Kill pods in your Kubernetes cluster by shooting them in Doom

Also, it's probably best to not store your government's COVID data in an Excel spreadsheet

Cain Maddox

Oct 05, 2020

This was posted on /r/reactjs, but has since been removed. Fortunately the original is still up on removeddit.

I’ve got no idea what could be causing something like that, but the comments are certainly informative.

Back in the old days of the internet, when the only online culture war we had was about whether or not you hated dubstep, something we’d commonly say was “the internet is made of cats”. I don’t know when it was first said, but the phrase really kicked off with this 2010 song video. Reason being was that back then the only thing you would use the internet for was to look at either porn or cat pics, or if you were a furry, both. Then the Golden Age of memes came in about 2012, and we learned how to make memes that didn’t involve cats.

But just because we stopped saying “the internet is made of cats”, doesn’t mean it stopped being true. The cats are still there, between the pixels and the cables. Waiting. Watching. And they’ll be there every time you hit Ctrl+S in VScode.

It can better to 👁️ 🦉 diff ⚔️ ⚒️ 🆚

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/10995302/89732189-b0cabd80-da7f-11ea-9f2c-1477556af6fb.png

This is the Github post. There’s an ironic continuation here.

I don’t really know what’s going on here, but I think that’s beside the point. What’s interesting to me is that despite how sophisticated our technology is getting, we’re simultaneously returning to the ancient practice of using hieroglyphs for communication. It’s a weird sort of anachronism. My take is that tech is going to keep progressing in this direction, and eventually the entirely of code will be written in emojis. Then these dumb language wars will finally be over.

Dear governments: please don’t use Excel to track Covid-19 cases

Max Roser @MaxCRoser

In the UK the number of cases rose rapidly. But the public – and authorities – are only learning this now because these cases were only published now as a backlog. The reason was apparently that the database is managed in Excel and the number of columns had reached the maximum.

So basically, 16,000 coronavirus cases in the UK went unreported until recently because of a technical error. Apparently, the error was that the Excel spreadsheet they were using to track cases had reached the maximum amount of columns.

This is incredible on its own, but only gets better once you learn that the contact tracing app cost almost 12 million pounds to make. 12 million pounds for an Excel spreadsheet. That’s roughly 1/16th of a Brexit. Remarkable stuff.

Kill pods inside your Kubernetes cluster by shooting them in Doom

So uh, here’s the Github project.

Apparently it’s called Kubedoom. Here’s what I assume is a screenshot:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/storax/kubedoom/master/assets/doom.jpg

I’ve never used Kubernetes for anything, and I hope it stays that way. But Kubedoom is pretty neat.

The only video I could find was this one in Spanish. The shooting starts at about 2:15.

It looks fun. I really want to see people start speedrunning how quickly they can annihilate their company’s infrastructure in Doom. Maybe even port it into something like CS:GO so that hackers can literally 360 no scope your production systems.

The White House doesn’t know how EXIF data works

Jon Ostrower @jonostrower

The photos released by the WH tonight of the president working at Walter Reed were taken 10 minutes apart at 5:25:59 pm and 5:35:40 pm ET Saturday, according to the EXIF data embedded in both @AP wire postings that were shared by the White House this evening.

Tweet explains it all.

I’m not entirely surprised that White House officials don’t know how EXIF works. I completely forgot it was a thing until just now, too. It was something you’d have to be really mindful of when posting photos on 4chan boards about 8 years ago, but nowadays most apps will automatically strip it for you. Apparently The Associated Press doesn’t. Neat.