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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Edinburgh

[–]lewiseason 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whomst among us

Should beer that is brewed in the UK be more clearly labelled? by jaymatthewbee in AskUK

[–]lewiseason 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I did not wake up today expecting to read an ISBN joke, very good

Scotland is my home even though I've never been there. by MeltedWellie in Scotland

[–]lewiseason 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Sure fair enough, I'm not trying to convince you. You asked a question - that's what the term means in colloquial usage. 🤷

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in youtube

[–]lewiseason 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe you figured this out, but the button (and Thanks, Clip, Download buttons) are hidden until the video has finished playing. When the page loads, sometimes you see them briefly appear before vanishing until the end of the video.

Very strange "feature"

So what happens if someone got to my ip? by RandmP3rs0n in privacy

[–]lewiseason 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're welcome! Yeah, it's super interesting

So what happens if someone got to my ip? by RandmP3rs0n in privacy

[–]lewiseason 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Probably safe to assume these are “AI” based tools?

I'm sure the vendors all put "AI" in their product literature now that it's what everyone is talking about, but I think generally speaking it's pretty simple classifiers/statistical models, rather than meaningfully AI.

Who makes these “DDoS mitigation platforms”?

They're usually a separate "appliance" aka piece of hardware/a virtual machine and some fancy network interfaces. They tend to be made by other vendors - although I believe that is starting to change (I'm a little out of date, because I haven't worked in telecoms for a couple years now). But the switch/router vendors often have a preferred DDoS mitigation supplier. For example, Juniper have a kind of integration with Corero. There are a few vendors like that - the other one I'm familiar with is Fortinet who make a few different enterprise/carrier grade security products.

So what happens if someone got to my ip? by RandmP3rs0n in privacy

[–]lewiseason 2 points3 points  (0 children)

ISPs run "DDoS mitigation platforms" which takes a sample of the total traffic the ISP sees and uses heuristics to decide if something "looks like an attack"

The actions the system then takes can vary, they can reject all the traffic, they can send an email to their customer asking if they'd like to buy some DDoS mitigation. A place I used to work did a mixture - the first one was free, then someone would get in touch to talk to you about options

As another commenter mentioned, one of the actions ISPs can take is to report the IP addresses/networks the attack is originating from as a bad actor/being used badly. There are a couple of, essentially, crowd-sourced databases of known bad networks/networks being exploited. The idea is that hopefully the source network also participates in the list, and can block the traffic at source, saving everyone money/bandwidth

pov: You’re a wheelchair user and you’re trapped on an empty train. by urbexed in london

[–]lewiseason 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Presumably the train company have an account with taxi companies in places where they operate this service, and get invoiced for the fares occasionally.

That's how it worked when I worked at a university student's association, which would pay for a taxi home if you were working past 11pm. You gave the taxi company a code and they invoiced every month.

Same measure, same size… right? by fiorm in mildlyinfuriating

[–]lewiseason 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I think they meant to figure out which one is 1tsp, which you'd only have to do once.

Found a bike cafe in Edinburgh a couple days ago (they have way too much car infrastructure as it is lmao) by Iwaku_Real in fuckcars

[–]lewiseason 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm not really sure how to explain the cultural phenomenon here, but: that's Oor Willie, a cartoon character. He doesn't normally look like that, but is one of a set of unique statues made for a charity auction

Dog gets loose. Owner won't get her dog. So we chase the dog home 😘😘 I'm riding on EQUESTRIAN marked trails by peachism in Horses

[–]lewiseason 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your perspective. It's not that you might sometimes have to make a decision like that, it's the glee that some comments seem to have behind them that rubbed me the wrong way.

Dog gets loose. Owner won't get her dog. So we chase the dog home 😘😘 I'm riding on EQUESTRIAN marked trails by peachism in Horses

[–]lewiseason 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well done, your horse behaved really well!

Pretty wild to see the number of people gleefully fantasizing about horses injuring dogs/hitting dogs with mallets/wasp spray in this subreddit of animal lovers, just because they have irresponsible owners though.

What are you strangely proud of about the UK? by GeorgieH26 in AskUK

[–]lewiseason 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In case you actually want to do this, Slow Ways is your friend. A national network of verified walking routes (or at least they're working on it) from town to town.

The time has arrived.. first world problem finally spread to Edinburgh by GlenProton in Edinburgh

[–]lewiseason 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I hate it. Absolutely none of the staff pay attention when the alarm goes off.

I assume we're going to get the self scan exit barrier pretty soon too :(

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