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OTOH, third world or dictatorships won’t blink when it comes to turning off an entire country - example is Tanzania in the recent election.. are there solutions for communication when international links are cut? A lan like solution scaled to cities or an entire country that is disconnected from the rest of the world?

Long click and choose open

Namecheap has a lousy alert system for expiring domains.. I lost 2 and moved over to porkbun

You may wish to rename that to Swallow Intelligence (SI) otherwise you may be marked as the enemy. The term SI actually reminds me of the super intelligence in Peter F Hamilton Pandora series.

Being a tropical disease makes it very unlikely and so a doctor will not even be considering it. By the time they’ve tried different therapies and start considering malaria, it’s too late. I’ve seen this happen to a couple of Africans who travel to Europe while gestation is ongoing and they’re dead 2 weeks later. As another thread said, it’s cheap to carry malaria meds when you travel, do it. If you start feeling offish - joint pain, fever, malaise, get a blood microscopic test for it and start the meds. Malaria is brutal

No, we don't want them.. Seriously, there's a connecting flight to DRC though.

It is. What's crazy is that Kenya has never handled ebola before and it currently has a severe corruption crisis. Infections will probably break out of the 'biosafety' hospitals and spread out into the general public.

Trump admin instead suggests that they be moved to Kenya - a country that has never handled Ebola before

> (like reading env vars and sending them to an external server) it'd not be able to send credentials or fetch a malware remotely at all due to the DNS queries being intercepted by eBPF and being sent to a CoreDNS proxy.

Wouldn’t the exploit then just use ip addresses directly?

That is why i insist on 1. Streaming replication whether from RDS or my own DB 2. Db dumps shipped to s3 using write only creds or something like rsync.

Streaming gets you PIT recovery while DB dumps give me daily snapshots stored daily for 14 days.

An aside: 15 or so years ago, a work colleague made a mistake and dropped the entire business critical DB - at a critical internet related company - think of continent wide ip issues. I had just joined as a dba and the first thing I’d done was MySQL bin logging. That thing saved our bacon - the drop db statement had been replicated to slaves so we ended up restoring our nightly backup and replaying the binlogs using sed and awk to extract DML queries. Epic 30 minute save. Moral of the story, have a backup of your backup so you can recover when the recovery fails;)

And that is why I’d rather work with a smallish and responsible registrar like porkbun - this is after I lost a domain from a “cheap name” registrar.

Personal experience, no relationship to either registrar listed above

Honestly, it’s a good counter to get both sides of the coin. At the moment you’ll find BBC, CNN, NYT et al on one end and Al Jazeera on the other. I also look at DW for a more balanced approach. Don’t consume from one camp!

It’s all about the resources - the gold, the minerals and the farmland. Different groups want to control it from East African proxies for the Middle East. It’s really sad and has the potential to destabilise the region.