Pondering the Chaos: Free Access and Zero-Value Noise

I remember talking with a friend about human behavior and how much people consume just because something is free, without it providing any real benefit to society or humanity. I was thinking about how a web service or app might start. You design it with the idea that users won’t abuse it, won’t misuse it, […]

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Discussing my Netdata experience - User Panel discussion! | Netdata Office Hours #18

I was invited by Netdata to be part of their User Panel discussion and to share my experiences with Netdata.

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How often do you backup your social profiles?

I am doing it at least once a year. As a friendly reminder, backup your data that is stored on cloud providers. They are not accountable if the data is lost and your account can be terminated at any time. Have you read the terms and conditions? The big platforms have the option to ask […]

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The Internet and .txt files in the era of AI, ML and data scrapping

For the non developers, the web industry is using .txt files at the root of a domain to provide guidance for different kind of bots wandering on the Internet and indexing/scrapping data. The bots can ignore the instructions, declare a different User-Agent or other kind of evasion methods. robots.txt - it instructs crawlers on which […]

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90% decrease in transactional emails cost – going to AWS SES

Whan I am developing something I am more focused on the engineering behind and not on setting up basic things. I just use any available system and I will deal with the optimization at a later stage. This was the case also for rotrafic.xyz, it uses a double opt-in for registration so I used Sendingblue […]

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About server monitoring (with Netdata) as a way to detect malicious activities, a real case of a compromised domain and decoding backdoor payloads

The backdoor was planted in /wp-includes/ and the filename started with a dot in an attempt to hide the file .query.php

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