddos attacks could have been so much more productively spent.

PSA: if you're suddenly unable to use tailscale's split DNS ("MagicDNS"), you're probably running kernel 6.11.4+. For the moment, downgrading to 6.11.3 is the only simple fix.

https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/13863

We're learning more about the serious threat that Musk poses to U.S. national security.

He's completely wired into America's security apparatus, and has been one of Putin's phone pals.

Democrats need to recognize that much of this got going under Obama, whose administration was simply reckless in trusting this guy.

Great reporting by the WSJ:

https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/musk-putin-secret-conversations-37e1c187?st=GPGB3J&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

What's going on over at Bluesky?

Oh they fundraised and got a whole bunch of money from a blockchain investor who has money in basically ever fucked up scam you have heard of.

Great.

https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2024-series-a